LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The id an y friends of Mr J. A ebb will be pleased to know that he is returning on or about March 20th.

Owing to it being Chautauqua week the monthly meeting of the> Patriotic Committee will be adjourned till Tuesday evening, March 18th.

A postcard camera for plates and Aims, fitted with a good leiis, is offered for sale cheap; also a small Kodak with good lens, are offered fro sale cheap.

Here is a cameo cut from a sol

dior’s letter: “Scene, a teashop in Cnvrtrai. To a girl who is serving an empty teapot is handed by ‘a soldier, with the request to ‘squeeze iC* She asks what squeeze means, is shown, and then says: “I learn plenty English here. To-day I got throe new words, ‘squeeze, backsheesh, and unit eon. ’‘ ‘

In connection with the death of the girl Friede Ruby Sandel, the police arrested at Sandy Bay, a married woman named Emma Caroline FloTcher, a resident of Kelson, on a charge of unlawfully using an instrument, with intent to procure miscarriage. Accused was brought before the Court at Motucka, and remanded to appear at Nelson to-day.

It is officially announced that the Pioneer Battali.cn. New Zealand Division, which was made up almost wholly of members of the Maori Contingent, and which did such excellent service in France and Fi'anders, left the United Kingdom by the Westmoreland on February 28. The ship’s complement comprises 50 officers and three women, with 978 rank and file. The Westmoreland is expected to reach Kew Zealand about the second week in April.

A question asked of the Right Hon. W. F. M'assey in the House of Representatives by Mr McCallum regarding compensation to be payable in the event of -No-License being earned at the pell in April has just been answered. Mr McCallum asked that licensees who had lost their licenses in the twelve districts which h'ave carried Ko-License already miMit be compensated ns well as the present holders of licenses. Mr Massey’s reply mas that they could not be so compensated, for the reason that they had lost them under a law which did not recognise any claim to compensation.

A youth named Willie Wiley, while driving a cart from Wiuiata to Taihape yesterday, fell off the vehicle and had to be removed to the Public. Hospital. Enquiri/es this morning reveal that he is very badly bruised.

,A troop train with 14 carriages passed through Taihape with returned men off the Port Melbourne. Several local men were amongst the number, but the only names we are able to get are C. Eevcll, W. Laurcnsen, and J. Donovan.

The amount collected by the B'ennett’s Siding Committee on account of their day at the Red Cross shop, which wias to have been held on November last, amounted to £2O 12s 2d, and this amount has been paid to the treasurer of the society by Mrs J. A. Anderson. The following is tho rojult of the cloxu petitions;—Vape/, No. 42, Mrs W. Bell, Timaru; Camisole; No. 7, Mrs H. # ones, Marton; Shaving Outfit, No. 29, Mr W. McGowan, Taihape.

A dairyman of Griffith, New South Wales, has a remarkable Shorthorn cow which has given birth to seven calves during the last four years, amongst them being two lots of twins. In the same time this cow's calves havje prodlueed. five. This makes la. record of twelve descendants from the cow in four years. The last lot of twins was dropped on December 7, 19.18, and like the preceding twins, were heifers; in fact, ten of her descendants arc heifers. The calving dates were as follows:—February, 'Ol5, heifer; January, 1916, heifer; December. 1917, twin heifers; December, 1918, twin heifers. When giving 481 bof milk tho cow tested 5 per cent.

“She came up to the house with several drinks in her and used foul language at me, and I retaliated,” asserted a witness in a Supreme Court case at Christchurch. “How did you retaliate?” inquired His Honour Mr Justice Herdman, “I hit her on the head,” responded the witness, “and she hit me hack, and then she went to the hotel and brought up another lady and two gentlemen—her husband and her brother.” Witness added that the gentlemen did not come to blows —only the ladies were hitting each other. Another witness in the same case informed the Court that she had hit her next door neighbour —a gentleman, with a brick. “It seems to be a lively neighbourhood, ’ ’ commented His Honour.

Since the advent of the railway to Raetahi this district has gone ahead rapidly. From enquiries made by ai “Call” representative recently it Was learned that the large number of 4000 bales of wool had been received for export at the Raetahi railway station this season. People in a position to know anticipate that these figures will be increased to (5000, at least, by the time next season comes around. In making this estimate it was reckoned that next season’s clips from this end of the Kakatihi will come in here as well as several other districts. It is pointed cut, th'at at the present time as many as 400 bales of wool are sent to Wanganui out of the Eaotihi end of tlie Kakatihi. If takes four days to make the trip cut and back as against two to Eaotihi and back. The condition. of the road has been the stumbling block, and it is understood that this menace will be removed in the near future.—Waimarino “Call.”’