LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One of the queerest bits of flu luck recorded to date was in the case of a Sydney man who was made bankrupt because the anti-crowd regulations forbade him to call a meeting of his creditors.

I Mrs C. G.Laurie, of Auckland, is at , | present on a visit to Taihape, staying j I with her sister, Mrs S. Peyton. ,

The mail train was about three hours late last night, the cause of the delay being the derailment of a goods engine at Longburn.

Tenders are invited for the erection of the Studholme wing to St. Margaret's School), Plan and specifications may £)e seen at St. Margaret's vicarage.

During the influenza scare in New South Wales, Bishop Radford, of G-oulburn, made an alteration in the administration of the Holy Communion. Instead of the chalice being passed from one worshipper to another, the bread was dipped in the wine and given to the communicant.

At yesterday afternoon's Hhautauqua, Dr. Johnson, the famous lecturer, said that stome ladies' hats impeded the vision of ladies behind, and he, with quaint casualness, requested ladies who wore hats over the vialue of 4s to remove them. It seems that Taihape ladies are practising economy, as no hat moved.

Some exceptionally prolific grain yields are reported in the Lauriston district this season (says the Christchurch Press.) Mr Joseph Taylor, of that district, has thrashed 40 acres of Garton oats, yielding 70 bushels per acre, 30 of the same variety yielding 60 bushels, and 60 acres of wheat yielding 35 bushels.

The Canterbury Automobile Association claims a membership far in excess of any other association of its kind in Australasia. The total is now over 1150, and on a recent night after the -election of 56 new members, the secretary reported that 222 new members had been elected during the last four months*

The Wellington office of the Hud-dart-Parker, Ltd., has received advice stating that their steamer Westralia ((2884 tons), which . collided with a small coastal steamer, the Star, was not damaged, and it is anticipated that the Westralia will sail as expected from Melbourne about the 23rd inst for Welington. The Star was sunk.

The wonderful results of stryennine poisoning for rabbits are pretty well known locally (states the Alexandra Herald), and one frequently hears of tremendous kills. An experiment made one day last week on a small property not 100 miles from Clyde, was a big success—no fewer than 577 rabbits being picked up off a small corner of land.