LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A piece of fishing-rod, lost between Moawhango and Ohutu, is advertised for.

The following vessels will probably be within wireless range to-night:-Maori, Maroroa, Monowai, Patoena, Waimarino, Kaituna and Kauri.

Provision is made by Gazette Extraordinary for securing a supply of butter for coal consumption during the winter. If necessary butter will not be permitted to be exported if doing so should trench upon the supplies required to meet domestic needs.

Some idea of the work entailed, upon the Wanganui Maoris in preparing for the local Maoris and entertaining the guests is obtained from the quantities of food which were purchased for the occasion, There were consumed 14 bullocks, 33 sheep, 40 pigs, 1200 loaves, 2 tons of mussels, 2000 eels, 8 tons of potatoes, 6 bags of cockles, 30 sacks of cabbage, and £6O worth of general groceries.

A largely attended meeting of tho Nelson branch unanimously carried a resolution expressing every confidence in the present Executive Council of the A.S.R.S. "That they are doing their best for the men they represent/'

Willie Whitlock, of Bedford, Indiana who has returned from action in France, has three inches of calf-bone in one leg, two inches of sheep-bone in one arm, the blood of another man infused into his veins, and has gone back to an army hospital for more.

The medal riband which will shortly be the most common in the kingdom is that of the "Great War" medal, which will cover the whole of the war for the building l of an aeroplane in a broad organe centre and on each side from the centre towards are narrow stripes of whit, black and royal blue.

A Kansas soldier is in a sad plight When he went away (says the New York Herald) to the war he sent his civilian clothes to the girl to whom ho was engaged to be married. Since that time the girl married a civilian, and the latter is the poldicr's civilian clothes.

A special appeal is made in another column for a proper celebrationi of Anzac Day on Friday next, and returned soldiers particularly are" requested to parade at the Fire Brigade Station on Friday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock sharp, uniform, wherever possible, to be worn. etc., are cordially invited to attend.

A very successful meeting of those interested in the Labour ticket, at the Borough elections was held in the Fire Brigade Hall last night, when it was decided to carry on. A fighting fund was established, and a plan of campaign drawn up. The ticket will be advertised and distributed as soon as passible, as well as the platform of the party.

The totalisator staffs at Ellorslic had a very busy time on Monday, handling the sum of £76,823, which with the amount put through on the opening day, made a total of £146,520 10/, an increase of £24,977 10/ on last year, On the St. George's Handicap, the pool reached the large total of £14,025, which is a record investment on any race in the Dominion.

At a Rugby match played at Twickenham, New Zealand beat England by 9to 3. The New Zealanders' superiority surprised" everybody.' They mastered- the home team in every department and the ball was seldom in the New Zealand half. The forwards played a magnificent game repeatedly storming the English line. The King will attend at Twickenham on Saturday to present the cup to the New Zealand Rugby captain, after the New Zealand v France match.

During a voyage from Alexandria to Southampton with English soldiers the hospital ship Maheno, which arrived at Auckland recently, passed very close to a drifting mine. As the regulations then in force precluded hospital ships from carrying arms of any description, the mine could not be exploded. A volunteer crew was left near the mine in the vessel's launch, and the Admiralty was communicated with. A submarine destroyer put an end to the floating menace.

One of the German piisoners of war who escaped from Featherston Camp o£> Wednesday wa; captured at f) am. on Saturday, at Martinborough, Constable Dick making the arrest. The escapee who was thus ".aught; was J. J. Slijn, formerly of ■Viek.au'l. He is 24 years of .tge, -tnd us he was the only one of :.he six escapees who could speak English fluently and without, accent, he was regard-id as the prnfcatlc leader or scout of the party. His recapture, therefore, is looked upon as the more satisfactory, as there is good ground for believing that the other five men cannot be far away.

The following soldiers from the district are due to arrive in New Zealand on ,or about May. sth, by s.s. Remuera: Sergeant T. W. Burgess, Raetihi; Priv-

] ate A. E. Dockery, (M.M.), Mataroa; 'Sergeant Livingstone (M.M., D.C.M.)), j Taihape; C.Q.M.S. H. McDermott, Taijhape; Sergeant J H. Missen, Taihape; C.Q.M.S. C. Murray (D.C.M.), Mangaweka; Sergeant A. F. Petherick, Hunterville, and Private J. R. Sinclair, Ohakune. Private T. Shute, son of Mr and Mrs T. Shute, arrived homo lat the end of last week, and was welj coined by a large number of friends in Taihape and district.

Three large refrigerated vessels, which had been originally intended for the Australian loading have been ordered to come to the Dominion iiv stead and lift produce during May, They are the Westmoreland, the Devon and the Port Sydney, and thier total capacity is about 300,000 freight careases. They are additional to the refrigerated vessels already announced ab coming here in May, Their diversion is significant in view of the representations made by Sir Joseph Ward to the Imperial Shipping Controller. It is no* known yet whether any portion of th.ir space may be reserved for cheese.