LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 May 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Prance lost 45 generals killed on tlio field of'battle in the Great War.

Before the war it cost about £IOOO to build a tramcar in Wellington. Now the price is about £2OOO.

It is reckoned that 0000 Frenchwomen have married American soldiers during the past 12 months.

People in England, at a time when ail the pressure of German submarines was exerted upon their overseas supplies of food, thought themselves hard dene by with eggs at 4d each. Fresh eggs in Wellington to-day arc 3;{d each. —Post.

Mr Philip Gibbs, the well-known war correspondent, is about to make a short tour in the United States, where he will deliver a series of lectures. The tour is in response to the many invitations from the American people, who have followed his daily narrative with unfailing interest.

Says the 'London Express: One of the successes of the New Armies,B'riga-dicr-Gencral Bernard Cyril Freyburg, who won the V.C. with the Royal Naval Division, and who for some time has been in command of the 88th Brigade, is adopting the service as his profession. General Freyburg figures in the lit of new triple D.S.O. ’s as belonging to the Queens, as was the case when lie earned h:s fourth British war decoration. Inil is now a captain in the Grenadier Guards, with the brevet of lieutenant-Colonel,"and the temporally rank of brigadier-general. He has lost count of the number of times he has boon wounded.

For Bronchial Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

A pacticc of the Peace Celebration Choir will be held this evening in St. Margaret’s Church. Mr Tihema Henarc, a well-known resident of this district, who has taken a prominent part in local patriotic functions, is leaving to-night for the Bay of Plenty, via Auckland, to take part in a large Maori gathering to ho held at Toneatua shortly.

Somebody will probably be minus a dog or two as guu-firing after midnight in the Papakai Road direction sounded very like shooting at sheepworriers. It. may be mentioned that the loss of sheep on Papakai Road properties, through worrying, has been verv heavy of late.

It has now been disclosed that Immelmann, the great German aviator, was born at Uitcnhage, Cape Colony. He went to Germany :to study medicine, renounced his British nationality, and became a traitor. Consequently, it was a strange irony'of fate that he should be killed by Lieut McCubbin, R.A.F., another South African, boru at Johannesburg.

Speaking of the New Zealand Stationary Hospital in France, "Quick March” says: "When the full story of the Now Zealand ‘stationary' is told people will wonder at the disproportion in the awarding of honours. So far the decorations have mostly gon e to the sisters in the hospitals of England. Of course, it is not suggested that these honours have not been deserved, but it seems —according to available evidence—that the folk nearest to headquarters and furtherest from the front have had preferential treatment. 5 ’

The following remit dealing with State advances and private loans, will be discussed by the provincial conference of the Farmers’ Union, to be held in Wellington at .the endj of this month: "That the attention of the Minister for Finance bo called to tbc present unsatisfactory matters in connection with the State and private money-lend-ing institutions. That where socuriety is good the State should provide money at reasonable rates for farmers' needs, and should restore the table system of mortgages, and provide every mortgage covenant for payment of sums before the due date without forfeitude of interest.’ ’

When the Peace Councillors of the Great Powers left the French Ministry at Paris, after the preliminary Conference, they were subjected to i a perfect fusiladc of flashlight photography. President "Wilson, emerging bare-headed, was stopped by a terrific barage of cameras, and the "Wilson smile’’ was again "taken." Mr Lloyd George was stopped in the same way, and paused patiently. Then the French photographers cried, "Balfour, Balfour!" and a moment later the tall figure of the Foreign Secretary stepped out. and the two British statesmen wore blazed at as they stood smiling side by side.

Referring to dairy produce, the annual report of the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce states: The present season has been probably the most extraordinary in the history of the Dominion. The latter part of the winter was the coldest on record, and these climatic conditions continued far into the period when spring eonditons should hav« prevailed. The two previous winters of 1916 and 19.17 had been mild, and this fact had contributed in a great measure to inadequate provision being made by way of winter feeding to meet the altered conditions. Consequently, the mortality amongst dairy herds was heavy and considerable above normal. The above conditions continued in several districts to Hie end of the year, and together with the general effects of the late epidemic materially influenced the supply 'of milk and decreased the output. However since the beginning of the year 1919 matters have improved, and th« autumn output indicates that any losses in production during the earlier period of the season will bo made good.