LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 7 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. Bonar Law, is arrzlnging for the burial of Captain Fry:ltt’s body in England, as was done in the case of Nurse Cavell.

A m-arriad woman named Lessells, residing in Nelson, who was sufl"ering from nervous bmakdown, satul':l’red her clothing with kerosene and set herself on firre. She was found by her (laughter, who extinguished the flames, but the woman died in hospifal a few hC'lll‘s later.

Sir James Allen stated 3’<‘S’fol'd‘«lY that H.M.s. New Zealand is. not going To make two trips “to fhe Dominion. but 0110 only, the first trip Uiivlllg‘ been postponed. VVhcll she comes she will bring Lord Jcllicoe. Sir James Allen said that he had no further information with respect to the date of the visit.

The Acting Prime Minister, sll‘ James Allen, stated on Friday, Wfth reference to the Merchant Service Guild agitation for the removai °f 3‘ coastal master whose national-it.V W 35 objected to, that he had “’““°“ "° the Parker-Lamb Timber Compzmy asking them to remove Captain Peter" son from the ship and Put him on shore.

An accident terminated fatally on Thursday at Mauugaturoto, when an infant, Robert William Wood, aged 13 months, succumbed, The mother of the child was washing and had used kerosene to start the fire. She inadvertently left the ‘bottle within reach of the child, who drank some of it} He was unconscious within five minutes, and died §s’on after.

Form the good habit of inhaling NAZOL and you’ll knew from from coughs -and colds. Ei gfleenpence buys sixty doses; "

A notice from the Taihape Tradesmo.n’s Association,’ fixing the hours during which business places will remain open appears in another column.

Owing .to the shortness of water, the Borough Council h~a.s been compelled to revert to notice forbidding the use -of window and outside lights, until further notice.

The following vessels‘ will probably be within wireless range to-night: Maori, Ma-raroa, Patecna, Monowai, Mlanuka, Mqana, Middlhhaml, Cartle. For Sunday: Moana, Manuka. '

The Trenth-am Dominion scholarships art union closes on the 30th June, and :1. big effort is being made to sell as many tickets as possible before the end of the month. Tickets at 1/ each are on sale all over {he Dominion, and every ticket has ».an equal chance of winning over‘ £6OOO worth of prizes.

The extremity to which Wellington residents are put -to secure Supplies: of coal was strikingly evidenced during the past few days, by the receipt by a New Plymouth coal merchant of an order for two bags of coal for a. Wellington lady. The coal was dispatched by rail, freight running into something over 6/, and, in addition, there would be the cost of cartage at the other end.

“They t’didn’t give ‘:\us- {much em eouragement. to play billiards in England,” says. a returned New Zealander. “My mate and; me went into a saloon in one of the sea-ports, and found 28 tables there, but only two cues for ‘each table, so that you had to use them whether they suited or not, and the girl in charge Wouldil’t give us the balls until We had paid a. shilling. Then she put the clock on us, and. told us it would be another shilling“ in half an. hour, no matter if the game was. about finished; and we had to put a penny in the slot to get a measley bit of the worst chalk I ever used. I have been told that this is the way they work the l)llll{ll'd I'oom_s in London, too, and that is likely to be true, for I know a chap who is going home to set up a. saloon on New Zealand lines, and he reckons it will take on.” »

Oine of the Otago soldiers whofought at. tlle Somme in 1916 revisited the district at the end of last August, and to his astonishment found uncommonly fine crops of grain being reaped at Fleurs and Pozieres, from ground that had been so torn by shell-fire and covered with battle litter as to be appar~ ently destroyed for agriculture. Heavy ruins the previous winter had run the shell (fil'EltCl'S‘ It?oge"thyer,§ and .2. flight p'loug-hing was" the only ‘necessary preparation. after picking up the iron and steel from the surface. Many shells lie hurried in these fields, some to a depth of so fe‘e't. They are located with :1 magnet, and will stay there. quite harmless, even if they -have not. e_\:ploded. for. t}le life of :1 shell in a. dry store is ‘estimated at only five yezws. and when in earth to which damp has access the chzmfges will gradually dc-compose. and pass into the air. That, at any rate, is the belief of the French fal'lnel's.—Dunedin St-a,r.

A Melbourne woman of -26. who sought a divorce frat‘.-1 her husband, a labourer, of 35, on the ground of closer

tion, told '3. curious Story. Her husband, in 1912_. was out ‘of work, and he made her go out and seek ‘employment, and suggested that she go in ma.n’s clothes. She went to a country town as -:\ man, and got farm work. From there she went to B'endigo, where the police diseo\'el'e(l her masquerade, and she was sent to a home. Later she joined he‘: husband. He again persuaded her to dress as :1. man, and they were employed as farm labourers. They were known for some time as “the brothers, Bob and Jack Lavell.” The man treated. hev: badly, however, and presently left her penniless. The woman puwned her ring, and, still in man’s attire, Went to Melbourne. Here, for eight months, she held well-paid employment as 21 driver. She associated with a roug'h class -of workmen, and none of them slls.p(‘Cfe(l. her sex. -Late-r, fearing discovery, she reverted to wonlen’s clothing. This plucky young woman was granted a divorce.