LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 9 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Attention is drawn to the home nursing clajsses, advertised elsewhere, which meet in the Presbyterian Hall at 7.30 pm.

According to the report. to be prescnted to the fourth annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Rélief Association, a balance of £311,000 remains in its fund.

Fifteen hens were brought into court at Birken-head (Liverpool) Sessions in connection with a case of theft, and the recorder remarked that he presumed that any eggs laid would be the property of the court, Shortly afterwards one of ‘the hens, while still in court, took him at his word.

Cvapctomx hairdressers have gmuxted their assistants a wage of £6 xvsekly, and have doubled their charges-.

The following vessels will probably be within wireless range to—.night:—— Maori, Mararoa, Pateena, Mokoia,

Moana.

The King recently sent a. telegram congratulating the people of Altringham, especially those living in Chapel Street, on the fact that out of the street of 60 houses 161 men had served in the war, 30 of whom had made the supreme sacrifice. It is believed that no street in the kingdom has equalled this record.

A “Gazette Exti-aoi-dinaryf’ prohibts the sale of the periodical publication called the “Novi Svijet.” (New World) (published in ‘Auckland by or on behalf of the Jugo-Slav Publishing Company, and also every publication issued in succession to the “Novi Svijet” or in substitution therefor and having the same proprietor, publisher, printer or editor.

Speaking to a. Press representative at Invercargill on F’riday regarding the charges alleged to have been made at a meeting at ilnvercargill, that ‘‘all Ministers had their price,” the Hon. W, D. S. MacDonald said the man making the statement had not called on him or given him an opportunity to reply. Inquiries show that the remark challenged by ‘the Minister was made six months ago, and referred to American politics.

A social and dance is to be held by the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Thul'sda.y, June 12th, in the Town Hall. The returned men have been assiduously working to make this fulle;'-1-on a success, and extend a. very cordial invitation toeveryone to be present. The prices have been fixed at: Double tickets, 3/; lady’s, 1/6; gentl;-n1:-111’s ticket, 2/. A _.sfirst-class supper will be pl'o\'ided, the music will be the best procurable, and the men will see to it that the floor ‘is in tip-top condition.

The commission which is examining the ruined vilalges of France, has come sadly to the conclusion that many of them cannot be rebuilt. Vaux near Verdun, which was so heroically defended, is one of these and now the mayqrs of [two other historic hamlets Douaumont and Fluery, have informed their fellow citizens, Who have ‘taken refuge in different parts of France, that the German has made them exiles for life. The soil cannot be cultivated, and the ruins are so full of hidden dangers that rebuuilding is impossible_

“The pre-War prejudice against Jzrpan still exists in some parts, but I say to Australia as 9. man in the full responsibilities of office that we should cherish the friendship of Japan. We shollld acknowledge publicly that we appreciate to the full the nation that for four years stood by our side as a lonely sentinal in the Pacific, guarding our boys while they were going across the oceans to do their share on the other _side_. and even guarding Australia. itsolf.”——W. A. Watt, ActingFederal Prime Minister.

Now that the mal'l'ied men are coming back", one of the cheeriest sights L; tollsee “Diggers’ ” children meeting him at, the wharf. On the other hand, the saddest cases in New Zealand are those for the children whose father’; will never come back. It is for these children that the Trentham Dominion Scholarships are union has been found. ed. To give them a first-class start in life is to build a finer memorial than any of bronze or stone. Trenthani art union tiek’et.s are only 1/ each, and every shilling is for the soldiers’ kiddies. First prize valued £IOOO,

The report that Colonel Luke Lea, a. Field Artillery officer and formeriy a senator from Tennessee, and several of the oificers of his regiment attempted to knidnap the Kaiser at Ameron~ gen shortly before Christmas is confirmed. It is understood that the attempt occurred on December 21. COl- - Lea and his companions intended to give the Kaiser a free ride to Paris in a metor—car and to present him to President Wilson as a Christmas gift. It is reported that Colonel Lea told his friends that the party got close enough to the ex—Kaiser to hear his voiee,_ but were foiled by the sudden despatch of Dutch guards from Amcrongen to the castle_

The number of men that went to the war from the Taumarunui, electorate, acording to a sta-t:ement made by Mr_ W. T. Jennings, M.P., at a welcome given to returned soldiers at Huirangi, North Taranaki, recently, was over 1500 and they were in the Auckland, Taranaki and Wanganui military area districts. One small backblocks settlement, the Tangitu, had 52 young men away, and the Okahukura-Ma.hi-rakau railway funnel and construction works ‘furnished a. large number of men-for the tunnelling and engineering corps, many of Whom have made the supreme sacrifice. Over 75 per cent_ of these King Country soldiers were New Zealand born, and they were fine types of physical manhood.

Children like WADE’S WORM FIGS —-—sure and certain. Price 19 6d. 3

'§ , Saturday last was: the second anjniversary of the New Zealanders’ ‘asault on Messines,.a!_l episode, which gzidded a glorious -page to‘ the history of ‘the Dominion’s recordnin the Great iWar. ‘ ‘

All claims against the-‘estate of the late Rev_ Fa/(her Kinkead are requested to be sent into the Taihape District Manager of the Public ‘Trustee not later than ‘August 6th, 1919, othefwise their claims may be disallowed._.

Messrs. Collinson and Gifford have 3- seasonable announcement on our first page to—day on the advisability of purchasing a warm and cosy down quilt} The prices have been arranged to «bring these indispensable bedcoverings within the reach of all.

The fact that his father was a convict, a bigamist, and a deserter, of five wives caused the Nottingham magistrates to send John Warren, a youth of 16, charged with stealing chinaware valued at £6, to sea instead of prison the chairman remarking that with such a father Warren had been h'andie'capped, through life,

“Iron Day Drudgery” is the title" of a preachmen-t which appears in another column from Mr. L_ Daws, Taihape agent of the “Royal Self—l-leating Sad Iron.” The fuel burned in this iron 1'; benzine and the heat is regulatcd instantly to suit the requirements of the operator. That "t‘n‘!s particular iron is the best on the market is the opinion of some 850,000 satisfied users.

Dismay has been occasioned some local punters of the working class through the sudden disappearance this week of 9. budding bookmaker, who started -his occupation not far from the waterfront four months ago. The bookmaker was formerly a barman, and up till this week had made about £350 out of his clients. ‘The"rEecs on King’s Birthday, however, proved his Waterloo, he being struck heavily by the winning -of Vole. Betting creditors, with claims totalling £720, have been left lamenting. It‘ is believed the penciller left for Auckland by the express on Wednesday.—N§Z. ‘Times. ' '

A crack pigeon shot of 30 years ago used to tell the fololwing yarn.against himself. One day out shooting he saw a. grey horse gkazing on a point about: 800 yards away. He had a sporting rifle with him, and one of his companions jokingly offered to bet him a fiver he would not knock over the grey. “Done,” he said, and, sighting the rifle for 800 yards, he knocked the horse over first shot. Many years afterwards, at the Gun Club, the subject of rifle shooting came up, and he remarked that he reckoned the 5" best shot he ever made was knocEin.g“'sVer a grey horse at 860 yards “You did, did you?” snapped a. fellow member of the Club, “then you’re the chap that I’ve been looking for you for the past ten years. That horse belonged to me, and he was worth half a hundred,” The bit of talk about ‘his good shot cost him fifty of the best,