LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A. door key lost in Main Street or Recreation Ground, is advertised for.

The Admiralty has placed contracts for I'efioating,thc German fleet at Scapa Flow.

At one town in New Zealand, a joker went in the Peace Day procession as a Soldiox-‘S Settlement. He was dressed in moss and red tape.

A South African Frieslanff ‘cow, Mr E. E. Downing’s Californian Fan, has broken the South African record by yielding, under official test, 2.1,5921 b. milk and 730 lb. butter-fat in 320 days.

The total number of members of the Expeditioxlzxry Force who had arnls or legs amputated as the result. of war service was 960. Of these 270 had arms amputated; 75 also had hands partially amputated. A

At Ohakune Magistrate's Court Ernest Brown was committed for trial at Wanganui Supreme Cocrt, on the charge of committing ‘perjury-at Ohakune on May 16. He was also committea on the charge of attempting to bribe one Shéila Ingram. The charges arose out of a previous sly-grog selling cast» l - .

Wouds' Ga-eat Peppermint cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails»

‘A cap off a motor car wheci [arid a motor glove, lost between Pukcokahu and Mfiaroa, are advertised for.

The Shops in town will «close -as usual to-morrow (Thursday) aftel'noon, at 12 o’clock.

The following vessels will probably be within wireless range, to-night:——_ Maori, Mararoa, Pateena and Waiwera. In range of Chathams: Rua--pehu. _

All accounts due in connection with Children’s Day Peace Celebrations are requested to be sent into Mr. F. Swindells, P_O. Box 80, Taihape, at once.

A bargain in house property is advertised by Messrs. Ward and Co., in another column. The house contains five rooms, situated on four acres of land_

A final reminder is given of the Returned Soldiers’ social and dance in the Town Hall this evening. All arrangements are complete, and as the ‘sale of tickets has been phenomenal, there is going to be a bumper attendance. '

Recent mails received from Sydney state that four of the vtheatres are to be shut. One paper states: “There is little use in keeping the theatres open when one half of the theatregoing population is down with the epidemic and the other half ‘is nursing them; There simply isn’t enough audience t-0 go round. And there is little inducement. to keep the theatrical companies ‘in this ’flu-infested city whn more profitable theatrical fields beckon.‘ For the productions are being hit‘ both ways; the audience are perfloree rapidly Idwindling, and -thle ranks of the performers are being as rapidly depleted. No stage manager knows till the curtain goes=up who is ‘V7‘»(l("‘.'.“f‘=‘.(l_‘.’i?'.\g‘ the 1111(le'rstudy’s ullder~' study. and the printed programme niglrtly speaks anfytliing but the truth about the names in‘ the cast,

Many a. male resident of Wellington may. often have wondered why the barber to whom he entrusts his face and hair is ‘so persuasive when the matter of a massage _or a shampoo is mentioneclf (says the Post). A possible clue to the reason was given at «the Arbitration Court, when a journeyman hairdresser said that for every massage or shampoo treatment he gave he was allowed a commission, which totalled for the week from 15/ to 25/._ Incidentally, this witness considered that the average journeyman’s takings for his employer for all classes of work were about £lO a week.

Before leaving Christchurch for We‘.lington, the Hon_ G .W. Russell, inude a statement congratulating Christchurch on its Peace celebrations. He closed the statement as follows: “The war is over; we have celebrated Peace; let us now, as auniitedna"fio'fl, ceurageaously face the problems which liegbefore us. They are ‘great and pressing, and may become even greater When. the aftermath of the war reaches us; but if we face them With; the same courage aiazi unity of Spirit as we met the war and its necessities, New Zeaiand will rise ever higher in the brotherhood of nations which consolidate the Empire and. attain her destiny as the Britain of the South.”

111 View of the suggestion iiiademat the last meeting of the Chamber Of Commerce that engines burning wood fuel should be employed the following extracts from letter written by Mr_ C. Gibson, of Auckland, received by the Chamber of COIIIIIICI'CC, will be of interest. He writes: I was an enginedriver on the Manawatu Railway for 22 years and during the strike of 1900 we burned wood ill tender engines on the run between Paekakariki and Longburn, the wood answering as well as coal, Inatai giving the best results. ‘Any tender engine to-day can burn wood. A tank engine is differem, as it has nowhere to store the wood.”

c A pendant to the story of the Aucklandcr who wanted to know what Burns had done to deserve a statue LS Supplied by the gallant Dr. Buck, {otherwise known as Te Rangihiroa. §Dr_ Bfick explains that the Maori Pioneers at the front for a time lost the designation of Maori, and the men felt sore about it. One day he came across a “grousing” Maori soldier, and asked him what was the matter_ HOll, 3 t_ypic.a,l back country native, held forth in the grievance of the lost name. The Maoris, he said, wanted to be known as Maoris. They had come to New Zealand centuries, ago, whereas the pakeha was quite a “young fellei-..” “Never mind,” said Dr. Buck, consolingly, “what's in a name, anyhow? You remember what Shakespeare said about names, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ " “Shakespeare!’! exclaimed Hori, “who to hell’s Shakespeare? What reinforcement he come over in? What company he in? 2’ »

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

A block of good bush land was sold in this district some time ago at £BO odd an acre. Int ruling tiniber rates the bush is now estimated to be worth anything up to at least half the price paid for the land (says the Levin Chronicle.) General Gourand, in an interview, said: “I adore my Poilus, but I say hats off to the British Twenfy-ninth Division and General Bil’.dwood’s Anzacs on July 19. They are magnificent, the best. soldiers‘ any war has produced.”