The Tuapeka Times AND Goldfields Reporter & Advertiser "Measures, not Men." WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6218, 5 December 1914, Page 2

The Tuapeka Times AND Goldfields Reporter & Advertiser "Measures, not Men." WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Siundstrum s next professional visit is oil Thursday when he may be consulted from U u.m. till 3 p.m. Mr John Thompson will sell on Wednesday, iuh insl., at -± o'clock, the household elieola oi Mr 11. Uluir who is leaving Lawrence to join tlie Expeditionary re-inforcemento. Mr I{. tiuiith, the Liberul cu'olidate for iiruce, announces that lie will address a meeting oi electors m the Town Jlull, Lawrence, on Wednesday, December -.Hh (election eve) whin he intends to deal fully with , the Liberal aide oi politics, touching on important mutters not deult with at his previous addi'ess here. On Monday evening, Utli inst, res dents oi Lawrence will be aliorded au opportunity of seeing two reul war pictures, viz., '* The Occupation oi Louvain " by ( the (jerniuns and "The Defence of Alost" by the lJelgiuus. Each of these pictures runs to IIAHJit of hhu and will vividly depict th« many stirring scenes we have been reading of in the wur news. Uwing to the high cost of procuring thesu pictures the management announce that the charge for admission will be Is lid and tid lor children under 12. ■ Women folk are not particularly welcome at Samoa jußt at present. According to instructions issued by the - Union \ iS.S. to its branch managers, wives or other fe* male relatives of residents oi Samia, must first apply direct to Colonel Loganl and his reply giving consent must be produced before tickets are issued. Lady missionaries or wives of missionaries have also to apply to Colonel Logan through their respective organisations, and present the reply ,\vhen taking' out a passage. 1 D the case of other femalo applicants for passages from New /ealund, they must obtain perJuits from ollicers commanding the military district in which the application is made.

The wheat farmers are obtaining better results than they anticipated, says a Sydney message. The Government statistician now estimates the yield at 15,7U0,0(J0 bushels. The Federal Bureau estimates the total yield of Australia at 25,000,00!) bushels ; New South Wales, Ki,(i(JU,iKJ<i • 1,500,000; South Australia, 3,000,000; Western Australia, 000 ; Queensland, 1,500,000 ; Tasmania, (>00,001). Last year 103,000,000 bashels were obtained, Iho German atrocities have inspired at least one Prench artist with a grim sense of humour, for 'in France lately there has beon a great salo a postcard that pictures tbo methods of the modern Hun with searing irony. It bears a lively sketch of a German soldier dragging a child i wooden horse behind him and saluting the officer with the t v' ' C fP tain hero is the horse . ve s ' am 'ho horseman." (The title is, " Un Heros."

Church throughout Otago is devoting the whole of the collection* taken at all services on Sunday to the British and Belgian Relief Fund. Members of that congregation are reminded of j jthis special collection )". the announcement of services tin our advertising coluimns. It k expected, not-with-standing the numerous prior appeals that a onmiderable nun will be rail* 14 M bthlU ttHH