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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 156, 6 March 1915, Page 3

It is stated that one settler in the Eketahuna district has between sixty and seveny bales of wool stored in his woodshed, to be sent forward to market when prices are ripe. A narrative from "Observer,’’ with the Indian Army Corps, states that, while the native troops have felt the hardship of the trenches in the cold weather which has set. in, the medical reports show that their average health is even higher than that of the British comrades-in-arms who accompanied them from India. How the captain and French pilot of an Allied seaplane escaped death in Sinai sounds little short of miraculous. The seaplane’s engine, which had previously given trouble more than once, failed some 20 miles inland. The pilot planed down, and landing on a rock, was thrown out ou his head. The observer, pinned down in the wrecked marchine, was beginning to wonder whether starvation or capture would be his fate, when the pilot, whom he believed to have been killed" provd, first by coughing and then by struggling to his feet, that he hail merely been stunned. Te pilot extricated his companion, and both then made for the sea. Progress was slow and difficult, and after taking four hours to cover four miles, the captain left his exhausted companion in the best hid ing place he could find, gave him his water bottle, and then made his way to the sea, fifteen miles distant,c which he reached in four hours, only to find that the British warship had gone. , He slept on the beach, and when he awoke the warship had returned. He hailed her, and was taken