The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 179, 3 April 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

(With which is incorporated The Tai hupe Post una Waimariim News.)

The Taihape Daily Times will not be published on Easter Monday.

For the first time since last spring there is a heavy coatin got snow on the Ruahine ranges.

Heavy rain fell a great portion of the day yesterday, sufficient to spoil al holiday-making.

Two of th e perpetrators of tre murder of eight native blacks at Turkey Creek, West Australia, have been captured.

Miss Guthrie, daughter of Mr. D. H. Guthrie, M.P. for Oroua, is one of the nurses going to "the front. Nurse Guthrie has been at Wellington Hospital for some time past.

Lord Rothschild, who died on Wednesday, recently had a serious illness. A successful operation was performed, but a relapse originat'd in hL u

The new railway engines ordered by th e Government in America were supposed to be landed in time for the Easter traffic. The Yankees say the engines are finished but shipping was delayed.

“Yes, I do go to the races,” stated a-woman at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court last week, when asking f*r maintenance from her brothers and sisters, and on being accused of wastng what she had been already given. “It’s the only place here that a woman an go alone,” she explained.

Mr. J. H. Howell, of Antonios, has written to the Inanfgahua Times that his patent for submarines has been accepted by the British Admiralty. The ietails of the patent cannot be published at present. The inventor is a brother of Mrs. F. Coleman, of Waimea West.

Extract from German soldier’s diary: —Decemcr 26th; Arrival of gifts from home. Bating all day. December 27th: Same as usual. Orchestral performance at 1 o’clock with two bells and a mouth organ, three bottles, a plate with coins, and a drawer. Artillery duel which makes the ground tremble.

Regulations are published in the Ga-;;-:Uo previa.-y f-:;r the following rates ct pav f::r officers and noncommisahned officers of the permanent staff o fthe New Zealasd Military Forces: —Warrant officers, £225 per annum; non-commissioned officers, on appointment £l9O per annum, on completion of five years’ service £225. The contingent of 50 nurses from New Zealand will leave by the Rotorua n April 6. The uniforms which are to be worn by these nurses are dark grey, piped with red, and with them will be worn th e regulation nurses’ bonnets, and alos, for a change, .grey American ailor hats. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Walter Long said: “When in. South Africa, General Botha told me that among all the experiences which had impressed thoemselves on him ther was one that stood out abov e others, and that was the personal character of the British private soldier. It can be said with literal truth that through- ! out the present war the British soldier has come through not only will credit, but with abundant proof that his heart i is as grave and his hands as clean as were those of.hi s predecessors.”

Mr. Tsuchiya, the Japanese journalist now in New Zealand, was questioned about the Russian campaign. Mr. Tsuchiya said that the Russian army was now finely equipped. Oer forces had been completely reorganised, and eager, young, and firy officers had command of the units. There was no corruption as in the army which Japan defeated. It was quite hnthinkable that the Germans . could advance to Petrograd or Moscow, because of Russia's almost inexhanstoible resources and her vastness of territory. If they did manage to reach either of these cities, there might possibly be a repetition of the disasoer that overtook Napoleon in his retreat from Moscow.

Welsh prisoners of war in Germany leverly get over the censorship diffiulty. A letter which easily passed the German censor contains the following. The words given in brackets are the Ehgiish equivalent of the Welsh word immediately preceding: You will be glad to hear news of old friends. Mr. Bwyd (food) is very bad here. Mr. Bara (bread) is very much darker ban when you saw him, and is quite hard. I never see Mr. Cig (meat), and Mr. Ymenyn (butter) but seldom; he was very bad indeed the last few times I met him. I used at first to meet Mr. Llaeth (milk) every day, but he has not been here now for some ime.—The letter was written in Biggish throughout, excepting the Welsh words, which the German censor evidently took to be the names of other English prisoners.

The first session of the new Parliament will be opened, probably, towards the end of June as usual, says the New Zealand Herald. A suggestion has been made that the Government might be inclined to summon members to an early consideration of the uat'onal affairs, but it is more probable that the opening of Parliament will be delayed until the representation of districts, still in dispute, lias been decided. Several technical questions raised during the trial of the various election petitions have been referred to the Full Court, which has decided to hear argument upon them on April 12. After the Court has given its judgment the trial of the petitions has to be concluded, so that it will probably be the end of April before the Election Courts give their verdicts. It is not unlikely that one or more by-elections will be necessary, sj that a final determination in the matter will not bo reached until the end of May. ’ ’

The revolutionary "half-watt” electric lamp, which gives equal lighting power whilst consuming 50 per cent, loss current, is interesting the whole world, according to electrical experts. At first it was thought impossible to apply the idea to lamps of loss than 500 candle-power, and, indeed, for a long time no progress was made. Then it dropped to 400 candle-power. The M.-. G ■ ■- t £••>„. citv

eivdric light manager, informed a Do minion reporter that 100 candle-power "half-watt” lamps had already reached Wclligton, and that the City Council had some on order for street lighting purposes. Those lie had seen in Wellington were made in Holland, but others were being made, he believed, in England and America. Those "half-watts” he had ordered were actually cheaper than th,c ordinary lamps, which indicated >.Jhat ipai’t from the enormous saving in current the lamps were not going to cost any more than the ordinary metallic 'filament lamp. CHRONIC RHEUMATISM EFFECTUALLY CURED. No matter how long you have suffered from Rheumatism; no matter what other remedies have faded, RHEUMO, if given a fair trial, w 11 effect a cure. Thousands of other sufferers have been permanently cured by RHEUMO, when all else had been tried in vain. Many had spent large sums of money at Rotorua and other thermal springs, ’but it was RHEUMO that eventually effected a cure. If you are suffering from Rhematism, or from Gout, Lumbago, Sciatica, or kindred complaints, give RIIEL 7 - MO a fair trial. It has cured others and will cure you—and at little cost. All chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure I

A Pres s Association wire states that Lady Liverpool is making an appeal to the women of the Dominion to knit, by June next, sufficient socks to provide each member of the N,Z. Expeditionary Force with two pairs. The entries for the various chopping evor*s at the Ran,gataua competitions on Monday are exceptionally numerous, and with fine weather there will no doubt be an exceedingly interesting display.

A London correspondent, under date February 16, writes:—"Lieutenant A, Martin, M.D., R.A.M.C., is gazetted'as having resigned his commission b>r. Martin, who comes from Palmerston North, has been at the front for some months.” Mr. A. J. Graham, of Palmerston North, recently received a letter from Dr. Martin, stating that the latter’s time as an army surgeon was nearly up, and that he hoped to see Mr. Graham soon. The doctor stated that as soon as he was released from the service ho would "cut back” to New Zealand. Dr. Martin’s many friends may, therefore, hope to see. him in Palmerston North at an early date.

Speaking on the subject of the war tax at Gisborne, the Minister of Finance (Hon. J. Allen) said that a question that had been raised, and a very important one, was the matter of exemption from a war tax of those who had voluntarily subscribed to equip the troops and to the relief funds. Mr Allen said he had already under consideration a method of dealing with this questoin per medium of the income tax. The Department had' prepared and submitted to him a memorandum suggesting that contributions to the funds stated should be deducted from the income in assessing income tax. He could not give them a ’definite promise that this would be carried out, but it was receiving consideration,and ho was inclined to think that a reasonable thiifg to exempt from payment of the income or land tax those who had been kind enough to provide for the equipment of troops and for the relief of distress.

"Eye-Witness,” states the Weekly Despatch, is LieutenanrColouel-Majbr Ernest Dunlop Swinton. This statemen can be made without fear of contradiction. Men like Colonel Seely and Lord Percy may have been subsidiary "Eye-Witnesses ’ at different times, but the real and principal "EyeWitness” all along has been Lieut.-Col. Swinton, who for years has enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most entertaining writers of military stories known to journalism. Lieutenant-Col-onel Swinton was educated at Rugby and Cheltenham, and entered the army in 1888, attaching himself to the Royal Engineers. He served in the South African War, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. In 1907 he was appointed major, and sine/ the last war he was advanced a further step. His home is in Charlton, near Blackhcath. He has, during the five months lie has been out at the front, been home twice, each time paying a flying visit to London. It can be stated without breaking confidence that he is "Ole Luk-Oie,” the author of "The Green Curve,” the most discussed book of war stories of recent years. For betting in a small way as a side yesterday fined £2O with costs —the min imum penalty for the offence.