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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 209, 14 May 1915, Page 4

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DALGETY AND CO.’S REPORT. Dalgety and Company, Palmerston North, beg to report having a yery large yarding of both sheep and cattle at their Taihape sale on Wednesday, the 12th May, which sold at the following prices: Sheep.—Medium lambs 9/-1 to 9/3; very fair lambs 12/2 to 12/4; cull to 9/1; mixed age ewes 12/6, 13/, 14/1, to 15/; 2 and 4-th empty owes to 16/3; small 2-th wethdrs 15/7; forward wethers to 22/6. Cattle. —Small weaner steers £1; good weaner steeps to £2 6/; Poled Angus weaner heifers 37/; Poled Angu a weaner steers £2 12/; 20 month Poled Angus sixers £4 10/; store cows £2 19// to £3 J3/;‘ yearling steers to £3 1/; fat and forward cow fl to .£5; 18 month steers'to £3 17/6; light -fat cowg £6 8/tto K £6 to £9 8/8; Z year-steers -Js 7 16/ 37 18/i fftjt and forward 19/, ‘ ,

New South Wales is officially declared to be free from smallpox. The Commissioner of Taxes notifies that income returns must be furnished to him by the' 2nd day of June, 1915. /The Newmarket Stakes (England) was won by Danger Bock; Letfly and Tournament were second and third respectively. At the matinee to-morrow at the King’s Theatre, to give country patrons an oppprtunity of seeing the fine picture, “Tess of the Storm Country,” the management has decided to screen it.

An editorial in last Wednesday’s issue of The New Zealand Times questions whether his Excellency the Governor is pursuing a strictly constitutional course in not calling Parliament together, infaee of the alleged fact that he Government has not a majority support of the members of the House. Last Tuesday the Russian Black Sea Fleet bombarded the Bosphorus forts, and engaged the Goeben, which was struck, and fled.

Many telegrams and letters from the relatives of New Zealanders wounded in the Dardanelles fighting have been received at the Prime Minister’s office in reply to messages of sympathy that have been sent out. These replies all show a high patriotic spirit on the part of-the senders. One telegram received is as fololws: ''Sorry to hear that my only son has been wounded. I am proud beyond words to know that my son had offered his life for his country. 'He that hath no sword, let him sell his garments and buy one.’ ’’ A letter signed by both mother and father of a wounded soldier says: "Your very smpathetic telegram to hand re our boy, who was wounded at the Dardanelles. We hope and pray that he will soon be able to get back with his mates into the firing line, and help to defeat the Unspeakable Turks and the German Huns.”

An old resident of Welington commenting on the impatience of some people at the comparative paucity of the war news during the past few days states that they ought to have been in Wellington at the time of the Crimea, when the war news arrived, six and seven months after the events took place. In 1855-56 there were no cablegrams or even telegraphs, and all the news was brought by sailing vessel, either direct or via Melbourne. As there were a great number of sailors then trading to Melbourne a mail service per schooner was instituted between that port and Welington, and it was the schooner Marchioness (Captain Kreeft) which brought to Welling ton the first news of the fall of Sebastopol. It was announced in an altogether novel manner by the schooner arriving in the port with the words “Sebastopol Fallon” painted in large letter on her side, an announcement which naturally caused considerable excitement in the town. T