LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Soldiers in enmp at Tronlham have cent Dieted a- new scheme for supplying the camp with water. A first offender was convicted and discharged at the Magistrate's Court this ni (Hiring', on a, charge of drunkenness. Members of the Railway National lie serve arc requested, by advertisonrent to attend a church parade at St. Mar-garet’s-'■Anglican Church, Taihape, on Sunday, June 6th. Members are asked to assemble at the Railway Social Hall at 10.30 a.m. Free railway passes are to be issued to members of reinforcements drafts and new units at Trcntham, when they are granted the usual weekly leave to visit, relations. Hitherto soldiers have been allowed to travel at excursion rates.

An .interesting hockey match took place at Rangatua yesterday, when the I-lautapu school team played a team from the Eangatana seliool. Great inter est was manifested in the contest which resulted in llautapu winning by 3 to 1. They were favoured with a fine day. and participants and onlookers spent a very enoyablc time. At the Magistrate's Court this mornng before M. W. R. Haselden, S.M., a man named Cornelius Cronin was charg ed with stealing a parcel containing a dress suit valued at £■!-, from the porter ’a room at Wakeman ’s Hotel. He took the parcel away and sold it for a few shillings. The prisoner pleaded guilty and was sentenced to throe months’ imprisonment.

An advertisement in another column conveys a pleasurable and patriotic means of spending a cold evening and at the same time of according assistance to a deserving cause. The dance to be held at Ruanui to-night,is deserving af general support and, as an energetic committee has left no stone unturned to cater. for the enjoyment .of patrons the attendance should be large represeritative' of the district/■ .. -To all public speakers an#-, singers H * * I# 3 * invaluable.. > Keep)? th r throat clear of phlegm and in per&sfcl cpndltxoiA Sola - everywhere 1/6 a

In naval circles it is, persistently stated that two electrical engineers, absent from the Bulwark during the night of the disaster, were discovered to be Germans and arrested, although their subsequent fate is unknown. Mr. Jacob Marx, of Mangatoki, has offered through the Mayor of Eltham, (Mr. B. Dive) tho sum of £IOO to assist any men of the district who have offered for service and who may need assistance between tho time of offering and the time of going into camp. The frequency in which statements aro being made in Sweden, Holland, and Switzerland as to tho serious state of health of the Kaiser, is believed in diplomatic circles to be really inspired from Berlin. With what object time alone can tell.

It has been said that the present war is a righteous and Christian war but many people are asking how warfare that is in opposition to the teaching of tho bible can be Christian. At the Methodist Church on Sunday evening, the Rev, L. Minifie will speak on the subeet: “Why a Christian Nation makes War,” and will state clearly the attitude of the Christian church to-day, towards the present war.

Quick revenge was meted out to a number of Germans who were bayoneting British wounded in a recent battle. Some Scottish and Irish Tommies came up with them, and, notwithstanding they were three to one, charged aad shot or bayoneted every one of the murderers.

Notable captures are continually being made by British patrols v iu the North Sea. In several cases recently “neutral” vessels have been the culprits, one being a yacht which was caught flashing lights in the Scarborough district, and the other a trawler with some 200 pigeons aboard. A prominent American lady journalist was arrested the other day in Berlin and subjected to great indignities, including being stripped. She was detained for six days and given prison fare. Ultimately the American Embassy secured her release, but not the slighest apology was tender'd her by the German Government.

How the French mother is comporting herself is strikingly shown in the following little incident. Some French soldiers came across an old woman kneeling in a field. They asked her what sho was doing there. She replied: “It is the grave of my son. He was the fourth' I have lost. ’ ’ Tho soldiers saluted. “I have no more,” she added, “but still, ‘Vive la Franco.’ ”

A letter lias been received by the wife cf a private soldier belonging to a Scottish regiment, who is a prisoner at the Cenhat Prison, Bocham, Germany, in which ho positively asserts that ho is starving. Ho says: “I haven't had a smoko for a month. I have not been keeping well this two months, so I am wishing to God it was finished to got home. . . Don’t forgot to send n dumpling, a parcel of butter, syrup, treacle, jam, fags, and shag, and a currant loaf, for I am starving. ’' The Tramways Carnival Committee f the War Relief Fund in Wellington were anxious to secure a British piano, made by British labour, as a prize for a competition in aid of their “Queen” candidate. They interviewed The Bris. T,i Plano Co., Ltd,, with the result that hat:firm has most generously presented a very lino insrument worth .seventy five guineas, made by William Sanies, Limited, the famous English manufacturers. This is merely one of a number of handsome contributions by The Bristol. A popular young London actress, whilst on her way to the theatre the other evening, discovered, stuffed down at the back of the seat of her car, a photograph of herself on which was written the words, “With all her faults I love her still,” Bhe was puzzled as to how it had come there, until she recollected that recently she had loaned the car to a convalescent home for soldiers. On looking again at the handwriting "she recognised it as the work of a former admirer, with whom, some time ago, she had a violent quarrel. Subsequently she ascertained that at the commencement of the war ho had joined .the Army, and, after performing several gallant deeds at the front, was now recovering from a serious wound at the hospital which had borrowed her car. When the officer has fully regained his health a romantic sequel may be expected. The bride was gowned in nattier blue, With shoes and toque of “tango” hue; The bridegroom, in a suit of brown, Looked quite the smartest “sport” in town. And while confetti filled the air, A tearful mater kissed the pair, And sobbed, “My lovel be always sure To take your Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Don't go home to-night without ‘ ‘ HAZOL'' —that wonderful remedy for coughs and colds. Thousands praise it —so will you. J/G buys 60 doses. For children’s coughs and colds the most , reliable remedy is “NAZOL. ” Ready for use when bought. Affords quick relief. 'GO doses cost 1/G. ■ < When next you bake sdonea, rolls, oly; cakes, use SHAELAdSiD'S Baking Powder—and witch them TiseS Costa less than othersy-Yfortli more.

It is a long way from tho Wakamarina goldfield (Marlborough) to Krupps’, but there is a definite connection (says the Marlborough Express). Wakamarina is one of the few places in New Zealand where scheelite, one of the principal ores of tungsten, is mined. Up till tho outbreak of tho war the principal buyer of the product, which finds a ready market, was Germany. Tungstic acid is used for various purposes —for instance, as a cordant in calico printing, as a constituent in some finer grades of paint, for the manufacture of electric light filaments, and for rendering fabric noninflammable. Its greatest use, however, is in the manufacture of steel of the highest grade, such as that required for lathes and tho inner tubes of big guns. It imparts to tho steel great density, toughness, and hardness.