The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 8 June 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

(With, which sis iaoorporated The Taihape Post 1888 Waimarino News.)

The Mataura wks -ftfe putting rthrongh 1,500 fa '4t sheep daily, :Is. butchers being emx feped. • cOatcn sheaf chaff Is -reported to be, [• gelling as high as £ll 1 in Hawkers iHay. - ’ About CSO civil se. %'ants rare either •o,n ; iafitive service or iui {training with tie Kcw Zealand Expeu lit£onai'y Porees. | A new theatre is bein g' ’built in Hastin gs, at a price in th(9 -Vicinity of £7OOO. The mails which left WTdQington on April 15, connected w ith the BrSndisi despatch, arrived in London .ft 1 ! May 31. Colonel' Hughes, of Wangamui, has received a: : private }cable message re-j porting tlvat all Ahe New Zealand wounded at 'Gt&so ai'e doing well, -and; . that our boys’ in g'ood spirits. ; This week’s article by ‘Hygeia, 1 published in anothe.r column, is intensely, interesting to Ml' as well as to women; it conveys a view tiot generally realised and understood. h The Bay of Islands b} r -election is taking place today. Ti ' er e aro _ polling places, and, in all probability., the result will not reach ht ’ re tomorrow morning. The Government has appoi nt'd Mr. A. D. Thomson asistant Civil Service Commissioner), Mr. John Roberts (Dunedin), and Mr. George (Auckland) as an Advisory Commi tt ee Ito deal with matters affecting alk en subjects. A private cable received to-day \ tates that lan Campbell and Lieutenant a Cameron, of the Highlanders, were kill- 1 cd In action on May 9th. ' Lieutenant Campbell's father is Mr, P. Campbell, t late of Ham, ‘ Christchurch, and. . hiia; i mother is the daughter of thei late Hon. W. Robinson, and sister of Lady Camp- I bell, of Cheviot, Lady Bell, of Wei* s lington, i ■ ... i ii*. ...

Experimental shipments -of South African frozen meat were readily disposed of in London during 'the past fortnight at satisfactory prices. From a Liverpool paper: “A naval engagement is reported to have taken place near the Canaries, one of which was sunk and the other taken as a prize to 'Gibraiter.”

Dairy pro3uce taken by the liner Ruapehu, 'Which has sailed from Wellington -for London, via ports, comprised 14j215-'crates of cheese, valued at £96;000. . . . Officers i on TT.M.S. New Zealand have not forgdtfien that Sir F. D. Bell was in Charge<of their tour round Now Zealand, and ihey have sent him hearty congratulations on the honour of knighthood ' conferred on him. The organiser of a scheme to combine the purchasing power of 40 different leading picture theatres states that the object of the enterprise is to improve the tone of the films shown by New Zealand-companies. Some of the Auckland picture theatres have taken the scheme up, and expect by it to greatly improve their theatres. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, Robert Parkinson was charged with stealing a pair of lady’s slippers from Mr, John Murray’s shop, and another pair from Mr. McCormick's. They were valued at 2/0 per pair. Accused pleaded guilty, and was ordered to come up'for sentence when called upon. The last'issue of the Gazette informs intending : travellers that inquiry is In all cases necessary, even in the case of well-known colonists, before the authorities can- issue passports. In future no passport will' be issued until fourteen days have elapsed after the receipt of the application by the Minister for Internal Affairs.

On page three,'Mr'H. J. Murrell publishes a list of donations received by him as secretary to the Taihape Patriotic Funds. The most noticeable feature in the thoroughly satisfactory list, is the inclusion Of • a donation of £25 from the Rangitikei General and Co-operative Timber -' Company, Ltd., more especially as a precisely similar amount is promised, monthly so long as the war lasts. This -is an- example that might well be followed by others. When the Indian troops went to Europe they took with 'them a Brahman seer, Kaya Andra,’ bony and venerable. He took up his. quarters ina village in Picardy, behind the British lines. He is still there, probably. Having studied the heavens from his youth up, he claims to be able to read in the stars the future of the great ones of the earth and proclaim their destiny. The German Emperor, who was burn under Aquarius—which Signifies solitude, desertion, exile, and -sicknesshas nothing very cheering to'hope for, says Andra’s horoscope. The year 1915 will bring him terrible reverses, notably in June, July, and December, but his definite downfall will only occur during the first half of 1910; and Will entail the exile of the Kaiser -and his whole family. The Lion, the’Bull, and the Scorpion, uniting their baleful influences, have condemned .the aged rPancig. oJseph to a joyless end, and his throne and empire will be annihilated after a sanguinary revolution iin -this year. of.-grace, 1915. ,

lii the opinion of Mr. A. M. Myofs, M.P., ex-Minister for Defence, it is desirable that a register should forthwith be made throughout the Dominion of all men between the ages of 20 and 35 years who are eligible to enlist, and who are not barred by physical disabilities. ' These men should be called upon to undergo an immediate .course I of military training, in order to make rthemselves -efficient. This need not "interfere with their ordinary vocations, ■which they could continue to follow until a later stage, w T hen they might be -ealled upon to enlist. “If we did this,“ said Mr.-Myers, “it would mean • that every able-bodied man would be doiag his duty to hja countr} r . It might not'be necessary for them to be called upon, but should it become necessary much would have been done in preparation if ot such an eventuality. We must remember that the present is a life-and-death struggle, and the position is too serious to be temporised with. Prom this time fforth. an effort should be made In the direction I have indicated. hy doing tlria we should be doing our ’best to make it possible : to send aw r ay whatever quota of men the -.authorities S&fa&H the Dftgjdnion to provide. ’ ’