The Taihape Daily Times FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 248, 9 July 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

AND WAIMAEINO ADVOCATE.

(With which is incorporated The Tai* hapo Post had Waimarino News.)

A cable to-day states that Franc** has prohibited the export of gold. The Hon. C. J. Johnston, of Wellington, was elected Speaker of the Legislative Council yesterday aftettv noon. At the Tui Street Mart to-morrow (Saturday), Mr. IV, McLennan will sell a huge stock of boots and drapery of all sorts, entirely without reserve. He will also sell potatoes, onions, apples, and furniture as usual, and also three Turkey hens and one gobbler. In the week ended July 3rd, the Wellington branch of the Labour Department received 61 applications for positions. Forty-five men -were placed, 23 as unskilled labourers, 11 in private employment, and 11 unskilled men on Government works. There is an Tnerease in the number of applicants for work in the painting trade. The. Women's Working Club members are sending & parcel to each Taihape district man at the front- They '■have got a large number of parcels on baud, Ivirt aj'e .finding soma difficulty : to. jtoCKriag- the 'correct addresses; If. 3ayJpm*ents! or‘ friends at ths ’ froiit would supplyntlicCfeh. with the, necessary' addresses. It, would -ohyiato" delay. smiths would be 4 .bav.!i;?ti* h'r? same. " ■; i ■ i?

The funeral of the late Thomas Laurenson, who lost his life in an accident yesterday, is advertised to leave; St. Margaret’s Church for the Taihape Cemetery, at 2 p.m. on Saturday (tomorrow).

A meeting Is being hejld to-night at S o’clock, in Mr E. Loader’s shop in Main Street, for the purpose of forming an Orchestral Society. It is .hoped that all instrumentalists and sympathisers will be present, if convenient.

In France all the priests have zo serve in the fighting line, and occasion-

ally one is killed. In one instance Dr. A. A. Martin, who lias just returned from the scene of the war, condoled with an abbe on the death of one of his fellow-priests in battle. Tho abbe replied; “That is how every Frencn priest would like to die.”

An interim return of sheep In New Zealand on April 30, presented to the House of Representatives, shows; Auckland, 1,691,583, increase 216,517 on figures for 1914; Napier and Gisbor net 5,458.462, decrease 329,445; Wellington and West Coast 5,836,320, decrease 5G.663; Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland, 1,341,758, increase 37,119; Canterbury and Kiaikoura, 5,353,776, decrease 203,354; Otago, 4,783,625, increase 2589; total for New Zealand,, 24,465,526, showing a net decrease of 333,237, as compared with 1914.

The costly fireman who is constantly on duty at all picture theatres is evidently regarded as a costly luxury by the picture managers of Christchurch, for they recently asked permission to substitute electric automatic fire alarms for the patrolling fireman. The matter came before the By-laws Committee last week. The committee has replied that It has no power to authorise a breach of the by-laws, and therefore cannot grant the request; and it is also of opinion that it would not be to tho interests of the public to abolish the attendance of firemen at picture theatres.

A good story drifts from Egypt. A little group of New Zealand Battalion defaulters had been set to work to dig holes in which to deposit camp rubbish, no easy task beneath th e burning sun. The English Provost-Ser-geant was called away for a time. When he returned h e was astounded to see our brave deefsders sitting in the sand with pipes in full blast and intently concentrated on a game of euchre. A gang of Arabs were shovelling the sand and making the dust fly. It transpired that their services had been requisitioned for one piastre (21d) each to carry through the distasteful job.

The member for Auexland W«st (Mr. C. 11. Poole) raised a laugh iu trie House of Eeprcsentatves by suggesting a new system of horse-dealing. He had been saying that the officers engage.' in the purchase of horses for tL„ expeditionary forces found h difficulty owing to the lack of a well-defined standard, and ho went on to propose that owners of horses which might t)c offered to the Defence authorities should be required to produce “swors statements” as to the “points’* of their animals. The idea of accepting the woord of a horse-dealer, even m the form of an affidavit, seemed tw amuse the country members of the House very much indeed.

An insight into the Chinese mind Ts afforded by a passage in a report presented by Mr. Law, Chinese missioner, to the Wellington Diosecan Synod. “Tn my work,” says the missioner, “I have come in contact with three classes or Chinese, First, those who are opposed to the ‘Jesus religion,’ who would think it dreadful to step inside » church; second, those who look on Jesus as a holy man like Confucius (they say Jesus is the Europeans’ holy man, and Confucius is the Chinese holy man; they like to hear about Jesus, but they will not acknowledge Him to be the Saviour of the world); and third, those who really believe in Jesus, but, as it were, are following in the dark; they are afraid to come boldly forward for fear of ridicule and of their relations.’’