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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 261, 22 July 1915, Page 5

A proposal that the establishment .of an orphanage for 'Wellington, and district be taken into serious consideration will be submitted to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board • to-day by the Rev. H. Van Staveren. Analyses which have been made of the .respirators worn by the German soldiers as a protection against the asphyxiating gas which the Huns used with such diabolical effect, have shown that the absorbent cotton is practically saturated with hyposulphite of soda, the familiar hypo of the photographic fixing-bath. Hyposulphite is an absorbent of several gases, notably chlorine and bromine, and. it would serve as a protection against other chemical compounds which would be mixed with chlorine or bromine, A rather good story is told of the Maori contingent now at Malta. Some notabilities from Home were visiting the island, and the troops were all! paraded. The Maoris gave a haka in approved style and evidently created an impression. Some manoeuvres were then gone through, including a charge in sections up to the spot where the party stood. Just before the turn of the Maoris came, the inspecting General mentioned to Leutenant-Colonel Herbert that he might let his men charg with rifles, and not fixed bayonets. There must have been an impression that fixed bayonets and Maori exeitment, as shown in the haka, were not altogether a safe combination. I*oor Solomon Stead lay sick in his bed, *Twas a cold that he'd, contracted, lungs like lead, he was all bat dead; . •■ • .... . Aad his. wife was' nigh- distracted Ho the. stress of her grief she sh< . lik®, a -leaf, - Bttt. such anguish was premature, or her mother rhshed in,‘rt®d repfes hot gin ' > .* ’ > ■ V"With Woods’ Great Peppens Core. .. • ...