GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 2 August 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AH IMPORANT PROPOSAL.

ZINC-SMELTING ADVOCATED

(Rccd 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 30

A proposal has been initiated in in"uential Anglo-Australian quarters to enlist the co-operation of the Imperial

Government in a nine-smelting optornrise. Th e scheme is not yet fully developed, negotiations being in a tentative stage, but thdrc| are reasons to hope that the chmeical dyes precedent may make it possible for the Im"erial Government to favourably consider the scheme ' which involves a vTt.elting plant in Britain costing a milion. with a capacity for treating 100,v>(j tens of concentrates annually. ANTHONY WILDING’S END. LONDON. July ."0. Officers state that Wilding was in charge of a three-pounder, and directed the firing from early in the morning until the middle of the afternoon, wlm he entered a dug-out. Ho vas killed an hour later. The official 1 report spoke highly of his work.

Wilding’s last letter was written on the day he was killed. He said: For the first time in seven and a half months I have a job likely to end in my gun and myself and tke v hole outfit being blown to hell However, it is a sporting chance. If we succeed wo will help our infantry no end.

In another column the Taihape Borough Council convenes a meeting 0 f town and districts residents for 2 p.m. on Y ednesday, 4tli August, in connection with the anniversary of the declaration of war, now known r "Declaration Day.” The meeting is to be held at the Band Rotunda; if the weather is not favourable, it will be held in the Town Hall. A resolution that is to be presented at similar meetings in all parts of the Empire will I proposed. A military parade is officially called on August 4th at 1.45 p.m., it being the anniversary of the declaration cf war. Similar parades are being held throughout the Empire, All forces are expected to parade, and National Reserve, veterans, and visitors from the Expeditionary Forces who are on leave, are invited to join and take part. They arc to assemble at the Triangle and will march from thence to the Town Hall, wketv a special celebration of the event is to be held. "I believe it is absolutely a nr«take,” said Dr. F. W. Mackenzie, in giving evidence before the Trentham Camp Commission,; "to allow soldiers to go into hotels and drink. If it is going to be supplied to them, they ought to have it in the camp.” The chairman (Mr. Justice) intimated that this man (Mr. Justice Hosking) intimated that this question did not come within ■ the a scopc of the inquiry.