NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 14 August 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

•J NORTHERN FOUR fep | QUOTED AT £ls 15/ " I ' AUCKLAND. August 13. The manager cl' the Northern Roller Milling Co. announced to-day that the price of flour in Auckland has b:en reduced by 10s per ton., ard now stands al 15 guineas REPORTED DEATH OF COLONEL BAUCHOP WELLINGTON. This Day. It is reported that advice lias been received in Wellington cf the death of Lieut-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Arthur Bauchcp, who was mentioned in yesterday's list ae wounded a second time. PART OF THE TOLL. SIR JOHN FiNDLAVS SON'. DIES OF WOUNDS. .WELLINGTON. This Diy. A private cable announces the death ; from wounds of lan. youngest of Sir John Findlay's three .sons, serving as ! c.'licers in France. Deceased was IS years of age. and had had a disitn.guisred school career. News has also been received that Captain Rogers Wilkinson, of Yv rellington, has been seriously wounded at the Dardanelles. He was in the Expeditionary Forc e to Samoa, ar.d also went through the Boer War. THEFT FS.OM A WHAEE. WELLINGTON, August 13. Two ex-emplyoees of the Wellington Harbour Board, John Cashman and Charles Dempster, appeared in the Su- '

preme Court this morning before the Chief Justice, charged, with the theft on the 3rd June, at Wellington, of a quantity cf goods valued at £sl 4/, the property of Butterwortb Bros. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with b recommendation to mercy. Sentence 1 was deferred. PATRIOTIC RACING CLU3. CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. A special general meeting of the 9 members of the Canterbury Jockey Club wa s neld this afternoon to con-, sider the question of giving the whole of the net profit of th e club duringthe financial year ending April 30th, 1916, to a fund or funds connected with the war. Mr F. M. Buckley (presdent of the club) was in th s chair, and there was a large and representative attendance of members. The President formally moved a motion to forfeit the whole of the profits of the club for the year to a fund or funds connected with the war. Mr P. A. Pyne, in seconding the motion said that h e was delighted to see the large attendance present that day. He hoped that ther e would be a unanimous vote on the questoin at issue. In England racing had practically stopped, but he did not advocate that here, as it would be disastrous to many employed who could not do anything else. If they gav e all their profits to the war fund s it would be a popular action and would cut the ground from under a large section, of the community who considered that all racing should be stopped. The average profits of the club for the last eight years "had been approximately £4OOO per year, and there Avas fair reason to suppose that a sum approximating to that could be donated. The motion was. carried unanimously. Mr C. Reid moved that in any case a mnimum sum of £2OOO be guaranteed to the war fund. This was also * carried.

THE MEN IN FINE FORM. WELLINGTON, August 13. The Defence Minister said this evening that he was very pteased with the Sixth Reinforcement. The men were in fine form, and they showed evidence of the thoroughness of the training' they had received. Their conduct in camp had been splendid from the first, and he attributed the comparative good health they had enjoyed to their good spirits and pluck under conditions of difficulty. He was sure that the men would bear themselves with credit to the Dominion, wherever they might go, and in whatever conditions they might be placed. The Minister added that the transports which would be used by the Sixth Reinforcements I were particularly well-equipped ships. Three nurses were going on each ship, and the staff of doctors was unusually as a draft of medical men was being sent to the Egyptian hospitals, but he thought that the precautions which had been taken would prevent sickness occurring on the ships. Clothing, bedding, and kits had been disinfected, and each member of the foree had been medically examined with the object of ensuring that no man with a sign of ill-hoalth about him should get aboard the transports.....,:'