The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 17 August 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times. AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

(With which in incorporated The Tai hape Post 'ma Waimarlnu Newa.)

The Kolnische Zeitung states that over 5,000 wounded and 5,000 women have recently been added to the employees at Krupps'. A Wolverhampton resident, writing to a friend in Wanganui, says: "I hear from reliable sources that over a dozen German submarines have been swept up and settled within the last three weeks. Good fishing!"

The council of the Tiniaru Acclimatisation Society, at a meeting, resolved to prohibit worm and creeper fishing throughout the district, on the ground that the worm fishers have depleted the rivers of big fish.

It is stated that not since its inception has the municipal fish market in Jervois Quay, Wellington, paid its way, and the question now before a subcommittee of the Markets Committee of the City Council is whether the enterprise should be closed down altogether or be reorganised.

The liner Ruahine, which left Wellington on Saturday afternon for London, took 4,52 G crates of cheese from New Zealand. There were 2,708 crates from Patea, and the other 2,02 S crates came from New Plymouth.

Outward mails from the General Post Office, Wellington, to the New Zealand troops at the Dardanelles continue to be very heavy. Newspapers to the numbei of about 120,080 per month are dispatched, and the pareels mails for the front have increased in bulk of late. The postage on parcels has ben redueed recently, but papers still require a penny stamp. This extra half-penny on the postage of the newspapers represents about £3,500 per year.

A smart young lady for the counter in Mr. E. Loader's shop is advertised for.

A first-class trucky, one who is good with horses and can use a jack, is advertised for by Messrs. Berg Bros., Horopito. The wages are 13/ per day.

Nobel's Dynamite Trust assets consist of British and German. Among the former are shares of Nobel's of G-Itisgow and an old British company. Nobel's Explosive Company of Glasgow acquires all British assets and becomes a separate all-British company.

Really excellent programmes are being screened at both picture theatres to-night. Both houses were well patronised, and there are films at both the King's and the Three Stars that picture-lovers should not miss.

The owner of that very fine Clydesdale horse, General Buller, notifies that it will again travel' the Taihape district during the coming season. Every time lie has been exhibited lie has carried away first honours. It is understood that Mr. H. Beagley, the owner. will be in charge, and, owing to the high price of horses, which demand will, if anything, improve, farmers and horseowners should read the advertisement annuncir.g General Buller which appears in another column.

In the London Daily Telegraph, Dr. Dillon says that the negotiations by the Allies to prevent Switzerland 's imports being re-exported German vwards arc proceeding slowly. Germany had established a Board at Zurich controlling the importation of German goods, with inquisitorial powers, yet when the Allies ask for a guarantee against the re-exportation of their goods, Switzerland indignantly regards it as an unworthy attempt to violate neutrality and wound her national dignity.

A somewhat rum thoory was propounded by Mr. T. M. Wilford in the course of a case at the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday. He was instructed, he said, that the prisoner was anxious to get to the front in order that the prohibitions prevailing there might give him v. chance to overcome his craving for drink. "But, I understand," said the Chief Justice, "thai; they give the men, rum rations there.

I saw it in the papers." "Ah, yes. Sour Honour,"' replied Mr. Wilford. with not a smile on his face, -"*but I should say that would mean funny rations, not. rations of rum. There is something rum about them, I believe.''

In a letter from an officer of the New Zealand forces at the Dardanelles, received in Christchurch this week, the writer says that things have been very slack indeed lately, and if the Allies go on at the same rate they will be there for a long time yet. He mentions that one of the functions of the aeroplane is to drop proclamations and pamphlets into the Turks' line, and on one occasion a bundle of these was let go, which, falling from a height on to a Turkish soldier, killed him outright! This was certainly un-

intentional! and an unfortunate way of introducing literature which was supposed to be amicable!

The children attending the native schools in the Dominion have shown great interest in the war. The annual report of the Native School Department states that upwards of £2OO has been subscribed by the children towards various patriotic funds. One tribe gave a large block of land for the purpose. Useful gifts and comforts for the soldiers were sent in considerable quantity, while the Maori

Expeditionary Force consists very largely of old scholars. There can be no doubt, says the report, that the native schools have played an importantpart in creating feelings of patriotism and loyalty in the young Maoris.

A little restaurant in Suva was the I scene of a stabbing affray, in which ' an Indian woman, Bacliia, was dangerously wounded by a man named Abdul Wazir. The man, it appears, went into the restaurant and entered into an argument with the woman, who was sitting in the kitchen. B achia began to get annoyed, and called Abdul a rude name, to which lie objected, telling him to get out of the place or she would hit him. As the man did not go she reached out and picked up a sheath knife which was lying near, but Abdul seized it and wrested it from her. He then attacked her with it, dealing her a number of blows on the head, face, neck, and back. The wounds inflicted were severe and Bachia is now in hospital in a critical condition. The force with which the stabs were directed was so great that the blade of the knife was snapped in two. The woman's assailant appeared at the Police Court next day, -charged with attempted murder. A remand for eight days was applied for and was granted.

Be kind to your mother, for when you were small, She kissed and caressed you, if you had a fall. . She nursed you in sickness, and laughed at your Joy, For she was your mother and yja-iber dear boy. No friends could be kinder, no friends could be truer Than mother — and Woods' GtWs Peppermint Cur©C • : ,-»3 *•*.

The Aliunde, which left Wellin.eftor I for London on Friday of last v,?ck took the following meat purchased foi the British Government —24,7-10 carcases mutton (wethers). 21,071 careases mutton (ewes). 33,834 carcn.syj lamb, 7.075 quarters beef, 5.D20 piee s of mutton. The Cormthis, which sailed from. Wellington on Tuesday for London, too the following meat for the Imperial Government also:—ll,4s(i ' earca§es mutton (wethers), 21,313 earcases mutton (ewes), S.S.I6S carcases lamb. The results of the appointment of a New Zealand official Avar correspondent has not been at all satisfactory from many points of view. What letters hav« reached this office have been a mere ' rehash of something similar to what we are netting first-ham] from our Taihape boys at the front and which are !

much more interesting from the fact that they are written by actual participants in the fighting. It is not conducive to perfect equanimity to find that these letters appear in some journals before the day specified on tl>o

copy. Anyway, that is not a great cause for trouble so far. as the letters themselves are of so second-hand ■•■

character as to be scarcely worth while putting into type. After'being told in a two or three column screed how he got from Egypt to Gallipoli, something of a more exciting character i may come in the near future.