The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 28 September 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Taihap© Post una Waimarlnu News.)

j*-Ivaval-liieutenant- Louis Hamilton ha* been awarded the D.S.O. for transporting a naval gun 160 mutes up the Niger, 480 miles up the Banue River, ana 'CO mites overland. This '■ largely .eo-Bfjributeli tto "the ■•■ surrender, of Garua.

Before Mr. Poynton, 'S.M., at 1 Fasten, W.. .Earner, .charged with being' in possession (of. a i press, not registered, was convicted and fined £5 and costs. Judgment was reserved in two further tiharges for printing leaflets withoct an imprint.

The London Times' correspondent;in Mesop.etamia.says: The troops here and in the Persian Gulf weleeme the approaching winter as ending a spell of long and trying heat. The.climate has taken a 'heavy toll of the 'British and Indian *fcr<oops tilf&e.

The Defence Minister has reeieved informaiioai from the NavaU Intelligence Department that the To'fua, with 446 invalids, left Suez for New Zealand torn September :23rd, and ;is expected to arrive at Port Chalmers on October -20th.. The Wi&ochra, with 550 invalMs, left Suez on September 25th, and is timed to • arrive on October 30th.

During an interval iln :the programme at the Patriotic Concert last night, in tlie Town Hall, Mr. Stan. Peyton announced ti-at the fund would benefit by over £6O. There were some 400 tickets still out; over -£7 had beesa taken at the door; £2 had been showered on the > platform to -the singing of -two lads;;! and sweets sold in tke hall realised £1 I 13. The Union Jack offered i>y auc-'i tion was accountable for £3B it)/-. , It is not often that judges ai",e applied to for consent to a marriage when one of the parties are under age, but during the recent session of the' Supreme Court at ralmer&ion North, Mr. Justice Edwards had such an a-p----plication made to him. The applicant ] was a girl, nineteen and a half years of age, whose mother refused to gsve her consent to the marriage. On the mother being called upon to state reasons for her refusal; her solicitor addneed several as to the young man's persond fitness. The judge accordingly adjourned the application until the next sitting, pending a noedical examination

An official enquiry has cleared wellknOwn Sydney and Melbourne firms of alleged overcharging on outfits of surses for active service.

in the-military law sections; of this year's military examination, for promotion, thirty-two officers sat in one section and thirteen in the other. Of the thirty-two, nine failed, to pass, but one passed with exceptional merit.'ln tjie •second section, three failed to pass.

The crowning cf Dargaville's Queen of t'he Carnival took place yesterday. A record crowd assembled, although the weather was squally. The procession was a mile long, and the amount raised for the Wourxled Soldiers' Fund was £6,S<HO.

A feature of last night's patriotic entertainment at the Town Hall was the exceedingly clever skit on boxing by members of the Marton Spoof Band. To do it justice from a humorous point ft*f view would require very much more 'space than can be afforded. It was certainly one of the most ingeniously constructed farces that has yet been staged on the subject of boxing, and it kept the huge audience in unbroken roars of laughter while it laatfed.

I A warning that nothing «aTi be ex-; ipected from Roumania is conveyed toj the readers of the Tages Zcitnng in an editorial on August 4th by Count Ernest Reventlow. His article, which is headed "Roumanians Falling Quotation,'' summarised the situation in the following paragraph:—'' Those f riendj ly relations with Eoumania made sac--red by tradition—and on the German 'side by firm confidence—can hardly longer be considered as existing.", Count Reventlow points out "Eou*mania's refusal to permit exports of 'grain or to permit ammunition for the Turks to pass through its territory, although Russia was permitted to 'tranship munitions to Serbia. He says it had been hoped that Roumania won] fulfil its treaty obligations or preserve at least an upright and weTl-wish'ing, neutrality, but that the contrary came: to pass. Koumania's neutrality be- ; came malevolent, he asserts, with a : tendency to enter the conflict on the. side of Germany's enemies. The im-i portance of R-oumanias' aid to Turkey and Germany lias been, greatly lessen-' ed, however, Count Revenfhlow insists.. Before Russia's Galician defeat Ron-' mania would have been a military factor in co-operation with the ICusco-j vites, he says, but that time is past, and her military and political power as an opponent of Germany is vanishing. The period when Roumania could : be considered a leading factor in the development in the Balkan States has gone by, the article declares.