The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 15 October 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Post and Waimarino News.)

Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., for Egmont, was quietly married on Monday to Mis s Mabel Duncan, at the house of Mr H. Moyes, Eltham.

A record haul of 13 tons of fish, consisting of schnapper, terakihi, barracouta. trevali, gurnet, and frost fish was landed in Auckland on Sunday from the trawler Countess,

In connection with the candidature of Mrs Wallingford, the Soldiers’ Queen, for the Auckland Carnival, a women’s mock court is to be h£ld, all the officials, including the police, belonging to the gentler sex.

The wife of an Ashburton resident gave birth to triplets on Tuesday, according to a Press Association telegram. Two of the babies were girls, and are both well, but a, boy was stillborn.

Compulsory drill for every man between the age of 18 and-55 was advocated by Mr L. M. Isitt in the House. The value of such drill, he argued, would be found in t,he spirit that it would create.

Tho opportunity is awaiting you to procure one of the latest style pique skirts with high waist and back, and finished with buttons for 3/11 at Collinson and Gifford, Ltd., Clean Sweep Sale.

It is specially notified in another column that a Monster Social and Dance will be held at Moawhango on Monday evening, 18th October, in support of Miss Whenuaroa’s candidature for Queenship of the Carnival. As great pains are being taken to ensure a maximum amount of enjoyment; there should be a very full hall.

A laTge corrugated iron building in Bridge street, Nelson, owned by Young’s trustees (England), and occupied bjy A. Carsten as a furniture warehouse, wa s destroyed by fire early this evening. The building was insured for £6OO in the Commercial Union, and Carsten’s stock was insured for £IBOO in various offices. The stock was valued at £2500.

An exhaustive paper was read by Mr S. H. Jenkinson on the subject.! “The Manufacture of Iron and Steel in New Zealand,” before the technological section of the Philosop|hical Society. Mr Jenkinson said he doubted' the possibility of doing anything on a large scale with the Parapara ores, but in reference to the Taranaki ores said that useful steel might be made on a small scale. After several members had voiced their opinions, a hearty vote of •‘hanks was accorded the lecturer. NO COLD IS • NAZOL” PBOOF!

Mr P. W. Goldsmith, of Levin, has been appointed clerk of the Horowhenua County Council. Mr Goldsmith has been Clerk of the Levin Borough Council for many years, and the Horowhenua County Council is fortunate in its selection, for it is doubtful whether a more capable and conscientious officer than Mr Goldsmith exists my- >- where, i ,

On Saturday, at the Tui Street Mart, Mr D. J. McLennan will sell the bal-

ance of a very fine assortment or drapery; there will also be bargains in men’s and women’s clothing which the thrifty housewife should not miss. In addition to tho no-reserve drapery and clothing sale. Mr. McLennan will sell

the usual garden produce, including rhubarb, asparagus, and other choice vegetables.

Admiral Jellicoe writes to his wife; “I am sure the men are longing to get home, if only for a day or two. They are setting an example of cheeriness that 3 S splendid. They have not the excitement of action, or the trial of patience would not be so severe, as they are condemned just to wait and watch. We don’t get much comfort out of the weather. The nights are very long, the sky is very grey, and the decks are very wet.

While resident in Christchy.eh twelve years ago. a young mao, being t curious as to the travelling of coin when once in circulation, marked several and sent them adrift. After a few months, cue (a half-sovereign) came into his hands while on the West Coast, and only the other day the curious one —now a business man in Dannevirke —was surprised, when counting up his day’s takings, to discover another of the marked set —this time a half-a-crown. The idea of compulsory marriage has been suggested a number of times, particularly in countries like France,where the birth-rate i s going down so quickly. The last time it was seriously suggested was in the Austrian town of Trieste, the place for which the Italians are fighting. One of the town councillors tried to get a law passed that on a certain day all spinsters of 25 and men - of 30 should present themselves at the various local government offices, have their names drawn from an urn two at a time, and the couples so chosen should be compelled to marry one another. Luckily for Triestians, the scheme was negatived. “Don’t you think the chamber should take steps in the direction of inducing employers to take joint action towards refusing to employ single men eligible to go to the front?” remarked Mr. C. L. Innes at a meeting of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Last Monday night. He considered, he added, that an employer who retained a man in his service who could not

give satisfactory reasons for not offering his services to the Empire was an abettor to the deliquency. Several members considerd the. matter out ot the province of the chamber, and that to follow the course suggested would mean the introduction of a mild form of conscription.

The late Maori Chief. 11 Iraki Te Ranga is to be accorded a military funeral. An appeal*to the Defence Department for title necessary pernFscion has been granted, and a. firing party of twelve men finder Staff-Sergeant-Major Tuckey will leave Taihape at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning for Moawhango, where the remains now lie. Several (hundreds of Natives are expected to be present, and as a very large number of. Europeans from Taihape and surrounding district have signified their intention of being present, the record gathering for Moawhango is predicted. The Brass Band will head the funeral procession, playing the Dead March. Telegrams of condolence have been received from the Premier, the Minister of Defence, the Native Minister and other notables.

“The man who stays at home, that is, the man of military age, who has no obligations to keep him hack, is not a man at all, in my opinion,” was the remark passed to a “Times” reproter by a wounded soldier who returned to Wellington from Gallipoli by tjhe Maitai (yesterday afternoon. The speaker w r as wounded severely in the head in the heavy fighting against the Turks at Quinn’s Post, and he is most anxious to return to the firing line, but his' wound is of such a nature that he is partly deaf and (his eyesight is affected. This trooper expressed his hatred for the Germans, and stated that he had evidence of the cruelty practised by the enemy on harmless women and cjaildren. At Cairo, he said, he saw a woman who had both her hands cut off at the wrists by the Germans before she escaped from Berlin after war was dei dared, while her little girl, aged about eight years, had both her eyes gouged out. The trooper also ;i id that this woman’s, husband was placed against a wall and bayoneted by the Germans in her presence.

Cakes to make—scones to bake — how easy, pleasant, and sure is the work when you use SIT APT. AND’S Baking Powder.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand authorities have ordered that next Sunday, October 17th, is to be observed as “Young People’s Day,” throughout the Dominion. A specia,! service for Sunday school scholars and other young folk will be held in the local Presbyterian Church in the morning{, .conducted by the Rev. R. H, Catherwocd. Hymns appropriate to the occasion will be used, and the Church will be decorated with flowers. Parents and others are welcome. On account of this service there will be no Sunday school in the afternoon. ,

A recruiting incident which i s worth recording on account cf its unconventionality i s mentioned in a letter received in Sydney by the sister of one of the Australian soldiers who left for the front in July. The writer states that while the transport was at Fremantle some of the boys went ashore and had a good time, much to the displeasure of the commanding o.Ticer. When they returned on board, they brought with them an irresponsible “drunk,” who bad participated in their revels. The soldiers smuggled him aboard as a mascot, so they said, and for a couple of days kept him from the observation of the aut.ho.Pries. F nring that time the stray passenger bed become imbued with a warlike spirit, and made his presence on the ship known by enlisting. He was duly enrolled in the battalion.