The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 27 October 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Tai- , hape Post and "VVaimarino News.)

A Sydney wire to-day says that conjointly with the recruiting campaign there is a strongly growing public movement to enforce the Government to adopt the 6 o’clock closing of hotels. Up to Saturday last £IB6B had been collected towards the cost of a gift armed biplane from the people of Gisborne. The sum of £l7l is required to make up the total amount necessary.

Mr McCormick advertises, in the “Wanted” column, seven pairs of chrome calf Derby shoes, of a splendid make, good, fashionable shoes, in sizes from two to seven, suitable for girls, at considerably reduced prices.

On Monday a Mastertou man named Henry Millar, aged twenty-eight, married, was knocked under a motor-car by a horse and sustained a fractured skull and leg. He died in theMasterton Hospital without recovering consciousness.

Writing to his mother, Private Pat Walsh, of Ohakune, relates his experiences, in the course of which he had a marvellous escape from being killed. Private Walsh was struck with a burlet just above the heart. The missile passed through his paybook and some letters, and then came in contact with a nickel cigarette-case, wdiieh caused the. buJlet to deflect downwards to the abdomen. But for the cigarette-case death would have been certain.

Among the great steamers which have been taken over by the British Admiralty for use as hospital ships are the Cunard liners Aquitania and Mauretania. An Australian soldier who is at present in England, writing from Southampton to a brother in Wellington, mentions that he had seen the two huge vessels lying in port together. They had each been fitted up as hospital ships and could each accommodate 3,500 wounded.

Frank Slavin, the old-time prizefighter, has enlisted with a Canadian contingent. He is 54 years of age. Slavin fought in battles in the bareknuckled days. He is a native of Maitland. N.S.W. In his day he fought all the principal (fighters, Laing (New Zealand dhampion),whom he defeated; Jem Smith, the representative of the roughs of England; Jack Kilraln and P.j Jaekson, tire last being sensational rounds, and ending in Slavin being knocked out.

The opinion that the overseas Dominions should now take part in the councils of the Empire was expressed by the Minister for Internal Affairs, when speaking at Helensville on Saturday. “Wo have,” said Mr. Russell, “worked in the building up of the firm of John BuW and Sons, and have a right to some say with regard to the operations of the-war and the terms peace.” The Minister added that possibly the Prime Minister, the Minister [for Defence, and Sir Joseph Ward would proceed to England to take part in the Dominions’ Conference.

A lecture entitled “Can Germany ‘Win?’ ? was given at Northcote (Auckland) last week by Mr. W. A. Beddoe, Trade Commissioner for Canada, under tbe auspices of the Nortlicote Athenaeum. Mr. Beddoe referred to the various phases of the world conflagration, and maintained that because Germany was becoming proportionately weaker as the war went on, whereas the Allies were, on the contrary, growing stronger as time progressed. Ge~many could not ultimately win in this [contest. Tt was only a question of 1 time when the Allies would prosecute the, campaign to a victorious conclusion. He pointed out that. Britain at first onlv had 170.000 men engaged, but nbw bad three million men in preparation.

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Mr D. C. Bate's weather forecast for 24 hour s from 9 a.m. this day is as follows: Westerly prevailing wind, and squally at times; expect changeable and showery weather; baroemter unsteady. A decision of the New York State Supremo Court is to the effect that; a man must be earning at least 12do:-s a week regularly before his wages can be garnished by a creditor for any indebtedness. It will not do if the man is being paid only intermittently at the rate of 12doIs. A well-to-do-man in Hawke’s Bay was so dissatisfied with his two older sons, for declining to enlist cn active service, that he altered his will, cutting these boys out and leaving his property to the younger two of the family (reports the Napier “Telegraph.) “I made him go to the war; he wouldn’t work for me or for his wife; he's in Trentham now,” remarked a , Judgment debtor —a woman- —at the 1 Magistrate's Court in Christchurch last j week. The person referred to was her 1 •married sen with a wife and two children. “You were vary wise,” said Mr ; Bishop, S.M., “in sending him to the front. That’s the best place for 1. jin.” j

At the end of May last a cable message of sympathy was sent by a Pending father to Malta, where his soldier son was in hospital, wounded. The father has just received word from his sen that the cablegram reached the latter when he had been back some time in the trenches at Gallipoli. The cablegram left Feikliug on May 29th, and was delivered cn August 26th —or just three months late!

Seven German steamers, which have been taken over by the Admiralty, are now in the British service under British names. But the staid Admiralty have shown that they, toe, enjoy their joke, for each name, British as it may be, begins with the syllable “Hun,” such as the Hungerford, the Kunsdon. One can imagine the indignation among the Huns at this too familiar use of their own particular name, remarks an English paper. #

What is claimed to he an improvement upon the standard ribe periscope has been designed by Mr Ernest Moss, of Christchurch, inventor of the postal franking machine. Mr Moss’s adaptation provided for the mirror being used by both eyes, and the contrivance is much lighter than the one now in use. Mr Moss is presenting his adaptation to the New Zealand Government. A demcnsti’ation was given before Christchurch officers of the Defence Department last week, -

Tille further the war proceeds, the more wonderful and far-reaching appears to have been the foresight and organisation of the Germans for Der Taig. The latest disclosure comes from the cableman at Pekin, who reports that the Allies have discovered 24 cotton plantations in the interior of China that Germans had bought “with the object of sneaking the product through the blockade.” And yet once more the watchdogs of the Allies have blocked an astute m)'' C of the Kaiser and Co.

School boys and girls can do a lot id useful work for our soldiers at the front if they are given a good practical lead and properly encouraged in the work by their teachers. During his visit to the Matapu school Mr Bone, under the Wanganui Education Board (says the Hawera Star) was shown neatly tied-up bundles of linen, knitted and towelling face-cloths, bandages, etc., all ready for the next hospital ship. This work had all been done by the children in their own line, mostly in their own homes, and the boys had done equally as much as the girls.

Dr. Elizabeth Gunn has been accepted for service on the second hospital ship, and will leave the Education Department’s medical inspection work while on military duty. Her departure from Auckland is likely to interfere with the development of the system of inspecting school l children, as much of the work must be done by lady doctors, and these are few and far between. The Education Department learns that in England the call of military service has affected the supply of medical inspectors of schools, causing difficulty in carrying on the inspection work.

A proclamation was issued in a special Gazette prohibiting the publication or possession of any printed matter emanating from the I.W.W. or any other source that may be deemed inimical to the public welfare Yet within a day or two a poster, about a deraysheet in size, with I.W.AV.-ism written all over it, and 11 I.W.W. Print” in the lower left-hand corner, where the imprint usually appears, was found pasted upon the fence round the Supreme Court in Wellington. The attention of hn officer of the court was called to the poster, and it was speedily removed.

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Messrs,. E. Moore, manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercaltile Agency Co., Ltd., at Mangaweka, and A. 11. Gascoigne, solicitor, of Mangaweka, have been appointed assistant recruiting officers in this (No. 22) Area. Advice has been received by StaiT-Scrgeant-Major Tuckey from headquarters at Palmerston North, that more men will be going into camp on Friday and he has been asked to send any available men on that date. So far the Sergeant-Major has got four men to leave on Friday. Patrick MacGjil,], the ‘lrish ,N)avvj| Poet and Novelist (author of “The Children of the Dead End” and “The Eat Pit"), who is now shouldering a rifle somewhere in France, tells of a dialogue in the trenches. Said one rifleman to another: “Why did you join?” To which the other replied: “To save myself the trouble of telling people why I didn’t.” A requiting officer, not one hundred miles from Taihape, lias received a very interesting application for enrolment. In the letter the applicant states that he desires no pay; Ills father was a soldier and he wishes to do his duty to his country. Needless to say, the applicant received a reply by return mail. Such patriotism is worthy of imitation.

The Taumnrunui paper says:—"Mrs. F. T. Reece had a trying experience on Tuesday night in the dense bush about five or six miles from Raurimu. 'Mrs. Recce was followed by wild cattle, and to escape them she went off the beater track and lost her way in the bush. As Mrs. Reece failed to return home at 11 p.m., a search parly was organised, and every effort was made during the night to find the missing woman. Mrs. Reece, however, found her way homo safe and sound next clay."

Of wool, 1,492,071 bales, valued at £382,016, were exported in August of this year as against 3,836,062 bales, valued at '£168,577 exported in August, 1914. For the first eight months of this year the export of wool tofutnlled 164,069,194 bales, valued at £8,335,242, as compared with 178,693,040 bales, valued at £7,449,402, exported in the corresponding period of last year. The number of bales exported this year so far is rather less than in 1914, but the value is nearly a million sterling greater.