The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 2 November 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

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

Toronto reports that 200.000 Canadi ans are under arms. Twenty new bat talions wore organised in October

New York Secret Service men have discovered that the bombs used by the Pay conspirators were exactly similar to those used to cause fires earlier in the year. •

Mrs. Hoeroa Tipira, who supplied the music for the late patriotic ball at Utiku, has generously donated the agreed upono fee to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, in support of one of the Carnival Queen Candidates.

“Young men who are able, but do not go to the war, should be treated as lepers,” said the Rev. G. F. Petrie, at an Otaki patriotic meeting. He added that young ladies who did not give such shirkers the “cold shoulder” were almost as bad themselves.

The Post Office Savings Bank deposits last quarter amounted to £3,611,506, and exceeded the withdrawals by £606,014, .a. result which shows that the public of New Zealand during this time of war has not abated its confidence in the Post Office Savings Bank as the repository of its money.

In this issue Spence’s Drapery Establishment (opposite the Town Hall) advertises a line of exclusive blouse styles, at very moderate prices. These blouses are claimed to be something distinctive and dainty in design.' The variety is simply splendid, and includes a tasteful and attractive array of muslins, voiles, silks, radiantas, and others, for which the price is, in every instance, uncommonly low.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, advise having received the follow cable from their London house, under date of the 29th s October: “At the wool sales, the opening rates were fully, maintained for all good wool. Russia is still buying good scoured Merinos, averages 64/, costing 2/11 to 3/. Lambs, Merinos,, and Crossbreds are par, except slipe, which is Id to Id dearer.” The increase of marriages in the Wellington district for the ten months that have passed in comporison with the corresponding period of last year has been 149. During October the marriages were almost doubled, the number rising from 84 to 164. Of this total 48 were solemnised at the Registry Office, as against 25. in October last year. This increase is very significant, and is attributed to the fact that « number of young men between the ages of 19 and 22 desired to be able to record themselves in their National Registration papers as married men. High prices for wool are liKely to rule during the forthcoming season. The Now Zealand Herald says that there is expected to be the same healthv demand from Britain for the ■commodity; the New Zealand manufacturers, with Defence Department orders to fill in addition to ordinary business. will require at least as much as they did last season, and the export of wool to America is to be permitted, which will bring American wool' buyers again into the market. The I' 1 ’ 0 ' sauce of the Americans will be woii coined by growers, as Their .Maying i tend to raise pi

| It is notified in another column that j next Friday, sth November, will be ob- ' served as a holiday by Taihape Banks.

j Tne experiment of taking on three 1 girls to work at the cheese vats at | the Mangatoki dairy factory, near El•tham, has so far proved a complete sucj cess. I A first offender appeared at the Tab j hope Police Court this morning, before Air, 11. D. Bennett, J.P., on a charge of drunkenness, and was convicted and fined 5/.

The weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. is: Westerly wind prevailing. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The barometer has a rising .tendency.

The passengers' by the Orontos, which arrived at Fremantle from London yesterday, saw the sinking of the French steamer Ardamate by a German submarine in the Mediterranean.

A meeting of the Native Land Purchase Board was held on Saturday, the Native Minister (Hon. W. H. Henries) presiding. Several purchase operations were under consideration.

The Central Wood and Coal Depot, of Eastown, advertise that they are prepared to purchase any quantity of matai firewood in 4 feet lengths. They ask fqr the lowest quote on trucks at any station.

Several of the men at Trentliam Camp are of Greek nationality. It is stated that other Greek residents in New Zealand are prepared to enlist as soon as possible, in order to show their loyalty to the country of their adoption.

A hospital train is leaving Wellington to-day, conveying wounded to Auckland and intermediate stations. It will arrive at Tailiape at 8.20 p.m.. and it is understood that there are three men for the Taihape district on board. These wounded have returned from Egypt on the Willochra.

The funeral of the late Rev. D. Gordon is to leave St. Andrew’s Church, Marton, for the Upper Tutaenui Cemetery, at 2.15 p.m. to-morrow (Wednesday), A short service will be held in the church at 2 o’clock. The burial place selected is the. scene of many years of ministerial labour.

i A man who now resides in Napier, but who, up to six months ago, was a resident of Johannesburg, states that when the war broke out the loyalty of the Boers and Dutch residents generally was apparent, and with the exception of De Wet's followers, all had sworn their allegiance to Britain within a few days after the declaration of war. A special meeting of Parliament was by General Botha (pronounced Bota) summoned, and the great speech made, which concluded with the words, "We will ..fight and die for the Union Jack, "rang throughout the Sand. "I have never once doubted South Africa loyalty," the speaker remarked, "and it is my oplnioon that she is only just beginning to help."

An. interesting discovery was made by the. Wellington city police one night last week. A fireman from one of the Home boats noiv in port was apprehended for insobriety, and after he had submitted to the usual search by the officer in charge at the police station, it was found' that he was a remarkable person in a way. Discharges found in his pockets proved him to be a survivor from two great marine disasters. One discharge showed that he Was a fireman on the isl-fated Empress of Ireland, when she was sunkr:: in a collision in the St. Lawrence Eiver on May 29th, 1914, and over 1.000 lives were lost. The other discharge showed that the man was employed as a fireman on btoard the Cunard liner Lusitania when she was sent to the bottom off the coast of Ireland by German submarines on May 7th of this year, and 1,500 lives were lost. '