The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 329, 4 November 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With winch is incorporated Tho Tat liape Post and Waimarino News.)

The many friends of Mr and Mrs Richmond Davies will regret to learn that their little daughter, Katherine, died at Te Kuiti yesterday.

Mr Tennant, Mn the House of Commons, on Tuesday, said that between April 20th and October 20th 3.200 officers and 75,000 men had quitted Gallipo.i owing to sickness.

A bulletin issued at 12.30 p. m yesterday states that King George’s condition has improved. He can take solid food, although he had a worse night and still suffers considerable pain.

An earthuake shock, rather long, but not severe, was felt in Wellington on Tuesday morning at 5.27 o’clock. Deports received from Kaikoura and Kelson state that shocks were recorded there at the same time.

Mr. H. C. Cochran has for sale an upright grand piano, which is guaranteed to be in perfect order. As tho owner is leaving the district, the very low price of £25 is'bcing asked for tho instrument.

The Imperial authorities have advised the Kew Zealand Government that no person will be allowed to land in Egypt without a passport. This instruction is a new one and travellers will have to make their arrangements accordingly.

On Saturday Mr. D. J. -McLennan will sell at the Tui Street Mart one of the most useful collections of goods ever sold in Taihape. It includes the complete stock of a retail hardware shop, with almost every conceivable tool required by carpenters or in a farm workshop. Rifles, cocks, table cutlery,.copper fire curbs and fire-irons, gramophones, enamclware, tinware, hairbrushes, a lot of dainty ladies’ handbags,with hundreds of other useful and desirable articles, form part of what Mr: McLennan will offer.

Several cases brought under the Borough By-laws came up for hearing at the sitting of the Taihape Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the breaches being driving round corners at other than walking pace. The presiding

magistrate, Mr. J. G. Hewitt, pointed out that a penalty up to £5 could be inflicted. but on the present occasion he would only imflict fines of 5/. In any future cases, however, the penalty would be greater. This should certainly act as a deterrent and drivers wilJ no doubt heed, the warning and comply with the by-laws.

At a meeting of the Wellington branch of the Social Democratic Party, held on Monday evening, the following resolution was passed unanimously: * ‘ That this branch of the Social Democratic Party condemns the insidious attempt that is being made by irresponsible persons to establish in New Zealand a conscript military service, especially so, when most of the advocates of this Prussian system will be over the retired age of conserpts; and we think that the suggestion of the conscription of human flesh and blood before the huge war profits that the food and other trading kings have plundered the public of, is a strange sort of patriotism, and one which the thinking portion of New Zealand’s population will have something to say about. In the event of any action be- ’ in" taken to enforce this military tyranny in New Zealand, we pledge ourselves. along with other liberty-loving organisations, to resist it to the utmost.” •

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| There is in Glasgow a new amtn uii tion factory started by two worn m, I and it is reported that more are to le I shortly started. . j As the New Zealand Cricket Council [has decided that no Plunket Shield j or Hawke Cup cricket matches will be j player during the present season, it is | Possible that the Wanganui representaj I>ve a will not be called upon to defend I i-hc last-named trophy during the curj rency of the war. j Auckland is easily meeting all dej wands for recruits. There are already j waiting sufficient men to fill her quota j for the next reinforcements, while the | district hag recently supplied a large I number of extra men, presumably to ; fill gaps in t!he Canterbury and Otago : quotas. Yesterday 80 men came forI ward, 63 being accepted. I The machine-gun recently completed by the staff of the Petone Railway Workshops has successfully passed its tests, and, it is understood, has proved entirely satisfactory. The question of manufacturing a quantity is now being considered, the shops being capable of producing at least one every week.

j The question as to whether school , committees have power to give donations to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund I was settled by the Auckland Educaj tion Board. On the advice of the Fi- ; nance Committee it was decided to re- | ply to the Manunui School Committee, j stating that they did not have such ipporer.w r er.

The French Government, has just decided that the British and Belgian troops who fall in Prance are to have a solemnly recognised place of rest in French soil, and a Bill has just been passed through the Chamber, introduced by the French Minister of War. which provides land for special cemeteries for the bodies of the fallen Allies of Prance.

Lady Islington is cne of the members of the Women’s Economy League—an organisation founded in London by a number of society women, who pledge themselves to cut down certain expenses, such as those incurred by dining on a costly scale and at restaurants, employing men servants, wearing ultra fashionable gowns and imported luxuries, etc. All members must wear the anti-luxury badge and undertake to keep the anti-luxury pledge.

Owing to the slackness of shipping at Oarnimi, which lias for some time past been very pronounced, the wharf labourers are having a bad time. There are at present between 50 and 00 men on the list, which means, with

the little amount of cargo being handled, that the wages per man are at a very low average. Indeed, it is doubtful if, taking the earnings for the year, any man is now averaging 30/ per week.

~V 3 „ The question of the censorship of moving picture films is to be discussed at a conference to be held in SL Patrick’s Hall, Wellington, on Wednesday, December Ist. The conference has been arranged by the Catholic Federation, which, in a letter read at last evening’s meeting of the Borough Council, stated that it had received from local bodies a sutheient number of favourable replies to its recent circular to justify the holding of the conference; .' ' r ,J ‘ ",

Commenting upon the habit of, some business people in giving Maoris indiscriminate credit, Judge Jack, at the meeting of Aotea Maori Land Board said that apparently it was assumed because a Maori spent freely for a little while his wealth was inexhausty ible. The facts however, were different. The flushness of cash in nearly all cases arises, not from annual income, but from sales which must end sooner or later. It was incumbent on business people in giving credit to be circumspect. The ability of a Maori to pay next month or next year is not to be judged alone from his swagger on his present flushness.

A local resident asks (says the Waimate Witness) how it is that despite the large number of men who have left New Zealand for the seat of war during t{he present year, there is no scarcity of labour, and. a vacant job can now be filled more quickly and with almost a larger choice of applicants than was possible twelve monhts ago? This, he says, is an undeniable fact in Taranaki, and is particularly so in this district. None of the dairy factories are short-handed; in fact, he says, they can get more men than they require, and it is the same in regard to the supply of milkers. In one dairy factory in this district he states,where | the supervision of the labour employed j has of late become very strict, if not severely exacting, if a man * s s ‘ charged there is a rush of applicants for the vacant job, He is somewhat puzzled to know how this is, and asks if anyone can explain.

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Recruits for Wellington’s quota of the reinforcement drafts are still coming forward in satisfactory numbers. At the Buckle Street office the recruitj ing officials aro occupied for some time each day in attending to inquires from intending recruits, who, in a number of cases, appeal to the officials concerning the correct method of filling in the registration papers. Several first-class medically fit tradesmen are wanted for the 20th Reinforcements, the services of one plumber, one wheelwright, one stonemason, and* one draughtsman being required at once for tho engineers’ branch of the ser-

vice. There aro various forms of desertion. Two of them -were effectively described at the court-martial of a Maori deserter at Auckland. The accused’s wife (a native) was describing a minor incident in which thev were both concerned, and remarked that it occurred before her husband deserted. "Do you mean before lie deserted from the camp? asked th" military prosecutor. “No, before lie deserted me,” was the ready and amusing response. "It seems as if a second charge of desertion is hanging over his head,” observed counsel for the defence. "I suppose he has received his punishment for that.” naively suggested the prosecutor.

Nine tenders were received by the Nelson Borough Council' the other night for the erection of a ferro-concrctc bridge over the Waitai River, the tenderers being Auckland, Palmerston North, Wellington, Dunedin, and Nelson contractors. The Mayor explained the position created by the death of Mr. Cawthron, who had intended to defray the cost of the bridge as a gift to the city. His will, which was executed 13 years ago, left practically the whole of his estate fer a technical institute and museum, and contained no reference to the bridge arid other uncompleted gifts to the city he had' in mind. It was decided to acquaint the tenderers with the position, and return their deposits.

At a meeting of the committee of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce the following resolution was unanimously adopted:—“That the chamber desires to enter an emphatic protest against the unpatriotic and ill-advised utterances of irresponsible war correspondents of the Ashmead Bartlett type and ethers, who, apparently, for selfish ends, are doing their best to damage their country’s interest and the interests of our allies; that other chambers be asked to make similar protest, and that the Prime Minister be asked to cable this resolution to Mr. Asquith, requesting that it be given the widest publicty in Great Britain, and that failing prompt acquiescence by Mr. Massey, the chamber cable direct.”

The Native Land Purchase Board has fin a Sly completed the purchase of three large blocks between Napier and Gisborne on the route of the proposed railway line. These blocks arc To Kuta, Awatotara, and Purotangihia, consisting of 44,710 acres altogether. This area will be gazetted Crown land this week and will be then in the hands of the Crown Lands Board of the district. These blocks are part of a group known as the Waikare Mohaka lands which have been the subject of much litigation and legislation and have been inquired into by more than one commission. The vexed question of the titles to the blocks now purchased was finally settled by legislation passed in 1914. At meetings of the assembled owners which were held, an agreement to sell was arrived at and the land is now available for settlement. The purchase of these lands is in furtherance of the policy of the Government to purchase native land on the line of proposed railways throughout the Dominion.

It has been officially denied in Berlin that the Hamburg-Amerika and the Nord-deutscher - Lloyd Trans - Atlantic Lines are bankrupt. This (states a Geneva telegram of July 29) may be true from a purely legal point of view, a s the shareholders have taken no public action in the Courts but there is little doubt that both companies are insolvent from a business point of view. The Nord-deutscher-Lloyd Line has issued the following circular which reached Switzerland through Basle; “For German navigation on the seas, the declaration of war against France, Russia, and England represents for us the most terrible catastrophe. All our navigation since the-end of July, 1914, lias been paralysed by the insecurity of the political position, and it was completely stopped at the beginning of August. In comparison with 1913 the number of our passengers has diminished by 284,582. In the first seven months of 1914 there were 376,795, against 662,385 in 1913. Since August last both the passenger and goods traffic has entirely ceased.” The report adds that it is not yet possible to estimate the great losses incurred by the two companies but it appears that they owe several millions sterling and cannot pay their creditors, and as their indebtedness increases daily by leaps and bounds, the question of ! bankruptcy is only a formal legal matter.