The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 338, 13 November 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

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

A Melbourne cable states that the price of flour is to be reduced from £l7 to £ls from Monday next.

Shares in the Otai'hape Meat and Produce Company are offered for sale in another column by Mr J. G-. Collins, Taoroa.

The Anthem "O, How Amiable are Thy Courts," will be rendered by the Method jst Choir at to-morrow evening's service. Cordial welcome to visitors.

Sergeant-Major Tuczccy lias received advice to the effect that the Defence authorities want seven infantry and seven mounted men to leave Taihape on Tuesday in addition to the quota already called up for the 10th Reinforcements.

At the Three Stars Theatre to-mor-row night (Sunday) will be shown that beautiful coloured Pathe picture, "Honesty/' the film being 5,000 feet long, and is a very suitable picture and is spoken of as one of Pathe's best.

A number of sheep farmers on the Stanley road have (says tjhe Stratford Post) sold their clip at the excellent price of 13d. per lb. on trucks at Stratford. On some properties shearing has not commenced, but the buyers are now busy securing all the wool they can get.

For the Wanganul Agricultural and Pastoral Patriotic Show, to be held on the 17th and 18th instant, the Railway Department notifies that holiday excur. sion trains will run from Ohakune and all intermediate stations, and from Cliff Road and intermediate stations, on the 17th November. Also by the train that leaves Taihape at 6.5 a.m. on the 18th November. On the 17th and ISth the usual train from Marton to Taihape at 7.5 p.m. will not leave Marton till 7.42 p.m.

Mr. Massey says:—"The Government knows its duty, end will continue to do it. The struggle here will be long and costly. Men and more men are needed before we will be able to say we are in sight of victory at the Dardanelles . Though not holding a large area at Gallipoli. we are in a fair position, and have only to advance a few miles and can then command the peninsula and dictate whatever terms we like. It is only a matter of getting across to the Narrows and we win. Matters are serious, though. We | want men, men, and men again."

The rock oyster trade in Auckland is proving a lucrative monopoly for the Government. The Minister of Marine states that during last season 9395 sacks of rock oysters were sold on the Auckland market—so 73 sacks from the Russel beds and 4322 from the Hauraki Gulf. These figures showed an increase of 132 bags over the previous year. The profit for the season was a substantial one, and there was every reason to believe, said the Minister, that the rev-' enue drawn from the rock oyster beds would soon pay the whole cost of the fisheries branch of the Marine Department. The State monopoly at Auckland had grown from a small beginning, but promised to develop into a great enterprise. Beds almost destroyed by private under ;tjhe old system had become re-stocked and developed. An effort was also now being made, to acclimatise the rock oyster in the Marlborough Sounds.

! The Under-Secretary of Public Works notifies in another column that ' a proclamation lias been gazetted, tak-

ing nine acres 12 perches of land In the Ohinewairua Survey District (it being portion of section 26, block 13) for the purposes of a road.

Rangiwaea settlers are notified by Messrs Sam. Pudrflfey and Co., that tine charge for wool-carting, during the current season, will be six shillings per bale, ana thirty shillings per ton for back loading. After the season 30/ per ton will still be charged for full loads, but broken loads will be charged at per day I

In his just-published book. "War Pictures. Behind the Lines," Mr. lan J Malcolm, M.P., relates the following incident: "One day I was talking to j some townspeople at Trilport, ne>ir | Mau'x. They were telling me stories of the " retreat, and how highly they thought of our army. 'But we shail never quite understand you,' they added. 'What other army is there which, after retiring for many days and nights with the enemy at their heels, wouJd have behaved like the English? They reached Meaur, Monsieur, and what did they da? They at once began to play football, they took boats and rowed on the river, thy even bathed; and then they went on fighting.' "

This war lias proved the value of tobacco in cases of nerve strain; but in that it is only reaffirming the experience of 1870. In that year, in connection with the Franco-Prussian war, the Lancet said: "The soldier, wearied with long marches and uncertain rest, obtaining his food how and where he can, with his nervous system always in a state of tension from the dangers and excitement he encounters, finds that his cigar or pipe enables him to sustain fatigue ' with comparative equanimity . For the wounded it is probable that tobacco has slight anodyne and narcotic properties that enabi' the sufferer to sustain pain better during the day, and to obtain sleep during the night."

The New Zeaiand aviator, Mr T. W. H. Scotland, who made his first ouhlic flights in New Zealand during his tour last year is in Persia. He wrote recently to a Wellington resident from "(he vicinity of the Garden of Eden," a locality at the time rejoicing or otherwise in a temperature of 115 degrees in the shade. Mr Scotland stated that he preferred the New Zealand climste, and was so much impressed by the heat that he referred to tlhe place not only as the neighbourhood of the Garden of Eden, but a little later as "the vicinity of Hades." He had done a great deal of flying in a Maurice Farman biplane over the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and had visited Basra, the Arab population of which was at the time of writing (September) busily engaged In packing dates for export. Mr Scotland was enoying the best of health in spite of the heat.

The newspaper the Globe,.which was recently confiscated for its renuirks concerning Lord Kitchener's movements, was the oldest evening newspaper in London. It was founded in 1803 in the booksellers' interests, and later became the official medium for the publication of Government intelligence. In 1866 it changed hands and supported whole-heartedly Lord Disraeli, and thus opposed Lords Palmerston and Russell. In later years the Globe has been deadly opposed to "Little Englandism." In 1878 it caused a great sensation. Hy publishing the text of the Salisbury-Shhoraloff treaty, and in 1901 its manager and editor were summoned to the bar of the House of Commons and compelled to apologise for a statement reflecting on the character of the Irish National members. The Globe has always held a relation for containing the latest official intelligence. It is edited by Mr H. Harmsworth,' a brotfher of Lord Northcliffo, proprietor of the Times.

A-table prepared of the men of military age in New Zealand shows that of the total "of 248,000 men between the present military ages, 130,000 are single men, and the remaining 118,000 are husbands, widowers and divorced men. The 130,000 single men of military age are distributed through the military districts as follows: Auckland 36,000, Wellington 41,000, Canterbury 31,. 000, Otago 22,000. If necessary, it is highly probable that married men will be called up in an order according with their family responsibilities, thus: First, men with no children; second, men with one child; third, men with two children; and so on. There are at least 20,000 married men in New Zea-: land who have n « children, there are as many more with only one child, and another 20,000 with only two children. In round figures the conjural conditions of married men of military age may be set down thus: iNo children, 20,000; one child, 22,000; two, 20,000; three, 14,000; four, 9,000; five, 5,800; six, 3.600. WANGANUI SHOW. Why not combine a visit to the 'seaside with the Wanganui Show? The Kiosk, Castlecliff, offers every facility for a pleasant holiday. Trams for the Show Grounds and town leave every half-hour. Write or wire for rooms to "Kiosk," Castlecliff. ..», ■.■ j ,

At the King's Theatre to-night, dur-, ing both sessions, the positions of tha candidates in the Carnival will be announced from time to time.

Mr. Frank Cole, of Mr. H. D. Ben nett 's drapery staff, and Mr. C Tobeck, of Mr. De Luen's tailoring cs

tablishment, have enlisted for active service, and have received notice' to proceed to Trentham Training Camp next Tuesday with the Taihape quota for the 10th Reinforcements.