LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 26 November 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

_ A Lablo to-day states that throe Britishers have “been arrested at Shanghai for trading with the enemv.

Members of the Athletic Club are reminded of the meeting to be held tonight at the Secretary’s Office Gre+na Hall. ■

At the Takapuna Race Meeting, on Wednesday, £22,m 10/ 'was 'put through the totaWsator, which is an increase of £2,104 on last year. A shepherd with good dogs is advertised for by Mr X. Fulton, Kaweka Rfiad, Taihape, who will pay good wages to a suitable man. The new pavilion on the Taihape Bowling Green is fast nearing com pi tion. it- will provide conveniences that wore very frequently needed. A r the, Tui Street Mart, to-morrow, Mr ]). McLennan will sell* a fhree-vcnr-old pony, sideboard, wardrobe, i"-/'fe;’ shoes, crockery and a Jio.jt of otlifS' v*ry useful articles.

The jockey Harold Harvey, who was injured by a bad fall in the Borough Handicap at Takapuna on Wednesday, was reported by the Hospital authorities to be still unconscious last night, and the exact extent of his injuries is not at present known.

A married couple Avho were lately engaged for a Hawke’s Bay station at £IOO a year, on hearing of the duties required of them, stipulated in a letter to the agent fot £100,025 a year. It was their simple way of asking for £125 (£IOO and £25) per annum.

At the Dardanelles recently two members of the Field Ambulance Corps

were carrying 1 a man on a stretcher when a shrapnel shell burst nnderr the stretcher. The two_ bearers were wounded, and the soldier got up from the stretcher and ran for his Mfe.

The Prime Minister states that the Defence authorities have arranged to make the December payments to members of forces and to those who have allotments of pay from men already at the front before the holidays ’ commence, instead of at the end of the month.

A frost which was experienced in some parts of Southland on Sunday morning did considerable damage to potato crops. Fortunately the Pros* was not general, but it was felt in Dunedin. Ten degrees of frost were ex pericnced at Christchurch on Sunday, and caused considerable damage to vegetable crops. It was stated in shipping circles in Wellington yesterday that notice had been given recently that freight rates from America, which have been rulinr at about 00/ per ton, will presently bo raised to 100/ per ton. It is believed that the increase is being imposed bcause of the higher insurance premiums due to war risks, and also to the operation of the I.IMV shipping bill passed by Congress recently.

The following unique nirth notice in a recent issue of the Melbourne Age, shows how the recruiting movement is assisted there:—“Vernon—At 14 Cavendish street, Geelong, the wife of Hugh Vernon (late Chief Scout, Field Intelligence Department, South Africa) —a daughter. Another little Briton! Now then, boys, enlist and keep her so.”

A British officer in command of an Australian brigade in Egypt heaH a Queensland sergeant addressing h.'s men in very lurid language, and began to remonstrate with him. “That sox’t of thing won’t do, you know, my nan,” he said, but the sergeant took no notice, and continued as fluently as ever. “Here, you,” shouted the officer indignantly; “you with, the kangaroo leathers in your hat.”

A year ago New Zealand producers were expressing great alarm at a prospective shortage of tonnage for meat and wool. To-day, states the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, the position is the lhappier one of actual surplus tonnage. One steamer more than can be filled will be ready, and; will probably be diverted to Australia. Late shearing, due to wet weather, has caused a reduction of wool cargoes, for which provision had been made this month.

How these Americans love money! Mr Claude McKay, an Australian journalist, writes home from Now York that the only time he saw a crowd cheering in that solemn city was when they saw £100,000,000 of British gold being carted down Wall Street.' They stood on the pavement and cheered the boxes trundling by! Satirical reference is made by Mr McKay to the skilful way in which American daily papers vary the war news to keep up their circulation! On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays the Germans win in the columns of the New York dailies, and the rest of the week the Allies have the best of it.

“They, know us by the turned-up brim fo our hats,” writes an Australian soldier to, a brother in Wellington, when describing the splendid manner in which he and his comrades were treated recently in Great Britain. He declares that the fame of the Australians and New Zealanders is great in the Old Country, where many of the folk seem unable to do enough for the lad<3 who have travelled from the other side of the globe to take their part hr the great struggle. Perfect strangers though the writer of the letter and his fellow private were, they never lacked for guidance and advice. When they wished to see the sights of London, courteous guides freely offered their services; when they asked at a railway station the way to a certain address, a gentleman, overhearing them, ..made them comfortable in his cab and took them thither with all speed; when they “prowled about’ on exploitation beat, they were stopped by kindly folk who wished to know what they could do to help the “Australian hors.’ The same warm, hospitable feeling was < isplayed hi the provincial towns and in soldiers visited during a mu :h-pr:zed i period of leave. Unlike cough mixtures ' ; NAZOL” gees direct to the seat of trouble quickly soothes and relieves. No cold is Hazel-proof.

The Telegraph Department notify

that week-end cables forwarded “via Pacific” for places beyond America will be accepted as usual. Messages will be accepted on condition that they will be subject to indefinite delay.

The correct weight in the sheenguessing competition run by Mrs. E. W. Smith’s Committee at the Carnival Bazaar was 621bs, and the followingpersons were successful:—Messrs. P. R- Take, John Fitzgerald. E. Siddells, and Potaki. Most of the guesses ranged from 60 to 641hs. The N.Z. Government has received from the South African Government an enquiry for fifty tons of cheese. It is probable that the quantity will be supplied from the 15,000 tons that had been arranged fair by the N.Z. Government for the Imperial authorities. It is apparent the cheese is required for, array purposes in South Africa. - 1

It is estimated that there are about 100,000 bales of wool offering in New Zealand for shipment to the United States. The Union Company, G. H. Scales, Ltd., Fed era 5 and Shire lino have already announced ships fixedfor loading in the Dominion for U.S.A., and it is understood that at least another company will enter the market shortly. At the present time competition for wool freight is exceptionally keen.

To-morrow evening, J. C. Wjlliamsou’s latest and greatest musical comedy success. “The Girl in the Train,” will be staged by a full company of artists, in the Taihape Town Hall. All those who saw “The Girl in the Taxi” were very profuse in its praise, and it is not likely that one of them will be absent to-morrow evening when a much better comedy is to be staged. 1 This company needs no recommendation as it has played to packed houses in Wellington, -Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin for several weeks together. It is one of J. C. Williamson’s best organisations and patrons to-morrow night are sure to have a most enjoyable evening. The box plan Is at Finch’s B'azaar.

‘‘ V e have lost and are Josh-g ]>■ this war the flower of our youth, mu' I question whether the community i c realising that fact,” said the Rev. R. E. Davies, of Dunedin, at a service of intercession held on Saturday evenin'? in the Town Hall concert chamber. “From the standpoint of the future of the nation the position is disastrous. I was in the Old Country when the war commenced, and I noticed that, the response which came right from the heart of the nation was the response of the best. There was battalion after battalion of young university men, the very flower of the liD of the nation. There never has been such as Kitchener’s Army because of its character. It has taken the very heart out of the nation.”

I C eimany’s wild dream of invading the United States has kept Americ m officials busy in Atlantic seaports, and it has now been discovered that detailed plans and sketches of certain fortifications of New York harbour and vicinity have been sent to Berlin by two secret messengers aboard a steamship which sailed from New York to Rotterdam during last July. With the indictment on October 15th of Max Lynar, also known as Count Max Lynajr London, on a charge of bigamy. United States Secret Service agents in New York began an investigation of the recent activties of a man who, under the name of Lynar, is said to have done confidential work ni the United States last June and July on behalf of the German and Austrian Covernments. Count London is charged with being implicated in the plot.

Private W. P. Moore, in a letter recently received by his sister, Mrs C. P. Brooke, Taihape, from the first War Hospital, at Birmingham, England, says; Everyone here is very pleased at the big British victory in France, some of the wounded from there being here. The factories around are nearly all doing munition work, They work on Sundays just the same as week days. Sir lan Hamilton has given the New Zealanders and Australians a great name over the big advance in G/aDipoli, al! the papers here having his dispatches in them. It is quite true, too, for they fought marvellously. We were alongside the Gurkhas and the famous 29th Division, and they could do no better. At any rate, the New Zealanders never; lost an inch of ground they had taken, and they took a good deal.. The Maoris fought splendidly. They are as good as the best white troops, and theyi lost heavily too.