LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 13, 17 January 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

A cable advises that Lord Chelmsford succeeds Lord Hardinge in the Vice-Royalty of India.

Plums and apples are on sale at D. J. McLennan’s Tui Street Auction Sale at 2/fi and ?>/ a case respectively. There is albo a fine line of potatoes.

The Government offices in the Wellington Provincial! District will bo closed on Saturday (Janauary 22 (Anniversary Day).

After an experience with the telephone tliis morning wo felt like going fishing, just so as to be at the end of a line that was not busy.

Mr. D. J, McLennan, of the Tui St. Auction Mart, is a cash buyer of cocksfoot seed in any quantity. Roadsides ought to be gold mine to some industrious person.

‘ 1 Evey price bids you welcome' ’ 'S a sales adage in the advertisement of Collinson and Cunninghame. See this Palmerston North firm’s announcement on page 8.

A Melbourne cable states that the Governor visited the Mint and struck the first silver coin minted in Australia. Five hundred thousand of silver currency is required.

Mr. Frank Herbert, an officer of the ill-fated Persia, brother of LieutenantColon el Herbert, and also of Mr. Herbert ,of the railway department at Taihapo, had been in the service over 30 years. He was in Taihape about a year ago on a visit to his brother.

The Prime Minister states that a temporary secretary to the Recruiting Boaj'd would be appointed almost immediately. The Board would then get into communication with local bodies with a view to the early organisation of recruiting committees. Alphabetical lists would be available early next week.

The Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Hughes) will leave for England shortly, the date of Ms departure being about the 20th iust. He will be in England at the time of the Allied inter-Parliamentary Commercial Conference, which is to meet in Paris on March 0. This would suggest a similar date for the departure of Premier Massey and Sir Joseph Ward.

A permanent record of the p'art taken by journalists of New Zealand in the war has been issued in the form of a souvenir programme of a send-off recently tendered in Wellington to soldier pressmen. A roll of honour shows that of some 600 journalists in the Dominion over 100 h'ad, at the time, enlisted for active service. Messrs Blundel Bros. (Evening Post) produced the souvenir free of charge.

T-he Department of Labour lias decided to take action for an alleged strike against six men who ceased work on a collier on the 30th December. It was reported at the time that the men, who were engaged in shifting coal, complained of a° noxious smell in one of the holds, and refused to continue work unless they were paid an -extra rate. The demand was not conceded, and the vessel left Wellington wit-bout completing her discharge.

“My Brigade was magnificent,” writes Brigadier Johnston in a letter referring to the late operations at- Gallipoli. “Now Zealand mothers nuy hold* up their heads high indeed. We cam all be proud of our countrymen, and I thank God I am fighting with them. With the Mounted Rifles, we make the best brigade on the Peninsula. The men are fine and well trained —yards ahead of some others. It is the right policy to.train them in New Zeaalnd and duly send them on to us when they are fit to go into the ranks. The Maoris, who have bet‘n handed over to mo, are good fighters, hard workers, and also are happy and contented.”

Soft felt hats for men at Stanley Peyton’s from 3/13. Mouc\ caauoi. nay a more efteCLi\£ remedy for coughs and colds than “NAZOL. ’ Wise mothers give it to their children. 3/6 buys 60 doses.

A director of a North Island dairy company, writing to an Ashburton resident, states that there is every probability that butter will reach 2s per lb during the coming winter.

During the month of December the arrivals in New Zealand' numbered 3007 and the departures 1980. In December, 1914, the arrivals were 3328 and the departures 1801.

A painful sidelight is thrown on the horrors of war by the announcement in Britain that manufacturers of artificial limbs' 'are busier than they have been for many years past.

The Education Department notified that a course for physically defective children would be held by one of the

instructors in Wanganui during the holidays.

In manufacturing circles in Manchester it is declared that certain English firms are getting textile fabrics dyed in Switzerland with German dyes, and are sending the goods to India to compete with British manufactures.

The hospital ship Mahono is being repainted in dock at Port Chalmers, and the consequent improvement in her appearance since her arrival is very marked. The hull is still white with green band and red crosses. The gilt lettering on her - stern shows that she is now the Maheno, of London, instead of Dunedin as heretofore. Two new bronze propellers 'are being fitted.

A Napier soldier who was sent to England from Gallipoli hag had his share of suffering, the following being his record: Wounded, enteric, ab'gcess, hemorrhage, pneumonia, syneitis, appendicitis, poisoned tumour on leg, second operation for appendicitis, and he is once more in bed. “I won’t know what it is thi s time until the specialist has beeni to-morrow;” he writes.

The following censored paragraph is from the Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna': From day to day the situation becomes more painful. The dearnes s of commodities in cur city has now reached a point hitherto unsuspected. The population see gloomy days coming. Flour is always (blank) to obtain. The poor in the real meaning of the word have (blank) to eat. The Government (blank) is uneasy (blank); the fate of the people and the authorities (blank) are (blank) the extremity of the task.” It seems to be altogether rather a blank outlook.

The fact that the Recruiting Board (which includes the Hons. Massey, Allen, and Russell) has decided that a system of badges shall be instituted in connection with the recruiting movement is of some little interest to the community That for nearly twelve months there has been an agitation throughout New Zealand for the adoption of the scheme, which Mr. Allen persistently refused to bring into force, and that only now is effect to be given to the suggestion, is one of many matters connected with our Defence administration which are quite inscrutable to an intelligence not swathed in red tape and nourished on sealing -wax.

The war attitude of an influential paper like Collier’s (New York) may be- gathered from the following editorial note; A great many people who write to us about our anti-German convictions makfe the point that Mr. H. J. Popplteman, of Marvin, Grant County, S, Dak. , makes in a recent letter: “Just quit foaming about the Germans and read your little General History and look' up how the English used to treat the Irish.” Quite true. What the English did to the Irish from one hundred to three hundred years ago was much worse than what the Germans have done to the Belgians. But we cannot follow the reason of any man who says that on this account we should be against the English. The world would never get forward that way. It won’t do to match an -ancient wrong against a present wrong.

Among the prisoners taken during the recent French advance in the Champagne distict there 'are a great many Poles. For all the Polish contingents of Germany are now fighting on the Western front. The-French authorities have interned them in separate camps and accord them preferential treatment. They are at once divested of their Prussian uniforms and dressed in blouses of grey wool, their caps are decorated with a band of red and white ribbon, the national colours of Poland, and nearly all the men wear a rosette of these colours ou their tunics. Their delight at being taken prisoners is evident. For, in these camps, the Polish language is exclusively used and the men, or rather hoys’, for many .are very young, are treated As considerately as possible Every man has expressed his satisfaction at being free from the Prussian yuuc.

Each of us has his part to play, and it all comes clown to a question of trench of retrench. —Sir Herbert Tree.

The Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company has received advice that its, consignment of butter by the ArawaLU realised 160 s per cwt. in London, being equal to Is 3d per lb. f.o.b. #

The ramifications of a great war are evidenced by the fact that even the household broom trade in the United States has been affected. This is due to the fact that the flax fibre comes from Europe, and, owing to the war, this has had a sharp advance in price. The National Broom Manufacturers’ Association endeavoured to let a contract for a supply of twine for 1915. but makers of twine of all kinds will only tender subject to reduction in quantities and for such deliveries as thev can make.

The Dairy Workers’ Union adopted, the following resolution in regard to conscription: “That, hssumflng }hat the Empire ha s over 200,000.000 of a population, and that in the Allied

countries there is mere than twice the population of the countries with

which we are at war, this union is of

opinion that conscription is unnecessary; also, seeing that wealth is not proposed to be conseribed, it is unjust to enforce conscription against mem and tliis union condemns on these grounds the introduction of conscription into the Dominion.”

The steel helmet now ■ being served to our troops in the fire trenches is perfectly plain, and resembles in shape a pudding basin. It is lined with soft leather, is not very heavy, and is extremely warm. The helmet gives the wearer an added sense of security against hand grenade and shell splinters and shrapnel bullets. It is - stated that in one section of the trenches, in. four days, no fewer than 30 men were saved head wounds by these helknets. “When the men wear the new steel cap,” says a correspondent, “over a balaclava woollen helmet covering ears and .head, they look like Crusaders. ”