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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 78, 31 March 1916, Page 4

Mr.- A Thomson, of Taihape, is ad vertising for carpenters.

An American’s advice to a nephew: “Boy, never make fun of the Germans, for God made the Germans, just the same as he made ffeas, bugs, snakes, skunks, and all kinds of crawling, cringing things.”

It is notified, by advertisement, that a dark bay or brown mare has been impounded in the Tailiapo pound, and that it will be sold on Saturday, Isth April is it is not previously claimed and expenses paid.

At a meeting of teachers in Melbourne last week, it was stated that £60,000 had been raised in the State Schools of Victoria for patriotic purposes. It is aimed to bring up the amount to a quarter of a million. Out of 1,668 male teaachers, GO‘J have enlisted.

It is suggestive of the confidence of Canadians in the outcome cf the war that all over the country organisation is taking place for the prosperity and activity which it is believed will follow the declaration of peace. The re is a general conviction that there will be

an enormous emigration from Europe, and Canada looks for an unprecedented influx of settlers. Preparations are being made to anticipate and deal with that movement. The matter is largely in tap hands of the Hoards of Trade, and is receiving the enthusiastic support of the Press.

The British Brize Court has awarded the captain, officers, and crew of the Canard liner Carmania £2,1 J 5 p; Demoney for sinking the German auxiliary, cruiser Cape Trafalgar. Members of the Taihape Golf Club are already indulging in practice and a good number journeyed to the links yesterday. An Overseas Englishman who travelled 2,000 miles by train and 4,000 miles by sea in order to enlist in the British Army was rejected as unfit on his arrival; in England. War work was found for him later at Kimmel Camp.

Amongst the New Zealanders at Walton Hospital, England, is Mr. O. Hamson, formerly commercial instructor under the Wanganui Education Board. i The coloured bead necklaces now so much in vogue as "war necklaces" owe their revival to Princess Mary, who originated this new industry in order to benefit the various war funds.

1 The number of motor-cars imported into the Dominion during January and February of this year was 940, as compared with 433 in the corresponding months of last year. Quite recently a Tapanui girl was attacked by a large eel in the Pomahaka River, and severely bitten before she could escape (states the Courier). The river literally swarms with mon-‘ ste’r eels. Considerable interest is being taken in the approaching red deer stalking season for the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’s district, and already camps are being formed in the Tararua forest, in the Haurangi Reserve, and at Moawhango. The season opens next Saturday.

Everywhere i n New Zealand, vary Jlttle first-class football will be played during the season, and probably there will not be any team in Taihape. The schoolboys, however, have already started playing the popular winter pastime.

It is reported that as a result of recent activity of the Eecruiting Committee in one of the larger townships in Central Otago there are now only five single men left, all the others having volunteered for active service. ,Of the five mentioned, two are medically unfit, one is the sole support of his mother, and two sisters, and the remaining two are satisfactorily accounted for.

• A splendid instance of patriotism is related by Premier Massey. It was the case of a settler in the North of Auckland. One of his sons was killed at the Dardanelles in an endeavour to rescue some of his comrades, who had been cut off. Another son will leave with the 11th Reinforcements. Still another is in camp at Featherston. The fourth son is already on active service as a gunner, and the fifth is serving in the Territorials. The sixth son is a boy scout—and the father has offered himself as a soldier'

Breakfast bacon “on active service ’ ’ is known by its stripes like n.c.o.’s. A yougthful lieutenant of a battalion now fighting in Egypt, wrote to a friend in Sydney - recently: “I have just been frying my bacon for breakfast, lance-corporal’s bacon, wo call it, because it has only one streak of lean. Bacon with two stripes is ' corporal’ and with three 'sergeantmajor’ bacon. Sergeant-major’s bacon is about our limit. We never see any ‘lieut.-eolonel,’ let alone 'lieut'.-gener-als. ’ ”

The next Dunedin wool sale has been fixed for April 4, when the 1 associated brokers will' offer probably some 10,000 bales. The terms on which this sale will be held are that payment by overseas buyers is to be made when shipping documents are available, and scourers are to have an extension of time until time of final payment by overseas buyers unless earlier delivery of the wool is taken. In all sices payment is to be made before delivery. Shipping space is still scarce, and about 8,000 bales from the I‘ast sale (unpaid for) are still hung up at Port Chalmers awaiting the arrival of the Calliope, which vessel is expected to leave Brisbane on the 27th inst., and is due at Port Chalmers in a week or nine days -thereafter.

Yesterday afternoon there was a narrow escape from a serious accident at the corner of the street leading from Hautapu Street to the stables known as O’Brien Stables. Two •noises and a leader were attached to a brake standing in Hautapu Street, when the leader suddenly bolted round the corner. An iron telegraph post, however, cheeked the career of the horses and one of the pole horses was thrown to the ground. The owner, Mr. Beattie, who had just descended from brake, caught the leader and the shaft horse was got on its feet. It was fortunate that the pole checked the bolting as otherwise it is very probable a serious accident might have

At the Taihape Court this morning, before Mr. J. P. Aldridge, J.lk, a lirstoffender Avas coiiA r icted and lined 10/ for drunkenness. A prohibition order avms issued against u local resident this morning. Messrs. J. P. Aldridge and H. D. Bennett were the presiding justices.

A Ford motor-car tool kit, lost on Sunday between Utiku and MangaAvcka, is advertised for by Mr. G E. LittL, Taihape. A five-roomod bungaloAv house. Avith all modern conveniences, on an eighthacre section, with right of buying the adjoining section, in Kaka Hoad, is advertised for sale. A Hutt Valley resident a few nights ago was driving along the' straight road botAvcen Silverstream and Upper Hutt when -he saw a hare running along the road. He droA T e faster, Avith the idea of catching up to the hare, but could not. Then he bloAv his horn, and the hare, galvanised with fear, turned, jumped at the car —and was picked up with ;\ broken back.

A meeting of timber merchants from the Manawatu, Hawke’s Bay, Wanganui, and Wellington districts was held in Palmerston North on Monday afternoon, when Mr. Hopkins, president cf the Wellington Timber Merchants’ Association, presided over a large attendance. Several! matters of mutual interest and benefit to the trade were considered and dealt with.

Eaetihi now boasts of the possession of municipal buildings, and the Town Board will shortly deliberate within the dignified sanctity of its own council chamber. The Town Clerk’s duties will be facilitated by provision of a separate office, adjoining which there is a serviceable room for an engineer. There ig also accommodation for the Fire Brigade’s equipment, and possibly space enough for holding meetings. The building is of no groat size or pretensions, but may be said to record with requirements for several years ahead, the expenditure being no more than those requirements actually warranted. The contract has been expeditiously and faithfully performed by Mr. D. Cameron, and it is safe to uv that the Board is receiving top valve for the cost of t-his much-needed edifice. —The Call.

The Milan correspondent of the London Times states: “Signor Giuseppe Bevione, writing in the Gazoita d A PopoJo, makes an interesting revelation in regard to unsuccessful German efforts to violate Swiss neutrality at the beginning of the war. Signor Bevione states that he has the best possible authority for the assertion rhat the German Minister at Berne, on August 1914, made a formal demand to the Swiss Government for permission to send German troops through Switzerland in an effort to encircle Belfort-. The Federal Government refused firmly, and warned Germany that such attempt would meet with armed resistnee.