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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 80, 3 April 1916, Page 4

slavement to our children and our

children's children, or shall we exert ourselves now, while there is yet

Mr. E. B. Jennings I'caves Taihape t-his*evening for camp. An up-to-date suite of furniture, in perfect order, is advertised for sale in •mother column.

Mr. C. Masters, accountant, who has taken over Mr. E. B. Jennings' business, in Taihape, is disirous of teasing, for a term, a four-, five-, or feix-roonied house.

Amongst those who" left Taihape this morning for camp was Mr.' 0. L. Nieholls, of tlie Post Office. Mr. Nicholls held the post of honorary in•structor to the Taihape Gymnasium Club, and his services will be greatly oiissed by the Club:

Hamilton borough engineer, Mr. P. Sims, resigned his position with rlie council last week, on the grounds that he was unable to seeuro quailed assistance, and was unable; owing, to his private practice, to devote that amoir.it of time to the official work of th. 1 borough which the office demanded. The resignation was neaepted with regret.

Owing to a shortage of both French supplies and the locally produced article, the stocks of brandies are running low. Prices have advanced materially, and it is stated that in some instances they are 150 per cent, above the figures ruling before the war. People will just have to stick to the good old whiskey till that is beyond reach—after that, without.

At the farewell to the Taihape quota of the 15t-h Reinforcements, Mr. R. W. Smith, M.P., referred to the forthcoming session of Parliament, and stated that he hoped one of the first measures brought up would be one giving the Government the right to say who should go to the front. To his mind, this was essential and he would be disappointed if such a measure was not on the order-paper.

A visitor who travels extensively all over New Zealand, stated to an Otago Daily Times reporter that the railway service seemed to be conducted more efficiently in the South Island than in the North Island. This was particularly noticeable' in the matter of regularity of trains, which in the South Island appeared to be run in observance of the scheduled timetable. Seldom am the expresses and goods trains erratic in the South, but in the North Island a different state of affairs exist.

It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea, But the skipper bold and an awful cold. And was sad as sad could be. But his daughter fair, with the golden hair. Said, "Father, no words :ov.ld be truer;

No cure on earth has half the worth Of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure."

Yesterday morning a troop train

from Auckland passed through Taihapfi carrying men back to camp from their final' leave.

An epidemie of measles has broken out at Haveloek, Marlborough, and it is stated that half the children are not attending school.

Gordon Hugh Ayson, aged IS years, a letter-carrier, pleaded guilty at Christchurch to stealing £1 from a registered letter. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

The High Commissioner reports that some bags of New Zealand mails were on board the Channel steamer Sussex. He cannot say at present whether any of them were amongst those destroyed by the explosion.—Press Associates-..

At a large dinner party in New Tersey (U.S.A.) the president of a Trust talked in such a rabid pro-German manner that the English butler, unable to control his feelings, emptied a dish of hot gravy over the offender's head. So pleased was one of the guests v.ii-h the action that he rose and shook hands with him. .

The Defence Minister lias stated that the Warrimoo was being released from transport service. The ship is now unloading phosphates at Auckland, and after discharging cargo she will' go south to Tort Chalmers to be reconditioned before being handed over again to the Union Company.

The probable date of the Parliamentary session will be made known within the next few days. Parliament will meet probably early in May. The sessiono is hardly expected to be a short one, tlie "Conscription Kill" being sure to provoke a long and vigorous debate.

Dairy factory return at present, compared to t-his time last j*ear in the Stratford district, are stated to bemuch higher. More milk and butt erf at a.re being received, but the test is not so high, according to the statement of an authority in these matters in speaking to a Stratford Post reporter.

The production of Turkish tobacco in the western province of the Union of South Africa is an industry of oemparatively recent growth, but it has developed with extraordinary rapidity, especially in the French Hoek Valley, where the soil and climate appear to approximate closely to the native conditions of the best varieties of Turkish tobacco. In several instances farmers have uprooted their vineyards in order to plant tobacco. The number of growers is about 70, a,nd the area under cultivation 530 acres, with a yield of 250,0001 b annually. The average price for the' 1913 was 1/8 per lb.

"How*much do you spend a week in waipiro?" asked Mr. McCarthy, S.M., of a native witness named Koti Wepa in the Napier Court. "I don't drink waipiro, I drink soft drinks," was t-he reply. "Well, how much do ycu spend in soft drinks?" asked Mr. McCarthy. "Two or three shillings," replied the native. "How much in tobacco?" "Oh, about two shillings." "How much o.u pictures?" "Sometimes one shilling, sometimes more." "Well, that's <>/ a week you spend in luxuries. You can afford to pay that sum every week towards the upkeep of your ehil'd. I will issue a maintenance order against you, and you will have to pay 6"/ every week," said the Magistrate.

"I do not like to meddle in uncanny things which are called politics," said Chaplain-Captain Macdonald in the course of an address a£ the Auckland Town Hall last week, "but I am here to give fair play and to speak the truth. The next time when you think you have occasion to pick the Minister for Defenceto pieces just call to mind that when the first ship landed the first batch of wounded New Zeafcinders in Egypt the Hon. J. Allen at once cabled £I,OOO, and said: 'Spend it on the wounded.' The next day the Minister had cabled another £I,OOO, and had said nothing was to be spared to make the wounded happy and comfortable." (Applause).

A smash occurred during the retirement from Belgrade,, in which one of the nurses sustained a fracture of the skull (states a correspondent, in an English paper). She died during the ensuing night. It happened that this sister had been a great favourite with the Servians, and had herself expressed a wish to live and die in their country. At the time of her death the unit was passing through a lovely valley, and on one of the wooded knolls a little rooffless Christian chapel was discovered. The Servian soldiers bore the dead sister's body up to it, and there English and Serivan prayers were read over her. At the end of the service the Servian priest honoured her with the words, "Salve Caroline!" In response all the Servian soldiers took up the cry as one voice, answering. "Salve Caroline! " A strange and moving ceremony. Woods-' Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

Mr. Marcus Marks has been appointed Government Printer, in succession to Mr. John Mackay.

The Commonwea-tli has decided to exempt all persons of Turkish origin from the provisions of the taomy sharehoMera regulations. It is stated that 90 per cent, of Turkish subjects in Australia are Christians and proEntente.

Forty-one officers, with salaries varying from £228 2/(> to £930 per annum, are employed at' the army clothing factory at Pimlico and at depots in London and Leeds. Twenty-one are under forty years or age.

Since the Auckland recruiting campaign opened on March 4th a total of 1,400 men have enlisted at the central station. Of these 057 were accepted, 451 deferred, and 293 rejected. Most of those deferred will pass the doeior.

Speaking to a Wellington rtp-vrrer last week, a passenger by tao R.M.S. Maitai, from Sydney, said the war had had a remarkable eiTe.'f rm shipbuilding in America, and the Yankee shipbuilder was now an implicit believer in the saying that ''it is an ill wind tiiat blows' nobody any good.'.' Obscure yards that were practically unheard of a few yea.-s ego Had come to the fore with lightning like rapidity, and their advertisements now appeared in nearly every weil-known English maritime journal.

At the meeting of the Christchureh Hospital and Charitable Aid Board i'asi week it was stated that the number of. applications from young women for admission to the female Refuge ■ wars quite exceptional, and it might be found necessary, with the Board's sanction in special cases, to discharge women with their infants as soon as t-hey were able to take a situation; that was, unless the condition .if the baby was such as to make retention there necessary.

At Wednesday night's meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board the chairman (Mr. C. E. Daniell) staled that ?. letter h?.d been received from tie Minister cf Munitions (Hon. A. M. Myers) to the effect that it had been decided not to manufacture munitions in New Zealand. Mr. Daniell explained that the communication w?s in reply to the Board's offer that all facilities for making munitions would be given to the Government if they were desired.

xV most useful telephone list has been copyrighted and published by Mr. H. B. Duncan, and will prove a great convenience to both subscribers and the public generally. ; Mr. Duncan his had 1,00.0 printed for Taihape districr, and is having them posted to all cwnors of telephones from Ohakune to Mengaweka. Similar lists are to be published in all towns ia both the Nprth end South Islands, with "their own respective lists there are from 300 subscribers upwards. These lists are to be issued annually in each town.

Says the Wairarrpa Age:—:Two of the Wellington newspapers are diseasing, with questionable propriety the most debatable issue that could be raised. They are arguing whether the liquor problem should not preference over everything at 'lie present critical period in our national history They are both wrong. They should leave the liquor question, with all oilier controversial questions, severely aflone. The Dominion is divided upon this particular issue. We want no divisions when we are faced with the supreme issues of life and death. We are out to light the national enemy. Let us light him with all the power and the energy at our command. Domestic grievances and differences should be discarded until we have won our way through.

A letter referring to the state of the English seed market and the absence of the undesirable German product which had previously bet-n landed in England has been received by Messrs. Williams and Kettle from Messrs. E. Edgar and Co., Ltd., Edinburgh. The letter runs as follows:—""Referring to our circular letter of 2"th October last, the seed trade in the United Kingdom is now coming to a more correct estimate of the effect of the European war on this trade. It is now quite clear to all except the 'Bosehes' in our midst, that tbis coantry 5s absolutely independent of all supplies cf agricultural seeds from Germany and Austria. The war will stimulate very largely the growing of seeds in England, especially of white and red chrv er, and with the supplies from our Allies, who will also doubtless increase largely their production of seeds, Ave shall, for example, no longer require the filthy white clover, which has been dumped on our country from Bohemia. Moravia, and Northern Germany, polluted with dodder and sorrel (which never could lie completely . removed), and weakened in its constitution by endless years of growing on the same soil, causing it to be entirely unsuitable for our climate. ... At al' events, the absence of such seed will be greatly to the advantage of the British Empire. ''