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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 98, 26 April 1916, Page 4

Included in the fuel used at the Napier waterworks were 38 loads of sawdust. Four pilots have been killed and one injured in Great Britain since January 1 in dealing with Zeppelin raids. The price of liquor in Sydney hotels •:ias been raised, prices being now 7d and ninepence a glass. An American variant of a famous American phrase: ‘‘Life Is Just One Dernburg After Another. 7Leading nglis-’i newspapers are publishing special articles, giving prominence to Anzac Day. The Trust Agency of Australasia is paying a dividend of "71 per cent for the year. Mr. James Georgetti has been reappointed a member of The Wellington Land Board.

The Auckland Star says that benzine is rapidly becoming a luxury. Another rise of twopence per {.'alien is notified. This worics out at 1/4 per case, and brings up the price to lb/, as compared with 13/10 prior to the war. At the Taumarunui Magistrate’s Court, Thomas Tuohy was fined £SO for brewing without a license, and Bc-r« tram Alexander, a returned soldier, a late arrival in the town, wa f s fined £SO for sJy-grog selling. Private Lonsdale, the extramcar conductor of Leeds, who was sentenced to death and then reprieved tor striking a gunner in a German prison camp, has been officially -nfarmed that •he has been released as from the end of the war. Look out! The police report that spurious, shillings are in circulation in Dunedin. One business man has had three of them passed to him within the last few days. It is said that the coins are a very clever imitation of the real shilling.

As showing the happy position i’i which the Masterton District Digit School stands in the matter of subsidies, etc., the Age mentions that last year the sum of £l4B 15/G was received in capitation allowance, yet the committee was enabled to expend £784 18/5 and still have a credit in hand. A private cable message received in Masterton from England announces the death cf Mrs. Hamilton, wife of l.icnt. Colonel Hamilton, of the Grenadier Guards, and only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elgar, of Featherston, only 25 years of age. Colonel Hamilton, who was formerly aide-de-camp t ( r Lord Islington when the latter was Governor of New Zealand, took part in the operations at Mons, and has been once wounded and once gassed.

A furnished double room, with fireplace preferred, is advertised for in another column.

During the last three wees the Napier Borough Council paid i’2 14/6, cost of destroying 218 rats.

Mr. J. T. Blawc a planter fn m Rarotonga, has arrived in Wellington for the purpose of joining th ; j Expeditionary Forces.

The spinsters in a small town in Hawke’s Bay held a leap-yea.' ball in aid of some patriotic fund. The ladies managed affairs so well that the total proceeds amounted to £OO.

Evidence of the number of married men who ar c enlisting in Auckland may be gauged from the fact that of the 122 men who enlisted at the Victoria Street recruiting station for the week ended on Wednesday night, 48 — or over one-t-hird—are married. "

South Africa will require to import more wheat and flour in 1916 than last year, according to the latest estimates, as the yield there is 10 per cent lesa. The requirements of the Union are roughly 13,000,000 bushels of wheat, while the crop will barely reach 7,000,000 About 6,000,000 bushels of wheat, or the equivalent in flour, ar e therefore required to be imported.

That there is money in eggs, and that their production can be made a highly profitable side line, is proved by the experience of a South Kiverton resident who runs .'3 fowls. Glie gross return for 12 months was £73 — £1 rjor bird. Allowing lb/ per bird for feed, his net profit was £3(l 30/, not a bad return for the year, and equal to (5 per cent on £6OO for 12 months...

During the course of his recruiting address in Wanganui on Thursday, trie Premier produced a pencil box which depicted Lord Nelson and the Duk e of Wellington, the Union Jack, ai\d British Standard. “And below,” added Mr, Massey, “are words ‘Made in Germany. 7 77 It was an instance how the Germans -bad made money out of the patriotism of the New Zealand pecple, t

Soldiers returned from Gallipoli (> are incensed on account of a statement made by Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, in his lecture, that there “was no medical man nearer than the beach (31 miles distant) at the Suvla. Bay kmding. 77 As a matter of fact, we are informed (says the Auckland Star), in brigade orders following the Suvla Bay landing, Surgeon-Major Craig was mentioned for having established a dressingstation in the firing-line, a deed of galantry well deserving the official recognition it received. Surgeon-Major Craig went from Wai-bi, and is at present in town.

A recruit at the enrolling office, 'Victoria Barracks, Sydney, last week caused a lot of interest. When ordered to strip to the waist for the medical inspection, it was seen that he was a “walking picture gallery/’ as one of the recruiting stall remarked. On the man’s chest was tattooed the Commonwealth’s Coat of Arms, and several other .highly coloured devices. His arms from shoulder to wrist were also tattooed with Australian- native fauna, broken on one arm with a gravestone, and on the other with a heart in which a dagger had been plunged. On his back there was a ship under full sail, and other equally interesting pictures.

“It’s a hard task trying to collect money at a race meeting/’ observed Mr. J. Permain at a recent meeting of tli e Manawatu Patriotic Society. “Everybody is busy with the 'tote. ’ They leave, the windows with their fivers and so on, and when you ask one to buy a ticket or a card at the epense of a bob he replies: 'Wot do you take me for?’ ; and that is the attitude patriotic fund collectoiH are confronted with. It is pretty hard, and I consider those people who collected for the Servian Fund at the races on Wednesday and Thursday deserve the thanks of the society. ’ ’ (Hear, hear).

A translation of a lector found on the body of a German officer is published by The Regiment. Here is on extract; —At Menin I save a group of British prisoners who were fresh looking and with their always cursed calm, and one of them (an officer) snicking a cigarette, though his arm was in a bandage. This officer had noticed that I had ordered some of the British prisoners to get off the road and from my• path, for yon know I speak their language a little, and he had the insolence to address me without saluting, and even ask me if I could procure for him some sandwiches if he would X’«y me. Hal I spat on the ground at such insolence, and passed on, and yet, would you believe it,chat officer merely smiled and said not even one angry word to me in reply. Such arc these British, whom I at lea St shall never understand. “Tiki” Stout is not made to tickle the palate and ruin the stomach, but to strengthen weak constitutions and make strong ones stronger. ,

The Prime Minister told a reporter on Saturday that the four most important measures to he dealt with in the coming session were the following:— Soldiers’ Pensions; Compulsion; Land for Returned Soldiers; Finance.

“I believe the way to get rid of spinal meningitis is to intern all the Germans in New Zealand,” was a significant utterance made by Madame Boeufve at an anti-German meeting in Napier.

It is notified in another column that, as the nominations on the Wangaehu Road Board were eight and only five members are required, a poll will take place on Thursday, 4th May, 1916. The following are polling pflaces; The Board’s Office, Taihape; Mataroa Hall, Mataroa; and the Rangiwaea Hall, Rangiwaea.