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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 111, 11 May 1916, Page 4

The Main Trunk Brewery will buy up to 10,000. dozen beer bottles in any quantity.

The Borough Electrical Engineer, Mr. Burgis, has volunteered for service in the Koyal Flying Corps and has passed the medical inspection.

"If you see a minister rushing up the street wild of eye and ferocious of aspect, you know he is looking fori a lay preacher for next Sunday," said the Kev. Mr. Albert, of Morningside, at .a meeting of the Auckland PresbyteW- ' ...

The date for the'closing of entries fori th e Swede Growing Competition in connection with the A. and P. Association's Winter Show has been altered to 24th May, and the judging will be completed as soon as possible after that date.

In another column, the Commissioner of Taxes notifies that returns of income for the year ending 31st March, 1910, must be made to him, in the prescribed form, on or before the 2nd June, 1916. Forms of return' may be obtained at any postal money-orden office.

A shooting accident under most unusual circumstances occurred near Ruatoki on Saturday. The victim, a native, Avas pig hunting. His dog ■secured an animal, and in order to set it free, the native hit the dog with the buttend of the gun. The force of the im« pact caused th e gun to explode, and the discharge struck the native, killing him instantly.

He was a tall, Tather gaunt, figur*. with a pale complexion and a droop of the shoulders that bespoke physical weariness. As he passed the buzzing entrance of a Wellington hotel', a friendly voic e hailed him: "Hullo, old man, how is it you are* not up at the races?" The answen came quick and clear-cut: "If I was well enough to go to the races I'd be off to the Avar!" And he passed on.

"Whether? a lack of perspicuity or a lack of knowledge of the English language is accountable for the* following incident it is hard to say. A necrult filling in his registration papers at the Auckland Recruiting Station was faced with the question: "Have you ever served in any military force? If so, state which, and cause of discharge." After hesitating for a second or two the volunteen filled in the blank space: "Discharge from the left ear."

Americans have been somewhat astounded to learn of the manner in which Germans treat their wounded. Dr. A. Hammond, who served with the German Red Cross on the west front., and bears the marks of 27 shrapnel wounds, he returned to his home in Atlanta, in the) United States, and declares that the German Red Cross surgeons kill hopelessly Avounded soldiers. "We had to do it out of mercy," said Dr. Hammond. "Chloroform and ether were too scarce and to precious to use." Asked 'low the unfortunates were dealt with, Dr. Hammond said: "The surgeon just attracted a man's attention to something, and then blew his brains out."

It has been estimated by an Ameri-

can writer that it would take ten years to write a detailed account of the war up to the present time.

President "Wilson i s stated by an American writer to have great faith in dreams as revelations of future events.

Cincinnati boasted of a real feminine burglar alive. St. Louis promptly better the brag with a woman burglar dead at the hands of a feminine householder.

A' gold cigarette-case, with an inscription on it denoting that it was a present from the Kaiser to a German officer, was found in a captured trench by an English Tommy some little while back.

It is officially stated that the "Red Cross Dog League," which began activities early in the war with eight dogs, now has 2500 in the field, each with its own trainer. It i s claimed that the lives of at least 8000 wounded men have been saved by these dogs.

Mr. Solomon J. Soloman, the famous artist, has created a record for an R.A. He recently passed (from the United Arts Force into the Regular Army, and has gone to the front as a lieutenant-colonel. He is the inventor of various colour schemes for rendering men and equipment less visible.

The Mr. Geange, of Utiku, who was invalided to England with a fractured spine, and who took part in the Anzac Day celebrations in London, and with whom King George shook hands and conversed in Westminster Abbey, is not the son of Mr. J. Geange of Utiku, as was stated, but a cousin.

A young man who enlisted in NapiHast week was arrested as a lunatic at large three hours after the doctor had pssed him as medically unfit. The recruit in question is now an inmate o ii e Porirua Mental Hospital. He is stated to have been released less than a monta ago from Avondale.

An agreement affecting four great federations of employers and 14 trade unions in the building trade (comprising 500,000 workmen) in England has been come to by which all 'strikes will be abolished and all demarcation disputes will be settled by committees. Any dispute which has failed to secure a local settlement will be referred to the national committee.

Usually to be found dining in London is the Duke of Orleans, long since forgiven for certain verbal indiscretions which isolated him from Court circles. He is, like the Duke of the Abruzzi, devoted to exploring, and an expedition led by him reached two degrees further north in Greenland than had hitherto been attained.

NeAvs Avas received some time since that Lieutenant E. J| Hulbert, brother of Mr. A. Hulbert, TJtiku, who is AvellkncAvn in 'Wellington and Christchurch, and who left with the Main Body in command of the Mounted Signal Trcop, had been promoted captain and mentioned in dispatches. He has since been appointed to the Brigade Staff as staff captain to the Mounted Rifle Brigade.

A Benvick lady Avho has been nursing in France for several months tells a story of an instance of the Avonderful spirits of our Avounded heroes. One man, so badly Avounded that he was not expected to live, had a bunch of black grapes placed beside his bed. Asked shortly afterwards hoAv he A\ r as keeping, he replied, "I feel worse, but if I'm going to die I'll die with the grapes inside of me."

Speaking in London recently, Mr. Bonar LaAV said that when Lord Kitchener was at the Dardanelles he sent a dispatch to the Cabinet, in Avhich he said:—''VWhen I saAv the ground Avhich the Australians and Ncav Zealanders had gone over in landing it seemed to be almost incredible that any troops in the world could have performed th e feat which Avas performed by them."

The "Standard's" special correspondent in Switzerland, in an article on German lying, makes the following interesting disclosure: —"The Chancellor's famous admission, made in the Reichstag on August 4, 1914, that Germany was doing wrong in violating Belgian neutrality, has been expunged from the official report of the proceedings; hence it was never uttered, and future British writers who make use of the admission will be traducers of Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg."

In a circular issued from Rotterdam to its branches, the German Humanity League refers to "our Prussian overlords" as recklessly ruining lands saturated with blood, and jesting over the groaning of widows and orphans. The war is characterised as the work of traitors. "The miscreants at Berlin, having seized the reins of government and debauched the parties in the Reichstag, are still thirsting for a world power they can never attain." They have "trampled underfoot 'unoffending neighbours," and dishonoured the "proud name of Germany."

A cable states that the members of

the Russian Duma, visiting England, are given seats in the Distinguishes Strangers' Gallery in the House of Commons.

The recruiting authorities have sent a number of lantern slides on very interesting recruiting subjects, -which have been handed over to Mr. A. C Nieholls, who will screen them at the picture theatre to-night, and probably for the two or three nights following.

Sergt.-Hajqr Tuckey has received advice from Headquarters that as many infantry as possible are required to be sent to camp on the 29th May. No recruits for any other branch of the service will bo accepted.

The Belgian army is going into k-ha-ki very shortly. The uniforms and caps of the men ar e ready. Their tunics will differ, from ours in having stand-up collars. The khaki is of a greenish shade.

The Turk s are brav c and clever- snipers. They frequently place small trees on their backs, and so crawl right up to the trenches. Som e Turks paint themselves and their rifles green, and are practically invisible.

The London Times announced tiiat the Hon. D. Lloyd George's cook was married from 11 Downing Street, the official residence of the Minister, on March 2 to an Australian soldier "who was home wounded." The cefemony took place at Pimlico, and the newify married couple afterwards returned to 11 Downing .Street for the wedding breakfast.

The members selected to represent the Now Zealand Branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association at a meeting of the parent society in London wene: The Hon. W. F. C. Carncross, representing the Legislative Council, and the Hon. Sir James Carroll (Gisborne), Mr. E. P. Le e (Oamaru), and Mr. C. J. Parr representing the House of Representatives. The party will leave for London in the immediate future, since they are required to reach London before July Ist.

Petrograd contains the most wonderful clock in tbt? world. There are 95 faces to this colossal timepiece, which indicates simultaneously the time of day at 30 different place's, besides the movement of the earth round the sun, the phases of the- moon/ the . signs of the zodiac, and the date according to the Georgian, Greek, Mussulman, and Hebrew, calendars. The works took two years to put together after the clock had been sent in detached pieces from Switzerland to Russia.

I The muddling voluntary system of I enlistment, having- to grab anything | it can get, has had another hint as to | the kind of ass it is. When the first ; appeals for volunteers went forth the students of the Australian universities almost unanimously stepped forward. Now it has been found necessary to hunt up the medical students in the firing-line and ask them to come back to the Commonwealth to complete their studies. linden an intelligent compulsory service scheme young Sawbones two-thirds of the way through his course, wouldn't, have been taken into the branch of the army where lie was likely to be of comparatively little use'. But of course an intelligent sckem* doesn't seem to be neeessary in a mere skirmish against a person who knows so little about scientific organisation as the German. —Sydney Bulletin.