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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 113, 15 May 1916, Page 4

Mails which left New Zealand on March 11th arrived in London on the 6th inst.

Informations are to be laid against several Manawatu men for failiig to send in their registration cards in connection with the National Register.

An offer of £95 an acre was refused about a fortnight ago for a farm of 60 acres between Feilding and Awahuri.—Standard.

At Huntly, on Thursday, Tonga Mahuta, son of the late Maori King, was fined £5 for failing to render military service.

Premier Massey reports that arrangements had been completed for the purchase of 2500 acres of excellent land in the Waikato for the settlement of returned soldiers.

Steps are being taken in Philadelphia to erect a monument to the 141 Americans who were murdered by Germanp when the Lusitaiiia was torpedoed. It is to cost £IO,OOO.

The values of New Zealand products entered for export last week totalled £814,683, including: Butter £31,172, cheese £143'992, frozen meat £211,454, hides £61,281, wool £299,178.

A cafe with the title of the Verdun Restaurant has just been opened in Salonika, and an outfitter in that city has placed on the market the "Verdun collar."

The Hon. G. W. Russell, interviewed in Christchurch on Friday, declined to discuss the Military Service Bill beyond saying it would deal with exemptions and that shirkers would get a surprise.

The member for Wallace (Mr. J. C. Thomson) is asking the PostmasterGeneral to arrange for a reciprocal postal-note exchange with Australia on the same basis as that between New Zealand and Great B'ritain.

Both parties in the House of Representatives held Caucasus on Friday, and both report that no business of any real political import was transacted. It is not considered likely that the debate on the Address-in-Reply will conclude until th e end of next week.

Sydney Martell a well-known land agent of Hastings, was charged in the Magistrate's Court on four informations with stealing from the Hawke's Bay Fruit, Produce, and Cool Storage Company slims of money aggregating over £4OO. The accused was remanded on bail.

At a training camp, the adjutant of the camp was farewelling and on saying good-bye to the- Salvation Army chaplin he handed him £5 towards the upkeep of his institution. He remarked that his experience in that camp had convinced him that a Salvation Army officer in camp was equal to 20 military officers in camp at nig-ht.

An eight-year-old boy named Ernest Guy met his death under peculiar circumstances at Nelson yesterday. He vvas playing with other children near the Maitai River, and while running across a stream about a foot deep slipped and fell. The lad died a few minutes later, apparently from shock.

The cas e hi which Mr. C. H. Bowater appeals against his transfer from Gonville School to Queen's Park School is to be heard in Wanganui on May 31. Mr. Hodben, ex-Director of Education, is the teacher's nominee and Mr. Beattie, ex-Engineer-in-Chief of Railways, will represent the Board. Mr. Kerr S.M. will preside/

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. ■ , ■ .

Doctors" and friendly societies are still at cress purposes in .Wellington. The medical men stand out tfpr 21s per member per annum for thwr services;- the -societies offer 20s, which is 5s more than they have been paying. The medical men demanded 245, but compromised at a guinea. In the meantime negotiations are proceeding as between the Medical Association and the Associated Friendly Societies. An alternative has been proposed by the Minister for Public Health (Hon. G. W. Russell), but it is understood that the doctors will have none of it.

One the third day cf the landing of the New Zealanders at the Dardanelles, a lull occurred in the fighting. A first-aid man came across one of the infantrymen, who appeared to be diligently searching the ground for something. ,f What have you lost?" enquired the A.M.C. man; "An arm," was the reply. A glance showed the A.M.C man that this was a fact. "You had better get back to the dressing station immediately," he urged. "It would be of no use to you if you found your arm." "By cripes won't it?" answered the injured soldier. "My blanky wristlet watch was on it!"

On Saturday evening a smoke concert was tendered to the Rivals Football Club by the Railway Club and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Various' toasts were honoured during the evening including that of "Past and Present Members at the Front." Among the visitors was Lieut. Mclntyre, an old member of the Pirates Club and he was accorded an enthusiastic reception. In addressing those present, he < stated that all who had no ties and were physically fit should be serving the Empire and it was the duyt of all to put Empire first. Men were wanted badly and none should hold back.

A letter was received at Friday's meeting of the Palmerston North Hospital Board from a soldiers' wife in Foxton which speaks for itself: "I notice by the paper," said the writer, "that a woman in Foxton, whose husband has gone to the front, had applied for charitable aid. I am the woman referred to and I want to inform the Board that I have never applied for aid and have never asked for assistance from anyone. A lady came and offered to help me, and I was grateful, but as long as 1 have my health I don't need aid. I have eight children, net six as stated, and I am not getting £2 2s a week. I am only gettings 3s per day so far. I have applied for the other allowance, but have not got it yet. 1 get some help from my two eldest boys as well as my husbands pay, and so do not require charity."

On Saturday e7(tmng a smoke concert was tendered to the. Rivals Football Club by the Railway Club and a most enjoyble evening was spent, Various toasts were honoured.

In another column it is notified that Mr D. J. McLennan has received instructions from Mr Irons, Weka Street, to sell the whole of his household furniture and effects. Fuller particulars will be given in a future issue.

It is understood Urn- Mr ,i. G. Collins, of Taoroa has purchased Mr Wheeler's property that was offered for sale by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., at last Taihape si -ek sale, on Wednsday, 10th. inst. This property, consisting of .1042 acres wns passed in at £22 an acre.

The Post and Telegraph Department, anticipating the enlistment of a large number of its members in addition to those who -have uVron'Jy i-iijistt'd, is arranging to open classes for the tuition of girls in telegraphy. The first class is to be opened in Wellington in about three weeks' time.

"America has an opportunity to take leadership in the new world politics. The United States lies at the crossroads of the world. We cannot live a life entirely apart. The critical question for America and the world is whether there shall be world federation' or international anarchy."—Dr. Geo. Nasmyth, at Pittsburg University.

The Alice Parkinson release committee held a meeting m Wellington on Thursday,, "when it wa & unaiiaoiuly .*!g reed to renew activities in her behalf, as the petitions presented to Parliament last session in her favour were signed by over GO,OOO persons. A Parliamentary petition is being prepared, which office-bearers, trade unions, etc., will bo invited to sign.

The Balclutha Free Press states: One day last month Sergeant-major McMillan, of the local Defence Office, enrolled eight men from Kaitangata, who all passed the medical examination with flying colours. They were splendid specimens of manhood, and singularly enough each mother's son of them came from the same little village in Lancashire. They had been working in the Kaitangata mine, and being "townies" decided to enlist in a body.

A "walking cure" for infantile paralysis is repcjrted to Tje giving excellent results at the Great Ormond street Hospital for ""'''Sick Childivn;- : Lotion. Under the old system a child was kept in bed and massage ai;d elecricity wt*re used to keep the musclies from wasting.' Now, through a splint made of noninflammable material of extreme lightness and strength perfected by Dr Batten, of the hospital', the children ere taught to walk as, soon as the pain of the seizure is over,. The weight of the body is supported in a kind of crawling chair. The paralysed muscles suii'ei a minimum of wasting and the injured n<4rves regain power rapidly.

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Wilford, in urging that Mr. Allen should resign the Defence portfolio, in order to allow a readjustment of the Cabinet, said that since the warbegan Russia had changed her Ministry three times, Austria five times, Greece three times, France three times, whilst Britain had not hesitated to ask some of her Ministers to go even after th e formation of a National Ministry. Why should New Zealand be afraid of a change? He had no hesitation in saying that the Minister of Defence at the present time was the greatest barrier to recruiting in New Zealand. He was a hard man, and out of touch with the people.

His Honour Mr| Justice Sim does not s eem to have much faith in the natural moral qualities of the human race. The principal witness —a young girl—for the Crown in a very serious charge heard at the Auckland C6urt on Thursday and Friday had admitted, under cross-examination, that amongst other peccadilloes, she had been guilty of petty thefts and of lying. In summing up the case, his Honour uttered the dictum that most children are prone to petty thefts and to lying to cover up their thefts. He added. "Children are not born honest and truthful. Unfortunately, honesty and truthfulness have to be taught them by their parents."

Some judges of the Supreme Court have become tired, evidently, of administering warnings to the public generally in the matter of cashing cheques for strangers when the cheques bore the signatures of people they did not know. At the conclusion of a forgery case in the Supreme Court recently, his Honour Mr Justice Sim declined to make an order for a sum of money found on a prisoner to be paid over to the person who had cashed the forged cheque. His Honour said that it was amazing the way hotelkeepers cashed cheques for people they did not know. In the present case two hotelkeepers had cashed cheques for the prisoner, whom they did not know; nor did they know the person whose signature was on the cheques. "In those circumstances," added his Honour, "they deserve to lose their money, and I decline to make the "order."

On Saturday night some Maoris who were driving in a trap from Taihape to W r iniata had a narrow escape froma serious accident. In driving round the corner of the road near the ThreeStars Picture theatre they turned sharply with the result Ij&at the trap overturned. The men escaped with a shaking, and the horse was unhurtJj., but the trap was damaged. .W J '

It is officially stated that all males over the age of IS must obtain permits before leaving New Zealand. In the case of people sailing for Canada and the United States passports are not at present insisted upon by the authorities in those countries, but our own Government has laid down that no man of military age shall leave the Dominion without permission. The order therefore is: "Passports for Great Britain and European countries, permits for Australia, Canada, and the United States." ,

Three farmers, August Scholter, Hugo Selter and Chris Kienely, all said to be enemy subjects, were arrested by instructions from the Military authorities by Sergt Cummings and Con-, stable McClinchy in the Putaruru district yesterday. It took the police a whole day to effect the arrests of the men who were living on their farms, which are scattered. Possession wastaken of seven rifles, and about 400 rounds of ammunition. A" fourth warrant was in the hands of the police, but the man was away. They will be sent to Wellington on Monday. More arrests are possible.

Mr V. Nieholls, who has taken oyer the motor garage in Station Street, lately vacated by Mr Gibbs, has now on view the new- fanious - Maxwell cr.T that is creating suc-h a rage in other countries and centres. Mr Nicholls will be pleased to show the car to any prospective buver; he will point out the patent novelt!|l, ,'and will give trial runs to satisfy the most careful buyer. The garage is beii&g rearranged and one of the best motor engineers in this Dominion has been secured, bringing NicholKs garage equipment up to a capability of doing any repairs no matter how difficult. A complete stock of parts is now to hand so that any breakage car. be replaced at once. The Maxwell car should be seen by all car users. '