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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 119, 20 May 1916, Page 4

There has been another drop of 5s per ton in flour in Dunedin, the price now being £ll 10s.

At Dunedin a military prisoner who had been sent back from Egypt, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy. He was described as a “waster.”

A general order issued by the Defence Department notifies all returned soldiers who have been discharged that they cannot wear their uniforms unless they get a special permit for each occasion of wearing them.

The police made quite a haul on Monday evening when a supposed crockery case (containing several jars of whisky, consigned to Matiere) was seized at the railway station, Okahnknra, and taken to the police station, Taumarunul.

Speaking on the striking of rates at the Horowhenua County Council’s meeting, Cr. KebbeTl favoured an increased general rate, maintaining that farmers could well stand the additional expense.

A whirlwind recruiting campaign in the chief towns of Ontaroa was materially assisted by bevies of patriotic Irish girls wearing the shamrock and addressing street gatherings with extraordinary eloquence.

At the meeting of the Taihape Borough Council last evening, a second-hand dealer's license was granted to Mr ,T. Mortland, in premises situate opposite the Taihape Railway Station. Or. Bennett stated that he did not believe in the principle of granting secondhand licenses in small communities.

Mr. Rich, of the famous Karoola Orchard, Havelock North, advertises the highest class fruit at very reasonable prices.; A case 401bs of the finest dessert apples only ecsts sevenpence for delivery at Taihape.

The hearing of th e charge of attempted murder against the Maori woman, Tnhirangi Tawhai, who was arrested at the native settlement at To Weranga o Kapu island, near Tuakau, on May 2, in consequence of a native named Enoka being found shot in the legs, has been further adjourned till next Friday. The case will then be heard at Pukekolie,

Focke, formerly Consular agent

for Germany in Wellington, was interned on Somes Island yesterday. King George, who already speaks several languages with remarkable fluency, is now adding Russian to the list.

A member of the House, speaking in the Address-in-RepV debate, estimated the war profits of Hawke ’s Bay landowners at over £1,000,000.

Money for investment on first mortgages of freehold rural land is adver:ised, over the leads;., in tins issue, by Mr A. W. Gould, Solicitor .-/i.akune.

The Finance Committee recommended at last night’s eeting of the Tailuipe Borough, Council that the loan of £3500 at the rate of 51 per cent from the Bank of New Zealand be gone on wHh. and the recommendation was -id op ted,

The apprehended foreigners, Schack and Kamasko, who had been held in custody at the Palmerston North police station, were remanded to Wellington under police escort yesterday. It is understood they are to be interned.

A euchre party was hold in the Railway Social Hall last evening, there being an attendance of between 50 and 60 people, and a most enjoyable evening was spent by all. It is the intention of the Sociu' Hall Committee to hold the pa die: weekly, - f «■»«*. An application by the Raugitikei A. and P. Association for the use of the Town Hall on 19th and 20th July was considered at the meeting of the Taihape Borough Council and was granted on. the usual terms. The rental received will be handed to the Patriotic So eiety by the Council. j

The funeral of Mr. G. H. Mellsop, one of tlie victims of the disaster at Ohakune, took place at Kimihia Cemetery on Wednesday. The service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Weller, of Ohakune. and the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll, of Huntly. The pall-bearers were provided by the Huntly branch of the C.E.M.S. and the Public W T orks Department.

“There is no need to go outside New Zeaalnd for steel bridges,” said Mr. R. W. Holmes. Chief Engineer to the Public Works Department, at Wednesday’s meeting of the Society of Civil Engineers, “lor there are in New Zealand engineers able to build them in a. manner which might be envied by the world.”

They run in all shapes. It was Ali Hussein, cf the Indian Army Transport in Mesopotamia, who reported himself wit ha bullet in his shoulder. Said the doctor; “When did you get this?” “In the battle, sahib,” answered our mule-whalloping brother. “But that was three days ago. Why didn’t you report yourself before.” ‘Sahib. I had no time. The wounded were too many.”

Very shortly, says the Christchurch Star, the fishing at Lake Ellesmere will be commenced in furtherance of fhe Government’s scheme to cater for the supply to the public of fresh fish. The cost would be reduced as far as possible by the further decision to use the labour available in the mental hospitals and institutions.

The proposed increase in the wages of engineers in the Wellington coastal trading steamers was the subject of a conference between shipowners and the local branch of the Engineers’ Institute, held at Wellington yesterday. Vo asropment wa s reached, and the matter thus goes to the Arbitration Court.

At the meeting of the Taihapc Borough Council last evening the Mayor stated the King’s Birthday fell on a Saturday this year and the Tradesmen 's Association were considering holding the holiday on the Monday, and he thought it would bo a good thing to hold the holiday on the Monday. On the motion of Cr Bennett it was decided to hold the holiday, so far as the Council was concerned, on the Monday.

Hedgehogs are said to be very numerous in the Rakaia township. A resident who lias a croquet lawn was at a loss to account for so many holes in the turf, but eventually" be found that the hedgehog was responsible for the mischief. He now keeps a fox terrier. a\\lio (has accounted for lid fewer than 20 of the animals.

Three members of Parliament are now in khaki. They are Messrs T. E. Y. Seddou (who is now a transport officer in France), W. Downie Stewart (Dunedin), and J. £>'. Hine (Stratford). The first two are at the front, Mr. Hine, now captain, is in training, an c ] he will soon be joined by Mr. Coates, the tall, well-proportioned ■representative from Kaipara. It is also stated that Air. Escott, member for Pabiatua, is preparing to desert Parliament for the war.

Fifty-one of the Xew Zealand nurses arrived in England a few days ago, av rites the London correspondent of the Xew Zealand Herald on March 20. Fouhteen have gone to the Military Hospital. Bagthorpe, Nottingham; ten to Queen Mary's Hospital, Whalley, Lanes; five to the Military Hospital at Colchester; six to the Beau fort War Hospital, Bristol; six to the Military Hospital at Cosam, Hants; and ten to the War Hospital at Reading.

A cream pony with black points, bobtail and cut mane has strayed from Taihape. The finder should ring up •phone number lid.

A lost shamrock-shaped brooch is advertised for. The finder will be rewarded on returning it to fW. J. White and Sons, drapers.

Mr H. C. Cocrane, advertises two upright grand pianos for sale, both being in perfect order and condition. Both instruments are indeed bargains at the price.

The usual large programme will be shown to-night, including a fine autograph comedy entitled “Three of a Kind.’’ “Million Dollar Mystery,” and a 2,000 feet Keystone.

Holiday excursion tickets are to be issued on the railway from Taihape and intermediate stations to Wanganui on the 25th and 27th May, leaving Taihape at 6.5 a.m., the iWanganui races being held on those dates. These tickets are available for return until 29th May,

A regiment of woodsmen, 1000 strong, is being recruited in Canada for the purpose of plying their craft in England. Their principal work will be the cutting down of trees. Only experienced forest men are being taken.

iv'i V. NicholH, ' f the Station S?rnt Motor Garage, notifies that he has engaged Mr G. 8. Edlin, late foreman in a ’Wellington garage, and can now un dertakc every kind of motor car work in repairs to cars or motor cycles No job is too small and none too large but what it can be efficiently dealt with at Nicholls’ garage. AIR charges are guaranteed moderate. , vj* ,• • ;

The Post and Telegraph officers’ conference carried resolutions urging that an officer who is the sole support of a widowed mother should be placed on the same level as a married officer; that better pay should be provided for officers of the engineering branch who pass the extensive professional examinations now required; that permanent first grade linemen should be allowed to proceed to the maximum of £2O a year, and second grade to £156 a year.

Noarway is evulently making 'no most of the waters of the Southern Seas. Her efforts in the whaling industry in 1915 brought in 403,300 barrels of oi? and 113,000 sacks of guano, bone meal and cattle feed, valued at about £1,700,000. While the northern fields contributed the smallest, quantity yet produced, the southern waters returned 355,700 barrels of oil. The year’s total is smaller than that for 1914, but the inflated prices owing to the war, made the returns very satisfactory. England is now the principal buyer of whale oil from Norway, Germany being cut off from supplies.