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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 122, 24 May 1916, Page 4

Lieutenant Forde, Dorsetshire Regiment, has cabled to his parents, at Euanui, “All Well. ” Lieut. Forde is with his regimes! somewhere in Mesopotamia.

The Government has acquired a block of 2900 acres of Maori land in the Kiwitea county, beyond Rowa, to be set aside for returned soldiers.

Messrs Arrowsmith and Loughnan notify that all persons having claims agagainst the estate of Hiraka Te Range (Silk) should render particulars of same to them on or before the 10th June, 1916.

Medical inspection will be held this evening at the Drill Hall, Taihape, of all Senior Cadets reaching the age of IS during the year 19.1 G, prior to being posted to the Territorial unit.

The “ unfit” badges, issued to men who did not come up to the Defence Department’s requirements for the Expeditionary Force, have been called in and in future the khaki armlet is to be issued for both “fit” land “unfit” men.

The “guessers” and spielers who follow up race meetings arc already at work in Wanganui. Last evening traveller, staying in. one of the local hotels, went to have a bath, Jeaving his clothes in his bedroom, with the door unlocked. On returning he found that his bath had cost him £2O, that sum having been appropriated from his clothes.

It is not generally known that discharged soldiers can only wear their uniform on occasions authorised by the officer commanding their military districts. Application for permission to wear uniforms on any special occasion should be made whenever occasion may arise to the local Defence Officer, v

A !?v.ur roomed house, with firewood free, is advertised to let at five shillings per week.

At the annual meeting of the Marton Jockey Club, Hast night, it was decided to devote all profits of next season to war funds.

“Bud” Fisher, creator of “Mutt and Jeff,” is the highest paid cartoonist on earth. Ho gets £30,000 a year for making the American people chuckle—which is twice what President Wilson gets for shaping their nation’s destiny.

The rather interesting fact that a quantity of New Zealand tow was now being used in the manufacture of munitions at Home was mentioned during the sitting of the Foxton Harbour Commission.

Mr William Earnshaw, until recently engineering instructor at the Wellington Technical' College, lias had his services accepted by the Admiralty, and has been appointed engineer lieutenant E.N. at Portsmouth. He is son of the Hon Wm. Earnshaw, M.L.C.

At the Wanganui Supreme Court his Honour Mr Justice Edwards placed on record his satisfaction at the remarkable diminution of crime in all parts of the North Island, and particularly in this district during the past few months. “In Palmerston North,” his Honour added, “I had to deal with only one crime. At New Plymouth there were none at all, and here I find only three.”

The Defence Department has assumed control of the medical students at the Otago Medical College, and will not accept any of them for military service at the front until they have completed their course. Several of the fourth and final year men who got away at the beginning of the war were brought back from Egypt to complete.

Father Emmanuel Rougier, millionaire priest, of the South Seas, with his niece and her companion, journeyed from San Francisco to Papeete by the mail liner Maitai this trip. Father Rougier, prior to his departure for Tahiti, purchased a fine auxiliary schooner, the Ysabel May, which he sent on ahead, and which he will use for his missionary work.

Hitherto Belgian, French, Russian and other sub jects of Great Britain f s allies in the Dominion have not been able to enlist for service with the New Zealand Forces. Instructions have now been ieceived by the Defence authorities at Auckland to the effect that. Belgian, French, and Rusian subjects may be accepted for the Expeditionary Force provided that their nationality is vouched for by their respective Cons ds. The order has been issued from headquarters. Wellington.

A patriotic country schoolmasto*wrote to the Auckland recruiting officer and offered to enlist. His application was received on Tuesday (says the Herald.) and ho stated that he was between 45 and 40 years of ag>, and had a family of seven children, from 10 years of age down to five months, and was able to do most things necessary in an isolated district. He had his wife’s consent to offer to enlist. His letter concluded: “Our household of nine lias no repreentative in the rank; therefore, if I can be of use I should be glad to know it.” A letter was forwarded to him stating that his application was appreciated by the Defence Department, but it was recognised that his family responsibilities were such that his offer could not be acceped.

Professor J. Macmillan Drown. of Christchurch* left Lyttelton for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands on Saturday. He will connect with the Tambo, a small island trader which leaves Sydney, and then he hopes to get aboard the Germania a larger island trader, at Apiriama to the south of the Gilbert Group. He will probably be back again in September, and will be accompanied to Sydney by his youngest daughter, who will continue her artistic studies there. He wishes to study the effects of race migration, and the language and customs or the natives of the Gilbert Islands, which lie between Polynesia and Melanesia.

That Germans are Huns the world over lias been demonstrated by the action of the promotors of a German charity bazaar in Madison Square Garden, New York, in providing a shooting gallery with effigies of Englishmen Frenchmen, and Russians as targets One of the most popular targets was the wounded and battered figure of a Russian on crutches, and it is recorded that crowds of German men and women lined up six deep awaiting the opportunity to vent their “interned” spite and hate. Americans who visited the bazaar were disgusted by the oxlubi bition, and scores of indignant letters appeared in the Now York newspapers protesting against such a flagrant breach of neutrality. It is suggested by someone that to have shown the Hun in Ms true light there should have been targets to represent a Rod and some Belgium civilians. The shooting gallery, has, however, proved a boomerang to the promoter, because it has done much to open the eyes of Americans to the inherent brutality of the, Hun, ; •; j>■

A man named Gustave Simmet appeared at the local Court yesterday in answer to a charge of drunkenness and was lined ss. The same person was called upon this morning to answer a similar charge and was convicted and fined 10s.

“Here, here, gents!” admonished the landlord of the Petunia Tavern, addressing the prominent citizens assembled around the stove. “You’ll have to cut that out! I don’t mind a little war talk occasionally, but I draw the line at peace discussions —they break up the furniture so.”

The Himitangi, which has just, arrived back at Wellington direct from the Chathams, brought news of a ball that was held at Waitangi last Thursday night in honour of four returned soldiers. In the words of one of the ship’s officers, “the whole blessed island population was there, including the people from Pitt Island.”

The Balcltutha “Free Press” states: One day last month Sorgt.-Major McMillan, of the local Defence Office, enrolled eight men from Ivaitangata, who ail 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.

Mr Perrett, tlio well-known Auckland artist, notifies that an exhibition of some of. his pictures will be made in Mr D. J.MeLennan’s auction roon on Thursday (to-morrow) afternoon, and that those pictures consisting of paintings and pastels will be offered for sale on Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock. As Mr Perrett is returning to Auckland on Monday no reasonable offer for these high-class works of art wiß be refused.

Notification has been received by Staff Sergeant-Major Tuckey to the effect that men of unsuitable occupation are registering for the Army Service Corps. The trades required are horse drivers, farriers, saddlers, wheelwrights and bakers. Men registered who are of any other occupation are to be requested to transfer to the infantry and their names struck out of the list of men registered for the Army Service Corps. “The Pacific is empty,” said the first mate of the four-masted American schooner-Fred J. Wood, which arrived at Dunedin yesterday from Hoquian Harbour, to a reporter. “The only vessel we encountered on the voyge across the Pacific was a fivemasted schooner.” Touching upon the war, the mate stated that American sympathy lay largely with the cause of the Allies, but, from a business point of view, it did not suit America, as the existing shortage of shipping was being keenly felt in that country, ap elsewhere. A serious accident occurred at the Nelson Gasworks this week, by which two of the workmen employed on the construction! of the new gasholder were injured. One of the chains used in hoisting the ironwork into place suddenly broke, throwing three of the men to the bottom of the holder, a distance of fifteen feet. One of the men sustained a fractured ankle, and was severely cut about, and the other had IPs left arm fractured. Considerable difficulty was experienced in getting the injured men out of the gasholder, it being found necessary in one case to utilise the crane.

“Aii English Censor’s Sigh” is the heading of the following paragraph in the Vossiche Zeitung. The Agricultural Association of the Duchy of Lauenbur sent a Christmas present to one of their members, a. prisoner in England. The president of the association has just received a postcard from the prisoner, in which he expresses his gratitude for the present and his admiration for Germany. “There is only one Germany in the world,” he proudly wrote. The English censor allowed these words to remain, but added: “Thank God!”

There has been some doubt as to which badge men discharged as unfit after being in camp wer e entitled to obtain. The Recruiting Board has now decided that such men who are honourably discharged but have not

been on active service are to receive the khaki armlet. The period of active service, it may be explained, dates from the time when orders for embarkation ai'p issued. Men sent back and honourably discharged after being away from New Zealand are entitled to the red badge.

There is no prospect of the Government securing a new steamer to release the Hinemoa till after the war. Plans for the new vessel, however, are now in the hands of the shipping engineer at Home, who is overhauling the plans and specifications. These, as reveiewed by an expert, will estates Dr. McNab. Minister of Marine) be sent back to the Dominion for final approval before tenders for construction are invited. Meanwhile (says our Parliamentary Reporter) extensive alterations have been made in the Hinemoa. and the Department’s surveyors report that she is now quite safely serviceable for about three years in the lighter class of work.