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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 126, 29 May 1916, Page 4

The ceremony of instituting a new lodge of the Masonic Order Avas performed at Oliakune last evening.

Mr. Charles Mclntyre has been re appointed by the Governor as a mem her of the Wellington Land Board.

The British Admiralty lias requested the Welsh Miners to restrict their Whi tun tide holidays to a single day, —Cable.

The headquarters of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is now at London. Cable messages with reference to casualties and records may now be addressed to “Zeangar,” London.

The patriotic enthusiasm of the Scottish munition workers may be gathered from the fact that a new factory covering 200 acres is nearing Completion, (although iit wa»s begun less than two months ago.

A Taranaki farmer said the other day: “I have received £4 a head for some of my pig s and 1 remember the time when that was about all I could get for a young bullock.” The good price for pigs is inducing farmers to improve the breed and go in for good stock.

Amongst the men who volunteered as recruits in Wellington on Wednesday were three over 50 years of age. One of them is nearly 60 years of age, and a particularly “fit” man in the ordinary sense of the term, and—as one recruiting officer said—“ Fitter than men of 40 we have just put through." All three, of course, were rejected on the score of age.

By advertisement, the Taihape Tradesmens’ Association notify that as the King’s Birthday falls on Saturday, the holiday will be oberved on Monday, June sth. Shops will be open all day on Saturday, June 3rd.

The alteration is hours of closing of shops in Taihape comes into operation on Thursday next, Ist June. On and after that date and until further notice th e following hours of closing will be observed: —On Thursdays, 12 o’clock; Saturdays, 8.30 p.m.,; all other days, 5.30 p.m.

‘"Work offering and no men to do it,” wa s the report of the secretary of the General Labourers’ Union on Friday (says the Christchurch Press). He added that the work comprised concreting and general labouring work, and that half a dozen men were wanted, but were not available.

An illustration of the growth of the farming industry in the Taumarunui district is afforded by a single transaction which took place recently in the Ohura. A farmer sold to a Waikato buyer a mob of 312 bullocks and 24 fat cows for a total price of £3680. The animals were all from the seller’s own farm.

A notification from the M angauui Education Board respecting the election of School Committees, is published in another column. This should b e read by residents of the Taihape district, outlying settlements, as a meeting of householders is to bo held on Tuesday, at 8 p.m., for the election of a School Committee for the ensuing year.

The record log for a West Coast sawmill was brought into the Land and Timber Company’s mill at Te Kinga on Thursday (says the Greymouth Star). It was a white pine 86ft long and sft lOin in diameter at the butt, and well maintained throughout its length, no knots being visible and very little shake. When cut it produced 6800 superficial feet of timber, only 620 ft being secondclass. The rest was first-class, and included 4300 feet of wide boards.

When Sir James 'Wilson first settled in this district, he informed the Railway Commission, the greater portion of the counntry was forest-clad and timber was abundant. That timber had practically all been cut out, and so exhausted were the supplies that there was not a sawmill of any importance now, south of Utiku. “It is an extraordinary statement to make,” said Sir James, “but it is nevertheless true.”

Passengers arriving at Sydney from the Marshall Islands state that the islands are still held by the Japanese who are carrying on extensive trading operations in copra and other products among the islands. Two small inter-island steamers ar e employed, as well as a couple of auxiliary craft, and shipments of copra and other produce are sent away by the monthly steamer, a vessel of 4000 tons capacity, running direct to Japan.

Mr. John Buchan, the Scottish journalist and novelist, and one of the authorities on the war, has made prophesy as to the end of the war. “The next throe months,” he says, “will see the beginning of the final stage. While I have not the slightest doubt as' to how that final stage is going to end, I do not think it will be a very brilliant or sudden end. iWe may expect in the near future a great naval

dash, but I am confident that if it is made it will be the end of German sea power once and for all.”

A letter Avhich a writer in London Opinion has been privileged to see from an American in Berlin to a friend in London contains this strik : ing passage: “If you saw the Kaiserin

noAv you would not recognise her. She is a haggard, nen-ous old woman; her head shakes. Sinc e the day when her guards 80 cruelly abused a poor woman Avho clung to the Kaiserin’s carriage crying ‘Give us back our dead!’ she has rarely been seen in public.” General Roques, who succeeded General Gallieni a s French Minister for War, entered on his work with a great reputation as an organiser. He avus at the head of the aviation service at the time the first flights of the Wright Brothers, and shoAved great efficiency in establishing the first air service of the French Army. He commanded an army at the front for some time, and shoAved that he is a s good a tactician as he is an organiser.

The great ship with a living freight that clustered about her like swarming bees was moving out from the pier. She had a cargo of Khaki —she simply overflowed with khaki, so that she seemed like a floating leviathan, to every square foot of which clung j a soldier. She was, perhaps, ben yards from the pier, stirring ciowly, a colossal monument of power. There had been cheering, but a lull was upon the crowd, and all eyes were on a sailer over the stern doing something with a hauser that had fouled. Then shrill above the minor noises came the voice of a child —“Hi. captain, whip behind—whip behind!” The ludicrousness of the child’s idea struck everyone, and in a few seconds hundreds who haq been weeping were roaring with laughter.

George Gray, the famous young Australian billiardist, has enlisted in London.

An alarmist article was published in Wellington on Friday upon tho possibility of a German rising occurring is South Australia, where there is a large German district. On the question being raised in the House in the afternoon th e Premier said that he was unable to state publicly what the Government were doing, but he could give an assurance that nothing of the sort could occur in New Zealand such as might occur in Australia.

Mr J. Mortland, who is well-known in Taihape business circles, has decided to open a hardware, crockery, and brushware establishment He has secured large, perfectly new, and thoroughly up-to-date stocks of goods, and will open on Thursday, Ist June, in Mr Elliott Wilson’s building, opposite the Railway Station. His motto is to be “Highest quality goods at lowest possible prices.”

Professor Prince, the Canadian Commissioner of Fisheries, lecturing last month at Regina, Saskatchewan, described New Zealand as a land of paradoxes. The people were cultured and aristocratic, but at the same time, they were very radical. The scenery of the colmtry was remarkably beautiful, and Professor Prince predicted that New Zealand would eventually become a great pleasure resort.

In order to minimise the difficulty of finding work for the British-born wives of interned Germans, the Local London has circularised Poor Law authorities to the effect that it has been arranged that the labour exchanges shall offer such women work provided that there are no other applicants available. The circular says that on account of the widespread prejudice cn the part of employers, some difficulty may be experienced in assisting wives of alien enemies to obtain work.

Colonel Lord Charles Bentinck, one of the staff officers of the Imperial Government, lent to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has relinquished his position as Assistant AdjutanhGeneral, and has recently arrived in England to take up another important post with the British forces in France. Writing to the “British Australasian” Lord Bentinck makes highly eulogistic reference to the great ability and energy of the New Zealand officers, and adds: —“I am sorry to say that my connection with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force has now come to an end, which is a great sorrow to me, having become greatly, attached to that most gallant force.”

Excursion tickets will be issued at all stations for travelling on any New

Zealand railway, in both North and South Islands, from Thursday next, Ist .Tunc to Saturday, 3rd June, inclusive, available for return to Monday,, I9th June. On 2nd June an extra express train Heaves Palmerston North at 3.1 S p.m. and from Taihape at 0.27 p.ra„ arriving in Auckland at 0.17 te following morning. The usual 5.50 p.m. TaihapeOhakuno train will leave Taihape at 5.40 p.m., Mataroa 0.10, arriving ar

Ohakune at 8.25 p.m.. A notification from the Railway Department appears in another column.

A welH-knowu Rotorua ideutiy has passed away with the death of Guide Molly, which occurred suddenly at Raglan lat week. Molly had been ordered to the seaside for her health,

and while at Raglan she burst a blood vessel, and died while being motored to the Hamilton hospital. Molly was a trained vocalist, with a voice of good

range and quality, and although she was between 50 and 60 years of age, she j could more than hold her own with : many half her age as a vocalist. Guide Molly gave her services when a Maori | choir toured the North Island nearly | two years ago in aid of suffering Belgians, and although she was worked very hard on that tour she never complained at the sacrifices she made. Str lias sung before \ arious New Zealand Governors, and their suites, and she w»s particularly complimented by the Into Madam Nordina about two years ago, shortly before that eminent prima donna passed away. Guide Molly leaves ose son, Lance-Corporal Morton, who is a member of one of the recent Reinforcement drafts. Molly was a well educated woman, and was much sort after by globe-trotters as a guide to the winders of Wakar 'vvutews.