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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 129, 1 June 1916, Page 4

Mr James Spiers Freeman, the sweet pea specialist, makes tempting offers of

his pedigree peas in another column. He offers 20 choice and beautiful varieties at half-a-crown.

A day or two ago Mrs. Patuaka Tauehe, of Kuku, while on the Kuku beach, Otaki, noticed something glit-

tering in the distance. On going to. ascertain what it was, she found a lump of metal lodged in the root of a tree. To all appearances it is a nugget of gold, and several persons to whom the And has been shown declared it to a valuable find, worth about £4OO. The lucky finder is taking steps to ascertain definitely the true value of the nugget. It is thought possible that the gold was washed down the river from the hills. It that is so, there must be “gold in the mountains,” as many have declared there is.

j The Zeppelin danger is responsible for a startling Innovation in the Anglican service, says an exchange, when it became necessary to darken the streets, not a few vicars decided to abandon evening services rather than require their congregation to grope their way to church. Recently, the authorities have required that even coloured glass windows should be screened. At Kingsley, near Homsworth, the vicar adopted a bolder policy. He determined to do without lights altogether. He had the hymns and psalms photographed on to lantern slides, and they are now thrown on to a screen in the chancel by a powerful limelight. The prayers and lessons are read by the light of electric torches. (Where there's a will there’s a way.

Captain W. H. Hawkins, formerly M.P. for Pahiatua, goes to the front with the 14th Reinforcements. A young lady for general housework is advertised for by Shute’s Labour Exchange. The present war is the first European conflict of the first magnitude that Spain has managed to escape for over 2000 years. A lady’s pin broock with two hearts, amethyst and gold, thereon,; is advertised for. A reward will be given on its return to this office. The mobilisation of the .17th Reinforcements is now proceeding and should bo completed by the end of this week. In the next returning troopship, due t> arrive in Ne-w Zealand, is Mr Peter A. T)e Loree, who enlisted from 'I nili ape. The Post Office authorities notify that private messages for members of the New Zealand Expeditionary force in France or England should be addressed “Vanquisher,” London.

Mr H. A. Keeling, manager of the wool and produce department in Wellington for Abraham and Williams, has been appointed produce manager by the Bank of New Zealand, a position occupied by the late Mr Morton Clark. * ,

President Wilson, in a Memorial Day speech said the United States was ready to fight against aggression and for American rights when American rights were coincident with the rights of maskind. America stood for the principle that the, small and weak nations had as many rights as the larger States. There is a marked rush of women applicants for w'ork in the harvest, beginning in a week or a fortnight. Ten thousand have applied to the National Land League for work. School teachers and Girfon and Newnham students placed hundreds of women for six months at 13s 6d per tveek.

Lord Bryce, presiding at a lecture at Union College, said the spirit of aggression did not prevail in Liberal Germany prior to 1804. He hoped the defeat of Germany would mean the rediation of the policy of aggression, revealing a higher and nobler Germany. Turkey must be divested of all territory, except that inhabited bv Musselimen

Referring to the Military Service Bill, the Prime Ministr said in Auckland: “There \vas an enquiry Avhether the first division of the Expeditionary Force reserve -would be exhausted before the second division would be called upon. There can he no • question that this is so, and the Bill really acts automatically in that direction.’ ’

The Rev Mr Hadden, a well-known MacU Misionary, will deliver a lecture ■on II <me Mr'is-ion -work in the Methoiirt 'Oburet; <i) Thursday evening, >it 8 o'clock. From his work among the Mv tjs tli ; Rev gentleman has gained an experience that will make his Tee. tnr-‘ most interesting and entertaining. Everyone is cordially invited to Pe preamt. A collection will be taken in aid r f the Mission work.

Tw • wmkir.n—Eobcrt Jackson, a married man, and Arthur Napier—wor<* dr'>wued :r the Waikato riepfit Nangfifiri at £.30 yesterday morning T’bev were employed by McLean ft Co., bridge contractors, on construction work on the new bridge to cross lower than this spot. They were ongaged in removing a winch when the punt became entangled in the wire rope and upset. The bodies of the men have not been recovered.

The president of the Gisborne branch of the Overseas Chib, through whose agency the sum of £2,300 was raised for presentation of a Henri Furman biplane to the Admiralty, to be called after the Poverty Bay district, has been advised that when a flying machine bearing the name of any district is destroyed or ceases to exist it will be replaced by another bearing the same name, so that a district presenting an aeroplane to the War- Office will continue to have it always associated with the air service.

The Rev G. Frost, recently of Eongotca, of the Baring square Methodist Church, Ashburton, has received news that four days after his father’s funeral from his old home in Suffolk, the house was demolished by bombs dropped from a Zeppelin during a raid, and that his only brother, who was asleep at the time, was killed instantly. His brother's youngest child, a girl of nine years, was seriously injured. Other members of the family were also injured, and a sister-in-law who was staying with the family lost her right eye

Mr F. W. B. Grenville, of the Dairyman, in an open letter to the Board of Trade, published in the Post, points out that it takes 251bs of miiK, testing 11. G of butter fat. to produce on 0 pound of butter, which is retailed in Wellington at Is 7d per lb. This i Sj ronghiy, 21 gallons of milk; 21 gallons of milk is retailed in Wellington at ss. The same amount of milk made into cheese is wort!) half-a-crown at the present prices. This shows, he says, that of all the products of milk in New Zealand butter is much the cheapest.

The average number of interned i prisoners at Alexandra Palace is over 0000, and the official report is only on*, death in a year. The newspapers contrast this with Wittenberg.

There is at present in Mr Parker’s shop a sheep the dressed weight of which reaches 140 lbs, which Mr Parker states is the biggest sheep he has ever killed.

A Territorial named C. Egan wacalled upon at the sitting of the Taihape Magistrate’s Court this morning to answer a charge of failing to attend drill. Defendant, who made no appearance, was convicted and fined £5 At the sitting of the Taihape Magistrate’s Court, held to-day* a first offender was convicted and discharged for drunkenness In yesterday’s debate in Parliament on the Military Service Bill, Mr. .Webb moved it be read that day six months. The vote thereon showed a majority against Mr. 'Webb’s amendment of 54 to 5. The debate continued all the afternoon and evening, the House rose at 11.40 p.m.

A Shanghai cable states that eight Chinese provinces, including Hanan and Szechuan have proclaimed their independence. Shantung is in the hands of rebels. There are indications that Yuan Shih Kai will be compelled to abdicate.

A substantial reduction in rent was made it a case before the Sydney Fair Kents Court recently. The applic-nt was the tenant of a shop and dwelling, and the premises consisted of six rooms with a frontage of 15 feet, and a depth of 70 feet, and were built 30 years ago The rent was £2 per w< ek. The Government valuer ns sessed the value of the Hand at £l6O, and the cost of the building at £SOO. From this he deducted £l5O for depreciation The Court determined the fair rent at 25s per week.

The newspaper Makedonia publishes an interview with M. Vcnixei'os, of which the following is the conclusion: “My conviction is, as I have often stated, that the Allies will come oat conquerors in the gigantic struggle; but if all the rest of Europe were ■vterminated, England, of all the belligerent nations, would have the last word. I have never doubted victory by the Allies; but what preoccupies me to the greater degree is not to see Greece collaborating with the Powers of civilisation.”

A case of interest to carriers and others in no-license districts was heard before Mr Acheson, S.M., at Milton, on Monday, when James Reed was charged with delivering liquor at a place other than the residence of the purchaser. Defendant had received a legal notice to obtain delivery of a keg of beer on behalf of a Waronui resident and had taken the keg from Milton station, .no* placed it in the guard’s van nt the siding for conveyance to Waronui -a custom followed for many years. Constable Fox stated that carriers had been warned of the amended regutalations regarding delivery at the purchaser s residence, under the provisions of the Licensing Amendment Act, L) 14. Defendant was fined 20s, with costs 15s

As a sequel to the recent death of a young woman, Edna Beatrice Hogg, in tlie 'Wanganui Hospital‘Richard Patrick Pollard, a sergeant-major in the Defence Forces, Hawera, was charged at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court yesterday wdh illegally using an instrument. Dr Earl.-, Irn surgeon of the Wanganui Hospital, said the woman’s death was due to blood poisoning The principal witness for the police was Frederick Timms, a typewriter expert, who stated that a letter purporting to be sent by accused to deceased was typed on a Royal Barloek typewriter in the Defence Oflfce at Hawera He said the machine had imperfections of certain letters* which were repeated consistently in the correspondence which was typed on the machine Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.

In reference to the arrest -of ‘Russian journalists” at Levin recently, it is understood (saj's the Picton ‘Press’) that in May of 1915 a man named Jacob Schock, who called himself a Swiss from Zurich, was teaching school at Ghana Bay, I)’Braille Island The Marlborough Education Board’s correspondent had suspicions that Schock was not all that he seemed to be, that he was, in fact, a member of the German secret service. It was generally believed that he was drawing plans of landing places on D’Urville Island and the nearby bays presumably for the purpose of submarine bases; and the local residents, with this in their minds, made the place too hot foi Schock, who made a sudden departure for other spheres. It would bo interesting to know where he has been in the meantime, up to his being > run to earth at Levin.

SHALLAED’S Baking Powder is bound to rise. That is why so many thousands use and praise it. Costs less than others.