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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 135, 10 June 1916, Page 4

A memorial service to Lord Kitchener is to be held in St. .Margaret’s Church to-morrow at 11 a.m. Military and other public bodies are invited. Mr Chas. E. Darvill notifies that he has moved into an office in Station St. in Mr ,T. P. Aldridge’s building. The annual meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of New Zealand was held yesterday morning. . More than 8000 Chinamen and Indians are working in Burma on the production of the rare metal, wolfram, for the Ministry of Munitions. The New South Wales State Butter Control Committee has decided to entirely prohibit the export of butter owing to the shrinkage of local supplies. A fou-horse drag was sold at an auction sale in Masterton on Monday for £lO, ami a cab for £5. The day of the horse vehicle is apparently passing. According to the Age a Masterton settler received for wool sold at the recent Welington wool sales. This is equal to about 19d on the London market. The timber trade in Auckland is very depressed,and on e large firm in the city fears that it wall be compelled to close its mill owing to the diminished demand. “It is not generally known, but it is a fact, that the Royal Family has ordered cases of New Zealand honey by express command, stated Mr Baden Bowel at the Beekeepers’ Conference. This afternoon a girls’ hockey match is to be played on the Taihape Oval between teams representing the Taihape and Hunterville Schools and a football match is also to be played between teams representing these schools.

A Dunedin resident, Mr H. Symes, os at prsent visiting Wellington with the object of binging under the notice of tho postal authorities an important inovation in connection with tho automatic telephone system. An official trial of the apparatus was made last week by the experts of the Telegraph Department, and the results will be made known in due course. Patent rights have been secured, and Mr Symes is about to proceed to Australia and America to bring his invention under notice in these, countries.

Arrivals in New Zealand from oversea during May numbered 1521, compared with 1572 last year. Departures totalled 2190, as agtinst 249 G in May, 1915. These figures do not include members of the expeditionary forces.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., is urging upon the Government that a large property near Hunterville should be secured for settlement by soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, also another property near Bata.

“In every five gallons of milk one quart is lost,” said one of the delegates at last night’s conference between milk supliers and vendors and the Mayor of the city. Ho added that this loss occurred in the course of handling—measuring, and so forth.

Mr J. Ormond notifies that he has a very fine Oakland motor car for hire. This is the latest pattern car, a five seater, 35 horse power, electric lights, in fact, with all latest improvements, nor omitting the famous Stewart pump. Mr Ormond is agent for tis car and invites prospective car buyers to sec it.

A riot on a small scale took place at the Featherston camp on Tuesday night. Some dozen soldiers entered the canteen and proceeeded to vent their disapproval of the prices charged. The canteen was quickly surrounded, and tlie disturbers of the peace were taken in charge.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Private J. Corkhill, of Taihape, who left with the Main Reinforcements, is asked to kindly communicate with Driver Shields, G.P.0., Palmerston North, whose notification appears in the wanted column of this issue.

|W-hen comparing prices don’t forget to compare qualities; if you find prices as low as ours you’ll find the qualities inferior. Single bed white twill sheeting Bd, lOd and Is yard, at Collinson and Gifford’s, Ltd.

The amount of £l4 17s has been collected by means of raffling a handbag (given by Mrs Boyd) for the benefit of Dr Barnados Home. The lucky number being 41 held by Mr F. Rogers, Ko e ke. A donation of £l, given by Mr Rogers makes the total realized by the effort £ls 17s.

A Defence notice orders C Squadron 6th Mounted Rifles, D Company 7th W.W.C. Regiment and Senior Cadets to parade on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. at 0 ’Connor’s Hall, to attend a memorial service at St. Margaret’s Church, to the memory of the late Lord Kitchener. Returned soldiers, National Reserve, Rifle Clubs, Boy Scouts and Nursing sisters are requested to attend.

It is notified by the Education authorities that arrangements have been made for a visit to Taihape of Miss Maefarlane, the great specialist and teacher of dressmaking and ladies’ tailoring. Miss Maefarlane is to meet all ladies favourable to forming a class, thus opening up an opportunity that rarely occurs for ladies to learn something entirely out of the ordinary in following the fasliious in dressmaking. Miss Maefarlane is admittedly an expert among experts and has the special faculty of being able to transmit to others what she herself knows.

That the idea of constucting a canal across the Isthmus of Panama is not a modern one was illustrated by Mr W. A. Beddoo, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, in a lecture delivered at Auckland on Monday evening. He said that Samuel Champion, who founded the city of Quebec in 1608, crossed the Atlantic eighteen times in twenty years. Once he visited Panama, and suggested cutting through the isthmus. The idea of a canal was therefore promulgated over 300 years ago.

A shooting accident occurred on board the steamer Whakarua at Port Chalmers a few days ago. Mr Hall, the second officer, was cleaning a revolver, and something appears to have caught the trigger, causing the weapon to go off. The bullet passed through one of his fingers, and then struck the fourth officer, Mr Moore, who was leaning over the side of the ship, in the thigh. Mr Moore was conveyed to the hospital, where he is now progressing favourably Arrangements have been completed for the purchase by the Australian Government from the Indian Government of a 2500-ton dredge, at a cost to the Commonwealth of £95,000. The dredge will leave for Australia in about three weeks It will be employed at the Henderson Naval Base, Western Australia.

Advice has been received by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that the German steamer Adelaide, which >ras sheltering at Younda Port Yuan, West Africa, will shortly be continuing her voyage to Australia. It will be remembered that Portugal a few months ago commandeered German and Austrian vessels interned in Portuguese ports, and the Adelaide is continuing her voyage as the result of this action. It appears that the German crew made away with certain essential parts of the machinery, but temporary repairs have been affected sufficient to take the vessel to Capetown, where it is expected to permanently repair the machinery. There arc a number of New Zealand consignees of goods on this vessel.