The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1916.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 148, 26 June 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1916.

(With which is incorporated The Tai bape Post and Waimarino News.)

One case of diphtheria and one of ( scarlet fever are reported in Taihape. iWhen some Canadians were recently digging a new line of trenches behind their line in France, writes an officer, a jar was found in which were 200 silver crowns. The coins, which were ■in a fine state of preservation, bore dates 1745 and 1747 —a period in which -heavy fighting was taking place over the same ground in Flanders. Each member of the working party was given one of the coins, which are now worth about £B. Some of the party, not knowing their worth, parted with them for 5/. Mr. A. J. Joblin, of Taihape, has I been nominated as a candidate for a seat en the (Wanganui Education Board, to represent the Northern Ward. Mr. Joblin's nomination is signed by Messrs H. W. Smith, chairman Taoroa Committee; D. Addis, chairman Ruakura Committee; J. Gil'christ, chairman Utiku Committee; W. Theobald, chairman Pukeokahu Committee; and the Rev. jW. F. Stent, representing the Taihape Committee. It is also understood that Mr. R. L. Christie, of Ohakune, intends to contest a seat on the Board.

An important meeting of delegates from cheese factories was held at Palmerston North, when the question of the sale of cheese to the Governmnt was discussed. The meeting was not open to the press, and the resolutions passed were not divulged. They will, however, go forward to other meetings to be held at various centres on July 5, at the request of the Government.

At the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association, held at Palmerstcn North, it wa s decided to form a company for the manufacture of rennet in New Zealand. The capital of the new company is to he £20,000 in £1 shares, to he taken up by factories in the proportion of one share to two tons of cheese produced.

A meeting of the Taihape and District Patriotic Committee will be held to-morrow evening. Business at Ohakune is reported to be very quiet, and there is a very large percentage of empty shops in the town. The schools in the district will close on Friday next for a week's holiday. The term examinations are now being held.

The management of the Three Stars Theatre have made arrangements for the Jess Wfllard-Johnson fight film to be shown on Monday, July 3. The training of the two men is depicted as well as the actual contest, and the film is reported to be the best of its kind ever shown in Australasia.

There was only a small gathering of people at the Taihape railway station this morning to bid farewell to the quota of the 18th Reinforcements. Formerly large crowds used to foregather at the station to bid farewell to the drafts, but each month the numbers are getting less and less.

It is anticipated that the success of the Taihape poultry enthusiasts at the Manawatu Winter Show will be repeated at the Hastings show to be held shortly. So good were the various exhibits at Palmerston that the judge had to carefully note even the slightest points, so as to be able to separate some of the birds.

On Saturday evening a rumour was current that too many men had been called up for the Taihape quota of the 18th Reinforcemnets, and that a ballot was to be taken to decide who should go and who should wait behind till the 19th Reinforcements were called up. The true position was that 24 men were called up and all went to camp, but six other men, who had volunteered and passed the necessary medical examination, had not been called up, but will proceed to camp with the next draft.

Overheard in the train between Lepperton Junction and New Plymouth •(returned soldier, minus a leg, in conversation with a recruit who could not easily make arrangements to go; finish of conversation): Returned Soldier. "Look here, I am unable to go back, to my sorrow. I am not short of a little needful; come along with me when we get to town; I will arrange financially that you shall go in my place." The truth of the story is vouched for, and, undoubtedly, it is the spirit which will lead to an honorable and lasting peace.

In January of last year a lady visited some friends in Ashburton, and during her stay there she lost that sentimental token which her husband had given her when, he invited her to share his joys and sorrows, her engagement ring. A search was made, but it had to be given up at last. The other day she was much surprised to receive from a relative in As-hburotn the missing ring. It had been picked up on a shingle footpath at the entrance of the house at which she was staying, and was none the worse for its twelve months' exposure to weather and traffic.

At the Public Servants' ''social" on Thursday, the Minister for Internal Affair s (Hon. G. W. Russell) threw out a warning to those who had not sent in their National Register cards. Within a fortnight, he said, the Military Service Bill would be passed by Parliament. Immediately it came into law, the first division of the national reserves would be proclaimed. Those who had not sent in their National Register cards would be given four-

teen . days tc send them in. Those who did not do so wuold be summoney to appear before the Magistrato'4 Court, and would be liable to a money penalty. Directly they were convicted they would become conscripts, and

join the army. He would exercise his responsibility as Minister to see that net a man escaped his liability under the Act. Loud applause greeted this announcement. '

The police Court is not. the place where one expects to hear a theological discussion (says the Auckland Star), hut for half an hour on .Wednesday Mr. F. V. Fraser, S.M.. and a young Christadelphian fought out the ethics of non-resistance as based on stray Biblical premises. The youngman was claiming exemption from military service on the ground that, it was contrary to his religious beliefs, and he made a valiant effort to explain why, though it must be confessed that under magisterial tire his faith was shown up as a heritage rather than a reasoned conviction. Still it was obvious that his religious belief ha c l grown from a cherished seed, and was not the transplanted result of a cutting hastily culled from someone else's religious garden to provide a belated shelter from military training inconveniences. Consequently, as the logic cf a man's religious belief was beside the question, Wm. L. Worrall, of Avondale. was granted an exemption.

"Tiki" Stout i s not made to tickle the palate and ruin the stomach, but to strengthen weak constitutions and make strong ones stronger. ,-—-;,,

A girl for general -housework is advertised for by Mrs. Nathan, telephone No. 10, Taihape. On Wednseday last, at the Magistrate's Court, Ohakune, L. |W. iWall, of Rangipo, was fined £lO and costs for failing to destroy rabbits on the station. Messrs R. ;Wilscn and Co., Ltd., are advertising for sale eight staunch draught horses, which are accustomed to ploughing and bush tram work, and which have just completed a large metalling contract. There are also advertised for sale two metal drays and two sets of three-horse harness.