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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 4 August 1916, Page 4

A quiet cow with calf is advertised for sale.

The ReA 1 . Lester Minifle, avlio has been aAvay for some three weeks on sick leave, has returned.

A man named Oscar Padman was arrested by Constable Iledgmau on a charge of assaulting a little girl at Noav tow n.

A gold brooch set Avith a large ovalshaped topaz, valued as a keepsake, has been lost, and the owner, avlio \ T alues it highly, is ottering a reward. The finder is asked to return it to this Office.

Replying in the House to a question by Mr R. Fetcher the Prime Minister stated that provision is made in the Act so that when Christmas Day falls on a Monday shopkeepers may remain open on .Saturday afternoon and evening, and observe the half-holiday on another day of the week.

Tavo charges Avere preferred against Henry Bland yesterday at the Taihape Malgistrate’s Court for failing to send bis children to school, and on each charge he was convicted and lined 5/Avithont costs. A similar charge Avas preferred against John Gartner, avlio Avas fined 10s. and costs 7s.

•A iino exhibit of variegated stones is at present on view in the lobby of the House of Representatives. This was arranged by Mr J. W. Mackey, and consists of specimens of black and red variegated jasper and argillite. The stone is found in extensive deposits within a, few miles of Wellington, and will be useful in the bases of buildings, and for decorative purposes. Members of the House were surprised to learn that such rare and valuable deposits were to be found near Wellington. The deposits consist of a remarkable rock, including grandular limestone, serpentine and brown jasperoid dark purple jasper, and a red variegated jasper, also a green-veined terra-cotta jasper. A company lias been formed to work the deposits, and a considerable number of men employed in quarrying the stone.

In future any Maori or half-caste registering for active service with the pakeha reinforcements is to be specially asked to serve with the Maori Reinforcements.

In answer to a question by Mr R. F. Bollard, member for Raglan, the Finance Minister (Sir J. G. ,Ward( sale yesterday that it is intended that officers of the Civil Service shall, in addition to their annual increment, be given the bonus proposed by the Government.

The Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon G. W. Russell) lias written to the advisory board of the War Relief in reply to a query as to whether th c Government would favourably consider the question of subsidising public donations raised for the relief of distressed Serbians and of Russian prisoners interned in Germany. The Minister stated that this matter was recently considered by Cabinet, but while the Government is in full sympathy with the objects of thc fund it is unable to grant the subsidy applied for.

Opinions differ as to the amount of experience necessary to ensure success on the land. Mr L. H. Tripp, at a meeting of the Patriotic. Relief Societies’ advisory board gave it as the opinion of practical friends of his that no man should take up land unless he had five years’ experience. Another member asserted that a farmer needecr more experience than a lawyer, as as there w r as a larger percentage of fail ures amongst farmers. Mr Hope Gibbons, of Wanganui, said he knew' of many men in his district who had gone on the land without experience and made a success of it.

Replying to a deputation from the Returned Soldiers’ Association’ Conference, Mr Massey said the Government was acting on the principle of giving returned soldiers preference for employment. On the subject of settling soldiers on the land, he would see tnar the tenants were not pushed for rentals. The Department had already secured land in the neighbourhood of Wellington an c i Auckland districts for sections for fruit and poultry farming, and negotiations were proceeding for securing a suitable area just outside Christchurch. Certain concessions re■gfarding railway passages were promised by the Minister.

The necessity for having a telephone installed at the local Defence Office was brought before the notice of Defence Hadquartrs at Palmerston North by the Taihape Patriotic Committee some time ago, but Headquarters declined to have the ’phone installed, and Staff-Sergeant-Major Tuckey has been compelled to go to neighbouring offices when he desired to use the ’phone. This did not always prove convenient, and the officers of the local Cadet Company, realising the loss of time and inconvenience caused through there being no telephone in the office, have had one installed, and the cost will be defrayed out of the Cadet Company’s maintenance grant.

At the Taihape Magistrate's Court yesterday C. E. Daniel proceeded against L. Sliergold to recover the sum of £7 3s 9d, for goods delivered to one Williams, brother-in-law of defendant. Plaintiff alleged that he refused to deliver goods on credit to Williams, and Sliergold said he would pay the accounts. The |gioods were delivered and charged up to defendant. In hi s evidence, which was taken at Waihi, defendant denied that he had promised to pay the accounts. Judgment was given for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with £2 17s costs. Mr R. J! Loughnan appeared for plain tiff, and Mr R. A. Davies for defendant.

A Taranaki resident who has just returned to New Plymouth from Australia, states that he was very much struck with the paucity of New Zealand news appearing in the Australian papers. During his stay of over a month he only read one paragraph with reference to New Zealand, and that, strange to say, was a two-line paragraph in regard to the New Plymouth tire. Some provincial newspapers in New Zealand fervently hope that the Press Association will cease distributing in New Zealand the Australian piffle that they have to pay double cable rates for. If an Australian dog or horse dies country papers are made to pay the cost of cabling it here.

Humour is not lacking in the trenches in France, as the following menu for “The Haunted Dug-out,” forwarded to friends in Wellington by Private Charles Brill shows: Soup—a la rat tail; de la pea rifle; chicken froth. Fish: Snipers Pack; Trench Mortars; Whizzbanigis (in shells). Entrees: Stiff Joints; Hun’s Head with turnips; Tirpitz Boiled Frogs; a la Bully Beef. Poultry—Foul (language); Duck yor head; Goose step; Allah Turkey. Sweets—Parapet Pudding, with Vickers’ Light Sauce; Bostock Buns; French Tarts; Marmalade Jam, Liqueurs—Trench Waters, Lemonade Grenade, All meals served up by French 75's, cooked by liquid Are.

To-morrow, at the Tui Street Mart, Mr D. J. McLennan will sell a quantity of thoroughly good and particularly useful household furniture. He will also sell two freehold sections, as well as the usual fruit and produce.

Messrs W. J. White & Sons to-day announce in a new advertisement a “Half-price Remnant Sale.” At this sale all remnants Will be sold at just half the price at which they are marked. Messrs White & Sons have a particularly nice selection of remnants, and some excellent bargains are awaiting lucky purchasers

In the event of a recruit or military reject losing his arm badge or having it stolen, the owner should make a declaration before a Justice of the Peace as to the circumstances of the loss or theft, and on submitting the signed declaration to the Group Commander who issued the arm badge so lost or stolen, will be given another badge.