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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 17 August 1916, Page 4

Messrs J. Butehart and Co w notify that if accounts due to tlieni are not paid by th e 21st instant, they will be sued for without further notice.

The Hon J. Allen ha s notified tnc Federation of the New Zealand Patriotic War Relief Societies’ Advisory Board that Cabinet has decided to extend the provision with respect to the widowed mother whose unmarried sou is her sole support to include a married son.

Niue Islanders are fatalists. There were five deaths among the party ow the voyage of the Corinthic from England to Wellington. One died from pneumonia. The morning after, the man’s brother said that he had dreamed that his dead brother had come to him, and laid bis hands on his head, which meant that he was to die. The next day the man was dead.

| A four-roomed house is advertised i

to let. There is plenty of firewood to be had free. The rent is five shillings per week.

At a meeting of the Wheat Board held recently in Sydney, Premier Hughes stated that ho had succeeded in chartering 100 vessels to carry the wheat at rates below the ruling rates.

The Attorney-General (the Hon. A. L. Herdman) stated yesterday that the regulations under the War Regulations Act, in regard to anti-shouting and the serving cf women, in licensed houses, will not be ready for publication tor some days.

Mr J. W. I-oynton, S.M., expressed the opinion at Lady Stout’s meeting in Palmerston last night, that the Hghts of British citizenship were too easy or access. Some enemy subjects became naturalised just to get the old age pension, and others so that they might dig gum.

“You were drinking about town with this soldier and other men,” said the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) to a prisoner he was sentencing at the Supreme Court in Wellington. “Unfortunately, there are drunken soldiers in our midst,” lie added, “although the Parliament does not seem to think so,” (■ ■. i I ' lAir " • L\ ■ J Jf 1* 1 .A.

The Hon. James Allen, Minister of Defence, states that the New Zealand Tunnelling; Corps are doing excellent work at the \ western front, and arc very well. They believe they are equal to, “if not better than the Germans.” “And,” rmarked Mr Allen, “I quite believe it.” So far they have not lest any lives.

The Prime Minister states that two new steamers, with refrigerated space, the Leitrim and Roscommon, nave been arranged to further relieve the congestion in the New Zealand stores, and will arrive shortly. The Leitrim, which has capacity for 104,000 carcases, will load at Auckland and When garei, while the Roscommon will load at the Bluff.

The damage done by th e Russian invasion of East Prussia in the autumn of 1914 lias only now been officially estimated. The Prussian report gives the number of buildings dcstoryed or damaged, most of them in the districts of Gumbinnen and Allenstein, as 34,000, and puts the cost of rebuilding and repair at £15,000,000 to £17,500,000. Thirty-five towns and 1900 villages hav e sent in claims, and the damage to furniture alone is estimated at not less than £0,250,000. If this is the bill in East Prussia, what will it be in Belgium, Poland, and Scrvia.

The greatest contribution Great Britain has made to the war in the opinion of the New York Times is not the number of men or munitions turned out, or by the ships which sail the seas, but th c unbroken front, the solidarity, the stubmorn tenacity of the nation as a whole. There are nations which might have run th e war betcr —there are, perhaps, a few who could do worse in the technique of its conduct but there is not one that could be more trusted to win the war, and that is the thing that counts. England, denouncing herself as inefficient, is yet the greatest moral asset of the democracy in Europe.

One effect of the war has been a reduction in the export of apples to South America, through lack of transport. Mr T. Horton, the well known orchardist of Hastings, is confident that very soon after the close of tne war trade with South America will reach big figures. His own firm has an order for 200,000 cases at 6/6 f.o.b. Wellington, and for 3,000 cases at 8/6. At the Nelson Co-operative Fruit Com paiy’s meeting' he spoke confidently of the prospect —a confidence based on the evidence which he obtained during -his visit to South America not long ago.

An impressive ceremony took place at Trentham Camp on Monday afternoon, when a member of the Tentn Rcnforcements was court-raartialled. The Sixteenth Reinforcements were on parade, and the prisoner was placed under guard in the hollow square. The Camp adjutant (Captain Bell) after reading the changes against accused, then read out the sentence of the court. The prisoner was gunner Arthur Edward Billcliff,, and he was sentenced to 112 days’ confinement for escaping from custody and for desertion. Prisoner, when arrested, was working on Kapiti Island.

Pour gentlemen mol outside the post office this week (says the “Hawera Star.”) Said one; “I have been worrying over our starved soldiaers who arc prisoners of war in Germany.” The other throe said they Lad also done the same thing. “Well, ’’ said iho first, *' ‘ let’s make up a little purse” “Agreed,” said they all- With the aid of,eight other patriotic people, the sum of £4d 4s was contributed in less than an hour, and the same afternoon that amount was cabled through the Bank of New Zealand to the “Daily SMa 11, “ London, which undertakes the distribution of food to our imprisoned men, and is able to guarantee that they, get it.