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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 21 August 1916, Page 4

The Now South Wales Legislative Council negatived th e proposed supertax on land holdings suitable for closer settlement.

A watch has been found: tli e owner can regain possession by giving description and name to "Watch," care of this offi'ce.

Edwin EiMiost Culliford, 1 , a postal employee, charged with the theft of postal packets at Nelson, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

Mr Massey states that the war bonus will b e paid to all sections of the Public Service at once. The second payment will be made before Christmas.

The estimated population of thc Dominion (exclusive of Maoris and Cook and other islands) at June .'3oth, was 1,094,239 (551,404 males, 542.535 females.)

The estates of 111 deceased persons were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee during the month of July. Of these rive died of wounds and 23 were killed in action.

The New Zealand No. 1 Stationary Hospital, which has been for some months at Salonika, has been removed to France, and it will probably be converted there into a casualty clearingstation Lieut.-Colonel McGavm, of Wellington (he was on the Marquette) is still in command.

An old age pensioner of 08 years named John Feency, who is suffering from partial paralysis, pleaded guilty to two courts of having indecently assaulted little girls of eleven and seven vours of age at Paeroa towards the 'end of last year, was sentenced to seven vcars' imprisonment.

The Telegraph Department advises that the code address "Basenz," Cairo, 'us cancelled Cable messages for Now Zealand soldiers in Egypt should bo addressed care of "Zealandree," 'Alexandria. Messages of enquiry concerning records or casualties, Expeditionary Force, Egypt, should be addressed to "Zealandrec," Alexandria.

At the Feilding Loan meeting on Friday evening the story was told of a well-to-do farmer who, when urged to invest in the War Loan, retorted that it offered 10s per cent less than he could get elsewhere. Such a man has no soul. It is a pity he could not be made to realise that he would lose not only his interest, but his pincipal, if our boys had not made good against the Germans, says the 'Feilding Star.'

What was easily a record was established at th c weekly fat stock sale held at Westfield, Auckland, last week, when vealers were sold at prices ranging from £7 to £l4. The latter price was received for a heifer fattened by Mr F. E. Andrews of Mangere, while four choice eight to nine-month calves, owned by Mr Jas. Howe, Panatoetoe, sold at from £lO 15s to £l3 17s (id, averaging £l2 Is (id.

It is stated that an old age pensioner, an inmate of the Solway Home, Masterton, has definitely established his claim for £62,000, which has been lying in Chancery for a number of years. The man has notified the hospital authorities of his intention to leave the institution in order to proceed to England, an amount of £SOO havng been placed to his credit to cover his expenses.

Advice has been received in Gisborne that Sir James Carroll has left for Ireland. It is thought that the visit is connected with a cable sent by thc British Premier by some of Sir James's Gisborne admirers, who, on learning that the Imperial authorities ware experiencing difficulties in aiming at a solution to the Irish- problem, clubbed together and defrayed the cost of the cable which suggested that Sir James Carroll be asked to assistin the settlement.

"This boy says he lias been smoking cigarettes for so long that he now finds he cannot give up the habit," was the suprising statement made by Senior-Sergeant Emerson at the Wei. lington Juvenile Court yesterday, when referring to a lad, fourteen years of age, who was charged with smoking eogarettes, and apparently was not under parental control. The magistrate advised the lad to leave off smoking until he was older, and after a warning convicted and discharged him.

Canadian paper mills have just cabled their New Zealand agents stating that the price of newspaper has been advanced 25 per cent, owing to the difficulties of securing supplies of the necessary chemicals and the increase in the cost of labour (says a South Island exchange). Freights and insurance now equal the price of paper in Canada, so that the outlook for the New Zealand newspaper proprietors is not too cheerful. New Zealand is dependent upon overseas sources for its supply, and there is a world-wide deficiency. '

The action of the law instftuted by Messrs Tumbuli and Jones when they sued the Okahune Borough Council for £1099 12s Sd, balance ' alleged to be due for instating a hydro-electric plant in the Borough of Okahune, has proceeded another step. The Ohakune Borough Council has filed a defence to the claim, and is also counter-claiming £3OOO for alleged damage and loss suffered and incurred by the Council by reason of alleged negligence and breaches of duty by the plaintiff company. Sir Francis D. Bell has -been retained as counsel for the borough.

According to one Christchurch paper, an immigration of Government officials commenced on Monday last. The Board of Trade, the Beeruiting Board, the Pensions Board, and even the Commissioner of Police, put in their appearance, and the AttorneyGeneral was expected. The paper expressed the hope that as pressing business had brought them down, it would be a. good thing if some one were to let them know that the Grand National was being run on Tuesday. "It would be a pity if, having arrived by this singular coincidence all together at this time, they were not to discover that it is National Week."

The system of covering horses and cows when turned out in the winter is so firmly established in New Zealand and Australia that it will come as a surprise to many to find (hat it does not find equal favour elsewhere. That such is the case, however, is shown by the fact that a lieutenant in the Army Service Corps, duards Divisional Train, British Expeditionary Force in Flanders, has sent to Mr E. Ee Roy asking him to forward him a. cover for Ills pony, f.h 0 reason being thai covers as used in New Zealand are not used in Great Britain or in France. There hnv e been several occasions on which visitors from England have taken a cover Home, but have said that their neighbours would think they were mad to turn a horse out with a

cover on it. Some years ago, in writing to the United States to a large cover-maker there, Mr Le Boy mentioned .what is done in New Zealand in covering, una the American reply was: "We do nut cover horses out to grass in this country.'''