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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 26 August 1916, Page 4

An advertisembent mi page one of this issue notifies every man of military age (not less than 20 and under 46), that it is intended to proclaim the enrolment of the Expeditionary Force Reserve on the Ist September, 1910.

For the Manawatu Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meeting, on Wednesday, 30th August, holiday excursion tickets will be issued from Taihape and intermediate stations, by the 0.5 .am.

train, available for return on Thursday, 31st August.

The solo, "Would you Believe - ' will be sung by Mrs Durand, at the Methodist -.Church service to-morrow evening... The Rev. L. Minific will take as the subject of his address, "The Appearing of the Christ," A most cordial invitation is extended to all not attending another place of worship.

Mr Roderic MacCallunt, representing Messrs .7. C. Williamson Films, Ltd., arrived in town yestordny to make arrangements for the screening in laihaps, at an early date, of the great American picture drama, "Within the Law." The picture was produced in .Sydney, and is said k> bo a cinematograph masterpiece, and features Miss Muriel Starr, the clever American emotional actress.

Cable advice has been received announcing the safe arrival at their destination of the Fourteenth Reinforcements. The Manigaweka Red Cross Society •jontinues to do splendid work in providing comforts for soldiers, and a fine lot of articles were made up last week and despatched to'the authorities.

One of the first applicants at the Dunedin post office for War Loan certificates was a Chinese market gardener, who invested the whole of his savings, amounting to £4O in this way.

In the course of a letter ((written from France to the Minister of Defence), General Godley says: "Con.'L-

tions here, though in iuany ways easier thc.:» in Gallipoli, are trying to anyone whose nerves are not quite

ri j.i y on account of the frequency ar.a flight of the enemy shelling.

The official count in connection witn the Pahiatua by-election discloses only a slight difference between the figures already published and those which will go on the official record. The main point is that the Labour candidate, Mr G. D. McFarlane, loses his deposit of £lO, owing to the fact that he did not poll the necessary number of votes under the Act.

"The police should '-ever arrest any man. on any charge whatever, if they have reason to believe that he will ap pear on summons. If the police are sat ; s f ied that they can ensure the attendance of a person at Court by issiiir.g a summons it is their duty to cto so, ana not to arrest :hal person," saic H'-i Honor Mr Justice Edwards at the Supreme Court at Wellington.

It has been decided by the directors of the Raugitikei Dairy Company to make a further payment of 4d per Id. on butter fat supplied during last December to suppliers, and id per lb. extra to shareholders. The company are paying Is 6d per lb. for butter far supplied during August, and id per lb. extra to suppliers who deliver their cream. The daily make of butter at the factory is now twenty boxes, being an increase of two boxes a day over the corresponding period of last yea*.

In the course of a case at the Police Court at Auckland on Wednesday, in which a bookmaker was sued, it was stated that the constable who made the bets had managed to secure threo wins out of four bets. This led the Magistrate to remark that the constable "must have known something.As a matter of fact it is stated the constable was quite ignorant of any of the horses, and he was supplied with Government money to make tne bet, so the winnings have to go lnru the State Treasury.. .

A resident of Fiji in a letter to a Christchurch friend, says: "There is great rivalry amongst Fijian natives to see which district can give the most to help on with the war. In the Lan district the natives have colletced enough money to buy two motor ambulances. The Rewa natives had & meeting to see what they could do, and it was decided to give an aeroplane. They will have to raise £I6OO for it, and the Tailevu natives have decided to raise enough money to buy four motor ambulances.

At the Taihape Carnival, Mr T. I Brady, of Mataroa, presented a horse to Miss Forde's Committee, to be rarfled in aid of Miss Forde's candidature for the Queenship. Unfortunately, the whole of the books from which tickets were sold were lost, and although search has been made they have not been found. It has been decided to have the horse sold at next Wednesday's stock sales, and the total amount realised handed over to the Taihape Recr Cross Branch. Messrs Dalgety & Co. hav kindly offered to act as auctioneers. Reinforcements for the Tunnelling Company will it is announced, be required at quarterly intervals, and at an increased rate. Registrations of suitable men will be accepted for service in this particular unit, the ages to be 1 to 40 years. A small proportion of unskilled men will be taken for each draft, in addition to skilled tunnellers; but if possible, it is desires! that all should have some practical i experience in either tunnelling or min- i ing. Coal miners, however, will not be accepted. The next draft is to Dfi> c,'..i?*>d up about the beginning of October.

The Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, states that the medical Inspection of school children is bringing to light a number of pitiable cases o» feeble-minded children, for whom better provision than at present exists is required. In a district lately inspected a family of twelve children 'was found, all of whom were more or less feebleminded. Tie matter Ought to be dealt with in a thorough and comprehensive manner, but first it will be necessary to ascertain how many cases there arc in the Dominion requiring special treatment in. such institutions. The mailer is now receiving consideration.

Information has been received that the Government has decided to purchase Mr James Taylor's Maungakaws estate of 16,000 acres, and will take it over on the 31st March. This means an expenditure of about £70,000 in the district for sub-dividing, fencing! and road making. There will be eight miles of metalled roads.

Mr G. . Sampson Chief Postmaster at Wanganui, who has been fifty years in the service of the Post and Telegraph Department, is retiring from the service. He has been in Wanganui now for several years, and is well respected there. He is being succeeded by Mr W. JB'iswick, the late Chief Postmaster at Palmerston North.

The war bonus of £ls for married men and £7 10s for single men in tae Public Service is to be paid to temporary employees, as well as to permanent employees. The bonus will be "for the current year ending* March . 31, 1917, and temporary hands who have not kept on for the w.hole year will get that proportion of the bonus due to them proportionately to their term of employment in the year. Juniors under IS years of age will receive £3.

The following story in connection with the war in France, if not truo, is certainly characteristic of the two principals involved. It comes to this journal from a resident of the Taihape district, and is as follows:—A Maori returning across "No Man's Land" with a prisoner, meets a Gurkha, who says: "Hullo, New Zealand; what 3-ou got there?''' "Te German prisoner," replies the Maori. "Let me have a look at him; —and with that the Gurkha whips out his Kukri and slices the prisoner 's head off with oue blow. '' Py Golly," said the Maori, "How you do that'? Taihoa; I go back get you another. ''