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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 11 September 1916, Page 4

For using the term “bankrupt" in a circular about an assigned estate, a firm of financial agents -bad to pay £l5O damages in the Napier Supreme Court on Wednesday. Posters in London announce the formation of a group enabling men born ill 3899 to attest. They will not be liable for service' until they arc 18. It is understood .the group has been formed to assist recruiters in estimating the number of fresh men available If required.

Your attention is once more directed to Bennett and Co. ’s advertisement in this issue. It is an announcement con-

veying an important message to everyone, for it tolls how you can live in the same comfort as at. present, but at less expenditure.

Mrs Beagle, of Te Puke, has received the pleasing information that her brother, Mr Hutton, previously reported drowned in the wreck of H.M.S. Hampshire (on which Lord Kitchener went down), is aliv,e having been transferred from the ill-fated ship three days previous to the disaster.

Wednesday was a windy day at Featherston. In the town itself the wind blew with hurricane force from the Tauherenikau Gorge, the gusts being of bewildering violence. At Featherston Camp a strong gale blew, yes two miles away, at the Tauherekamu

canvas camp, it was a calm, sunny day.

The scheme outlined by the Post Office authorities for taking charge of war loan certificates is now in operation. Holders of such certificates may deposit them at any money order office A receipt will be given, and the certitfi cates forwarded to Wellington, where they will be deposited in a specially designed strong room, and kept free or charge.

Speaking l at the school function at Marton last night, Mr Fred Pirani said they could not blame the public gene rally for want of appreciation of the work of public men, when the editor of a paper in that district, after slating the Education Board in reference to a recent teacher’s appeal case, admitted that he had never read the evid ence, and added that he did not want to —as he knew the Chairman of the Board!

When executing manoeuvres at Mangaroa last week, a body of troops were crossing a railway bridge when a train suddenly approached. In order to escape from the bridge, a number of the soldiers jumped iuto the bed of the creek, a distance of 25 feet, with the result that Private L. Nankivcll, of Christchurch, broke his leg, and a comrade broke his collarbone. The sufferers received first-aid, and were removed to Trentham Hospital.

There are now ten co-operative cheese companies in the Pahiat.ua district, namely, Scarborough, Eexdale, Euawhata, Konini, Mangatainoka, Kaitawa, Mangarama, Tararua, Huknui, and Hamua. Butter is represented by the Ballancc Company. The Tararua (Ballauco) Cheese Company is buying first-grade calves’ veils at Is (id each. This is the first local factory to take practical steps to solve the rennet question and to tell dairymen what it' is proposed to do.

The river Somme, along the banks of which much history is at present he ing made, is the classical Samara that played an important part in the earliest recorded annals of old Gaul. It gave the ancient name of Saraarobriva to modern Amiens, where Caesar held a meeting of the Gaulish tribes in the autumn of B.C. 54, and which he made his headquarters during the following winter. It was from the estuary of the Somme, according to a plausible tneory, that Caesar started on his second invasion of Britain.

At the National Reserve social in Wellington, Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., told a good story of an incident said to have taken place in the great training camp at Salisbury Plain, England. It was a heavy day ’s work, 14 hours of it in all, and at the end of some nine hours one of the men showed signs of giving out. “Come!” said the officer, “surely you can do as well as the old Romans did, who could stand 42 hours at a stretch.” “Please sir,” replied the soldier, “I’m not Roman; I’m a Wesleyan. ’ ’ (Laughter.)

Signaller A. Edwards, who was at Romani, writes: We have never had any trouble in getting sand for the canary here, but it is not always an easy matter to get water for the goldfish. I don’t know what Moses and his trible were thinking of when they humped their blueys round this desert for 40 years! A Murrumbidgee whaler may have a decent enough time, but the game is not what it is cracked up to be in Sinai. We often drop across heaps of earthenware jars in the desert, and some of the chaps say these heaps mark the spot where the Children of Israel had their wet canteens?

A shocking example of “Jimmy Woodsering” was brought under the notice of the police the other night. A man was found in the vicinity of Lamb ton Railway Station so palpably under the influence of drink that, to use a colloquialism, he was “dead to the world." In a pocket was found a bottle of whisky, almost empty. His condition was so bad that Dr. Henry warsent for, and, he pronounced the nian as suffering from alcoholic poisoning-; He was removed to the hospital for medical treatment. From the syrupoms he displayed, the opinion was. expressed that ,he must have drunk the best part of two bettles of whisky, probably' taking most of it “neat."— “N.Z. Times.’ ;

To the programme at- the Throe Stars to-night is added that famous picture, “A Noise From the Deep.”

A four or live-doomed house is wanted by an Anyone with such a house to let should address “Kent,” C/o Post Office, Ivarioi.

The Mawara County Council recently decided that all its employees of eligible age who could not produce their certificates of enrolment would be dismissed

Three times within the past week the electric power current from the Lake Coleridge supply has been cut off, and the public of Christchurch much inconvenienced in consequence. All the city tramcars were brought to a standstill.

A dealer in the lower Hawke's Bay is reported to have made a very successful deal. He bought a line of some 14,000 sheep, and, without touching them, re-sold at an advance of several shillings per . head. Result: A clear profit of over £9OOO.

Another of /those very pleasant Utiku functions is to be held next Thursday evening, when the ladies will give a patriotic ball in Boole’s Hall. No ’ doubt there will be a large contingent from Taihapc to swell the crowds from the Ohutu and Utiku districts.

Dr. Paterson, a New Zealand Presbyterian medical missionary in China, has cabled to the Foreign Missions Committee applying for leave to enlist for military service. This has been granted. Dr John Kirk is the only one out of six of New Zealand s medical missionaries in China now left in the field.

The outbreak of measles among the Amokura boys which alarmed the authorities some days ago has not developed seriously. There were, in all, five cases. The first were sent to hospital, and the other four are quartered in*' the Tutanekai, and all are recovering satisfactorily. There have been no fresh eases. The ladies of the Red Cross Society Shop remind the generously inclined people of Taihape and district that they will be glad to have donations of cakes produce, or. any other article that can be sold, in aid of the Red Cross Work. Donor s are reminded that the shop is open to receive and to sell every Wednesday and Saturday. ‘‘Onus of proof is on the defendant.” These are unusual words in statute law, and should therefore be well heeded by men of military agie. If a man’ is to save himself from conviction on a charge under the Military Service Act he has to prove to the satisfaction of a court that is case, is riot one for a penalty. This change' of the ordinary procedure in British Courts is deemed necessary by - the'Parliament of New, Zealand for the purposes of the new Act.