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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 201, 23 September 1916, Page 4

The American Consul at Rangoon, on his arrival at New York, stated that one of the most impressive war sights he had witnessed was the passage of 3000 camels from desert to desert over a pontoon bridge across the Suez Canal.

The Marine Department has decided that the inquiry into the stranding cf the barque Antiope shall be held at Bluff on Tuesday next. Captains N. J. Reid, of Auckland, and H. PatterSon, of Dunedin, have been appointed assessors.

A General of Division, writing from Flanders to a relative in Christchurch, praises New Zealand soldiers. “Your New Zealanders,” he writes, “are splendid. I have seen a great many of them, and I can honestly say they are the finest fighting type we have out here as far as looks g 0..”

An Auckland judgment debtor whose name contained a “von” said, when examined at the Magistrate’s Court, that his name was of such a pronouncedly German sort that it prevented him getting regular employment. Tie was a musician, and had a wife and four children to keep, and was living with his wife’s mother. He had not ob tainod constant work since June last, and recently he had been for weeks without earning anything. The case was dismissed.

A Children’s Service will be held at St. Margaret’s Church to-morrow, at 2.30 p.m. Freezing companies, it is reported, are already offering, £1 per head for this season’s lambs in the Fielding district. By advertisement the General Manager of Railways notifies that on and after 30th September trains will not stop at Bennett's Siding for passenger traffic. Thus Ben Tibet, the London dockers leader: “I never was a prophet before, but this war will end when the Germans realise that man ton man, gun for gun, shell for shell, we are either their equal or their master.”

Mr Richmond Davies has presented to the local Red Cross Society one of those very handy pieces of mechanism called ‘ ‘ The Handy Worker,” valued at £4. The correct guess of the number of peas in a bottle will handsomely reward the speculator. Tenders are invited by the Rangitikei County Council for trimming and gravelling about 129 chains on the Pukemapou Road, Te Kapua; for supplying 400 yards gravel for repairing the Moawhango Valley, and the Pukeokahu Roads; also for supplying 200 yards gravel for repairing the Papakai Road, Taihape. Those who contemplate tendering should read the advertisement for particulars.

A chapter of acidents accurred in Napier yesterday. J. Peach, a small storekeeper at Port Ahuriri, was thrown out of cart and had his skull fractured. D. Grant, an employee of Messrs Barry Bros., broke a leg In a coalyard. A married woman, while passing under a new building for a picture theatre, was struck on the head by a bucket of cement from the scaffolding, and received a fracture of the skull.

An important deviation, which is part of the Main Trunk improvement policy, was opened about a week ago without ceremony, merely by running the trains over it. The cost of the work, which is at Kakariki, between Fielding and Marton Junction, was about £IO,OOO, and it cuts out a piece of line on which were sharp curves and a grade of 1 in 53. Now the grade is 1 in 70, which enables a larger load to be hauled, and the speed of trains increased.

Interesting questions were recently raised by a local body in the provincial district of Wellington, said the Minister of Internal Affairs yesterday. The question was as to the right of a German, or a New Zealand resident born in Germany, to retain his seat on a county council in the district. The matter was referred to the Minister, and he has replied that there was no provision of law under which the member referred to can be deprived of his seat on_account of the fact of his having been born in Germany.

According to a Dunedin paper, the retaining'wall across the southern end of the Upper Harbour—the principal work in connection with the Pig scheme of reclamation —is still siuking. This is not considered by the authorities concerned to be a startling result. A certain amount of subsidence was expected. It looks as though the wall in places had some way to sink before it reaches a “bed of repose.” About eight months ago the sum of £I,OOO was voted for the work of patching up the wall, and it appears that all the money will sink out of sight. Indeed, it is anticipated another vote will be required at the beginning of the Board’s financial year.