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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 201, 29 September 1916, Page 4

Messrs Thompson, Lewis & Company’s celebrated aerated waters are now sold at Ransom’s Tea Rooms, in Station Street.

The Railway Department has notified that any discharged soldiers holding free places at Technical Schools will be provided with free railway travelling.

Why not call the new shade of red dye brought over from Germany ny the Deutschland “Lusitania crimson’’ or “Arabic scarlet”?—Boston Transcript.

Women and children for the sec,oner year gathered the harvests of the French fields and orchards. Even in the fishing villages they “manned'the boats and reaped the harvest or the deep.

The flagpole supporting the German flag raised by a hyphenated hotel proprietor at Woodport, New Jersey, to signalise the arrival of the Deutschland, was shattered to splinters with axes by his neighbours.

An Order-in-Council has been gazetted prohibiting the importation of goods manufactured or produced in enemy territory, whether before or after the declaration of war except with the consent of the Minister for Customs.

The “V.orwaerts,” the leading organ of the German Socialists, states that indignation among the German working classes regarding the high rate of pay of army officers compelled the Kaiser to issue the recent proclamation of a decrease. 'lt is stated that the proposed reduction has provokee the greatest anger in the army.

When a solicitor remarked at the Auckland Land Board yesterday, “I am acting for both parties,” Mr H. M. Skeet (Commissioner), said, “You cannot serve two masters.” The oict Biblical statement holds good still. The experience of this Board is that there is usually trouble before the finish when the same solicitor acts for both sides.

‘An official message from Lorenzo Marques says:—Portuguese forces in German East Africa have established communication with the British at Mikindani. The principal medical officers’ cup for th e best-kept hut at Trentham Camp for the week ending September 23rd, was won by C Company, 20th Reinforcemtnts, >B Company being next in merit. At Napier Thomas Brown, a fisherman, was fined £5, or one month’s imprisonment for selling cargo from the wrecked Tongariro, picked up on the high seas, according to a Press Association message. 1

As the result of an explosion on the Union Shipping Company’s steamer Wjairuna, which was discharging fat Margaret Street wharf, six men were killed and three injured. The cargo in the forehold included cases af benzine, a leakage of which is supposed to have been the cause.

It is unusual to look for German blood in a Maori, but two members of a Maori contingent claim as their father an unnaturalised German. The latter has lived with the natives for many years on a large island near Auckland, where he married a native woman.

While motoring from Eketahuna to Masterton the other evening, a woman named Mrs Timms was killed. At a point in the road near Kaiparoro the lights of the car failed, and th e vehicle went over the bank. Mrs Timms was killed instantly, and a daughter who was with her suffered a severe shaking. Shearing operations were to have started this week at the Te Mata station. The men state that the manager offered 22s 6d per hundred, and that after discussion they, refused to accept less than 15s. The manager states that he offered £1 and 2s (id war bonus, and that if the award fixed 25/- later he would pay that amount for the sheep shorn. The offer was refused, and the sheep turned cut in the paddocks.

A new industry is being developed in Tasmania. The first unit of the sulphur extraction plant at Mount Lyei: mines is nearing completion, and it is generally understood that the experimental work of the expert chemist brought specially from America has proved to be successful, and that the problem of the extraction of sulphur from pyrites before it is smeltecr has been satisfactorily solved from a commercial standpoint

According to the annual report of the Navy League, naval writers have not been slow in admitting the fact that the educative work of the league carried out for many years past and its timely counter-blasts to th e Little Navy agitations have had far-reaching results in convincing the public at large ( of the dire danger of naval retrenchment. The hands of the Admiralty have been thereby strengthened and the Navy votes expedited in the House of Commons.

An agitation is being got up in Labour circles for th e release of Mr H. W. Reynolds, a boot and shoe seller, of Christchurch, who has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, under the War Regulations for sending a letter enclosed in another letter contrary to the regulations. The letter was harmless in itself, and it is claimed that the breach of the law was merely technical. Mr Reynolds is described by the Maorilander Worker as a quiet, peaceable, honest man.

It is not generally known that a private who went away with one of the Reinforcements succeeded to a fortune and a title before his departure. The private in question is stated to have been a captain in the same regiment as His Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool.) When he enlisted he kept his identity secret, but was discovered in the ranks by an Imperial officer of high rank. He was offered his discharge, but stoutly refused to accept it, and Avas eventually alloAved to proceed to the front as a full private.

A farmer on the St. Hellier’s Bay Road, Auckland, has lost the services of his son and a farm hand, both of whom have, gone to the front, and has found himself unable to replace them with male labour. His daughter, a girl of 16, has, however, been equal to the occasion. She has taken in hand the management of her father’s plough team, and last week might have been seen driving two horses harnessed to the plough. At the end of the week sh e had 34 acres of ground turned over, and now she is busy discing the same paddock with a three horse team.

The Perano whaling party had an exciting chase the other day in Cook Strait, a large and valuable “sulphur bottom” being the quarry (reports tne Marlborough Express). The chase ended in a successful capture, but the whale sank before it could be towed to the station. It is expected, however’, that the carcase will come to the surface again, aad a constant lookout is being,maintained. The “sulphur bottom” whale is a rarity, auc is much more difficult to capture than the ordinary species. The oil from the carcase is especially valuable.

A five-roomed house overlooking the town is advertised to-let.

A smart, intelligent girl is wanted at Ransom’s Tea Rooms in Station St.

An advertiser will be glad to know of some kind person who is willing to look after two boys, aged respectively 8 and 9 years.

“I want a section for my son, ” said an applicant at the Auckland Land Board, with an ingratiating smile. He added, “ I want to get all the land I can for my children.”

An ancient harvest custom still prevails in the French villages, where sweetened bread, made from the flour of the first wheat cut, is distributed in the churches at High Mass on Sundays.

It is notified that the Fifth Annual Meeting of the members of the Rangitikei A. & P. Association will be held in the Fire Brigade Hall, Taihape, on Saturday, October 7th, at 2 p.m.

A great many landlords at Whltby (Eng) reduced the rents of the;r houses by 5 per cent. Altogether, the great distress of the lodginghouse keepers has been considerably alllevxated.

Mr D. J. McLennan has received instructions from Mr Reardon, Taihape, to sell the whole of his household furniture and other effects. Full particulars will be published in a future issue.

At the Tui Street Mart to-morrow, Mr D. J. McLennan will sell a woolpress, a light trap, a Jersey heifer (just calved), separators and furniture, as well as the usual produce, potatoes, onions, etc.

At a meeting of the Taihape Defence Rifle Club, Mr H. Marsh was elected hon secretary, vice Mr Johnstone, who will be leaving for camp shortly. The opening of the season will take place on Labour Day.

Among the names appearing in the casualty lists are those of F. Beachen, and T. Paul, both of whom were very well known in Taihape. Mr Sinclair, of Mataroa, has also received advice that his son has been w'ounded.

On behalf of its emploj r ees, the .Vv'eilington Gas Co. has purchased 1632 war certificates. The employees have taken them up in parcels of five and upwards, and are paying for them by tveekly instalments, w'hich will liquidate their liability in twelve months

Mr A. Nathan has received advice to the effect that his grandson. Private John N Wickens, of the Bth Reinforcements, has been wounded in the thigh during the recent fighting. Private Wickens is rvell know r n locally, and at one time was a prominent mem ber of the Taihape Sw'imming Club.

“Germany has played for the highest stakes —the mastery of the sea—and the consequent dominion of the world,” stated the annual report of the Wellington branch of the Navy League. “The Kaiser and his party have aimed at despotic power as Napoleon did over a hundred years ago; but the strength and preparedness of tne mighty British Navy has again stood in the way of the aggressor.’* STOCK SALE REPORT Dalgety & Co. report having a fair entry of stock at their Hunterville Sale on Tuesday, 26th inst, which sole as below: — Good lyr heifers to £4 7/-; good lyr steers to £7 3/-; light fat heifers to £8 10/-; 2yr steers to £9/18/6.