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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 208, 11 October 1916, Page 4

A good general help is wanted by Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Arcadia Private Hotel.

The Hon. Mr Fraser, Minister of Public Works, is likely to be in Taihape on Monday night or Tuesday next.

Mrs J. F. Studholme has given 500 flags, worked in colours on silk, with pin attachments, to be sold on “Our Day. ”

The first Maori to receive a decoration for service in the field is J. Stemton, of Wairarapa, who has been awarded the Military Cross.

The official preliminary estimate of the area under wheat in New South Wales is 4,524,000 acres,, compared with 5,171,804 acres last year.

A boy to milk eight on nine cows is wanted by Mr P. Hill, ■Kihikihi. The wages arc twenty shillings weekly and fare paid.

Bernard Stockdale, of Cuekney, near Mansfield, who w'as recently tried by court martial at Denny for chopping off his trigger finger to evade military service, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment.

A letter received by a Wanganui resident from a soldier at the front states that a number of men of German extraction who w’ere in the firing line with the New Zealanders have been sent back to* the base.

Orders for more than two million yards of cloth for the Russian army were placed in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August, and were required to be delivered before next spring. The scheme of Government control will apply to these orders and to all army requirements of the Allies in England.

The German newspapers on August 24, in publishing the second section of the official report dealing with the Somme battle, stated that the Trones Wood was nineteen times taken by the English and eighteen times lost by them, until it finally remained in their possession following the big attack on July 14.

The Buyo Maru, now owned by a Japanese firm, is at present in Port Chalmers. She was formerly the German steamer Hochhcimer. At the outbreak of war she took refuge in Kaio Chau harbour, where she fell into Japanese hands. She is an old type of ship —built iu 1890 —and is of 2,898 tons register.

The Hon. A. L. Herdmau (the Attor.-ney-General) has gazetted a further lengthy notice under the War Regulations Act, declaring certain companies, firms, and persons to be carrying on business to a substantial extent for, the benefit of alien enemies resident out of New Zealand, and also removing others from the list of enemy traders already issued.

Kapate Plains are absolutely flat, writes a British soldier in German East Africa, and one could plough an unbroken furrow here twenty miles. Not even a bush to be seen, nothing but millions of game grazing like sheep. The veldt is short, sweet grass, as green-looking as Irish fields in June, and last like this right through the whole year.

When the Italian press was discussing the question'-of declaring war on Germany, the Rome correspondent of the London Morning Post wrote —That Rome would be bombarded none need believe, for the presence of the Pope, whom Germany durst uot offend, would act as a lightning conductor against aerial raids. A German bomb on St. Peter’s would be worse than a great military defeat for Germany.

Great development of the activities of ocean salvage companies my be expected after the Tvar (says the Scotsman). On both sides of the Atlantic companies are being formed with a view to the recovery of a large part of the treasure which, as a result of naval operations, is lying at the bottom of the sea. Many of the ships that have boon sunk are lying in comparatively shallow waters, at a depth which the modern diver can reach.

To-day British statesmanship in Ireland is bankrupt (says Stephen Gwynne, M.P., in the London Daily Mail). The word is with the soldiers, now as before the rising. Their work goes on. Orangemen come back to Belfast wounded, and pay their visits tothe Falls Road with news of this or that Catholic who ■ has fought or fallen beside them. Catholics come back and hobble on crutches to Sandyrow with tidings of the Ulster Division. So a web is woven of common losses, of glories shared, and in the end in spite of the statesmen, blood may be thicker than Boyne Water

Last evening Mr Anthony Nathan received advice that his grandson. Pte. Trayton Lyall Wickcns, had been wounded by shell shock,'and admitted to hospital on September 18th. Pte. Wickcns was educated at the local High School, and was very well known here. His brother John was also wounded in the recent fighting. Both boys aie young, being aged IS and 19 respectively. Another grandson, Edwaid Grandficld, is at present serving the Empire. The many friends of the boys will hope to hear of their speedy recovery from their wounds.