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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 17 November 1916, Page 4

"The Woman ,Who Did(?) " at the Town Hall Saturday' night.

Three thousand newspapers ancr periodicals have closed down in Germany since the war.

•At the sale of fat sheep held on the Show grounds at Wanganui, yesterday, the Wanganui Meat Freezing Company purchased the highest-price pen of five splendid shorn sheep at £3 Is each

The number of patients in the Wanganui Hospital on Octoben Ist last was 99. During October 94 were admitted, 97 discharged, and 7 died. At the end of the month, therefore, there were 9G patients remaining.

Mr. W. W. Cook, deputy EegistrarGeneral and chief clerk of the Regis-trar-General's department, has been appointed Registrar-General vice Mr Mansfield, who retired on superannuation on account of his health.

As showing the demand for labour in the Stratford district, the local paper mentions that a lad just turned sixteen years of age lately started work in one of the dairy factories at ten shillings per day. The work in question does not call for any special educational oualities, and the lad's grammatical and geographical knowledge is never likely to be questioned, so that the sum of £3 per week under the circumstances must be voted a really good remuneration even in war time.

The High Commissioner, in reporting on our soldiers who are prisoners of war in Germany, says: It is not considered advisable to send mors that.2/6 at a time, or at the most ss, as there is not very muc-h that the men can buy apart from food, and it is strongly suspected that when the Germans discover that a man has. mere than a very small amount of

money, prices are. raised against lim threefold or even more, and he is very soon.fleeced.of all that he has.

"The Woman Who Did(?)" at the Town Hall Saturday night.

The betting tax for the two daysMelbourne Cup meeting yielded £24, 000.

The funeral of the late Maori chief Puketohe Hohepa is to take place at Opaea on Sunday afternoon at halfpast two o'clock. *

Miss Helmsfeldt lias been appointed by the Wanganui Hospital Board to instruct the nursing staff in the treatment of infantile paralysis.

A man over military age is wanted to manage a small farm. Good wages will be paid to a reliable man. Applications should be made to the Main Trunk Brewery, Taihape.

Three machine shearers are wanted immediately to shear 12,000 sheep, six men only employed. Applicants are to send collect wire, giving tally to R. H. Wilkie, Ore Ore.

At the Taihape Hospital on September 30 last there werfe seven patients. During the last month IS more patients were admitted and 13 discharged. On November Ist the patients remaining numbered 12.

A-special meeting of the Women-s Working Club Committee is to be held on Saturday evening at 8.30 p.m., in the Clubroom. As the business is or an important nature a full attendance is desirable.

Mr. Cavey has a fine show of the latest and best roses now in cultivation in his shop window in Station Street. Rose lovers may order plants from the blooms, for which Mr. Gavey is now taking orders.

To-morrow, Mr. D. J. McLennan will sell at his Tui Street Mart, a quantity of desirable furniture, bicycles, buggy and harness, oil engine, woolpress, ladies' and men's hats and coats, besides the usual Saturday offerings.

From the evidence given at a case heard in the Foxton Magistrate's Court it appears that there is money to be made at share milking. The sharemilker in the case in question, according to a statement made by the employer, received last season for his share £6OO 6s 2d. Out of this he had to pay for labour, after allowing for which the contractor's net earnings averaged £6 12s (id per week for the whole year.

Two men who hesitated before an hotel in Auckland on Saturday night, parleyed a moment and then proceeded inside, received an unpleasant shock at being held up by a police officer and informed that they were considered to have transgressed the War Regulations, which barred the ancient and one-time honourable custom of "shouting." Explanations revealted ( ( says the Stan) that the officer had been within earshot when the men discussed their intentions outside the door. '

A prominent flockowner in the Ngapara district expressed the opinion (says-tlie Oaniaru Mail) that the lambing for his district would be under a hundred per cent, average Notwithstanding this there are one or two farmers who have exceeded the one lamb per head average. One flock of 500 tallied out 112 per cent, average, and another got the excellent return of 140 per cent, from a flock of 900. The mortality among ewes has been more severe than usual and a 6 per cent, loss is reported in one case.

Premier Hughes has "dished .the Radicals" with a vengeance (says the Fielding "Star"). He resigned as Prime Minister by grace of the Labour Caucus, and was given his commission by the Governor General to form a Hughes Cabinet. This he has done without forming a coalition with the Opposition Party, and the recalcitrant Caucusians must now suffer in their pride by having to sit on the Opposition benches with their hated foe, the Fat Men! And when Bill Higgs and Co. move a vote of No Confidence, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Joseph Cook), who has been » loyal supporter of the patriotic policy of Mr. Hughes since the • beginning of the war, will lead his followers into the lobby with Mr. Hughes.

According to a West Coast soldier who was taken prisoner by the Germans, it is evident that some of the wounded now in German hands are not badly treated. Writing to a Christchurch friend, L-Corpl. Charles Richardson, of Greymouth, who was captured on July 9, says: "I am wounded, and in a German hospital. Am now able to get up from my bed, and am being treated very well. Will be kept here till the end of the war. Hope it won't be long. I expect I shall be posted as missing, but I am only wounded." The note was written from Kriegsgefangenenlager. LCorporal Richardson received nine wounds, and was unconscious when made prisoner when he regained consciousness he awoke in a German hospital.