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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 5 December 1916, Page 4

That North Otago prospects for a bountiful harvest are of the very brightest is well indicated by the statement of a Macrowhenna .fanner (says the Times) that he estimates —providing tile present favourable conditions continue—to reap eighty busTcls to the acre, from a thirty-acre paddock of autumn-sown oats. Reports arc also general that wheat and spring sown oats are all looking exceptionally well. In some quarters, so heavy has been the rainfall, wheat is somewhat flattened, but with moderately fine weather this fact need not be regarded seriously.

The firebeli at the Taihape Fire Brigade Station will be rung at 8 o’clock to-night as a test.

This office is wanting a Winiata boy, one preferably who attends school in Taihape, to deliver the Taihape Daily Times in Winiata.

This is likely to be a bad season for blight, says an agricultural expert, and growers of potatoes would do well to spray frequently.

Wool is coming in freely from the country back of Taihape, three waggons, each containing from 18 to 20 bales, arriving in town yesterday.

Nuijsc Parlano has taken up duties as plunkot nurse in Taihape, and will be at the Taihape tomorrow (Wednesday).

Tenders arc invited by the Wanganui Hospital Board for the supply of moat, bread and milk to the Taihape Hospital. Forms may he obtained from the matron of the hospital.

We have to acknowledge with thanks, the receipt of a very neat blotter from Mr W J. H. McCormick, of Taihape, conveying the season’s greetings, which wo reciprocate.

The Defence authorities deny a rurhour that Trentham camp is to bo closed on account of the prevalence of sickness. General Henderson states that the health of the troops at Trentham is very satisfactory, and that the medical reports from Featherston were of an equally encouraging nature.

Dr Truby King is expected to arrive in Taihape on Thursday, December 14, and a meeting of the Plunkot Society will bo held at 2 p.m. that day so as to profit as much as possible by his visit. A lecture will be given by the doctor, illustrated, at which, it is hoped there will be a large attendance.

While catching tadpoles at a waterhole at Waharoa- (Waikato) on Sunday, Thelma and Adelaide Hill, aged ten and seven respectively, fell into the water. Their brother Louis, aged eight, tried to rescue them, and all three were drowned. The mother, Mrs. George Hill, is a widow.

There are about 3000 members in the New Zealand Fire Brigade Association, and of these 900 have enlisted or are now on active service with the Dominion’s forces in France. Of this number 80 have been killed, two are prisoners of war, 200 have been wounded in battle.

A novel competition is included in this year’s programme of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. A prize will be awarded to the lady in the Auckland district with the largest family. The children must have boon born in New Zealand of British parents, and the number: of children and the birthplace of parents must be clearly stated in the entry.

A thousand notices o'f appeal have boon received in Wellington to date from the four thousand odd men called up under the first ballot. To-day was the last for posting notices of appeal. The Commandant expect that the balance will be a considerable number. They should all be received by the end of the present week.

A Paris newspaper reams that the reason of the Kaiser’s absence from the funeral of Franz Josef was because he wished, as supreme chief of the German-Austrian coalition, to lean the procession, ahead of Charles. This was refused by the Austrian Court by protocol, hence his immediate return to Germany.

A big meeting of drivers in Christchurch on Monday adopted the report of tlie Wellington conference, and the terms of settlement in the drivers ’ dispute, and also resolved to thank the Hon. W. 11. Herries for the tactful and able manner in which he had brought about a settlement, expressed appreciation of the efforts of the delegates, and resolved that the ways and means bo discussed of amalgamating the existing drivers’ unions.

According to a recently received mail advice, the quantity of wheat in Russia awaiting export via the Black Sea was estimated in August last as approximately 11,000,000 tons. That total will be swollen materially by this season’s harvest. The grain is held in silos, and in ordinary conditions is shipped in bulk. What would occur in the world’s wheat-buying markets as a sequel to a n early peace with Turkey and a reopening of the Dardanelles may be easily imagined.

A civil action arising out of an accident at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s refinery at Chelsea was -heard at the Auckland Supreme Court last week. Plaintiff, a labourer named Harry Boardmari, claimed from the Sugar Comapny, his employers, £ISOO damages for general and £25 ' for special damages for injuries received on June 25, 1015, from burns indicted by sulphuric acid which dropped through the door on to his head. The jury returned a verdict for the full amount claimed, £1525, less £145 re ceived by payments from the benefit fund and further payments by the defendants.

The R.M.S. Rualiino will arrive in

Auckland from London to-morrow. She has a number of wounded and invalided soldiers on board, who are returning to the Dominion „ after service abroad.

Nearly twelve months ago a Masterton farmer, while stacking oats, lost a gold ring which he greatly valued, as it had been given to him by

his mother (when presenting her S sons with similar rings). On Saturday, on inquiring into a “found” advertisement in a local paper, he was de lighted to recover the ring, which had been discovered in a bag of chaff, none the worse for having gone through the chaffcufcter.

At the hearing of the dispute in the typographical trade in Auckland before ‘Mr Commissioner Giles, Air L. T. Watkins, fo rthe employers, made th e following remarks, to which we can feelingly subscribe; “Country newspapers especially wore hard hit by the war. The big newspapers in the city were selling at a penny in the streets at a dead loss. Increased circulation on account of the war only increased that loss. Th e charges on press telegrams had been doubled, and many advertising contracts had been withdrawn, to increase advertising rates just now would be disastrous. At the present time h e knew two papers were in liquidation, one of them after miming for fifty years.”