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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 29 January 1917, Page 4

On Thursday next, February 1, the schools in the Wanganui Education District will reopen.

A young lady advertiser wants a situation in a homely family. Good references are furnished.

Insurance against the misfortune of being an old maid has been organised in Vienna, in view of the terrible loss eso't young kustriaiis'on the battlefields and the'probability thai : 'mahy young; women' will' not be'ablc to 'find husbands. The'prettiest girls' will'pay the.'lowest premiums. _ ul

A platiue Hili small-'shrimps has 'O'c-' curred at -Pa(Mrakirrki''with'ih : the - last' few 'days'. Millions'of them have been washed 1 up oh the berfch, nn'd it is reported that'll sbhieT places they are two feet deep'.'V The'''effect of the heat has been' to decompose the' 'bodies; causing an almost' unbearable stench.

The country on both side of the Manawafu GoVge WfeWtsW'pre'sont a striking contrast: '"From 'Ashhurst to Wellington the land is burnt up by the sun and in some parts of Maiiawatu sixty days without rain- ' have been experienced.. The' stock is in poor condition;- FEom Weodville. to Napier the grass is green and long, and the whole countryside looks remarkably well. •-" •

Mr. T. G. Burrell has resigned his appointment as Electric Engineer for the town of Mangaweka.

A first offender, for drunkenness was fined five shillings by Mr J. P. Al dridge, J.P., this morning.

Commencing this week there will be four complete changes of programme at the Three Stars weekly.

We ar e pleased to state that Mr Bishop, of the Cash Drapery, has recovered from hi s recent illness, and has resumed the conduct of his business. A man named John Clark appeared at the Taihape Courthouse, before Mr. J. P. Aldridge, J.P., this morning, charged with stealing £22 from Herbert Jackson, a fellow-boarder. The accused was remanded till February 1. A thief, or. thieves, recently visited the farm of Mr Clarence Mills, Pelorus Sounds, and stole six bales of wool. The theft is all the more shameful owing to the fact that the brothers Mills, who were in charge of the place, are fighting for. their country in France.

A Taranaki settler, who has just returned from a trip to Marlborough, states that he met a farmer there whohad taken off one piece of land three crops of lucerne, and he expected to cut two more. The crops averaged four tons to the acre, valued at £l6, which shows the possibility of growing this rapid-growing fodder on suitable land.

The latest return from the Discharged Soldiers' Information Department shows that of (5592 men registered, the cases of 555 S have been disposed of. The cases under consideration number 595, including 110 at present on the '' employment wanted'' register. There are 22 located at Auckland, five at Napier, six at Wellington, and twelve at Dunedm.

Tile man William Richards, who was arrested on the express at Te Kuiti, on January 19, after a bullet had been fired through a carriage window, and is alleged to have fired a shot when he was being arrested by Sergeant Kccles, came before Mr F. V. Eraser, S.M., this morning, and was remanded to appean at Te Kuiti next Friday.

Although the number of local boys to be supplied with soldiers' comforts increases monthly, the organisers of the Rosebud carnival hope to obtain sufficient money by the Rosebud competition to obviate any further appeal to the public for twelve months. With this object in view a special appeal is made to all who have not already assisted the fund to do so this week per medium of the Rosebuds.

A remarkable story was told at a Nottingham meeting by Mrs. Despard, Lord French's sister. She said that some men in a British trench, learning that hunger prevailed in a German trench near them, threw some loaves over to them. A little later one of the Germans crawled to our trench and warned the men that a mine was soon to be exploded, and the B'ritish were able to escape in time.

The other day 100 stooks of wheat lying on the farm of Mr. J. Craigie, M.P. for Tirnaru. situated at Kingsdown (South Canterbury) were ecmpletely destroyed by lire. The fire evidently originated from a spark from a passing locomotive, and in addition to burning the wheat, destroyed a quantity of cocksfoot, which was growing along the railway line, and also the posts of the fence.

The paragraph in Saturday's paper, in which we stated that Dr. Serpell, of Mangaweka, had been called up Tor military service, requires some explanation. It appears that Dr. Serpell, who has been connected with the military forces for some years, went to Wellington last week and offered his services to the military authorities, which were immediately accepted. He was appointed Surgeon-Captain, and attached to the 22nd Reinforcements, which leave New Zealand at an early date.