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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 30 January 1917, Page 4

A boy eight years of age died in the Masterton Hospital on Sunday from infantile paralysis. The continued dry spell of weather is having- a serious effect upon milk production in the Taranaki district, quantities being very much lower than for the corresponding month of last year. The New Zealand Tablet says: Two at least of the week’s war cables are of a kind that Catholic readers will take the liberty of frankly and wholly disbelieving. They refer to alleged misuse of the confessional by Germans, either actual priests or military disguised as priests. A form of paralysis among dogs is somewhat prevalent in New Plymouth just now. Quito a number of cases have come under the notice of one of cur representatives. The paralysis affects the hindquarters, the victims in one or two instances losing the power of the hind legs entirely. The law, is usually credited with being slow in operation (says the New Zealand erald), but a case which has just come before the Court proved that it can move with rapidity on occasions. About 2.30 in the afternoon two men were arrested on a charge of street betting, and by 4.30 p.m. they had been tried before the Court, and fined £6O each. A further alteration has been made in the arrangements for cabing money to New Zealand soldiers abroad. The Defence Department now undertakes to forward the money to* men on any of the fronts ,the maximum amount to be handled being £lO. Not mere than one remittance will be forwarded by the Department to the same man within two months. The cost of cabling £lO or any fraction thereof, is 10s.

At the Military Appeal Court in Hamilton, Willianm McKinnon, of Eureka, withdrew his appeal, and wrote as follows; “Although 1 am the only son left on the farm, all the others having gone to the front, my father and I recognise the great need for sacrifice, and I have therefore received his approval to go into camp.” The father also intimated that the four brothers were in the British Army. Just before the war, he brought three nephews out from England. These were all at the front. The Board expressed the opinion that it was a fine record, and deserved special mention. Last week a young girl got into difficulties near the pier at Sumner, while bathing. She was well out of her depth, and was being carried .cut into the channel, when a youth named Allen Brown threw off his coat and jumped in, otherwise fully dressed, from the pier. After considerable trouble, he brought her in. Brown’s action was extremely plucky, and he effected the rescue in a very skilful and workmanlike manner. When Brown threw off his coat on the pier, some inexpressibly mean thief stele Ss from it while the rescue was in pro-gress-all the money that happened tobe in it.

A cable message to-day announces that American troops are being withdrawn from Mexico.

Captain Percy Baldwin, the wellknown Palmerston North solicitor, has been appointed military representative to conduct the Defence Department’s cases before the third Wellington Military Service Board. A cable from Washington states that Captain Amundsen sails for Norway to witness the launching of his three new vessels in which, some months hence, he proposes to make a scientific investigation of the North Polar regions. A meeting of ladies willing to assist in providing a light lunch and af- ■ terncon tea at the forthcoming A. and P. Show, will be held in the supperroom of the Town Hall on Wednesday, January 31, at 3 p.m. An advertise(ment appears an page 1. 1 A Swiss paper recently published a | report that a new Zeppelin has been , seen manoeuvring over Lake Constance. It carried an aeroplane at the stern, and eye-witnesses aver that they saw it launched and disappear inland. The feat is not an impossible tone, but we should say that the aeroplane would be more difficult to hitch on to the Zeppelin again than to launch itself. The hoodlum element is creeping in in Taihape. Twice recently the lock on the gate of the municipal baths has been wantonly smashed by this class of person in the caretaker’s absence. The matter was ventilated at the meeting of the Swimming Club last night, and it was decided to place the facts in the hands of the police, and this no doubt will prevent a repetition of the nuisance. Mr. G. E. Alderton, one of the members ,of the Parliamentary Party touring the North, cut out from the tour at Kaikohe, and came on to Auckland via Whangarei. Speaking of the tour, Mr. Alderton says the tour has no doubt been a revelation to them, and they are not all going away with the idea that the far North is the worst roaded part of the Dominion. In fact, some of the members express surprise that the country is so well roaded, and claim that other districts are much worse off, particularly the member for Waimarino, Mr. 11. W. Smith.