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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 1 February 1917, Page 4

The whole ,staff of Goldfinch and Bros' sawmill at Ohakune struck yesterday morning as a, protest against the employment of an Indian. The.increase in bird life in Masterton has become a great source of trouble to gardeners, amateur or otherwise. Birds are now eating even the green peas from the pod. Wanganui education district has won the distinction of topping the junior national scholarship list, Geoffrey de Montaik, of Mangaweka, securing that position with 716 marks, the next highest candidate securing only 630 marks. The Canadian Atlantic steamship agents have warned Canadian women who wish to follow their soldier-hus-bands to England that they may not be able to return when they wish. "Peace may come suddenly with a great German collapse/' said one agent, "and the Government will then

start to send troops -home. This work Australians included, will take a year.'

"I hope," said Mr. E. C. Cutten, 8.M., after inflicting a fine of £25 for a bieach of the War Regulations Act, "that these convictions will bring home to the public mind the war regulations now in force. The idea seems to be current; that these regulations were framed to protect the workingman only. They are for the benefit of the community, and the community as a whole must respect them/' All over New Zealand there is a standing sign in shop, office, and factory: "Boy wanted." It. is therefore surprising to find that General Manager Hiley stated before the Wellington Military Service Board this week that "the Railway Department eouki get more boy clerks than it could digest just at present." Many employers will be at Mr. Hiley with the urgent application: Where are those boys? I, u , ; A cable message nas been received from Dr. H. W. Cieary, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, by Monsignor Mahony, Y.G., administrator of the diocese. Dr. Cleary states that he has consulted specialists in Harley Street, London, and in their opinion his health is now very satisfactory. Dr. Cleary states that he has just returned from the trenches, where he has been serving as a chaplain. He has appointed four chaplains, and more are required in England. He adds that passages are difficult to obtain, but he hopes to leave within two months. "There has always been some chaff thrown at the latest arrivals" (writes Mr. C. E. W. Bean, the Australian war correspondent), "and it is a mistake to think that there was never any feeling behind the chaff. There has always been a feeling amongst the older troops that they have been holding up the fort —hanging en for Australia's name until the others have time to come along and give them a hand. There is a tendency to feel that some who are still at home are getting all the limelight—probably live to reap most of the glory at the end of it all. Titles they are proud of. If so there was never a feeling that melted so quickly the moment each new draft arrived and is really tested. The moment it goes into the whirl of a modern battle, and acquits itself through wild night as every Australian draft has always done in its first fight, and always will do, every sign of that old feeling melts as if it -had never existed, and the new draft finds itself taken into the heart of the old force on the same terms as the eldest and proudest regiment there."

A brother of Georges Car.pentier, the French champion boxer and aviator, is a resident of Masterton. The schools in the Wanganui Education district re-opened to-day after the summer vacation. A German court-martial sentenced lime. 8001, wife of a German deputy, to two years' imprisonment on a charge of facilitating the correspondence of Belgian families with soldiers at the front.

An Australian who is on a visit to Queenstown made the remark that he considered the heat was more fierce there than in Sydney. The thermometer registered as high as 120 deg. on one or two occasions (says the Wakatipu Mail.)

All arrangements are complete for the Feilding A. and P. Show on Tuesday and Wednesday next and the quality of the entries indicates close work for the judges. Train arrangements, including holiday excursion fares should be conducive to a large attendance.

An important clearing sale will be held in the Taihape yards on Friday, February 9, when Messrs Abraham and Williams, on behalf of H. W. Hole, Esq., will dispose of the whole of his stock and farm sundries. Both the sheep and cattle have been heavily culled by Mr. Hole for some years, and the sheep are a particularly fine lot. As Mr. Hole has sold his property, the whole will be submitted absolutely without reserve.

John Clark, who has been posing as a returned soldier, whereas he is only a recruit on final leave, was charged at the Police Court yesterday with having stolen £22 from a fellow-boarder in a Taihape boarding-house. He pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wanganui for sentence. It stands to the credit of the local police force that they not only fixed the guilt on the accused, but they "also recovered the whole of the stolen money, which had been passed to another party for safe keeping.

To honour the toast of" The King'-' in German beer sounds impossible in Australia to-day, but it was ceremoniously drunk after that fashion at Sorrento on Saturday (says the Melbourne Age). "Gentlemen, the King," said the chairman, and the assembled company, numbering perhaps forty persons, raised their glasses of Beck's lager to their lips and drank. The bottles from which, the beer had been poured were on the table., bearing labels indicating that they were bottled at "the Kaiser Brewery, Bremen.'' The occasion of this remarkable demonstration of loyalty to King George Y. and the "Kaiser Brewery" was a function at the Continental Hotel, Sorrento, at which the committee of the Board of Works annual picnic, and others, met to express mutual felicitations. The incident passed without comment at the time, but subsequenty Commissioner Baragwanath

a member of the Board, said he would rather the King's health had net been drunk in German lager, and he expressed a doubt as to the possibility of the Kaiser's health at present day being drunk in "John Bull" stout. The company applauded this tardy recognition of the incongruity.