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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 February 1917, Page 4

A thousand good tctara posts are advertised for by Mr. W. H. Nicols, of Turakina. A lady advertiser wants two furnished, or partly furnished rooms, with the use of all conveniences. A great opportunity for housewives is offered at the great sale now being held by Messrs Gardner and Co., the well-known drapers and mercers, of Taihape. Full particulars will be found on page 1. It should not be thought, according to a German authority, that it is only in modern times that the real character of the English has been probed. In the middle ages the following proverb was already current in many parts of Germany: There are throe things which a man should avoid —the hoofs of a horse, the horns of a bull, and the smile of an Englishman.

As the result or enquiries the Board of Trade has fixed the minimum prices for wheat and flour. Wheat prices for February, March and April will be — Pearl and Velvet 5s lid; Hunters 5s Sd; Tuscan and others 5s 7d. There will be a half-penny rise for delivery in May, and another halfpenny in June and the succeeding months. The maximum price of flour has been fixed at £ls f.o.b. southern pouts. The price of bran has been fixed at 00s per ton and oatmeal at £(5.

Iho following picturesque description of the Berman war bread is given by a soldier writing home: —“A n ofso me smell pervaded the dug-out which we had just taken, that was not at first to bo accounted for. It proved to be from quantities of kreigsbrot—tire war bread which the Germans make out of flour, potato and other matters. Perhaps all kreigsbnot does not smell like that which is issued from the field bakeries of the Aucre. An odour, sickly and suggestive of staleness —something like Ihn inside of an old fourwheel or . ' : - n :|! ' r ” of deco-- ’’ 1 a star" ' •■ ■■:, lx ■■ i■ ■ try fii or a deg. ; ’

It is officially notified that men 4ft (bus are now eligible for service in England. The Military Appeal Board commenced it sitting in Taihape this afternoon. At the present time there are (50,000 bales of wool stored at Napier, valued at nearly 1,500,000. The West Coast Times (Hokitika) had to suspend circulation the other day owing to shortage of paper. Estates in Bessarabia which formerly belonged to Germans, have beejn sold by the Russian authorities, and realised £420,000. A Canadian V.C., before enlistment, had a farm in the Peace River country, and was previously a chef at a local hotel. Ex-Lioutenant Howell Price, who stands at Sydney charged with forgery in his capacity as adjutant of a Light Horse regiment, has been committed for trial. Sums totalling ovn £50,000 are involved. A serious visitation by mttc-.pilJari is reported fnorn the country d'stricts. In the To Awamutu district large areas of growing - crops have been so badly eaten by the pest that the green stuff is in many cases worthless and is being ploughed into the soil.

The Wanganui “Herald” says: What is described as one of the heaviest gales and biggest seas for the last two years at least came up between midnight and daybreak on Tuesday. Great heavy rollers arc thundering on the beach, and huge seas arc breaking across the river entrance. Almost as far as the eye can sec the waves are breaking off shore, and at times the staging at the cud of the training walls is covered. Attached to the envelope enclosing > letter from a big Birmingham firm received in New Plymouth was a striking sticker showing the White Ensign, with the following: “Don’t forget the safe arrival of this letter is duo to the British navy.’’ This brings home to all the silent work of our sailors (says the Taranaki Herald). At the same time, too, importers should remember that it is British manufacturers and so British goods that keep the White Ensign flying.

Dr Friedrich Nauman, of the German Reichstag, in concluding a lecture cently delivered in Vienna, sketched the relations of England to AustriaHungary, which have been marked by the same selfish seeking after her own profit. ‘ ‘ The English talk of themselves as the Elect; they are- not the Elect of God but of the Devil.” Addressing working men in the audience, he described England as the country where Capitalism had celebrated its worst orgies. ‘-'The English national character is of no value to humanity, and is responsible fori all the evil on earth. ” ,

It is impossible to have telephone communication from Wanganui with centres above Taihape during business hours. This was pointed out by Mr L. E. Bassett at Monday night’s meeting of tlie council of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce, and the speaker laid stress on the fact that on account of this Wanganui was cut off fuom her natural markets. Businessmen were placed under a great disadvantage in this respect, and he thought

some effort should be made to have the matter put right. Finally it was decided to urge the Department to give access on the wire to places in the Waimarino district, during some, portion of the business hours of the day.

At the recent Junion National Schoarship examinations a Mangaweka state school boy, Geoffrey Montalk, succeeded in putting up a Dominion record of marks. His total was 716 out of 800. In arithmetic he obtained the possible 200; in English 201 out of 300; Geography 82 out of 100; history 81 out of 100; and science 62 out of 100. The New Zealand Gazette just issued shows Montalk as boating the next best in New Zealand (F. Aitken, Hawke’s Bay 637) by 79 marks. He beat the best of Canterbury by 86. Wellington 92, 'Auckland 94. Nelson 94, Otago 109. (Southland 1.15, Taranaki 164, while the neixt best in the Wanganui Education Board ’s district (S. M. Goodridgc, West End School, Palmerston North) succeeded in obtaining 617 marks, oi 99 behind Montalk.

Describing a batch of Genman soldiers captured during a recent engagement in France, a British war correspondent says: —One of the men eapt..;vil was an “Unter-ofBzIor” of the •>{i Guard Eosorvc, also wounded by a grenade, who had been in the force that invaded Belgium and marched through to France, where he had been even- since. Six foot in his bare, soic foot thirty-fsix years of ago—a human brute! Around him were rag. of men. drooping and whining; 1 in his place rigid as a guardsman on parade, lifting to his questioner a W hatchet face where blunt brutan o ]t v and vileness stood as pla though they wore painted on a signboard. Lost my own impressions s i mi°leacl me, I aske,,] my companion to look at him. Ho did so and came , , ilir , <‘Helps one to understand . V,,' 'l'.j.yneued in Belgium,•' ’ was his comment.