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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 8 February 1917, Page 4

Despite the submarine and other menaces, the Norwegian fishermen—whoso season has just finished— earned £4OO, 000 more this year than they did in 1014, which was an especially good fishing year. -A Syrian resident of Wanganui has received advice that the Syrians arc suffering,great oppression at the hands of the Turks. It is estimated that the number of people who have died from starvation and cruelty since Syria was seized by the Turks is 150,000. El Mokattam, an Egyptian newspaper, says that 25,000 Syrians arc fighting with rhs Allies. Mr Charles Seeling, the well-known ’orward of the All Blacks in .1.905, who h an old Wanganui boy, but who has wen plaving for some time past for Wi.■au (Northern Union), has now joined he ainuy. Seeling, who was one of the greatest importations made by \\ igun, ias played brilliant football for years ast, and captained his side very capo!v. He was granted three mouths’ .eruption by the Wigan tribunal, but appeal to Liverpool disallowed this, nderstood that ho will join Inc N.Z.E.F. • . ..LwU.v:

Dr. Dowling has taken up the practice of Dr. Serpell at Maugaweka. A cable message states that the price of bread ;n London has risen to lid per 41b loaf. The cat, according to a British sol-dier-observer, is the only quadruped known to face shell-fire with euanimity in Flanders. Stealing motor cars must be a lucrative business in America. In Chicago alone some 2500 cars have been stolen during the last ton months. Seven members of the Bengal Ambulance Corps, who were taken prisoners after the battle of Ctesiphon, and recently exchanged, state that sailors of the Goebcn and Breslau were in Bagdad when the ambulance left that city. A man who enlisted at the Auckland Recruiting Station the other day was told that lie had the most perfect set of teeth the dentist had ever seen. Every tooth was perfect, there was no sign of decay, and the man had never been to a dentist in his life. Such eases as this are extremely rare.

A fire occurred on Tuesday evening in offices occupied by the Amalgamated Film Exchange of Australasia, Gleeson *s Buildings, Auckland The fire was under control within twenty minutes. There was practically no damage to the building, which is ferro-concretc, but a million and a quarter feet of film valued at £20,000 was destroyed.

The Rev. F. A. Bennett, who has done fine work among the Maonis at Rotorua, is being transferred to Hastings. The Maoris at Rotorua assembled at Ohinemntn and accorded Mr Bennett a remarkable farewell, at which several presentations of a remarkable nature were made.

It is seldom that a bankrupt’s estate shows an estimated surplus of £3849, but this appeared in a statement submitted to the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy on Saturday (reports the Auckland Star). The bankrupt was Arthur Groves, farmer, residing at Greenlane, Auckland.

Supplies of coal are getting very short, and some dairy factories have been compelled to fall back upon firewood to keep going. With heavy stocks of butter and cheese in the freezere it is, of course, imperative that supplies of coal should be available. In some cases shipping has been inconvenienced for want of sufficient supplies of coal.

Within the past few days (says the “King Country Chronicle”) a Mokau syndicate has sold cattle amounting to (he sum of £BOOO cash. The number of cattle sunk is considerably under the four figures. This, we understand, creates a record for the King Country. Two brothers happened to be at law at Hokitika last week about a dog, the question being which of the two had the right to maintain the four-footer. The magistrate suggested that they should go outside and try to settle it, when one replied: “Your Worship, that’s just what I want to. avoid. When I hit, I hit hard.” The magistrate: I do not mean in that way. I mean settle it quietly, finishing off with a drink.”

At the Supreme Court at Now Plymouth on Tuesday, Frank Eattenbury, a settler in the Waitara district, pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering Hatrick and Co.’s warehouse at Waitar.a and stealing 23 cases of whisky. The jury, after three hours’ deliberation, returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr Justice Edwards remarked that the verdict was the jury’s not his, adding that the prisoner was a very lucky man. Duclrick Wohlert, a German, who had pleaded guilty on the same charge, was brought up for sentence. Mr Justice Edwards said it would be an outrage on justice to punish Wohlert when the main culprit escaped. He was admitted to probation for two years.

There is little doubt that Guynemer, the great French aviator, is the hero of the following stony, says the Manchester Guardian: In a Parisian drawingroom a flying officer on leave was being congratulated by some ladies about his latest exploit, and the consequent mention in the communique "That’s splendid,” said one of the ladies. You have now won the Legion of Honour, the Military Medal, and the War Cross —why, what decoration can you win yet?” "The wooden cross,” replied the officer quietly.

Drum an American who was recently engaged in airship construction near London, and was in that city during several Zeppelin raids, the “Scientific American” has gathered the following praticulans of the method by which the Zeppelins was destroyed. The attacking aeroplane carried suspended at a suitable distance below it a light grappling iron, for engaging and tearing the envelop of the Zeppelin. On the grappling iron was mounted an electrical ignition device connected by cable with a switch placed near the aeroplane pilot. In the case when this device was successfully used, Loudon had ample notice of the approach of the enemy, and the aviators had time to rise to sufficient height, for a swooping attack on the dirigible. The exploding device was drawn successfully across the envelope, ripping it open so that the liberated gas could be ignited by the spnrk.

The Board then adjourned til! 10 o’clock on Thursday morning. It is with regret that we learn that Mr. and Mrs. Alt' P. Fox, of Tai-hape, have suffered a bereavement in the death of their only son, a little fellow just under two years of age, who was taken ill on Friday last and died this morning. The cause of death was some form of infantile cholera. “The New Zealand Division was kept twenty-three days in the Somme offensive on account, we are told, of the good work they did. The longest time that a division was kept fighting previous to the offensive we took pare in was ten days, so you can imagine we were pretty tired of it.” This is an excerpt from a letter written by a member of the Ist B'attalion New Zealand Rifle Brigade to a friend in W eilington. those seeking gifts and the purchases of the ordinary every-day lines in silver and electro-ware are recommended to peruse the advertisement of Mr. H. C. Bond, jeweller, of Taihape, which appears in this issue. Considering the difficulties in obtaining supplies owing to the war, Mr. Bona has been very successful in keeping his stock right up to the moment, and me prices wil stand comparison with those in larger towns.