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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 16 February 1917, Page 4

At tlie Dunedin Supreme Court. Thomas Tait, of Hampden, was convicted of fen-cry by signing the name of "A. Parkes" to a letter sent by him tc the editor of the Otago Daily Times, but the jury* recommended leniency. Accused was ordered to pay the expenses, £9. Highway robberies still continue in the Palmerstcn district. At about II o'clock on Wednesday night an elderly man who was walking along the Foxtcn line was assaulted by two men and relieved of a £1 note and some silver. His assailants struck him violently over the head and departed. A slaughterman who appealed at the Military Appeal Board in Palmerston said that the depletion of slaughtermen Li New. Zealand, brought about by the war, was attracting numbers of Australian slaughtermen. They were coming over to New Zealand regularly, and some arrived at the works where he was employed as late as yesterday. Of the present staff of 25 slaughtermen IS were Australians.

The appearance of the names of returned soldiers in the ballot has been the cause of a good deal of apprehension among relatives. It should be pointed out that returned men are exempt (if discharged) by Act of Parliament from further service, but if their names are drawn in the ballot ft" is their duly to make ordinary represcntations to headquarters of the Department at Wellington, and they will be free from military liability.

An appellant stated at the Appeal card in Palmers (on en Wednesday that as a wool puller at one of the freezing; works.in the district be was earning from 15s to oOs per day. Captain Walker remarked that when such good wages were to be had it was a wonder thai more men did not take it en. Mr W. Perry ''a member of the Board; said ae knew the process of pulling. It was not very yice work and not every man ecnvO do it-. S'onic men would never Icrn it, ;•-■,■:■. •-> i-it-iv; who was good in this line wr.r wo: 1 his nvonew.

\ Owing to pressure on our space letters to the editor and other matter are unavoidably held over.

We regret to learn that Mr. ana Mrs. Murphy, of Taihape, have received a cable that their son Peter was severely wounded in the legs on February 1. Over five millions of flowery bulbs are offered for sale at from 6d per doaen by B. H. Just, the Palmerston florist. The third Military Service Board will sit to hear and determine appeals by balloted recruits, in Taihape, on Friday and Saturday, February 23 and *-*■« . . si v.^i^..f*~ The'Public Trustee notifies that all claims against the estate of the late David Walsh, labourer, of Ngarukehu, Taihape, must be lodged on or before the 16th April, and that all moneys owing to the estate may be paid into the Public Trustee's account at any Money Order Office, or to the district manager at Wanganui.

At the last meeting place of the Piako County Council it was mentioned that a settler in the Waitoa district had lately despatched two tons of honey, in one lot, to market. The same man, it was added, expected to take six or seven tons this season, although he did not devote anything like all his time to beekeeping.

The Taihape Co-operative Store! (opposite the Three Stars) will oe open to the public to-morrow (Saturday) for one day only, when tiie whole of the general merchandise stock must be sold. This is a splendid opportunity for thrifty housewives to purchase goods at bedrock prices, as every article must be cleared.

liighwaymen are operating on many of the country roads of America, and are making a practice of holding up and robbing motorists at night-time. Their method of stopping a car is ingenious. A tyre is laid on the road, and motorists, believing it ■,'ias been dropped from another car, naturally stop to pick it up, only to find themselves confronted by armed men, with the 'alternative of being shot or delivering up their valuables. The police are impressing upon all tourists travelling at night-time the necessity of being armed.