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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 17 February 1917, Page 4

Some 45,000 students of German universities, or 85 per cent of the whole number arc reported to be in the field.

The latest addition to the Taihape Telephone Exchange list is 178 Mr. G. D. Gordon, Kaka Road.

"It is difficult nowadays to persuade boys that it is wise to go to a trade and remain at it." said the chairman of the Plumbers' Conference. "I know of men who have left trades for higher Avages when they were young, but now they are averaging about £2, whereas of they had remained at their trade they would be getting £■'} Bs.

At the Wanganui Earn and Kwe Fair this week top price was secured by Mr W. H. Wyborne, on whose account a pen of 16 stud Lincoln rams averaged over £-10 per head, the prices ranging up to 122 guineas. A pen of eight rams on account or Mr W. Kayner (Masterton) was sold at an average of £35 :•;* Gd, 56 guineas being the highest price paid.

Great interest was centred in the contest between Mr E. Short's Scout and Mr Howard Booth's Lonely at the Danncvirke Show on Thursday. Both hacks were in splendid show condition. The honours went to Scout after a very careful test by Mr W. D. Watson, the Wairarapa judge. Lonely is said to have won 000 prizes at shows in various parts of the Dominion. A Wellington District Order notifies that cases are frequently coining under the notice of District Headquarters that groups are accepting the voluntary enlistments of men under twenty years of age. Police Court proceedings are being taken against ail such offenders for making a false declaration and obtaining money under false pretences, viz., first days pay, ss. Any cases which may be under consideration are to be proceeded with at once. The same instructions apply to men enlisting over age. A Christchuich boy. writing home to his father from the front, gives an aceouni of a unique experience which befell him. He *-> they were doing (heir part in the yreat push at the when they came to some exceptionally deep trenches. These were examined most carefully, and at the end the New Zealaiiders canto on a dv--out fully 100 feet deep, and most luxuriously furnished. Here there were six German officers sitting at a table, but they were all dead. It is supposed that the Germans let loose ga:s pad that this surprised the offi- . crs at their meal, when They were promptly suffocated. Two orderlies were also similarly surprised.

A letter to the editor on "Sunday Pictures" is unavoidably held over. It will appear on Monday. Entries for the Autumn Show of the Rangitikei A. and P. Association close with the Secretary, Mr. A. M. Ryan, at 5 o'clock to-night. A telegram from Router's correspondent at Copenhagen states that a German who has been arrested yu Sweden is said to have informed German warships of the movements of English and Russian warships and trus contributed buted to the torpedoing of most of those which had been lost in the Baltic. Quite a good performance was put up by the Rev W. F. Stent on his motor bicycle during the week, when he rode from New Plymouth to Tai-hape--a distance of over 200 miles — in one day. During the ride to and from New Plymouth Mr. Stent had no occasion to open his tool-bag. In the four Dallots that have already taken plaee, 17,467 members of the FirstDivision have been called up to fill some SSOO vacancies in the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th Reinforcements. As the membership of the First Division also is steadily being depleted by the voluntary enlistments; it originally comprised 84,95(5 men —it will be seen that this class is already more than one-quarter exhausted. A monster landslide occurred on the Mangarere Road, a short distance from Mangaweka, a day or two ago and though a staff of men have been straining every nerve to open a passage for vehicles it has been barely possible to clear enough mullock away to allow of this. There are, it is estimated, thousands of tons of earth down, and a great deal of work will be necesary to make the road thoroughly safe

The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Herald says—Sir John Denniston is retiring from the Supreme Court Bench shortly, but it is possible that his retirement will not be announced for a little time. It is no longer any secret that the vacancy will be filled by the appointment of Mr Herdman, but it is not likely that his colleagues will Avish to lose Mr Herdman from the Cabinet just now. This may delay the appointment for a little while.

To a request for a permit to export frying pans, etc., to an Auckland business firm an English Company received a reply from the Ministry of Munitions of War, declining the application. "Please note that no corrugated sheeting is available for general or export purposes. It can only be obtained for direct war purposes. Steel, brass and copper also can be supplied for war purposes or for maintaining essential national industries.

About forty freezing chamber hands, employed by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, and the Westfield Freezing Company at the Southdown and Horotiu works of the former, and at the Westfield works of the latter, are on strike. They recently submitted demands as a basis for a new agreement, representing an increase of wages. These the employers considered unreasonable, as they are already paying more than is paid for the same work in other parts of the Dominion.

The following rather comical account of how a Maori soldier describ ed his experience of being buried by a high explosive shell has been sent by a Mangaweka soldier (writes our correspondent). He was standing near a small wood at the time of the occurrence, and he expressed himself thus: "I hear a wish-a-wish up in the air. I look up and see him big she'' chasing himself three times round that wood. Then bang! I go dead for hour. Then I wake up and dig myself out of big hole and run like mac! for one mile. I reckon next time that German he send the big shell at me I go home to New Zealand."

Palmers!on has had some more holdup outrages. On Thursday night practically in the centre of the town, and within call of the Police Station, a young girl, Gladys Little employed to assist Mrs C. Rush in housework, was brutally set on by two men at the back of the Opera House rendered insensible and robbed of a sum of money and some jewellery. Mr Lewis, a clerk employed by Messrs Rutherford and Council, was held up on the Foxton Line on Wednesday night. Ho put up a fight and escaped. On the same night, between 11 and midnight, Mr Duggan a Taranaki visitor, was attached by two men. Mr Duggan is a big man. and he gave a good account of himself, managing to knock one of his assailants down. However, that was his fate in his turn, and his pockets were gone through and £2 odd taken. A young lady was held up in Quern Street on Thursday night but no particulars are available