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

The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd., notify that a new policy for insurance will be issued in place of one lost on the life of Leslie M. Brooky, of Mataroa.

A meeting of ladies willing to assist in running the refreshments at St. Patrick’s Day sports, on Monday 19th March, will be held in the Town Hall supper rooms to-morrow (Friday) afternoon at 3 o’clock.

Herr Maximilian Harden, in his weekly review, the Zukuuft (Berlin), states that Herr von Jagow left the German Foreign Office because he disapproved of the submarine policy, which offends America. Von Jagow also disagreed with the deportation of Belgians and French from the occupied territories.

It is estimated that the damage done by the recent flood at the Thames amounts to between £IO,OOO and £12,000. The Government is to be asked to assist the Borough Council financially. About a quarter of a million cubic yards of silt has been deposited on the streets of the town, and it will be weeks before Thames can be restored to its usual clean condition.

“It is better to be born lucky than rich,” has lately been exemplified in Christchurch (says the Press) by a re turned soldier. He fought rnrough the Boer war, and was not even wounded. He went right through the Gallipoli campaign without a scratch, and took his part in France, being wounded just enough to cause his discharge. He returned practically well, and shortly after his arrival home, his employer died and left him a nice little income for a term of years. The returned soldier looks upon himself as born on the lucky side.

A reward is offered for information that will lead to the recovery of a lost blue-grey mare, having no b ( rand. Last year in England farmers were able to get seed potatoes at £6 a ton. This year, owing to inflated potato prices, they have to pay £l6. A war-time record for shipbuilding is claimed for Workman, Clark, and Co., of Belfast, who built a 6000-ton steamer in three months and had her ready for steam trials a week later. As Cardinal Mercier was not permitted by the German Governor of Brussels to go to Rome, the Vatican sent him a special courier to ask him for a confidential report. A writ for £2OOO damages has been issued against the Palmerston Borough Council in connection with the Roy-street fatality, in which Mr. William Forbes was killed and Misses Mary and Kitty Sullivan were injured. The weird story that Lord Kitchener is still alive and a prisoner in Germany is once more going the round of the neutral Press, in which it is told with extraordinary circumstantiality of detail.

The ballot for men to fill vacancies in the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements, which began on Tuesday, was completed yesterday. The list of names drawn will probably be ready for issue to-day op to-morrow.

There is at present a big demand for rams, particularly Lincolns and Eomncys, and there is great difficulty in supplying orders. We undersetand that at the Marton Show yesterday Mr. Gaisford sold a Lincoln ram for 30 guineas.

News has been received by cable of the death in England of Mr Frederick Wm. Merchant, well known in New Zealand as a civil engineer. He leaves a widow, two married daughters, and one son. Dr Eric Merchant, of the N.Z.M.C., who is in France. Another son, who was a captain in the Sth Mounted Eiflcs, was killed in Egypt.

Mr McCarthy, S.M., gave judgement yesterday at Wellington, on two chages against David Armstrong, charged with having sold an indecent publication on a train between Palmerston and Wellington. On one charge accused was fined £lO, and on the other he was convicted and discharged.

Replying to a question in the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce, President Bourn said he understood the Government had secured an option on 1,000,000 bushels of the surplus Australian crop, which it was proposed to import as wheat, distributing it among local millers to be converted into flour.

The Marton District A. and P. Association’s fifth" annual show took place at the Marton Racecourse yesterday, and was very largely attended, in fact, a record was established Beautiful weather favoured the function, and the country was exceedingly well represented. On the whole the show was very creditable, and an improvement on that of last year.

The returning officer, at Hastings has received advice from Wellington that Mr A. L. D. Fraser’s withdrawal as a candidate for the Hawke’s Bay seat cannot be officially noticed, as it was not made within the legal time. Mr Fraser therefore, is still officially a candidate, although he advises his supporters to vote for Sir John Findlay. Votes credited to Mr Fraser will not be informal.

It would be well that our merchant master mariners and seamen should revert to the methods of Haw mas or Drake or adopt the more modern example ,of Nelson at Copenhagen, when he turned his blind eye to the oignal to cease fire, and take sea law into their own ands, writes Mr. R. P. Houston, M.P., to The Times. To encourage them by deed as well as word he undertakes to present to any Brit-ish-boru master of a B’ritish owned merchant ship £2OOO for each and every German submarine that can be satisfactorily proved to have been sunk by his ship up to the total number of 50 between now and 31st May next (his birthday).

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