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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 March 1917, Page 4

Good ehtries have been received for the chops at St. Patrick’s Day sports. Owing to these events being handicapped by a Taihape resident the committee are enabled to extend the time for receiving nominations until Friday next, 16th inst. Any chopper who lias not nominated can do so up till that date.

That cigarette smoking among women is increasing rapidly is a fact that must be accepted on the authority of the Internal Revenue Bureau of the United States Treasury Department (says an American paper. The increase last year in cigarettes used, over, the year before, was about "i billions; and this tremendous gain cannot be credited wholly to prosperity. The women are learning to smoke.

Sergeant Thomson and Constable McLellan visited a Chinese market gardener’s house in Forbury Road, Dunedin, in search of opium on Saturday night. They were in plain clothes. When the sergeant announced himself as an officer of the police force, it is alleged, two Celestials became very excited and attacked the police with a pitchfork and piece of bamboo.

To provide for an inevitable contingency of war it would appear that Arbitration Court awards will soon have to be generally amended. "I believe there is a sort of impression that if women are not provided for in an award they can be employed at other than award rates,” observed the judge of the Court of Arbitration (Mr. Justice Stringer) at Gisborne (says the “Times”). “It is just as well to understand that that is not so. If in an industry there Is an avenue for women, provision should be made in the award in case they are employed.”

The sending of medically-defective men to camp was discussed at length at a meeting on Tuesday of the Dunedin Patriotic Association, the opinion being expressed that the medical examination was inadequate. Numerous instances were quoted of men being discharged after having been, in camp only a few weeks, returning to Dunedin and becoming a burden on the Patriotic Fund, which is intended to assist returned men. The Government was criticised for repudiating all responsibility in regard to men discharged from camp. A committee was apointed to report on the matter and also on the question of increased allowance for soldiers* dependents.

Two bushmen are wanted at the Ngawaka sawmill. Highest wages are offered for good men.

A tan coloured sheep dog, lost from Taihape, is advertised for and a reward offered.

Advice has been received by the Minister for Defence that all transports with New Zealand troops aboard are safe.

Between Paikakariki and Ohau on th e Manawatu Line, according to. agricultural statistics, there arc only 40 acres in wheat.

The waggons of Ohura are all going of high pressure, carrying the wool out to the railway stations, endeavouring to get it all out before the weather breaks.

An old-established South Island newspaper, the “Palmerston and Waikouaiti Times,” has succumbed to the war pressure and has ceased to publish.

Taihape solicitors notify that their offices will be closed on Monday, 19th March, as the St. Patrick’s Day public holiday is being observed on that day instead of on Saturday, 17th March.

At a large hospital in the south of England a patient is now under treatment who holds the curious record of having been four times blown up at sea since the outbreak of the war. He is reported to be making good progress towards recovery.

In another column tenders are invited for the erection of isolation wards, and for the excavation of the site connected therewith, at the Taihape Hospital. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Health Inspector’s Office, Taihape.

If the young man who was seen kissing his best girl at the gate last night will take her to the Three Stars this evening to see Norma Talmadge in “Going Straight,” no further mention will be made of it. Prices and plans as usual; but it’s a most unusual picture.

Sir Alfred Yarrow, chairman of the engineering firm of Yarrow and Company, Ltd., in a letter to The Times, offers £2O reward until a total of £IO,OOO has been reached to anyone aboard a commercial vessel first draw ing the captain’s attention to a submarine. Lloyd’s have agreed to superintend the awards.

Th e Maastricht journal “Les Nouvelles,” announces that recently 200 Uhlans quartered at Spa received the order to leave for the front. They unanimously refused, and the mutiny was so serious that it was necessary to despatch troops in haste to bring them into subjection. The Uhlans have all been degraded and deprived of their horses.'

Maurice Fitzgerald, hotelkeeper, was yesterday convicted and fined £25. and £lO costs, on a charge of sedition, disloyal statements in an hotel bar, and parlour. Mr Hutchison, S.M., in giving judgement, considered the ease serious, although not comparable with noted cases in the Dominion where imprisonment had been ordered. In fixing the penalty he bore in mind that a conviction would possibly involve other consequences for the defendant.

So far there is no improvement in the position of the supplies of coal on the local market, and apparently there is a scarcity at the present time right throughout the Dominion. As far as Auckland is concerned manufacturers find it growing increasingly more difficult to keep supplied. In some cases where slack alone was used firms are now willing to pay full rates for best household, and yet cannot get what they want. Shipping companies are now' in some instances running from hand to mouth, and have no stocks to fall back upon. Before long it must mean, running fewer steamers on certain lines. So far there has not been much difficulty in supplying householders with coal, as this is the slack season, when comparatively little is used, but there may bo trouble later unless bottoms are available to bring coal over from Newcastle.

The men in th e Navy are supplied with New Zealand roast mutton, as shown in a letter received by the father of one, a resident of Invercargill. The communication is from Leading Seaman A. P. Jones, who -has been in the Navy for the past nine years, now being on a warship stationed in the North Sea. Seaman Jones enclosed in his letter, which was dated January 1, 1917, a printed label similar to those attached to all frozen mutton exported from New Zealand, bearing the declaration of a Government veterinarian that the meat was suitable for human consumption, the writer in a note saying:—“This was tied to our leg of mutton we had for dinner today.” According to Leading Seaman Jones’ letter they had been experimenting very Tjoisterous weather, and several of those on board had met with accidents, some of a serious nature. Real matured Malt 'Vinegar! Taht’s Lotus Brand