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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 March 1917, Page 4

Eighteen constables were exempted from military service by the Appeal Board at Wellington on Friday.

The Postal Department advises that in future it is not intended to announce the time of closing mails for Australia. The public should post their mail-matter as soon as .it is ready. ■

The Duke of Marlborough’s ; example in keeping , his lawns mown by sheep and growing cabbage in the flower beds is of more use to me than all the advice of the Board of Agriculture, wrote J. Danvers Powers.

The most popular toy of th e year with Parisian children is the Kaiser imprisoned in a "420” shell case. When shot with a harmless popgun panic seizes him, and he throws up his hands and demands quarter, crying "Karaorad.” ’

A French soldier, by profession a vocalist, who participated in the battle of the Marne, went to sleep on the evening of that engagement and has not wakened since. The man was not wounded. His respiration and pulse have remained normal, and the doctor is of the opinion that he will eventually awake in his proper senses.

A Palmerston business man reports that he was instructed a few days ago to engage a farm manager at a salary of £5 a week, the applicants to be over military age. 'He had received no less than 56 applications, mostly from retired farmers. So that, as far as this aspect of labour was concerned, Ihe shortage did not appear tc be acute, says he.

News from America is to the effect that Charlie Chaplin has been offered by the Mutual Company a re-engage-ment for another year on the same terms as before—a salary of £2OOO a week, in additional to a payment of £30,000 in consideration of his signing the contract. Of course, the exLondoner Chaplin has expressed his willingness to sign up again.

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Gunner Brian Doherty, of Manly, Sydney, wrote to his folks: “We had Christmas dinner in two big huts. Snow was falling, and the gales were blowing a treat. We had turkey, ham, roast beef, plum pudding, cocoa, and tea. Everything went off well until some silly ass burst out with ‘Home Sweet Home.’ Some nearly broke up. but it passed off after we had dealt with him.”

An officer in London on Christmas leav e tells how in a certain Parisian hotel he came across an English waiter whom he remembered at his club. ‘ ‘ How came you here ’ ’ was his question. “Well, sir, I happen to know a little French and I got the post because the English customers here always think they must speak French, and they can’t make out what the French waiters say; but they understand my French quite well.”

Says th e Feilding Star: —The only reference Mr. Parr made in his lecture on Friday to the unpopular commander of our forces on the Flanders front was thus significantly put: “We met General Godley 22 miles from the front trenches.” The member for Mount Eden on the other hand, warmly eulogised General Russell, “our fighting General —a New Zealander who understood New Zealanders in a manner that no Imperial officer could understand them.”

A certain adventuress has lately been haunting first-class London restaurants,, blackmailing in a very ingenious way. She craftily drops a diamond bracelet. If the person who picks it up hands it to the establishment officials she simply claims it. If the finder puts it in his or her pocket trouble ensues. The adventuress’s confederate, acting as a detective, follows the picker-up home; then follow sinister accusations, and the victim, instead of securing a prize.; is frightened into squaring the transaction.

Bow a ratepayer cunningly secured a vote at a local body election was elicited in cross-examination in a case heard in the country recently. The ratepayer was in arrears with his rates, and knowing that he would not be allowed to vote, he sent his wife with a cheque for the amount to the clerk of the local body. He was allowed to vote, although it was too lat e to pay the cheque into the bank. The next morning when the cheque was presented it was found that payment had been stopped.

Despite the viliganee of the police, London West End night clubs are not stamped out. A well-to-do Australian officer who was lured into one of these sumptuous dens lost considerable sum at a gambling game. He suspected cheating, and, being a hot-headed follow, seized an empty bottle and threw it at the croupier. The latter dodged, the bottle went through a window into a back yard, and fell with a terrible crash. Noise is the thing that people most dread, and to the officers intense surprise, his losses were pushed into his pocket, and he was rapidly hustled Out.

l.m'Vpiaftefs likely to be informed ' the mysterious Siberian monk, Rasputin, whose assassination has been reported—not for the first time —is held responsible for the intrigues which have enabled King Constantine to baffle the Allies. The process was round-about; not wholly unconnected with the fact that Tino is the Dowager Empress Marie DagmarV nephew, and his mother was the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. The strangest of the many stiange influences exercised by Rasputin was that over the female Russian Royalties. The Tsaritsa firmly believes that the restoration of her son to health was due to his ministrations. An amusing incident recently took place behind the scenes of a popular London pantomime. The principal girl, finding her dressing room not to her liking changed with the chief comedian. The same evening, however, owing to the callboy having forgotten the arrangement, a couple of the comedian’s friends —officers just home on short leave —were given the number of his old room. Thinking to surprise him, they suddenly burst into the chamber, but hastily beat an embarrassed retreat, to the accompaniment of loud screams from the charming occupant, who was busily engaged with her dresser in a very early stage of her toilet.

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