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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 March 1917, Page 4

On Sunday night, about midnight, a fire took place at Knight’s sawmill on the Ohakune-Raetihi Road. The whole mill was destroyed, together with about 10,000 feet of timber.

Governor Whitman, who. prohibited Los Dancy, the shirking Sydneysider, from fighting in the State of New York, has heard a personal appeal from the Australian boxer. He has declined to change his order blacklisting Darcy.

A letteipwliich left Germany on board the submarine Deutschland has reached New York. It indicates that the Üboat must have been captured. The mail matter found on board was forwarded by the British in the ordinary course.

Letters from the front by last mail speak of snow —snow everywhere. ‘'l have been five days in the trenches, snow-covered trenches, and 60 hours without sleep. The only things we ask for now arc warmth, food, and sleep,” writes one soldier.

Burglaries have been frequent in Otaki of late, tvco hotels and three private houses' having been broken into and articles stolen.' A woman, said to have a long list of convictions, has been arrested. It is believed she has two male accomplices.

From an English solicitor of standing to a Palmerston friend: “I have recently had Noel at home. He had a most extraordinary escape. A shell landed between his legs and he was blown up into the top of a tree, but beyond shock was uninjured.”

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr Bouar Law said that the daily war expenditure between February 11 and March 31 was £7,260,000, while the average daily expenditure for the year ending March, 1917, was £0,000.000. Tintotal estimated amount from the Allies and Dominions was £964,000,000.

Eight Maoris, five men and three women, have been arrested at Victoria Valley, near Mongonui, on charges of having been concerned in the murder of a Maori named Mitai Aperahana, who, it is alleged, was killed in August, 1913, and the body buried in the Victoria Valley. An inquest is to be held on the 2Sth instant at Kaitaia.

Mr W. A. Vcitch, M.P., has been in communication with the Government on the question of the price of meat, and has suggested that the Government should arrange to supply meat to Wanganui butchers on the- same terms as it is doing in other places. As a result of the correspondence, the Board of Trade intends visiting Wanganui to inquire into the matter.

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An Invercargill solicitor was fined £SO yesterday for failing to cause his trust account to be audited.

According to a cable received this morning the population of Sydney at the end of 1916 was 764,600 —an increase of 1600.

No fewer than 700 London journalists are on active service, and the official organ of the institute publishes the names of 3,300 British journalists who are serving or have served with the forces.

Among a party of nonagenarians, octogenarians, and septuagenarians who kept Christmas at Islington Workhouse were a few “youngsters” of sixty. Six women at Lambeth were over ninety, sixty-two over eighty-two over eighty, and 139 over seventy.

At a crowded meeting of the Waih! Miners’ Union on Tuesday night, a motion to rescind a resolution passed in February donating five pounds a month in aid of dependents of men imprisoned for seditious utterances was carried by a majority of 15. The president resigned.

A little girl was remarking to her mother on the courteous behavioun of their dustman. “And so religious, too,” she added. ‘‘ I was not aware of that, ’ ’ said her parent. “Oh, yes,” declared the child. “I am perfectly certain of it. This morning he was lifting the heavy dust-bin, and, by accident, it fell on his toes. And I heard him telling the Almighty quite a lot about it! ”

Mr J. G. Collins’ second son, John Edward Astbury, who voluntarily onlisted some time ago, had to undergo a slight operation. He will go into active training when military medicos consider him fit. Mr Collins has just heard from his eldest son Douglas, who. is in France in charge of a motor squad, working in conjunction with a balloon service. He says all the men in France expect the war to be over this year.

Miners who are called up in the ballot, and failed to present themselves for examination to the Military Board at Eeefton, have received notices from the various mines that their services have been dispensed with (says the West Coast Times). This is inacordance with the regulations under the Military Service Act, which entails a penalty of £SO to anyone employing those who fail to conform with the regulation. /

That dairying is a very profitable business is fully demonstrated by the returns from dairy companies. Mr A. Burgess is a well-known dairy farmer at Eongotca, and on a small holding of two acres —a first-class bit of farm land—he runs 45 Holstein cows, which have yeilded splendid results this season as the following fugurcs show: September!’s cheque from factory, £TO6 19s; October, £l4l 6s lid; November, £l4O 6s lid; December £ll9 4s. Mr Burgess will receive about £9OO from milk alone, and there are also the returns to come from calves and pigs.

Business was suspended with a suddenness that surprised customers in Matamata the other morning (says the “Waipa Post”). It seems that about sixteen business men had received telephonic communication to receive a turkey from off the express. The attendance at the station was naturally large. The guard of tne train thought Matamata had gone daft and became tired of stating that there were no turkeys aboard. Needless to say, “Turkey” was not captured, ana business was resumed with a surprising abruptness.

Says a Melbourne paper:—Regarding Mr. D. C. McGrath, M.P., now on active service in France, a good story, which has the merit of being true, is told about his part in the last erection. This was in the days before the I.W.W. made “sabotage” a household word. A persistent mal e questioner, at a large meeting for women at the Ballarat Town Hall, at last demanded “Is the candidate in favour of sabotage?” Charlie had not met this before, and was fairly stumped to know ■what to do about it, till he had a sudden inspiration. Pointing sternly at the offender, he replied, “Sir, I ask you is that a question to put to me before an audience of ladles? Have you no mother, no sisters? What would they think, sir, if they heard you ask such a disgraceful thing at a meeting of the ladies of Ballarat?” And two constables actually threw the poor wretch out of the hall. Charlie relates that after the meeting he made a bee-line for the Trades Hall and looked up the word in the dictionary!

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