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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 29 March 1917, Page 4

A young girr to assist with light house-work is wanted by Mrs I). Eiddiford. Oraiti, Taihape. / , • If the boys in France need to be distinguished from the first arrivals on Gallipoli, what’s the matter with “ Franzd’e?’.’ asks the Sydney Bulletin. A considerable number of “home ; oryico ’ ’ men are at present employed on the permanent staff at the Featherstem Camp, and this number is likely to bo increased in the near future. Karl Mylire, a Norwegian, was sentenced to two months’ gaol by Mr M ’lvonsoy, at the Mater Police Court in Sydney last wm>k, o n a charge of refusing to answer Questions put to him by a water policeman as, to his name and nation >l,ity. He v . as also fined £2O or two i oaths ’ gaol for refusing to show his < ertiflcalc ' registration. Just that nice, c up, appetising taste that adds , sf to a meal; hat’s Lo # us Brand,

The most amazing spectacle of the advance on the Western Front is the manner in which roads and railways creep up under the hands of myriads of workers, and the promptitude with which guns and munitions are brought up. It is most disconcerting to the Germans. According to the special correspondent of the Paris Journal at Zurich, important orders for munitions have been placed in Switzerland by the Germans, and over 4000 hands are working on behalf of the enemy. A single firm has delivered to Germany 300 motors for submarines.

A defendant in a debt case at the Court recently told the Bench he and liis wife and children were living on 25s a week and free house. ‘ *' Well, you ought to get £3 a week to travel round the country and show the people how it can be done,” commented the B'ench. Counsccl suggested the National Efficiency Board should get hold of the man at once.

The daily output of -wholemeal bread by the New South Wales State Bakery is a little over half a ton (700 loaves,) and it is increasing by leaps and bounds every day. The cost of manufacture is 35s less per ton of flour than white bread. Government institutions and the military camps are supplied.

Says the Grey River Argus: It lias just come to our notice that several well-known citizens of the town have, in order to escape the meshes of the military service net, made a get-away. ’ ’ It is rumouyed that late at night, or in the wee sma’ hours of the morning this “gallant” band, by the aid of a motorca made a trip to a place yet unknown,, and, with provisions and bedding intend to “dig-in” and sit tight until something happens.

The star picture, “The Battle Cry cf Peace,” to be shown at the Three Stars on Friday and Saturday next, is aptly termed an “epic of patriotism.” The whole production is a lesson in the disaster that may result from the “peace at any price” policy. It depicts the invasion of the United States by a European army, the bombardment of New York, and many sub sequent events of great interest. Orchestral music will accompany the picture.

Thrifty housekeepers are advise by Luxford and Co., Wanganui, to read their list of the very highest class of groceries. The prices quoted are certainly attractive, and as Messrs. Luxfor are genuinely known as stocking only the best, the very best value for money is available at their large profile house is stocked. It is only neccsmises, where everything required in sary to send a list of articles .required and a quotation will come back by return mail. Messrs. Luxford and Co’s new advertisement appears in another column.

The Magistrate, Mr. Burton, gave his reserved judgment to-day in a number of anti-treating cases heard at Whangareia fortnight ago. Ferdinand Felix, licensee of the Kamo Hotel, on two charges was fined respectively £SO and £25. Four others in the same connection, named Thomas Malgrevy, William Lilley, Ellis Dyer and Everard Lambert, were each fined £3O, with costs against the defendants in all cases. The charges against a group of three others, William Simmons, manager of the Whangarei Hotel, Leonard Irving, and Christopher Irving were all 3ismissed.

An officer in the Salonika army, in a letter lately .received, provides one more illustration of the senselessness of a system which declares that certain things must be done on certain dates, whatever commonsense can forsee about the results. “I know you will not believe it possible,” he writes, “but by official orders horses and mules have been clipped, though it was known that bitter weather was coming, that there was absolutely no shelter, and only a few thin rugs were available,. and that it was impossible to keep the rugs on the beasts in a blizzard, and in any case on a mule, because he eats it. The clipping has been done in spite of the protests of all the officers who know anything about animals. To anyone who cares for animals it has been awful to sec the poor brutes. I took my pony into my own hut by the fire, where he behaved like a gentleman.”

In the summing up to the jury at the Supremo Court in Mastertou in a cas e in which damages were claimed owing to the alleged neglect of defendant in allowing-his gate to remain open and his horses to run out on the thoroughfare, Mr. Justice Chapman said there were various opinions concerning what constituted negligence. He quoted a recorded case in which a cabman in London had been washing his cab in the street. The water had accumulated in a pool and frozen. In the morning a horse slipped on th ice and a fatality occurred. An action for damages was brought, but the Courts held that the negligence was foo remote, and found in favour of the defendant. “It is fair to state.” added his Honour, “that the finding of the Court in this case has been subjected to a good deal of criticism.”