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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 10 April 1917, Page 4

A young girl is wanted to assist in housework in a good home a little out

of town

Butter worth £2,302,079 has been exported from Victoria since July last. Almost the whole of this has gone to the United Kingdom.

It is announced that the ballot to complete the Thirtieth Reinforcements will be held at Wellington this afternoon.

Some idea of the acute shortage of paper in certain parts . of New Zealand may. be gauged from the fact that the Hokitika paper could not be published the other day because of no paper. The Hokitika journal came

out on blue paper

When the steamer Tarawera was abreast of White Island at 5.30 yesterday morning the chief officer descried a volcanic eruption. Flanr-s were shooting skyward, accompanied by flying stones and debris, which scon enveloped the island in a dense cloud of vapour.

Lord Kitchener, with all his sternness, was remarkably fond of children (says a society writer in England), and nowhere is -he more missed than among the children of the Royal family, with whom he was a great friend.

A Red Cross enthusiast states that letters to the amount .of over 100 r. day come to hand for Farmers' Shep Art Union tickets from working-men all over the Dominion, and he thinks wealthy people should send along applications in proportion to their riches; their end needs holding up a bit.

A lady whose fiance- Is in France was one of a theatre party at Sydney the other night. Going home the tram was crowded, and father had to stand. "Sit on my knee, dad," said the girlj with a merry smile." "No, my dear," he replied, "I would never have Lt said that I had taken a soldier's seat."

Peter Duncan, the Dunedin lawyer who was charged in the Police Court with loitering in Princes Street, Dunedin, and refusing to move on when requested by a constable to do so, escaped on a technicality. It was Mr. Duncan who, when ordered to "move on," told the constable to go round the corner and move on the bookmakers along the footpath there.

A Wellington resident who has been struck by the number of crops per year a certain Chinese gardener gets out of his land, -aas made a rough calculation of th e amount of money the tiller of the soil forces the earth to yield him every year. The observations were taken of a plot of garden measuring about 20 feet by 40 feet, and the estimated yield was £33 for the year.

It is pleasant to note that the leading authorities in America on moving pictures report the swinging back of the popular taste for clean and simple stories in place of sex problems, lr there is one thing above all others of which the Famous Players—Lasky Corporation is proud, it is the genuine cleanness of their productions, ana this waning of obnoxious films, justifies their policy. ' u ' '"' ': '" ;; ~-

■ "Why aren't- you in khaki?" shouted a knot .61' spectators-to 'the.referee at intervals the -first half; of a football match : recently 'between the Bristol Rovers and a Royal FlyingCorps team. After blowing his whistle for half-time, the official walked acres the field to this group, and showed them four gold stripes (four wounds) on his sleeve, and, opening his coat, the D.C.M. and a Russian medal were seen pinned to his waistcoat. He was Sergeant Holder, of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The inquirers were silent in the second half of the game.

The case of Thomas Silsby, who obtained close on £3OOO by means of forged vouchers for alleged supplies to the Rorirua Mental Asylum, again demonstrated the value of the trifle in criminology. Silsby carried out an elaborate scheme of robbery, by taking . advantage of his position as accounts clerk.in the Mental; Hospital Department, to slip forged vouchers in among the 'genuine ones in, favour 1 of J. Thompson, in which name he had a box at the General Post Office. It

was some trivial arithmetic error in one of the vouchers which caused it to be sent to'the Porirua Asylum for rectification, and then the forgeries were discovered. Otherwise his

scheme might still be in operation

A lady who is in Lille with her four little children —her husband is in Salonika —managed to get a letter through the German lines. Among other things she says: "I had paid £2O for a goat, so as to provide milk for the youngest children. The Germans have taken it from me. The other day, being out for a walk with the children, we sat down on the grass by the roadside. I was fined for this, as the grass was looked upon as the property of the Germans, and needed for their cattle. I could tell you of a hundred such petty acts of persecution, but what is the use? We must hope on and wait in patience for the great day of deliverance."

There was one event on the programme of the Rane;atau& Axemen's Carnival yesterday wtr'eh decidedly unusual. The item was called "The champion prize for the lady with the lar ; -iSt. family." T' <? eruditions were r.uii the rri>6 donated <Yy o Champion flou.'l by that eccentric mdu'.l 1 ?', I'.ititr Vir:ue, manage;- of :he Aun: av.«i Holler Mills. On enquiry '.xn-si Vie secretary, Mr. Goraiby, cur reporter learned t'rat there -bad p<??n \w> witr'ee "\ot

that we h-i\?- no c!i;:.npio;i=> In our c is

trict able co oonip , -' r e Mi. Gonnby hastened to add, v.*ta e twink.'r- in Lis eye, "We ha 7.3 ;.<>•• *c\,l, hue t.ny t \ro of 'i modes", reu.-in.; l'tuie. I knon uf cue lady llv.-ng m Raugataii • v. he hat> fourteen olive orau'ehes, uivl three cf them are at Lhe front.'

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6, 2/fi

Truly, or otherwise, another case of aggregation is reported, Mr. Searle having sold out his farm at Pukeokaliu. • .. ; . .;'

A Taihape tradesman who went to Mataroa on Good Friday to do some urgent work, met with a rather unpleasant experience. Hi got through his work by 6 p.m., and then sallied forth in the dusk to catch his hose. This involved many endearing terras, and took him till 10 p.m. When caught, however, he found it wasn't his horse that he had got. Chagrined, but undaunted, he set out to walß back to Taihape. When he arrived home he discovered his own horse, waiting to be let in.