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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 April 1917, Page 4

It is notified that any person found trespassing with dog or gun on the property of Mr Alex Young will be prosecuted.

It is time to get to work compiling a list of Post Office Box numbers of firms and people one may be likely to communicate with through the post office, as th e Postal Department will not guarantee to deliver any letters into private boxes that do not bear the P.O. box number of the addressee..

The story of the heartless doscrtion of a bride elect is told in Napier. A wedding was to have taken place a

few days ago. All arrangements for the ceremony were well in hand, and an hour before the appointed time, the bridegroom, who is a returned "hero." borrowed his prospective mother-in-law's bicycle to go on a small errand. The bride and the attendants and the impatient minister after a considerable wait at the church, were obliged to return to their home in great disappointment, the bridegroom having failed to put in an appearance at the church. He is believed to have pawned the bike at a well known dealers, and then made good his escape for h e has not since been seen or heard of.

A large unit at the front composed exclusively of Jewish troops is known as the "Jordan Highlanders."_

At the recent Auckland races the totalisator investments for the meeting totalled £104,139, which is £9,806 ahead of 1916.

Over 60 women are employed as carriage-cleaners on the New Zealand railways, and are said to be doing the work very satisfactorily.

For supplying a school boy under 15 years of age with cigarettes, a Chinese fruiterer at Stratford was fined £1 and costs ss. Magistrate remarked, "When I was that boy's age I preferred a clay pipe." Sir William Pender's report on the winding-up of the five enemy banks in London (recently completed) shows the enormity of the task, which included the protection and handling of securities worth £35,000,000.

Publication of the Journal of the Department of Labour will cease with this month's issue. This step has been found necessary owing to the war, and its effect on the cost of labour and material.

Linoleums for every room are advertised by Collinson and Cunninghamo, Ltd., of Palmerston North, who offer to send pattern books free to any address. Their range of designs comprises linos for every room in the home and places are particularly right just now.

Among the returned soldiers who arrived in Auckland yesterday,, was Bombardier Charles Murray, who holds the ten-mile running championship of New Zealand. He left with the Main Body and j*vas on Gallipoli for eleven months. He has been invalided back from France.

i. The brewing restrictions recently imposed in Germany, will spell ruin for the 16,000 innkeepers of Berlin. Munich beer cannot be had, and Pilsener beer is scarce and dear, and if Berlin beer is limited, at least twothirds of the innkeepers will have to close their doors.

"Well, this year promises peace, and I sincerely hope it will be as we expect. If you only knew what we know, you would be as confident as we are. I dare not explain, or the censor would be down on this letter."

Thus writes Ralph; Brown,, brother of Mr. Byron B'rown, of Otaki, who is fighting.with'the Tommies in France, in a letter received last week.

In one of the most recent disasters to Zeppelins which visited England 11 brothers were burnt to death. An aged man recently .in Amsterdam from Germany told how he brought ap a family of eleven sons, every one of whom entered the air service. The eleven young men formed part of the crew of one of the destroyed Zeppelins, and when this fell in flames in England they all perished.

Mr. Wm. Ferguson, Chairman of the Efficiency Board, which -has been sitting in Wellington, said: "So far, I must say that nobody has come forward except in support of the continuance of the agricultural shows, picture shows, racing, and other sports. The Hawera Star understands that th-

experience of Mr. Moss in Taranaki during his visit was precisely the same as that of Mr. Ferguson in Wellington.

A young woman named Amy Alice Robinson was fatally burned at Kaikoura. She was heating, some beeswax and turpentine mixture over a fire, when it became ignited and the flames set fire to her clothing. She extinguished the flames by rolling herself in a blanket, and then sent some distance to a neighbour for assistance. The sufferer was conveyed to the hospital, where she died shortly afterwards.

A further batch of 12 girls from the Christchurch Telegraph School have been promoted and transferred to the following offices: Miss A. M. Kitto, Palmerston North; Miss E. Cocoran, Hastings; Miss I. Higgs, Masterton; Miss A. M. Durragh, Hawera; Miss I. L. E. Hull, Fielding; Miss D. M. Richards, Taihape; Miss E. L. Doubleday, Stratford; Miss O. J. S. Mooney, Waverley; Miss E. M. Roche, Eltham; Miss A. D. Steel, Eketahuna; Miss L. Pollard, Dannevirke; Miss M. E. Riordan. Marton.

According to a letter received in Wellington from a Now Zealand soldier with the Desert Column in Egypt the "niggers" there arc great workers in respect to such jobs as engineering, sapping, etc. Thousands of natives arc employed and get about seven piastres a day (about Is Gd). They live in holy dread of the Taubes, however. At tha sight of one hovering overhead they become painest'rieken, and instead of separating, flock together like sheep. '' The Taubes arc easily picked out by the black cross under the planes," states the writer,i "oun machines have the red white, and blue rings under them. The niggers know the difference a long way off. They go for their lives, and you will see some of them waving a bit of a white flag."

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/8, 2/6

The Taihape district electors' list closes, at 5 p.m. to-day.

A white and briudle sheep dog, lost in Taihape, is advertised for. *

In France women are now employed as glaziers, and are making quite neat jobs of the renewing of broken panes in'yhquses and shops.

It is stated that the fact that so many German shells fail to* explode on th e Western front is due to the shortage of nitrates.

Farmers in the Levels district of Canterbury have decided to recommend that all farms whose owners are on active service be taken over in suitable cases, whether the properties ar e financial or not.

Information was received to-day by the postal authorities that all the New Zealand mails carried by the Eotorua, which was torpedoed some days ago, have been saved and landed at Plymouth.

The annual meeting of the Taihape Golf Club will be held on Thursday night and not to-night, as previously advertised. The change was made to avoid clashing with the A. and P. meeting to be held to-night.

Mr K. W. Smith, M.P., could not attend the Axemen's Carnival at Bangataua, on Easter Monday, owing to illness. Everyone will regret to learn that our genial Member is still confined to his bed, and under medical supervision.

It will surprise some people to learn (says the Wall Street Journal) that the cargo of the Deuchland is still undisposed of in the United States. It consisted, for the most part ,of dyes and medicine, and the people who are handling dyestuii's find that 'America is progressing in her independence as respects German dyes. One of the great losses to Germany will be discovered after the wan in that the world can get along reasonably well without her potash and her dycs„ and in many lines where she before the war held industrial supremacy. Fresh regulations have been issued under the War Regulations Act of 1914, by Extraordinary Gazette. The regulations are known as Soldiers' Property Regulations, 1917, and provide that the Defence Minister, on the recommendation of the National Efiv ciency Board, may constitute Boards:'of Trustee which may be giy.en ja" power of attorney. by any soidjer, to ; exercise in respect of his property, business, or. affairs, such powers of management, lease, sale, or disposition, as may be mutually agreed upon between the soldier and the trustees.

The Hon. Walter Long, Secretary of State fcr th e Colonies, recently wrote as follows to the London Express: I fully believe that we should not ye content to renew our old laissez-faire policy towards trad e and indu'stry after the war. Already we are proving that we can manufacture articles fcr the supply of which we were previously dependent on other countries. We are already, looking.. forw.ard,.., to broadening the basis of our industries and commerce. All our of, life are changing. The nation is going, back to the simple life; to the legs' luxurious method of our ancestors."

The luck of No. 13! Private William McNab, Otago Company, Seventh Reinforcements, went into camp at Trentham, June 13, 1915. He arrived in Egypt on November 13, 1915, his twenty-first birthday, and joined the 13th Platoon of the 14th (South Otago

Company), and went into the firing line for the first time on May 13, 191.6. When wounded, he found on returning to consciousness that his bed at the clearing station was No. 13. He left England to return to New Zealand on November 13, 1917, having been left in the Capetown Hospital for two months. By the vessel on which he returned 13 men were brought back to New Zealand. Private McNab was wounded in the Somme battle on September 15th of last year, and though his wounds did not total 13, they were getting on that way, numbering eight in all. Mr. W. P. Dowling, a gentleman's ijarmeiit-maker of twenty years' experience in work of the best class, has purchased the TaihapeTalTorihg business lately conducted by Hr. Whiting. A tailor of Mr. Dowling's ability and experience is sure to meet with a ready business welcome from the large number of people in this territory who will have good fittingclothes. Mr. Dowling will aiso be welcomed as a good citizen and a good sport. Wherever he has lived ho' has invariably been at the front door in organising sports, and be is an authority on chopping and other contests. Tailoring is, however, his business, and h e certainly comes to Taihape with an excellent reputation. An announcement in another column states that ladies' garments and gents' riding breeches are made a speciality. Mr. Dowling guarantees his patrons full satisfaction. For Influenza take YToods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. 1/G. 2/G