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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 April 1917, Page 4

A lady in business requires b.,ard in a private family.

In all, 1430 newspapers and periodicals have suspended publication in Germany since the Avar began, according to statistics published.

So large a quantity of safety-gloves for munition workers is required that it is believed the British Government intend to stop the manuracture of gloves for civilians.

Paradise ducks and native pigeons are protected this shooting season, which starts on May Ist this year. The game not protected this year are cock pheasants, Californian quail,i ducks, and teal.

“When the train service is cut down by 50 per cent., will the gentleman who receives £3OOO a yean accept half his salary in consequence?” was a question put by Mr Piper to the chairman of a “protest” meeting at Pctonc last evening.

In calculable good has resulted from th e rainfall during the past two days (says the “New Zealand Times”). The (showers have been pretty general throughout the country surrounding Wellington, and agricultural operations have benefited considerably.

The special running of trains for the Easter holidays has ceased, and conditions have returned to normal in the railway service.- Most of the holidaymakers have returned to their homes, ,and the last of the extra night Main Trunk trains ran on Wednesday night.

No free telegram of inquiry, as to the condition of wounded soldiers, is to be accepted in future within seven, days of the date stamped on the official notification of the casualty, and a further fourteen days respectively must elapse before a second or third message may be accepted.

'A former Lyttelton Times reporter writes from the “ somewhere”, that if the people of New Zealand knew the kind of cigarettes that are supplied tosoldiers they would cease to continue contributions to tobacco funds, as hundreds of packets are thrown away as useless.

A dairy farmer stated at the Palmerston sitting of the Appeal Board that his ten cows gave a return of £llO for the ast quartery period. This led Captain Walker to remark that there were evidently cows and cows. The farmer said his herd were specially selected and well bred, and he had found that it always paid to keep the best.

Lionel Terry, the anti-Chinese murderer, has been confined to Sunnyside Asylum for some years. His hair once close-cropped, now falls in curls to his shoulders. Every morning he takes his constitutional run for two or three miles,, warders having to take relays of a mile each during the constitutional. He is a close student of the war.

“As far. as I know, only war legislation will be dealt with next session, ’ ’ said the Acting-Premier to a Post reporter yesterday. The chief feature would, added Sir James Allen, bo the now War Loan Bill, which would carry extra taxation in its train. Until Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward came back he could not indicate what, if any, general measures would be gone on with.

The drawing of the ballot for the 30th Reinforcements was completed by the Government statitician on Wednesday. Th e names of men drawn for service have now to be checked in the

usual way, and they are expected to be available for publication in a Gazette Extraordinary about Monday next, the lists being first published afterwards in the evening papers.

The nautical inquiry into the collision between the Arahura and a linen at Gisborne was concluded at Auckland yesterday. The judgement was: “That the collision was due to the combined neglect of the masters of the vessels. We have decided not to deal with their certificates, but we order that the costs of this formal investigation be paid by Captain Goddard and Captain Dryden in equal shares.”

An appellant assumed a rather sturdy attitude during his examination at the sitting of the Appeal Board in Palmerston on Thursday, which brought a well-merited rebuke from Chairman Cooper. “Look here, young man ’■ ho said, with some warmth, '‘ a month or two in camp would do you good and bring you under discipline. 1 will deal with you if you are not careful. Be mere civil in your replies. ’ The exumirauun proceeded smoothly after that.

In the course of an interesting letter. Corporal D. Davenport, of Ashhurst, who is in France, says that he saw a notice posted up on a sandbag dug-out used as a Y.M.C.A. hut and situated .only a short distance back from the front lines,, where the beholder could get free tea three times a day. The notice read as follows: "Financed by friends in New Zealand. This week you are the guests of P. A. McHardy, Esq., Palmerston North.”

The Rev. Mr. Fordyce, who takes charge of the Taihape Methodist connexion, will preach his first sermon in the local Methodist Church to-mor-row morning and evening.

A British soldier has been sentenced to death by court-martial in France for having killed a barmaid at Friville-Es-carbotin. The municipality and the inhabitants of the commune have signed a petition for a reprieve. The condemned man has done more than twenty years ’ service. Sir James Allen (Minister for Defence) stated on Thursday afternoon, that a considerable number of men have been rejected from Trentham Camp t recently as unfit, and in order t.) prevent such rejections being so numerous for the future the preliminary medical examinations have been stiffened up. .

Sergeant-Major Buvergey, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine at Bordeaux on Dec. 15 performed an operation at the military hospital at Aire-sur,-la-Dour of great interest to medical science. The doctor, with the aid of X-rays, extracted a bullet from the heart of a wounded soldier which had been there for. several months. It was lodged to a depth of three centimetres. Now the man has been able to leave the hospital entirely sured.

News has reached Sydney to the effect that the Germans are still very determined to do all the damage to their vessels now interned. At San Francisco each vessel ’s machinery has been interfered with. To prevent further damage being done, they have all been run upon the “mud bank,” as an American put it. In Honolulu where there are at least eight vessels, including the Bremen and Prinz Waldemar, much the same thing has been done to tonnage. The Elsass is still at Pago Pago, also a “cripple,” under close guard.

Sentiment looms largely in the matter of the celebration of Anzac Day. Some people hold strongly to the idea that the day should be celebrated on its proper date or not at all, and strongly object to the day being altered so as not to clash with municipal elections. The Bruce County Council and the Laurence Borough Council have decided to observe Anzac Day on the original date, April 25th. The Wanganui Borough ouncil unanimously decided to proclaim Wednesday, April 25, as a- holiday for the Anzac celebration. In small , towns there is no necessity whatever for altering the date, for there the municipal elections do not very greatly, disturb the equanimity of the people.

Some years ago the mongoose was introduced from India to Fiji for the purpose of combatting the rats which were so numerous that they did serious damage to the sugar cane plants. The experiment was a success as far as exterminating the rats was concerned, but what is now wanted is some method of dealing with the mongoose. In Fiji these animals have thriven wonderfully and grow much bigger than they did in India. A wonderfully . quick : climber, the mongoose is now steadily clearing the Islands of bird life,, with the result that insect pests arc increasing. Fowls and chicks arc also suffering from de-, predations of the mongoose, and the native parrot appears to be an easy prey of the wily importation.

It appears that Auckland entertained a celebrity unawares. Miss Rankin, the first lady member to be elected to the United States Congress, was in O' * Auckland for a considerabe time some two years ago, more or less, studying our life and our politics. She came mainly for that purpose, but while she was hero she made her living as a work-ing-out dressmaker. She was then determined to win her way tO’ Congress, and was here merely for the experience

which she believed would help her to win a seat. Evidently the experience was profitable. Those who came in contact with her in Auckland regarded her as an exceedingly feminine woman, with none of the agressiveness which is associated with the suffragette. Possibly it was for this reason that they paid little regard to her political views and thought a good deal of her dressmaking.

A cor,respondent writes to lie New Zealand Herald as follows; “A few days ago I visited by son ’s section at Riverhead—he is in Hornchurch, having boon wounded in the Somme battle —and us a description of what I saw there niay bo instructive to recruits leaving New Zealand. I send you,some details. I must first of all say, f however, that he left without making special provision for having his section looked after, merely closing the gate behind him. The first thing that I noticed was that the gate was wide open. Next I found that the wires-—barb and plain ■ had been taken off and away from about 10 chains of boundary fence.

-hen the wharc—it was only a poor I little shack—-where he was going to live the life of a pioneer, was completely dismantled, and the material carried away'. Even the few tools and pots and pans had been taken, making a clean sweep. No I think the above conveys a lesson that even he who runs may read, and hope it may be taken to heart by those about to leave in future Ea|l peditionary Forces. ’ ’ *

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On page I of this issue Messrs Collinson and Gifford have an interesting announcement respecting “Libahy” and “Rational” bodices. <

Our correspondent “J.S.” may rest assured., that this journal fully realises the .folly of bringing into the limelight such traitors and he draws a fleet.on to. None wut traitors and pro-Germans would advocate a general strik e while the Empire is at war to secure freedom for such, brain-diseased people.