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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 2 May 1917, Page 4

Aii opening dance under the auspices of the Utiku-Ohutu Rocial and Patri (■lie Club will be hold in Doolc's Hall on Friday next. The net proceeds will be devoted to patriotic purposes.

A young married couple, man exempted from Military Service, want* a situation en a farm or station.

Of 28 Reservists medically examined in Masterton last week, only four were passed for active service.

An aeroplane with several planes arranged in a semi-eircle is claimed by its French inventor to be perfectly stable.

An American of Miiltown, Now Jer-

sey, to reduce the high war-cost or living and get new laid eggs, hired a •hen at 2/6 a month.

Mr. Burgis, Electrical Engineer to the Taihape Borough Council, is severing his connection, having accepted an appointment elsewhere.

"Try to get wounded slightly in the left arm with a small Italian bullet, and you will come to us a hero, and I will nurse you/* writes an Aus-

trian girl to her fiancee on the Isonzo

A reminder is given of the adjourned annual general meeting of the Taihape and District Patriotic Society, which will be held in the supperi-room of the Town Hall on Thursday night, at S o 'clock.

Artificial eyes are provided where necessary for Allied horses, and a British veterinary officer on the Western front states that the horses "do not mind the artificial eyes at all, and look awfully well in them."

It is reported that coalmine owners have given notice of another rise in the price of coal. Some miners state that coal troubles were engineered to enable further exploitation, as there has been no recent increase of cost in working the mines. , .

Mr. Thomas Edison, the great inventor, engaged on important war w r ork for the United States, has gone to what he terms "an insomnia party" which means that he works in his laboratory all day long and most of the night, possibly for weeks on end.

Dr. Blakeway, who, as. the Arch-

deacon of Stafford, has the Oversight of 733,000 people, and yet has offered to work oii a farm, states ;that of 600 clergy in the Lichfield diocese more than 500' have volunteered 'for national service. '' ;: '

! During a period of 12 months the Italian fleet has transported 200,00 u men, 200,000 tons of materials, and several thousands of horses, guns and vehicles from Italy to the B'alkans, having lost less than one per cent, by submarine attacks.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, held in Sydney on Monday, the balance-sheet disclosed a net profit of £340,200 for th e year, on the Fiji and New Zealand Company. The whole dividend reserve fund was invested in British war loan stock. The outlook for. the coming season's crop was very satisfactory. The arrangement regarding the supply of refined sugar with the New Zealand Government ends in June, but arrangements will probably be concluded for its extension.

At the Patriotic Society's Anzac dinner at Wellington on Saturday night, the chairman (Mr T. M. Wiiford, M.P.) told a good story of a returned Anzae soldier, in "civvy" clothes who was riding in a crowded Sydney tramcar. A lady got in, and the Anzac, ever courteous, rose and said, "Take my seat, madam." "I never take the seat of a shirker," she replied frcezingly. The Anzac thereupon opened his shirt, and, showing two wounds, said, "Madam, I have been to Gallipoli. If we had had as much powder at Gallipoli as you have got on your face we would have got to Constantinople. (Laughter.)

Three men who recently embarked on a "joy" ride in a motor-car at Palmerston, found it followed by another journey not nearly so joyful. The original trip finished in a disastrous manner The car they were in came to grief, and the trio were brought before the resident magistrate at Palmerston, and each sentenced to twelve months' reformative treatment for unlawfully damaging the motor-car. The three men, Bertie Thomas Barnes, George Howell, and Arthur, Pye, were subsequently taken on to Wellington under escort. They arrived there on Monday night to take up their twelve months' residence at the Terrace Gaol.

The father, of a Canterbury soldier has received from his son a war trophy of some considerable interest. It is an Iron Cross taken from a German officer by the young colonel during the hotfighting on the Somme. The "Iron Cross" is almost a misdescription as far as the metals used in manufacture are concerned. The cross itself is of iron, but it is enclosed, and is practical]}' dwarfed by the silver which ensilver, and there is a stout pin attachcloses it. The cross is really set, in cil at the back to enable the decorated soldier to attach it securely to his uniform. It is stamped with the Imperial crown, the initial of the reigning monarch, and the year in which it was awarded. In this case the former possessor) gained it in 1914. Some Sauoo that; which, way, Lotus Brand of course. ~„> -.,.. ..<;.'rf

Tp-morrow will be the opening day of cue Taihape Golf Club. Visiting players, members, inteuumg members, ana their friends are extended a cordial invitation to be present.

The change in the weather demands an o\eiccat, and in an advertisement in another column Mr. G. E. Little teils those in want of one of the necesary adjuncts to comfort how to procure one to the best advantage.

Says the Taumarunui Press: —At the Medical Board sitting in Taumarunui last week the short member ci

the iioard who used tne tape measure Lud a problem before him when he

2t out to measure the height of Mr

who Is oif to Samoa on active service. The little man had to mount a chair, and even then he found himself in difficulties. Mr. Ivloorhouse's height must be somewhere in the vicinity of seven feet.

as a result of a meeting of the Lanedin Chamber of commerce, a

i teiegram was ciespatcned to the Act-ing-Premier stating that there would j be a serious shortage of wheat before j next crop, and urging the Government i to take steps to deal with the quesIticn by taking control of all wheat in i the Dominion, and the immediate imi portaUon of wheat or flour from Australia. Some local millers will have to close down in a few *' days unless \n lieat comes to hand. An unusual incident took place recently on the summit of the Rimutaka ranges, Wellington, during the march from Feat-herston camp by one of the reinforcements to Wellington. Tne men were rested on the top of the range, and during the interval Mrs. Vv. J. Napier presented to each man a } four-leaf clover in green leather for luck, with a safety-pin to attach the ' emblem under the lapel of their tunics. After all had been so served, the men gave three cheers for Mrs. Napier, and the whole force sang the Irish ballad "The Dear Little Shamrock." The effect of many hundreds of voices singing the song in such .veird surroundings was very stirring.