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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 May 1917, Page 4

On Monday evening Rider Haggard’s celebrated novel “S-be” will be screened at . the. Three Stars Theatre.

j. American Socialists have been prohibited from attending the Stockholm Conference.

Mr. Hudson Maxim announces an invention, which, when pliced around a ship, causes torpedoes to explode harmlessly. The invention is applicable cheaply to existing ships.

General Retain says that every shell fired on the French front saves 20 lives. He did not say how many lives result at the business end of the exposion.

Of the 60-17 foreigners who were naturalised in Switzerland last, year, 2335 were Germans, the majority being of military age, who had refused to obey the summons to return home to join the army.

A Loudon cablegram states that .included iu the £300,000 bequests or the Duke of Norfolk, England’s premier duke and head of the great Catholic house of the Howards, was the sum or £IOO,OOO to various Catholic purposes.

It is stated that a census is being taken of the number of people deriving their living from racing, and v.ho number dependent on them, widen will bo presented, to the Government in due course.

The British Empire Resources Development Committee lias proposed that the State should take over the control of the Empire’s palm oil and other tropical products, which, the committee estimates, would produce a net annual profit of £4,000,000.

Sir James Allen states that the West Coast miners probably will continue to work. lie thinks that they will “play

the game” to the end. Arrangements have been made' for importing about 30,000 tons of coal a month from New castle, but. the absolute necessity for economy still exists.

, SPECIAL Value in Ladies’ Scarves, all colours. Silk Scarves 3/6, 4/6, 4/11 to 12/6. Woollen Scarves 3/6, 4/3, 5/6, 6/6. Collin son and Gifford,

The English motor and cycle traders subscribed £3,170,102 to the recent British War Loan.

Messrs Stodart Bros and Mr J| Collins, Opaea, notify that trespassers on their property will be prosecuted.

Mr. J. Collins, of Opaea, offers £2O reward 'to anyone giving information that will lead to the conviction of the person who shot a sheep on his property about 14th of this month.

The Army Council and the military authorities in France are considering the grant of some distinguishing mark to soldiers who have served long peri ods in the firing line.

“Germany miscalculated when she figured out the British. She has written more and known less about human psychology than any other nation in the world’s history,” says Thomas A. Edison, the American inventor.

Mr. E. J. Golding, advance representative ,of the Royal Pantomine Company, was in Taihape today making arrangements for the appearance of his company here on the 30th inst., when “Bluebeard” is to be staged.

An idea of the enormous number of heavy motor vehicles in commission at the front can be gathered from the fact that the English Government have in Franco 13,500 motor ’buses belonging to the London General Omnibus Company, and this is from cue concern only.

It is said that preliminary arrangements have been made in England for the formation of a great engineering British combine with the object of producing in large numbers an all-British tractor for agricultural purposes. The British Government has promised to af ford all possible facilities.

In the Dublin Chancery Division recently, in the matter of the Bangor Estates, liberty was granted to the tenant for life, Lord Bangor, who is serving with the Army, to sell an unfinished picture of Lady Arabella. Ward (ascribed to Romney) to Mr. Stanley Sedgwick, of New-York, for £32,000.

Apropos of the promotion of Colonel Froyberg, the Froyberg family is a fighting family: . Oscar, one of the five sons, was killed in action, Paul is now serving with the New Zealand forces, Cuthbert has joined the Naval Reserve, and Claud was called up in one of the ballots, and was temporarily exempted.

A Muster-toil soldier, writing to a friends, says tue Age, narrates the follawlng war incident: “An old sergeantmajor, 67 years of age/ told me the other day that he was going over ho Man's Land with his sou, and they came across a wounded German oflicer. The son gave the German a drink from his water bottle. Tne Hun drank all the water and then shot the boy dead„ under his /father's eyes. Well, the father went mad for exactly three minutes, and grabbing a rifle .bashed the Hun’s head to a pulp. When the Hun saw what the old man was about todo, he cried for mercy; and he got it.”

Supplies of first-grade butter in bulk for military purposes, says the Wellington Post, arc reported as having been purchased during the week at 16d per pound for 3000 boxes, and 171 d per pound for a further line of a like quantity The terms of the- tender were for “butter for export,” London is paying 202 s to 201 s per cwt. for New Zealand butter on the spot. Cheese is unchanged. Prom private advices received from Canada it is learned this week that Western Canada-Pacific Coast territory will in future be practically independent of New Zealand. Wellington supplies are plentiful, and qualityshows a marked improvement; moreover, the New Zealand market cannot look at present London values, even if the butter wore required and able to find trans-Pacific freight space.

It happened in a crowded city tramcar recently, says the Wellington Post. The principal actor in the drama was a tall man in faded khaki, whose left sleeve hung limp across his breast. With infinite labour he placed a cigarette between his lips, but how to. light it proved harder still. Ho could not hold the match-box and strike a match with his one remaining hand. Several times lie essayed this, but each time he had to give it up. All this happened in th 0 smoking compartment of the car. All around him were men puffing pipes am] cigarettes or discussing the latest news. But not one of them had time

to give a moment’s heed to a man crippled in their defence. At last a young lady who was in the smoking compartment came to his aid and lit his cigarette for him Perhaps it was thoughtlessness on the part of the men, perhaps indifference, but In any case it was en P of those little things that make a wounded man wonder whether he has not suffered in vain.

JAP MATS in assorted colours and designs—-1/7, 2/2. Jap Squares 6x9, 7/11, 9/9, 13/11. —C.ollinson and Gif-v-rd. Ltd.

Mr. John D. Eockfeller lias taken 10 million dollars’ worth of stocK in the liberty loan.

The Defence Office has been removed to the offices lately occupied by Mr. Nathan, .solicitor, in Main Street.

At the Three Stars to-night tvill be shown a beautiful coloured Pa the coloured picture entitled “Animals in the Nursery.”

At the Tui Street mart to-morrow, Mr. D. J. McLennan will sell a consignment of apples, pumpkins, poultry gress-seed, saddles, furniture, etc.

Another of the popular 'Bargain Days” is being held tomorrow by Messrs A. W. Gardner and Co., when bargains will be offered in all deportments. These bargain days have become quite a feature of this enterprising firm’s business, and we are told that however good previous ones have been, to-morrow’s “Bargain Day” will eclipse all its predecessors for value. An advertisement will be found on page 1, setting forth the conditions.