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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 June 1917, Page 4

Frank Rothwell was fined £2O at Christchurcti' yesterday for handing a betting, chart ■ to a boy. Japa'n' is ,now supplying sheet glass to ''Australia and New Zealand. Formerly glass came either from England or.. Belgium, mostly from the latter country. We cannot' blame the Kaiser because America is against us, but we | dtt'tolame the German-Americans, who J must" realise that the Fatherland is deeply disgusted with: them.—Berlin Kreuz Zeitung. • A writ has been'issued on. behalf of Downs Bros., Importers, Wellington/ claiming £2OOO damages from , thg' u Jd'.an Bull Register for alleged libel in connection with a paragraph which appeared in the issue of June is. v'-r .... The Minister of Commerce states that the Government has entered into a fresh agreement with the Colonial Sugar Co. for another year at an increase of £1 a ton. The present arrangement expires at the end of this month. As the outcome of an appeal by Mr. GK B. Smith-Rewse, British Consul in Tonga, a sum of nearly £3OOO has been collected from the Tongans as a donation: towards the Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund. This appeal is still before-the community, and it s certain well over £3OOO will be handed in. "golden pen" with which the K §)ser.. signed the mobilisation order of July, 1914, would find a fitter restms,.place in the Chamber of Horrors than .in the B'erlin Museum, to which it,.,has. been presented. It is an odd commentary on the Germans' theory °f a "defensive war" that they should make so much play with this unholy relic. Nations who are the victims of aggression do not cherish these, souvenirs. - Several of the German States, including, Saxony, Baden, and the Mepkjenburg Grand Duchies, have now passed laws entitling any Ger"Fx&ji". (Airs.) whose fiancee is definitely known to have fallen in action. Proof only requires to be furnished that a bona fide betrothal existed before, the soldier's death. Women who. thus acquire the title of a married woman will not take the name of their late fiance, but retain their maiden name. ' Nestling Cloth for Dressing Gowns in light and dark Saxe pale blue, pink, maroon, cream and scarlet, 1/6 and '3/9 yard. Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

A little child lost a one pound note and five shillings in silver in Taihape yesterday. The finder will be rewarded on return to this office.

Messrs W. J. White and Sons' winter clearance sale is now in full swing. A new advt. giving further paticulars will be found on another page.

Another lengthy casualty list was issued by the Defence Department, containing some 1260 names, including 50 killed and died of wounds, arid 1200 wounded.

At the Three Stars tomorrow night an exceptionally fine picture will be shown featuring Bessy Barrisgale in "Home." It will be shown for one night only, also at the matinee.

' It is reported that a large amount of money has been made in Marlborough this season in stock dealing. Competition has in many cases been very keen. In one instance a line of 500 sheep advanced 10s per head between the time that the farmer sold it and the time it was taken off the place.

For not coming to the assistance of a policeman who was making an arrest of a fireman, three men were fined in the Auckland Police Court on Wednesday last the sum of £2 10s, and costs. It appears the fireman was violently resisting, and the constable called on three men who were working close by, but they only jeered at his appeals.

Before the Military Service Board at Wellington recently, Archbishop O'Shea, appealed on behalf of Patrick F. McArthy, John Higgins, and Joseph V. Spillane, theological students at Greenmeadows. The Chairman was asked whether, in view of the different rulings by various Boards, the present Board considered the acting-Premier's certificate was mandatory. The chairman replied in the negative. The Archbishop stated that each of the students was in the last four years of his course and had' taken temporary vows. In reply to the military representative, the Archbishop said those vows'could be abandoned. They were not like the final vows, but only vows of obedience. The Board dismissed the appeals, the appellants being granted leave to July 24.

It is stated now that butter has been withdrawn from store and sold in New Zealand at Is 3d, remarks the Mercantile Gazette (Wellington), which adds: "If this be so, then the butter should be retailed at Is 6d instead of Is Sd, Even the lower price is unwarranted by the condtions. In Victoria, where there is a scarcity of butter, the price has been fixed at Is 5d per lb., and that ought to be the retail price in New Zealand. The more prudent holders of butter will presently recognise that it is better to cut losses and get the best price abtained locally. The London market is dead for the present, and although we are promised an improvement in tonnage by- the end of next month, there is no guarantee of fulfilment. . If the butter is placed on the markets here at a reasonable pricp.the 'Consumption '.readily incrfeafec, and that would help to relieve the con? gestion." Smart Winter Blousings in Newest designs and Colourings, Bd, lOd, IOJd, 1/3 yard. Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.