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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 12 July 1917, Page 4

The next of the series of socials and euchre tournaments in connection with the Fire Brigade will be held tonight. "Porridge is now almost a luxury," remarks the Perthshire Advertiser of April 4, in commenting on the announcement that at Crieff, Perthshire, £5 per 2SO Olbs. oatmeal was being charged. This price works out at about £36 per ton. It is with regret that we record the death of Ernest Melrose, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Litchfield, of Raukura, The 3 r oung man had suffered with paralysis almost from his birth, but he always showed a happ3 r and contented disposition, and he will be severely missed by devoted parents.

On we published an advertisement regarding the classification of the Second Division. It was stated that for the purposes of classification the term child included an illegitimate child of a reservist if the reservist married the mother of that child before Mafl, 1917. This was an obvious error, t2ie correct date being May 1, 1915.

In an advertisement in our issue of yesterday, giving notice of the intention of the Taihape Borough Council to levy rates for the ensuing year, it was stated that the statutory meeting of the Council would be held on Friday, August 27, 1917. This is an error, as the meeting will be held on Friday,- July -27, 1917—not in Atfgust. The corrected advertisement appears to-day.

The Prime Minister announced to the House that he had received the Imperial Government's authority to enter in negotiations with cheese-pro-ducers for the Av'hole output. A conference with producers has been arranged for an early date, probably July 20. He mentioned this because he wished to avoid last season's difficulty owing to middlemen making contracts before the Imperial Government came into the market-

I hear (writes the Clubman in the Pall Mall Gazette) that one of the first recruits for the United States Army was Marshal Field, who divided with his brother a fortune of SO millions sterling from their grandfather, the founder of the great dry goods business. It seems that an acquaintance inquired if he were going to be measured for a special uniform. Young Marshal Field's reply was, "Nothing doing- The first old suit of reach-me-down khaki is good enough for me in this war."

It is "s/ith regret we have to report the sad news of Pte. H, E. Marsh} of Pukeokahu, who was killed in action in France on June 20, while taking part in the Messines campaign. Much sympathy is felt for his sorrowing mother, sister and brotber\ Pte. Marsh was well-known about the surrounding districts, and his loss will be felt by all who knew him, as we know, like many of his comrades, he has done his duty and died a noble and honourable death.

A Maori soldier who recently returned from the front to his home at Colac Bay (Southland) had an unusual experience. The soldier was at Gallipoli and went later to France, whence after a lot of hard service he was invalided home. The Maori's condition during the voyage was serious, and relapsing into a traneelike state, on reaching an Indian port the supposed corpse was sent ashore and placed in a morgue among other dead. In the words of the soldier, he "very near died the second time" on recovering and realising where he was, but he survived the ordeal, and reached home without further incident He is rapidly regaining his former health.

Further developments in regard to the mysterious affair at Frankton on Sunday, when a returned soldier named Thomas Henderson, of Onehunga, was found in an out-house suffering from a serious wound in the side, show that HendVson purchased a ticket for Auckland at Palmerston North on Saturday. He left the train on arrival at Frankton Junction early on Sunday morning, and- was subsequently seen wandering about in a dazed condition. Inquiries tend to show that the wound was inflicted at Palmerston. The police at Frankton have now communicated with that place. Henderson's condition fs~very grave. Horrocks, 32 and 36 inch white Calico, sale price 6/11 dozen yards at The Great Winter Sale (see window display.) Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

The opening of the Waterloo coursing meeting at. Wanganui had to be postponed owing to the hares escap-

A Router message from New York states tliat the gold shipments from the United States to Japan since January .1 amounts to £12,000,000.

Mr. E. G. Russell, who for some time has been attached to the Hawera branch of the 'Bank of New Zealand, left on Monday for Raetihi, where he will take the position of accountant.

[ There are 17 lawyers in the House of Representatives, the farming inter est has 34 members, there are 3 doctors, 2 brewers, 6 printers, and a , clergyman, the remainder of the

House comprising commercial and la-

bour men.

A general meeting of parishioners of the Anglican parochial district will be held in the Parish Hall, on Friday, July 13, at 8 p.m. to consider the question of the establishment of the Church School. A full attendance is requested as the matter is one of importance.

Playing during the- week-end on the Manly links (Sydney) recently, '' the golf professional, D. G. Soutar, holed out from the tee at "the Peninsula." The amateur to whom he Avas playing handsomely observed all the customary procedure following such a performance, Although Soutar, has been responsible for many extraordinary feats in golf, this was his first hole in one. A pedestrian event 5T more than usual interest will be run on Saturday next, between two local athletes. The match will take place before the football starts, and will be over a 120 yards course. Both competitors are will known ill Taihape sporting circles, and have put up some good performances between the tapes in the past. The railway representative is slightly the favourite.

A druggist named Paul Wilde was sentenced in Paris, to hard labour for life on a charge of spj'ing. A Paris court-martial found him guilty of having communicated military information to a German secret agent living in Switzerland. The police inquiry showed that Wilde was in the habit of sending his letters and documents in the handle of a shaving brush, which he used to send as a sample by registered packet.

A large crowd of Second Division reservists attended a meeting in Wanganui last night, when it was decided to form a league, to be called the Wanganui . Second Division Reserve League. The objects were stated to be to look after the interests ,of the dependents of those who may be called to go to the front, and to advocate that a more liberal and adequate allowance for the wives and children of Second Division men.

White Blankets, Colonial all wool. Double bed size, sale price 28/6, 34/11, 39/G, (See window display) at The Great Winter Sale Collinson and Gifford Ltd.