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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 July 1917, Page 4

Latest available figures relating to the dairy produce held in store in the Dominion awaitng shipment and for local consumption are 215,000 boxes of butter and 120,000 crates of cheese.

The skipper of the sailing barge Northampton, giving evidence in the City of London Court, said his mate was his wife, as it was impossible to get men nowadays. She had been on two or three voyages, and did her work very well. Burglars are busy in Christchurch. On Sunday two shops with dwellings attached were entered and goods and cash stolen. While on Monday evening a dwelling in Lincoln Road was broken into and £2B stolen. In this case the thieves or thief operated while the family were at tea.

Says the Fielding Star: A First Division farmer in this district, who was drawn in the ballot, sold his stock and farm and made every preparation to go to camp, when he was given to understand that he had been placed in a different class and would be required for home service only, later on.

“Give me the sunny north,” said a local business man this morning, after having spent some weeks in'The South Island. “Business is very dead down there. The people, in Dunedin especially, are hard old Conservative my-way-is-best style, with no progressive ideas. Christchurch is not quite so bad, but far below the North for push. This is the Island for prograss.”

During the hearing of cases against alleged bookmakers at Wanganui, Mr. M. Myers, for the defence, said betting w r as not illegal, nor was bookmaking. There was nothing to prevent a bookmaker going from shop to shop, office to office, or house to house and making bets. Provided betting was not done in the streets, on licensod premises, or in a common gaming-house, it was a lawful occupation. Extraordinary Bargains during the last week of Great Winter Sale. —Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

A shorthand-typist, or female, is advertised for by the managing secretary of the Otalhape Tanners’ Meat and Produce Co., Ltd-

It was stated by Mr. 'Arthur Varney that since the beginning of the wan 360,000,*1)00 sheets of officially headed Y.M.C.A. notepaper have been used.

“I have come across cases in which girls under 16 years of age have been left with soldiers’ pay and the soldiers’ mothers left to starve,” said Mr. Nosworthy in the Housfi. He urged that the Government should take steps to bring about a different state of affairs.

Latest from Sir James Allen: Every fit soldier on the camp staffs and else where of the First Division who has not already been on service overseas is unfit for service beyond the seas or is being replaced and posted to a reinforcement draft. The list of homeservice men is regularity revised to ensure this.

Adjutant Sewell of the Salvation Army, is spending the week-end in Tai hape. She would like to renew her Acquaintance with the people of this town with whom she spent a pleasant' term a short time ago, Sunday evehing will really be the farewelling of Adju tant Sewell as well as that of Lieuten ant Medland, who has received march ing orders.

<^ Fab^icius,’ , a writer in the “Fortnightly Review,’ ’ says it is estimated that the wealth of the United States is approximately 50 per cent, larger than that of the whole British Empire, and the latest resources and the industrial strength of America are boundless. It is probably no exaggeration to say that by the accession of the United States the financial and industrial power of the Entente has at least been doubled.

It is ascertained that there is a good all-round inquiry for farming

lands of all classes in this and other districts. In spite of the uncertainty of the world’s affairs, purchasers are wiling to pay good prices for land. There is a conviction that the prices of New Zealand’s products—wool, meat, etc. —will not fail appreciably even after the war, and, therefore farmers are justified in putting good values on their properties.

Small boys are ever meddlesome, The other day a lad of about 14 years climbed into a standing motor car outside Mr. Newton King’s Stratford garage. Experimenting with the levers, the car suddenly leaped forward and dashed across the pavement into the garage door, which it shattered. The boy gazed distractedly for a moment at the scene, then mounted a push-bike and rode hurriedly away. The damage to the car comprised a broken head-light, bent axle, and twisted mud-guard.

The freight position is really a serious one all round for producers, importers, and exporters, and is reflected in the extraordinarily high prices to which many commodities by no means, indispensable have attained (says'the Post). It cuts both ways producing and consuming, and its effects are being accentuated rather than diminished. The end is very difficult to forecast, as difficult as the end o 7 the war, upon which it is contingent, but its effects arc likely to last for some long time after peace is concluded. v. A British observation officer, describing the battle of Messiues, said: "One of the northern Irish battalions pressed ahead with such impetuosity that it was temporarily out of touch with supports and had to withstand a fierce onset from three fresh Bavarian battalions. The nearest support battalion was one belonging to a famous West of Ireland regiment. They made their way through a tornado of shells, and arrived on the leftof the Ulstermen -in time to thwart a German move to enfilade the latter. The enemy were then pressing the Ulstermen very hard. The latter had withstood a fierce pounding with artillery, and had thrown back four separate infantry attacks. The West of Ireland men charged, and like a whirlwind they swept into action. The Germans were swept off the field.”

The rather unusual sight of a cow lying all night in the main road with a lamp over it was witnessed at Eemuera last evening. A man bringing a number of cows from St. Helier’s Bay thought he would walk them to their destination as they had been in the railway truck all night. They were going along Eemuera Eoad, when a tramcar came towards them. In the confusion that ensued one of the cows got in front of the tramcar and was knocked down. On examination it -was found that its hip wa« dislocated, and the man was obliged to leave it in the road all night. He covered the cow with a sheet, and placing a lamp over it went home, intending to come early next morning to remove it This morning the man arrived with a cart, and after some difficulty succeeded in removing the animal. Last week of the Great Winter Sale. Bigger reductions than ever ■during this week.—Collinson and Giffora ' Lta -