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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 August 1917, Page 4

It is said that the cablestaff will be transferred from Whakapuaka to Wellington about the 18th inst. Seven hundred cases of honey (each of Icwt) have been taken on board a Home liner at Lyttelton. The exportation of empty bottles and jars, also bicarbonate of soda, has been prohibiting by Order-in-Council, contained in a Gazette Extraordinary. Of 5300 Etonians who have been on active service, over 800 have been killed, the same number mentioned in despatches and the honours won include six Victoria Crosses. A Hastings Maori offered himself for enlistment with the 35th Reinforcements. His spirit was willing, but his wife was strong, and she refused to. allow him to go, much to his disgust. Charles M. Schwab, the American steel king, in his recently published book, relates that one morning many years ago, a young telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania railroad was confronted with a dilemna. Colonel T. A. Scott, hi s superior was absent and could not be found. The road was tied up by a scries of wrecks. Right then the operator disregarded one of the strictest rules, and sent out a dozen telegrams, and signed with Colonel Scott’s name, giving orders that would clear the tracks. The colonel punished him by making him his private secretary. At 28, the young operator succeeded Colonel Scott. This operator was Andrew Carnegie.

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News has been received that Brig-adier-General Earle Johnstone, eldest son of the Hon. C. J. Johnstone, Speaker of the Upper House, was killed by a sniper in France. “ ~

As showing the number of women who were taking up dairy work in Taranaki, the chairman of the First Appeal Board, (Mr. D. G. A. Cooper) states that 2200 men and 1500 women were engaged in the industry.

A first class sheep farm of 1459 acres carrying 2200 sheep and 80 cattle is advertised for sale in this issue on account of a farmer who is going into camp. Full partkmlars can be obtained on application to Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.

We wish to draw the attention of farmers to the sale of dairy cattle to sold on account J. McCracken. Taihape at the next Taihape sale. This affords an opportunity to all persons interested in dairying of securing some first class cows, as this herd is recognised as being one of the best in the district.

In the course of a high tribute paid in the House of Representatives to our brave French Allies, Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., said that an ordinary poilu had scratched on the walls of a hut in Verdun words which M. Marcel Hutin, the great French war correspondent, had declared would become immortal. Those words were —"Germany fights to oppress. France fights to set free. On the fate of France depends the fate of the wmrld."

A message from Sydney says that up to date 294 free homes for soldiers’t 1 widows have been made available by the New South Wales Lands Department at a cost of about £IO,OOO. ‘‘There is no limit to the number to the number of homes to be provided,’’ said the Minister of Lands. “Every widow who has no home and wants one will get one. Some are built by the Government and others are rented. They are provided in any centre of the State.”

“During the time the soldiers stood at attention whilst a high staff officer passed by, their dinner-plates were so covered by flies that it was impossible to see "what else was on the plates.” Professor Kirk (says the Lyttelton Times) quoted this incident , during the present war as an instance that the authorities did not take the fly nuisance seriously enough. He added that the military authorities were beginning to realise that flies could kill men, but did not seem so sure that the men could kill flics.

We may talk as much scandal as we like about Queen Elizabeth, but not every nation permits that freedom of historical criticism, says the "Observer. " A Socialist in the Jnited States has been sent to gaol for six months for libelling George Washington, and it is not long since a woman was sentenced at Vienna for casting aspersions on Maria Theresa. But no country is so particular in this matter as Japan, where a few years ago, a man was imprisoned for speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor Jimmu. His Majesty reigned about the year 665 B.C.

By Gazette Extraordinary, Messrs. A. H. Miles, Alexander Macintosh, and George Wilson, all of Wellington, have been constituted a Munitions and Supplies Board. The functions of the board shall be, at the request of the Ministcr-in-charge pf Munitions and Supplies to inquire into all matters relative to the purchase, requisition, or other acquisition of military supplies required for the use of the Expeditionary Force raised under the Expeditionary Forces Act, IP 1.3, rnd to advise the Minister for Defence and 'be Minister in Chargeof Munitions and Supplies with respect to all such matters.

"The nearer to tragedy the greater the comedy," was exemplified on the Tauranga wharf the other evening (says the Bay of Plenty Times) as the Ngapuhi was leaving. A young lady rushed on board as the gangway was being lowered, but her companion with her luggage just missed. He hesitated to throw a "considerable" dress basket aboard, but the distress plainly to be seen on the young lady’s face was too much for a gallant who stood near by. He pounced on the luggage and threw it on the ship’s rail, where it was secured. The crowd watched in silence and as it saw the besket secured, turned its eyes on the "sport,” who by this time was balancing in midair. He had lost his balance and plunged headlong into the harbour. A rope and a little exertion landed him on the wharf, where he was promptly offered a match, for he still held in his teeth the pipe he had been smoking before immersion.

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