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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 August 1917, Page 4

Speaking to a Post reporter on Saturday morning, Sir Joseph Ward said that subscriptions to the LibertyLoan of £12,000,000 were coming in satisfactorily. But much remained to be done, and the public had to bear that fact steadily in mind.

A four or five roomed bouse and two unfurnished rooms are enquirecT for in our advertising columns.

A return match will be played on the Recreation Ground, Taihape, on Saturday, between the Taihape and Raetihi football teams.

A man who is called up in the ballot offers his carrying business for carrying business, for sale, comprising lorry, van and four horses.

Mr J. Caphill, has just received another consignment of prime Canterbury potatoes which he is selling at eight shiilngs per cwt., delivered.

A bullet was successfully extracted from the heart of Russian officer. The surgeon who perfromed the deiicate operation was Professor Gaudier, chief surgeon of the Nice centre.

The building opposite the Times Office, formelry in the occupation of

Mr A. P. Fox, is being demolished, preparatory to the erection of an up-

to-date motor garage for Messrs Edkin and Eteveneuax, the brick and other building material for which is already on the ground.

Members of the police force were in evidence at the entrance gates to Metropolitan Club's course at Addington, the club's patrons being <asked to produce their enrolment certificates under the Military Service Act, before starting on the day's trotting.

Mr H. C. Cochran has a fine highgrade piano, by the most celebrated English maker. of the day, for sale. The instrument, which has only been in use for three months, originally cost £95, is to be sold for £6O cash. The sale of this fine instrument is necessitated by the owner leaving for the front.

In our advertising columns to-day, Messrs W. J. White and Sons announce the last seven days of this sale. The special items to be sacrtficed this time sports, coats, tweed coats, vests, millinery etc. These particular goods must be sold, and those fortunate to get in early will seure some undoubted bargains.

The manufacture of agricultural lime from sea shells has been started at Karaka (Auckland). The shells which are collected after spring tides, to ensure their being free from sand, are put through a disintegator, which reduces them to powder at the rate of eight tons a day. The resulting product is said to b a high grade lime.

It has been figured out that the sandbags used on the western front, if piled up in a conical heap, assuming them to be full, would make a hill 900 feet high and seven miles round at the base. Their total weight would be more than 800,000, tons. If laid end to end, the bags would encircle the earth 136 times. Laid on the ground they would occupy 600,000 acres.

The tenth ballot is to be drawn today. About 15,000 names will be drawn, aria" it is expected that the result of the drawing will not be available for pubication until the end of next week at the eariest. This ballot will take two thirds of the men remaining in the First Division, and as there will be only about eig-ht thousand names left, this may be the last ballot. Next time a draft is required the whole of the remainedr of the Division may be taken.

Some strange samples of reasons and excuses are sometimes offered by reservists. A novel explanation came the way of the Second Auckland Miliary Service Board at Te Kuiti. An appellant named John Thompson, a cook, living at Awakino, stated his objection to serving was that it would be a hards-hip for him to have to go into camp because the military camps in New Zealand had only dry canteens, while he was always used to using his own discreetion. The appeal was dismissed, so Thompson will still have to use his own discretion.

The Sydney Sun's wit gets off this clever skit ,on a German communique: The British yesterday made another attempt to recapture Belgium, but completely failed to gain their objectvies at any point. At the cost of overwhleming losses they penetrated our lines to a short distance on a small section of the front, but the whole of the occupied territory, with the exception of 50 or 60 square miles, still remains in our hands. We have compelled the enemy to evacuate air the terrain in front of the last trench which he captured, driving him back with sanguinary losses. We have withdrawn successfully to a new line for strategic reasons, and i with the help of -he Almighty we 1 shall continue to occupy the same, until for strategic reasons we decide to evacuate it. All ranks are elated over the splendid vctory. ' Don't miss seeing the Stocktaking Throw-out Bargains at Collinson and Gifford Ltd. (see windows).