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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 September 1917, Page 4

The, ; cutter Janet (Captain Stenbeek) left Vavau on August 30 for Minerva Reef to ascertain the conditon of the schooner Strathcona, which wa s stranded there on her maiden voyage from Auckland.

A Taumarunui milkman named W. Miles had an exciting experience on Sunday night. When carrying milk from a cow bail to the dairy lightning struck the milk can and knocked him down. Miles was dazed hut uninjured.

A large audience in the Gore Theatre Royal was addressed by the Rev. Howard Elliott. The Mayor, Mr Mcpresided. At the conclusion a resolution was unanimously carried in favour of establishing a branch of the Protestant FoT!u&*al Associaton at Gore.

A large whale drifted ashore at Pukerua, near Paekakariki, last week, and gave the Maoris who live in the vicinity quite a busy time for a few days. The huge monster was fully 50 feet long and had a tail 12 feet across. It was dead when found and had drifted from some' ,of the whaling stations. *

A single man named Fred Bain, employed by a farmer down the Wanganui river, disappeared from the Club Hotel, Taumarunui, on the night of August 28. He left his watch behind and took a fellow-boarder's cap. It is surmised that he may have lost his life while crossing the Wanganui river on his way to the farm where he worked. 30-inch Nurse Cloth lOd yard. 42 inch Nurse Cloth 1/3, 1/6 yard.—Colliason and Gifford Ltd.

An official message from Brisbane states that the Shearers' Strike is off, and all sheds are merrily shearing.

Rounding pf vJ|.W£W. members* continues in Australia. Four have been sentenced to six months hard labour for disturbing a recruiting meeting.

Messrs Collinson and Cunninghame the noted Palmerston North drapery and furnishing firm has an interesting advertisement on page 8 about linoleums and floor coverings generally.

Instructions have been officially issued in New South Wales that youths under eighteen and a-half years* of age are not to be allowed to embark for service abroad, even though they have their parent's consent.

A smart junior (male) for office work is advertised for by the Rangitikei General and Co-operative Timber Co., Ltd., Applications must be in own handwriting addressed to P.O. Box 2g, Taihape.

The King has called upon the Empire to hold a "Eed Cross Day" on 18th October. Funds for Eed Cross Work are urgently needed and His Majesty trusts that every town, village, and hamlet will do all it can for so noble a purpose.

Mr T. Sherlaw, the up-to-date watchmaker and jeweller, has a notice over the leader about watches. It can confidently be said that when Mr Sherlaw mentions watches he knows what he is talking about, and the watch trade of New Zealand- will not dispute it.

The finder ofj a small purse containing a small sum of money and the owner's name, which was' lost between the Kaka Eoad railway bridge and the Courthouse, is asked to be good enough to return it to this office. The person returning it after this notice will be prosecuted.

To give an idea of the widespread operations of the National Efficiency Board, now to go out of office as a corporate body ; the Dunedin Star mentions that in the Otago Military District controlled by Mr W. D. Hunt, there are 127 committees of advice, with 390 members, also five expert advisers, two boards of trustees, and ten district trustees.

"We all say we are losing money " said a member of the Oroua County Council on Saturday, when referring to an application for better consideration.' The applicant] had stated he was losing money on the work done for the Council, so hig.h was the price of horse feed and. other costs. "If you ask the farmers, they will all say they are losing* money. We are all alike."

Miss Ida Mann, M.A., aged' 29- a teacher, who was on two months' sick leave from the Lyttelton school for a nervous breakdown, was staying at Timaru with an uncle. She wa s apparently recovering and on Saturday evening wdb quite cheerful. She went to bed, but during the night she got up without disturbing anyone, and in the morning was found dead.

The Minister of Defence made a statement in Parliament with regard to the work of the Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board. August was a record month, but the Board, sitting daily, was able to cope with all applications without delay. (Hear, hear). The cases considered during August numbered 930 of which 116 were withdrawn, 50 deferred and 764 granted, making a total of 2295 applications granted to date, involving an annual liability of £46 516.

On Sunday afternoon 94 soldiers arrived in Auckland from Palestine and Egypt, after a long and delayed journey. The greater number of the 94 men are invalied from Egypt, and they are mostly convalescent and able to go to their homes. Those who live in the South left, by last evening's Main Trunk express. The only three serious cases were landed in Sydney, and they will be broug-ht here later. Five of the party were men discharged from a reinforcement while en route to their destination.

The conscience of a sneak-thief is admittedly of a highly elastic- nature, but one would think when it came to stealing the property of a returned soldier, even the most casehardened thief would 7iave some compunction. However, this was not so at at Dunedin recently when Mr "VTilliam Joyce, who has not long returned from active service, had his coat and returned soldier's badge stolen from a hedge, where it had been placed while the > owner was assisting a friend to erect a fende" on his property at the top of Stafford street. 42-inch Floral Voiles, Dainty designs 2/9, 2/11 yard. 30-ineh Floral Voiles neat designs 84d and Is yard.—Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.