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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 September 1917, Page 4

Oatsheaf chaff has advanced to £5 per ton in Ashburton,, and some of the retailers are asking £5 5s for first quality chaff.

The mail train from Auckland this morning was about two ‘hours late, owing to engine slips on the Spiral at Raurimu.

According to a special telegram received in San Francisco from Calgary, Alberta (states the San Francisco correspondent of the Christchurch Press), the highest prices ever recorded were paid for wool at the Calgary Association’s sale, which closed on August 8, Fine clothing wool brought the top price of 74 cents (3s Id) a pound. A total of 150,000 pounds was sold at an average of (30 cents (2s 6d.) per lb. Last year’s average was 29.2 cents. (14*d.) /

Answering a question in the House the Hon. A. L. Herdman said that enemy aliens in New Zealand had, with few exceptions, been interned, The instructions received through the Imperial authorities were that persons who were not a source of probable danger should be left at liberty, though compelled to report at intervals to the police. If he could be told of any person who was making himself obnoxious, he would be glad To hear particulars.

The Government’s new scheme of military pensions and allowances will probably be submitted to a secret sitting of the House to-night to enable informal discussion before the Pensions Bill is brought down. The proposals will contain, one simple essential, in that the allowances to a soldier’s wife will approximate nearer to 30s than £1 per week, and special allowances for motherless children. It is estimated the proposals will represent an increased cost of £850,000.

“What of the food restrictions at Home?” a recent arrival was asked in Auckland. “You come across the •food restrictions in England all right. The patients in hospital get every thing possible, but the staff have one meatless day (Friday) and two potatoless days (Sunday and 'Wednesday). If you go into a tea room and order afternoon tea, you are asked which you will have, bread and butter, plain cakes or sweet cakes. If you decide on sweet cakes, yop. don’t get any sugar with your but if you have unsweetened cakes or bread and butter, you get two lumps, and that has to do you whether you have one, two, or three cups of tea.”

Mr T. O’Dea has sold bis property at Winiata and has purchased 400 acres in the Owhango district. Mr o’De a is one of that class of settlers this district can ill spare, but he is not out of our reach in his new quarters at Owhango. Our Owhango correspondent, writing of Mr O’Dea, says, “judging from the amount of work he -has already accomplished at •his new homestead, Mr O’Dea is one of the progressive kind of farmers that make any district notable.” Our correspondent adds: “I was at the railway station the night he arrived. He had with him eleven railway truck loads of farm requirements. These had to be left on the rails till next day, when they were promptly cleared. Mr O’Dea is now pushing on his improvements as rapidly as possible.”

Dainty Camisole embroideries, 1/11 2/9, 3/3, 3/6 yard. Camisole lengths ready to make up, pretty designs, 2/1, 3/3, 8/6, 4/6, 4/11, 5/6, 6/11, 8/6 each.—Collinson and Ltd.

A reward is offered for the return of a lost gold brooch.

It was announced at a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery that the milii tary authorities had intimated that in future chaplains appointed to the forces would take military titles.

The Prime Minister says the Imperial Government ■wants our products to the end of the war, and, perhaps, for a time afterwards. He does not propose to lose sight of the position.

In deference to the wishes of the business men who form the main body of bowlers, the Palmerston Bowling Club has decided to abolish the general use of intoxicants on the green for the coming season.

In his advertisement on page one, Mr S. Ladelle, photographer, notifies that all those ■who want portraits to reach England or the trenches by Christmas, should be taken at the veryearliest moment.

Tenders are invited for the cartage of about one million feet of timber from the mill to the Karioi Eailway station, about nine miles. Particulars are given by advertisement on page one of this issue.

There have been many definitions of an optimist. The latest, which comes across the Atlantic, describes him as a person who will go into a restaurant without a halfpenny in his pocket and hope to pay for the meal with the pearl he expects to find in the oyster.

‘ ‘This matter is under consideration,” was the official reply of Minister of Defence to a question suggesting that before the Second Division is called up, action should be taken to ensure that all aliens perform some kind of war work.

According to the “Board of Trhde Labour Gazette” there -has been an increase of fully a million in the number of women workers in Great Britain, and all but a small proportion of them have directly replaced men in industrial and commercial occupations.

An overseas vessel arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon, on board of which were 450 returning invalided and wounded, soldiers from the front. A special train t conveying those who had their homes in the south passed through Taihape at 9.30 this morning. There were no serious eases aboard, but empty sleeves, maimed hands and limping legs told its own story. All arms of the service w'ere represented.

Owing to the extraordinary demand on Saturday for the surprise parcels put up by the committee having charge of this department the supply was almost exhausted by the evening. The committee immediately set to work to furnish a further supply, which are now available for sale, and the “power s that be” will see to it in future that the supply keeps pace with the demand. We have heard numerous expressions cf delight from purchasers who have secured packets whcih were really worth while.

A grand popular concert is to be given in the Town Hall on Wednesday, October 25th, in aid of the Nurses’ Memorial Fund, at which Mr John Prouse, New Zealand’s foremost baritone, ha s kindly consented to sing, whose numbers alone will be worth more than the whole charge for admission. It is understood that Mr L. B. H. De Lautour has the arrangement of the programme in hand, which should be convincing testimony that a more than usually excellent musical entertainment will be offered. The prices of admission are if anything too low, but on the other hand, it places them within the reach of every class in the community.

The resourcefulness of the Colonial boy was exemplified by an incident which came under our notice last week. Two small boys foregathered at the Three Stars at a time the pictures were due to start; both were anxious to view the “movies,” but they had only threepence between them. Various projects were discussed for “beating the door,” but were abandoned as hopeless. At the psychological moment a lady appeared, pushing a pram. Lifting the baby sue went into the pictures, leaving the vehicle outside. An inspiration seized the elder of the two lads, and lifting his smaller companion into the pram and carefully covering him up, he trundled it up to the ticket office, paid his “Thrum,”, and pushed his mate into the theatre. It was a simple matter in the darkness incidental to pictures to extricate his fellow-conspirator from the pram. Their enjoyment ,of the pictures was in no way marred by the novel, if risky, ruse of getting admission for two on a ticket issued for one..

Beautiful flouncing embroidery 11 inches wide, newest designs, l/11, 2/3, 2/6, 2/11, 3/6 yard. 28 inch wide exquisite designs 5/11 yard.-—Collinson and Gifford Ltd.