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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 4 October 1917, Page 4

Lightning conductors, on account of their copper and platinum, are being requisitioned in Germany.

Mrs Kawler: Did you ever go to one of those astrologers? Mrs Blunderby: No; but my daughter Kate is just crazy to have her periscope read.

West Lancashire farmers refuse to employ Irish labourers of military age in potato harvest and other work. Strong feelings prevail against these men, who demand a minimum of 10s a day.

As showing the difficulties the Acclimatisation Society has in dealing with illegal shooting, Mr Cartier, the honorary ranger, stated at the meeting of the Taihape branch last night that on his rounds he had discovered the decapitated head of a hen pheasant and feathers, showing that the head had been cut off and the bird plucked to render detection difficult.

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The municipality of Friedrichshaven } a suburb of Berlin, is advertising that it has succeeded in obtaining a quantity of imported biscuits for distribution among the residents. The bnscuits are to be allotted, ' on the grocery ticket, half a pound to each person, at 9s a pound.

Some people are under the impression that it is now too late to forward parcels to reach the troops at the front before Xmas. No information of a definite character can be obtained or given on this point, but people wishing to despatch parcels would be well advised to post them at once.

The' Main Trunk express from Wellington arrived at Auckland at about 10.30 yesterday morning, being nearly four hours late. The cause of the delay was due to an accident to a number of wagons at Waimaihi station, near Taumararunui. One of the axles broke while shunting operations were being carried out, and the Main Trunk was held up while the line was cleared

The fifes and drums for the newly organised Fife and Drum Band, in connection with the Taihape Senior Cadets, have arrived, and to-day they will be on public view in the shop window of Mr. H. Dashwood, booksellers, Sergeant-Major Forrest is still about £lO short of the money to pay the bill and he will of course be glad to receive the smallest donations so that the Band may start clear of debt.

In discussing the depredations committed by shags on trout it was stated at the meeting of the Taihape branch of the Acclimatisation Society last night that a shag had made the dam on the Hautapu river its fishing ground for the last three weeks, and had been frequently observed swallowing young trout. That shag's days should surely now be numbered. Here is an opportunity for some enterprising member of the Awarua Gun Club.

"On Tuesday last/' writes a New Zealand Main Body soldier from Horn church early in August, "I went on a trip with a party from here to Windsor Castle. "We were piloted through the apartments, gardens, and stables on a tour of inspection. The King was not at home, but Princess Alice and her daughter entertained us and waited on us at morning tea. I could not help noticing the total absence of 'swank.' It would do some people good to copy them in this respect."

Says Britain's Chief of Staff (Sir William Robertson): Do not let us underrate the Germans because their cause is bad, because they are guilty of provoking the war because their material resources are less than ours. The whole German nation is disciplined as an army. It is an army. The Germans have discipline in their blood. Discipline fine-drawn to the thinness of docility is a bad thing in peace, making for slavishness, but it provides a people with certain advantages in war.

Apropos of the united National Intercessory Service to be held in the Taihape Town Hall next Sunday evening, it is a singular coincidence that the day set apart by _ our Government is the anniversary of the battle of Lepanto, in which battle the Turks, who were then threatening to overrun Europe were defeated. The menace of the Turks was at the time as awesome as the menace of the ,Hun at the present time, and Christianity was also then in danger, However, in the battle of two hundred years ago the Turks were decisively beaten, and Christianity triumphed.

"Why should whole families of First Division men be called up, and sent awaj' to be wiped out without giving them a chance to carry on their business?" was the question of a father of two sons in the trenches, who was Supporting the appeal of his only son, who was managing the business. Major Conlan replied that that was the law, but the father indignantly ' saad he thought the law made a grave mistake. It was not fair to the boys, at the front, and much bitterness was being felt about it. Admitting the chairman's remarks, about everybody being called on to make these sacrifices, the father said he considered the calling up of the Second Division should not necessarily include the remaining sons of families who have swelled the ranks of First Division men in the firing line —Auckland Star.

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That "Jack is as good as his master" May be all very well as a jest, Despite such patter, in men as a matter The best will be always the best. In the keen competition for trade Worth alone can succeed and endure —For coughs and colds this principle holds