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Taihape Daily Times, 31 October 1917, Page 4

The English Government collected nearly £2,000,000 for the financial years 1916-17 from the petrol tax

W. Arend, the German sprinter who won the world’s championship in 1897, is said to be a prisoner of ■war, acording to late exchanges from Paris,

In a Hew York trade circular, under the heading of lime-juice appears the following: The crop this year kas been purchased for use in the British Navy. ”

A young man who appeared before the Military Service Board in Mastcrton stated that he would not go and fight unless a manager could be found for his farm who would make it pay. Another stated that he preferred to remain at home and care for his mother rather than go to the trenches.

By the way of apologia for the barbarities of his armies, the Kaiser declares that the French are “not like the French of 1870.” He may well say that at the end of three years’ bitter war, where fie expected Jro be on, gaged only as many weeks. But he falsely insinuates that they have de:dined in chivalry.

The Taihape Postmaster draws public attention to the fact that the new rates of postage provide for commercial papers, including trademen’s accounts and invoices being accepted for transmission through the post at a uniform rate of one penny for all places within the Dominion. This also includes the half-penny war tax.

A trained nurse is wanted by Dr. Boyd to commence duties at the end of November

A smart girl as apprentice to the drapery business is wanted by Mb A. iSpence, draper and clothier, Main St.

A steer from 2 to 3 years old, lost from J_ McCracken’s or S.S. Timbs' property, is advertised for by Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Taihape.

The various buildings at Raetihi railway terminus are now' in an advanced state of construction, and it appears that the regime of the Railway Department is not very distant. The buildings comprise four residences, station, goods shed and trucking yards.

The onion shortage which has prevailed at Auckland for some time has been somew'hat relieved by the arrival of overseas consignments ■which have sold at fairly high rates. Canadian grown onions during the week Realised 62s 6d per 1001 b. case, while several tons of Victorian onionS subsequently sold at an average of about 44 per lb.

A reservist, w r ho resides at Kaponga, told the Military Service B’oard that he rented a house of five rooms for the sum of seven shillings a week. The Board seemed surprised, and Mr McLaren remarked that if such a house could be obtained in Wellington they would have it surrounded by troopers to prevent the people from getting in.

Enormous profits have been made by some of t-he leading American motor concerns as tne result of the Avar. One company which made £l- - in 1914, increased its profits to £5,000,000 in 1916. It is interesting to note that there are 450 motor car manufacturing firms in the United States. Of these, twelve companies are responsible for no less than 80 per cent of the total production, leaving only 20 per cent, for the remaining 438 firms

'A letter from England states that during the air raid of July 14, the General Post Office in St. Martin ?s----le-Grand, London, was struck by four bombs, two of which exploded. The girl operators in the telegraph department did Trot'leave their posts after the warning untiL a bomb fell very close; they then went down to the cellar for an hour and a half, during which time they received only half pay! The delay caused great congestion on the wires for a considerable time.

An extraordinary accident occurred at the Railway Wharf, Wellington, on Sunday. Several seamen employed on a large barque were spending their time bathing, and some very high diving was indulged in. One of the bathers, Charles Hansen, mounted the yardarm, but Ms dive was not well executed ? and he struck the water with his back. When he came to the surface he was bleeding from the mouth, ears and nose, and was clearly in a bad way. He is at present in the public hospital, suffering from internal injuries. It is estimated that the height ( Hansen dived fromiis 65 feet above the harbour.

Recently Constable McGowan arrested at Ruatiti a man who is believed to be either a Turk or a Bulgarian, who had evidently chosen this hinterland as a refuge (says the Raetihi correspondent of the ““Wanganui Chronicle”). Lucikly the man was in bed in his camp when the police stepped inside, and his bound towards a rifle was too late. The captive was brought to Eaetihi, thence to Wellington, and he is now safely interned. It is reported that on the journey the captive was volubly talkative. and made no attempt to disguise his sympathies. He spoke of submarine visitations, and evinced great contempt for the port defences of New Zealand, His remarks in this connection suggested something more than random braggadocio. On the same evening, at Raetihi, the local police also arrested an Austrian who had been in the Ruatiti district , for some time. He was also interned.