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Taihape Daily Times, 27 November 1917, Page 4

Shearer's Cook is wanted at Shute's Labour Exchange wages five pounds a week. We have humorists in the censor's office. One of' the boys at the front, in a letter home, gracefully mentioned that he had "sent a dozen of Bodies to \Hell." The poli|te censbr scored out the Satanic word, and above it wrote: "It is not permitted to refer to the German Headquarters." A Dutchman, named Jan Pietersc, was sentenced at Wellington on Saturday, to six months' imprisonment for using seditious language in the Metropolitan Hotel. He was recently discharged from gaol after serving a sentence of two months for a similar offence at Nelson. He was a member of the Port Kembla's crew.

A newspaper of average circulation visits more people in one day than a single canvasser could in five years. Or again, suppose you had to send letters to the same number of people you reach by one newspaper advertise, ment; think what it would cost you. Newspaper advertising is the least expensive and most productive of all forms of advertising.

A couple of months ago (says the Eltham Argus) pigs were a drug on the market; nobody wantea them, as there was no spare milk available for feeding them. To-day everybody appears to want pigs and they are prepared to pay any price. A farmer yesterday paid 18s each for two tiny little weaners which six or eight weeks ago would have brought by auction 3s or 4s.

News roeeived irom New York recently states that German companies managed in New York by German citizens are insuring American merchantmen and their cargoes against submarine attack. To do so, they must have full information about the ships and -eir cargoes, as well as the probable route to be taken. Among the companies are the Mannheim Insurance Company (of Mannheim, Germany, the Nord-Deutsche Insurance Company (of Hamburg), and the Allianz Insurance Company (of Berlin.)

"I want to make it clear that the new season's output of butter and cheese has been purchased t>y cue Im perial authorities" said Mr Massey. at Wellington on Saturday. "All thatnow requires to be done is with regard to some details which are of undoubted importance to the producers but which I have no doubt will be" satisfactorily arranged between the New Zealand Government and the representatives of the dairy industry nest Wednesday,, and I believe this will be the final meeting for the season."

A New Zealand-born officer at present in Wellington who was with the British Forces at the recapture of Kut and the taking of Bagdad met the late General Sir Stanley Maude during the operations He speaks of him as one of the finest types of English gentlemen, and a military leader whom everyone absolutely trusted. (As a fighting general, he was revered by officers and men alike, and his control was absolute at all times. "He knew his job," was the best commentary one could make on General Maude as a soldier.

In accordance with the scheme of "increases" in the cost of everything, the higher charges for railway fares, recently officially announced, effect as from Monday. The increases in passenger fares and coaching rates are at the rate of 10 per cent, except in fares for military forces, weekly 12trip tickets, workers' weekly tickets, and suburban season tickets, tabulated parcel rates, checked, lost and left luggage, and left parcels. In respect to goods, the increase is the same, but exception is made of bread, flour, fresh fish, fresh meat, fresh milk, sugr.r, tea, timber and wheat. With regard to the two last-mentioned Items special conditions apply.

A laundress is wanted for the Huia Street Hospital; good wages are offered and there are no other duties to perform. A brindle and white sheep dog with collar No. 1068, Rangitikei County 5 found at Te Moe Hau Junction is advertised. No fewer than 50,000 broccoli plants are to be put into Kowhai Park, Wa. nganui and, when they are big enough the vegetable will be sold for patriotic purposes. Those in search of a really good section of land, that must soon grow into value as building sites, are reminded that the Village Settlement of 13| acres already having two buildings upon it, at Torere, is to be sold by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, on Wednesday, December sth. J John Clarke, who had been commit- ' ted for sentence for theft at Taihape, [as well as having escaped from custody, at Wanganui Gaol on February 10. 1917 was sentenced at the Supreme Court yesterday to two years on each conviction, the sentences to be concurrent. Prisoner would be further detained for five years for reformative treatment The Silver Grid, where the fatal fire in Manchester Street, Christchurch, occurred on Monday 12th inst., was the scene of a very cold blooded murder in October, 1909. A young man named Arthur John Williams shot a young woman who was servant, at the board-ing-house, the crime taking place in a passage near the spot where Mr. Hatch's body was found. Williams was convicted of murder on November IS, 1909, and sentenced tc death, but the sentence was communted to imprisonment for life.