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Taihape Daily Times, 28 November 1917, Page 4

The 1917-18 'Akaroa cocksfoot harvest promises a .-heayy yield, and everywhere, it is reported, the seed is looking remarkably well.

An assistant is wanted at the Tautapu Tea Rooms, Station Street. It is understood that, in view of the circumstances of the present season, none of the Canterbury freezing works will open for the killing of lambs and sheep until after the new year. So far three New Zealanders have gained the coveted honour of the Victoria Cross. The latest award of the King's medal for valour is to Lieut. McAdam, who is a brother to Mrs. G. A. Lee, of the Bluff. In Paris the curfew now rules. The first bell tolls at 10.30 p.m. and belated theatre-goers have until midnight to return to their homes. After 12 people must show their papers and have a good excuse for being out. Slaughtering will commence at the Feilding Freezing Works to-day. A full staff has been engaged and "the works will be busy from top to bottom. Lambs are being exported by train from Fielding, in addition to those going to the local works. A vessel that lately came to New Zealand has had a most interesting career. She was sunk, and for two years was lying on the sea bottom, when she was refloated and converted into a five-masted fore and aft schooner owing to the shortage of tonnage and with the combination 'of steamer hull and sailing ship rig is said to present a rather peculiar appearance.

A sensational accident occurred at a Napier hotel recently, w.hen a Maori named Tupara fell out of a top window on to t he pavement below. Tupara, who is a man weighing about 15 stone, is believed to have walked through the window while asleep, and so met with what might easily .have proved to be a fatal fall. His injuries consist of fractures of both arms and his right leg.

Within the last few days some 50 aliens (mostly Danes) have registered at the Palmerston police station. In Wellington, as in Christchurch (according to the Post) neither the police nor anybody else thought that there were so many aliens in Wellington. People of all countries, Russians, Italians, Scandinavians* Greeks and other nationalities too numerous to mention, including a large number of Americans, have hastened to comply with the regulations.

A tale of domestic discord was told in the Welington Magistrate's Court recently when Robert Albert Eccles appeared to answer a charge of failing to provide his wife with adequate maintenanie. Louisa Eccles aged 22, stated that her husband left her at a moment's notice went to Auckland, and had since failed to support her. From Auckland she received a telegram to the effect that -her husband was dying, and replied: "Not biting; will send a wreath." The defendant, who said he was unable to do* much work, was ordered to pay 15s a week maintenance, and £2 2s costs.

Particulars of the tonnage and engine power of the 14 wooden vessels which are being built in the United States to the order of the Australian Government were given last week by the Prime Minister. Mr Hughes said that four of the vessels will be equipped with oil engines, and 10' would be steamships. In no respect could the vessels be described' as auxiliary power steamers. Their engines were to be capable of developing a "sea speed of 9 or 10 knots. Their deadweight tonnage would be 3300 each and they were especially constructed for wheat carying.

At an address given by Mr. Thorn, who contested the Palmerston seat in the Labour interest, in the Theatre Royal, Napier, the following motion was proposed by Mr. T. Liddell and carried unanimously: "That this meeting of the citizens of Napier desires to enter its emphatic protest aguinst the appointment of the Hon. A. L. Herdman, Attorney-General, to the position of a Supreme Court judge, holding that his political past proves his- total incapacity for impartial judgment; and,-further that this meeting expresses its conviction that such an appointment will weaken the popular faith and respect in the admin* istration of the law."

Speaking of the new tanks, which he had seen for the first time, a captured German said, "Our newspapers pour ridicule on them, but when you see them at work you soon change 'your mind.'' Describing the work of the tanks in glowing terms. Lc Matin correspondent say's: "Their principal triumphs were at Inverness Copse and Pammern Redoubt. One attacked a concrete redoubt and all its defenders surrendered. Another went from spinny to spinny hunting out machine guns. At St. Julien, which bristled machii\c|guns, tank went wallowing through the village, smashing everything. The Germans have formed special engineering sections to fight the tanks, which they attack with 121 b. bombs."

The Tamaki Sawmillfng Co. Ltd., Raurimu, is wanting a machinist for a planer. Shearers, cooks, married couples, and labourers are wanted at Shute's Labour Exchange. A pearl and amethyst pendant, lost in Taihape last evening, is advertised for and a reward offered. A lost sheep pup is advertised for and its return to Kelly's Sta'bTes will be rewarded. The vagaries of war. One Wellington soldier (an officer) has a son three years old, whom he has not" seen. Only about 30 per cent., of the first batch of the Masterton Second Division reservists have passed as fit by the Medical Board. The Minister for Defence has received cabled advice that the 29th to 34th New Zealand Mounted Rifle Reinforcements are all well at a port of call.