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Taihape Daily Times, 30 November 1917, Page 4

A man to assist on a farm is advertised for by Mr J. Smith, Papakai Road.

It was stated at a conference of the London Missionary Society in Birmingham, that hundreds of Chinamen have recently come to Birmingham, and that some of them have married English girls.

The ex-German steel racing schooner yacht Germania, 366 tons, built at Kiel in 1908, at, it is said, a cost .Of £45,000 and which was sold by auction on May 23 last to Captain Hannavig, of Christiania, for £IO,OOO, has been resold for £20,000.

An indication of the rapid growth of Great Britain's air service is afforded in a recent issue of the London Gazette which contains the names of no fewer than 252 cadets who have been promoted to second lieutenant on probation in the Royal Flying Corps.

You have heard of Billy Sunday, the great American revivalist? This is his description of the Kaiser: ‘‘The rottencst, vilest, dirtiest, most vicious, corrupt, inhuman, beastly, devilish, triple extract of Hell.” Nearly as well as we could have described himh—‘John Bull.’

A special feature of the Otaihape Club's Day to-morrow will be a penny collection. The pennies will be laid out in rows along the footpath and those in charge have undertaken to line/the main thoroughfare with coins when a most imposing d isplay can be confidently expected.

“I know of a man in the Gisborne district whose net income reached £07,000, and yet he paid no exceaa profits tax,” said Mr. G. E. Sjykes, M.P„ at a re-union in Masterton, when discussing the failure of the excess profits tax to achieve the object for which it was intended.

“The great majority of the Dutch,” says Flight-Lieutenant D. Harkness, E.N.A.S., D.S.C., who is on a visit to Wellington, on a six months ’ parole from Holland (where he was interned as a prisoner of war), “arc strongly pro Ally. In temperament they are much more English than most people imagine. The general opinion seems to be that thqy arc very similar to the Germans, but this is not so. ’ ’

A ten year-old boy named Douglas Coombes, the only son of a widow, was killed at the Ingestrc Street railway crossing, Wanganui, on Wednesday. As he was returning from school the lad went to save a little girl in the roadway from being run over by an approaching horse and cart, and in doing so stepped on to the railway crossing, and was run over by the train. The Otaihape Club’s Day at the Red Cross Shop to-morrow promises to be a notable event,,ln addition to a big display of produce, etc., the sale of surprise packets will be vigorously conducted. The committee in charge of the effort has spared no pains to make the day a record for the town and is confident that all previous high-water marks will he completely submerged. Lieut. Histed, a New Zealander, belonging to the Royal-Flying Corps now visiting Palmerston, told the Standard that six months is the average time pilots last at their work, without a spell. Generally, they are then ihvaldicd for a rest. This work is of a very arduous nature and exacting on an airman’s constitution. Lieut. Histed was invalided several months ago, and granted permission to visit New Zealand by the authorities at Homo Referring to the death of his cousin General Sir Francis Maude, in Mesopotamia, Mr. Cyril Maude, at a civic welcome given to the veteran actor in Wellington on Wednesday, remarked: “I have no definite information yet how it occurred, It was reported in Sydney that he had been poisoned Only three weeks ago I had a cable in reply to one sent by me to the General: ‘All well here. Come back this way. ’ This meant an invitation to Bagdad, and at the time I wondered how on earth I was to get there.’