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Taihape Daily Times, 14 August 1919, Page 4

While Ada Monkman, of Leeds, was lighting a fire her clothes caught alight. Her mother, on seeing her in flames, fell dead. The girl was badly burned.

‘‘ What’s the matter?” the corporal asked. “You look more scared than when you were bucking the Hindcnburg line.” The private replied: “I’m getting ready to go inside to ask the boss for my old job back.”

On the battlefield near Poclcappclle, within a few miles of Ypros, a Belgian farmer has returned, -and has already cleared, dug, and planted with wheat several acres of his holding. A German “pillbox” forms a home for himself and hi s family.

The Athonic is expected to arrive at Wellington on September Ist, with 124 men of all ranks and 14 nurses. Private J. Anderson, Taihape; Private R. H Crawley, Raetihi; and Pri\alc D. J. Ellis, Rangataua, are on board.

Before the war in the East was over sufficient corn had been grown, not only to supply the whole population of Mesopotamia «iid Itho armies 'there, 'but also actually to send corn to Europe. The saving on shipping tonnage amounted to fully 250,000 tons in the year.

“Sent the Kaiser here!” is the heading of a leading article in the St. Helena Observer, the only weekly paper on the island. Not since the days of Napoleon, says the writer, has the island colony been so excited at the prospect of adding to its dignity another Imperial hostage to fortune.

A man, who pleaded guilty to a charge of evading payment for a railway ticket between Taumarunui and Obakune. wa s at Taumarunui on Tuesday fined £2 and cos s. The accused slept from here to Obakune, where he purchased a ticket to Marton. When challenged by the guard, the accused first denied his offence and then paid •ihe fare and gave a wrong name.

The grip which football has upon the average Aucklander was manifested recently when the men returned by the Matatna (says the Star). One soldier had just gripped the hand of a waiting friend, and his first query was "How’s the football going?” "You’re home in time for the Rep. match,” was the prompt reply, and the soldier said: "That lucky!”* as the 'two walked away. j ; ■ -<g.

Tlic following vessels will be within wireless range to-night:—Maori ami Mararoa. In range of Chathams; Port Hacking, Ruahinc, Tahiti, and Moana.

The Whakatane Rugby Union discussed a protest by returned soldiers and others against playing Dalmatians. It wag finally resolved that Dalmatians oe debarred from playing in the senior grade competition.

The Eailway Department states that the passenger traffic on the lines running out of Wellington continues to decrease as the result of the restrictions in connection with long-distance t avelling, while more goods are being carried than was the case for a week or two after the embargo was put on.

The British army during the war owned 500,000 cats. Some two years ago someone discovered that cats had a deep-rooted aversion to poison gas, and gave notice of its presence long before any human being had an inkling of* the danger. So the Military Service Acts were extended to cover the inhabitants of the animal kingdom, and pussy received her “ calling-up ” notices.

“My gross turnover is £125 per week, and I only employ two bands to assist me in carrying on my business, yet I am losing at the present price. I have to pay for stock £2O per week,” warf the emphatic assurance of a!n Auckland butcher when discussing the prevailing high prices for fat stock at 'Westfield. “I might as well close the doors, and take .a holiday, and spend £9 a week in recreation. It would pay me better,” ho concluded. —Auckland Star,

An individual whoso gait was unsteady failed to convince the railway officials at Marton Junction on a recent morning that his business was of sufficient urgency to justify him getting Ithe privilege of travelling. “You carry beer, don’t you?” said the unsteady one. On being informed that there was provision under the restricted service for the carriage of refreshments of a liquid nature, he added: “Well, take me as beer. Pm full up to the neck with it. ”

Mr Ernest St. C. Haydon, a popular. and well-known sheep breeder in Argentina, who intends visiting Great Britain and New Zealand in the near future (says the Pastoral Review) has accepted a challenge made by Senor Martin Puchari, La Primera Estancia, Argentina, in which the latter signified his willingness ,to pay 20,000d01. (£1750) to any importer who could land in that country a Lincoln ram of the same quality as one sold by him at auction in Buenos Ayres, in February, for £445.

The price of potatoes stiffened a little in Wellington, on Monday, good table sorts realising 12/(1 per cwt., an advance of 2/ on the week-end price. Owing to the threatened shortage of potatoes in the south, which is forcingup the price locally, the Board of Trade has ceased issuing any permits for exportation. Permission was given in some instances to export during July, but those permits only extended to people who had booked space for the same up till July 31. No fresh permits arc being given by the Board of Trade.

An official telegram to the Vienna Foreign Office exonerating Serbia from responsibility for the Serajevo, murder has been published, by Maximilian Harden in the Berlin Zukunft, as a part of the mass of evidence to show Gorman responsibility for the war. This telegram, dated July 13, 1911, states plainly that the Serbian Government has no responsibility for the murder. The telegram, Herr Harden said, was cancelled, and ten days later the ultimatum to Serbia was presented. “Von Bethinann-Hollwcg may have forgotten it,” Herr Harden says, ‘‘but this decision was taken and registered on July 0, before the Kaiser left for the north, and he who had to choose between peace and war had alrady chosen war. A hundred million individuals were thus deceived.”

The Rev. Jasper Calcler told of - a drunkard who literally tumbled into his study late one night, and whom ho tried for several weeks to reform, while addressing a gathering of men at the Y.M.CA, on Sunday. The follow had no religion, no sense of sin, and had drunk away his will power. Four times he was fitted out with deC( nt clothes, only to sell them again or ch time to buy liquor. “He stayed i.i my house for seven weeks,’,’ said (lie speaker; “in that time he got chunk many times .1 counted up to sixteen bursts, and then lost count.” dhc explanation was that he 'began his career as a drinker by getting lump sugar soaked in port wine when he was four years old.” If home life is not built up on high religious and moral principles the man who makes a stumble in later life finds it mighty r.ard to nold up his head again.