War Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 16 September 1914, Page 3

War Notes.

WAKEA .0 PATRIOTIC "liat Lux" »<■;;«, the editor as follows: Ar,—.■) jocn wondeiiug wiitt haa t-,» joui local coi rtoputtdenL.. V l . :0 must L-vvry oi-iier legality lu.i >■ .JI; u lunula [J.I, •. cone 1)1 lit,. ,-,a. ' ' i'. j.illr,oLit Ililtd -. the report vf .J.o i'.tll doilv v/ould liard.y is| , r „ •„» u i j uu; eoMimos. .■ .. ''lis', Lilt- implex £lOll that W C i.uvu ii.jvaed 'lo do UUI I'-wt ill a v'at no one, wii-i tile lea.ii spars oi pairiotinjn, cou'd <k- otlur than assist, to tlie u>.u-imiov ol hid ability, and lo relieve V.uiia «: a stigma., that it du.y not desjrve, you would oblige by inserting aa niucli of 'be following a.-. you have space Jul: On August 20, at a. Jt.cet-ng lield in Ihe public. lijall, .Mr J. was ilccted to the chair. After tin address by hiin (the notes of which are enclosed), a most enthusiastic iTesp-rn.-.; was made bv the meeting, and (ft.4 !>:, of which was coiloetiJ at once) was promised. A basket social at llie Newall Road Echool realised £7 Is ikl, ;uid a dance in the Warm. Hail £ii 11M Bd, whikt Uir tctal now collected and forwarded to 'the Empire Defence Fund totals £11(j Gs 101. Following is a list of subscriptions:— i. Burgess 10 ') A. Clothier 10 10 0 Charles Wells 10 Itj u T. Julian f» 5 (. «. A. Audrey, 5 5 0 IT. I*. Chapman t..- 6 " ' J Uuclior Bros o o \V.ir«i Athletic Club .. 5 5 0 V; l^f m ■■ a 0 0 Mr Millar o , 11, corbett 11 ;! W. Humble 2 0 0 un 2 0 0 If. Jordan 2 0 0 S. Welfa m . 2 0 i) J. C. Robinson jv- 110 i; L- Miiir i ]0 u C. fs. Sluir i <i o 1; Tobin 1 (i y W. I!.. I lai ke 1 o 0 C. Parker 1 o ti T-'Putt 1 o 0 J. IX Ro9« 1 o 0 X. Fowlds 1 o (, 11. ilagon ] o o

Rot Julian 1 o 0 T. Karon 1 o 0 Mrs 0. p .Tones 1 o y AV. R. Smith 1 o (, AV. Lawn. 1 o ti \Y. H. Julian 1 0 I) Mr De Oastro 1 o y Jr. De Ca.stro ] 0 0 K. <>. Clarke 1 0 0 .A. Litcliin 1 0 (' W. IT. Gibbons 1 0 0 A. S:id(llfr d 10 (i C. llevell 0 10 0 A. Muir 0 10 u Jr. I.in'ri 0 10 ') J. Machachhm 0 10 0 I). Quiokcndon 0 5 0 A. Wren 0 5 0 A. looker 0 r, 0 C Warnor .. 0 5 o If. Ilrurudon 0 5 I) Proceeds of BaskH Social .. 7 1 Proceed-) of Dunce (i 11) jj

WAR TAX FAVORED. PRESENT OOXTRIIH'TIONS ACT UiNFAJR'LY. R.n.i landiio.'-di:;; ixcai'ics. The circular letter from tin? Defence Minister, ami a copy of the Validator, Kill were referred to" by ilic clerk tit the Mtliain County Council oil .Saturday. J lie chairman said liu was not in sympathy with votiv) from County Councils toward* the patrioiic funds, it mean:, taking money lrom the v l ong *our«i«troiii tliu leaseholder paying high nionev —alinout, blo'.-d rent—-and lro.n the dhu re-milker, whilst the owner was exempted. 11m idea was that the con - trihiitionji should come fioni Lb.: land.-il properties of the IXiiiiirion ac-ording to tbuir tuluc; then on unearned incomes, and next on o-rd'nary iiM-mes. If tho Council voted money the landowner 'would get oil' scot We, and that would be abc-iolitU'ly unfair. The h aseholtler and shurcmilker !had col: uibuicd through tile ljox Company, through the Uacc-ii Company, ami through the dairy factories, and it vouht bu quite inequitable to impose eujr more oil him whilol the wealth i man v.ai being exempted. Tile fairest v.ajr would bis to impose a war t;:x on t-lie freehold land after dulucting mortgages, betaum: it was of vital interest to tliu Jaiul-t/wner tha* the county •hiiultl be protected. The s>har Miilker was, ia a groat many casts, little better than a serf, and he (the chairman) had seen enough to warrant him. in saying thai it, was high tinfts the Government |«Ksed a Fair Rent Bill with a view to it aU-oiiitely compulsory that the man. desiring to kase his land must) do fco at a fair rent and in addition, <provid« reaminable living aci omiuc'dation —the arw ;.s was provided for by iaw, for instance in flax mills. "In numbers of place*,' ea.id the Chair"the nwonim.oifatiou was Mich that you would not turn a dog into on a wet night." lie repeated that he was opposed to the proper <al v.r.-1.-s from !• c.il bodies because it was inequitable and that ft lery hhould be imposed firstly on hind, secondly on unearned incomes, ami then on ordinary incomes, nboru a certain amount. This dmild be the lir.-;t lirie of defence, and if more were required tlienj come on the rest of the I'CrtOUTCcg of the Dominion. He noticed that home prominent men who Vere advocating contrih jtioiu frcji local oodie.-) wcie not ratcpay< rs; thcr were i u;oiving liigh rcnt« or' hi 4 sold their urniis n't a high price with their money "lit ,tt m'.rtgige. It. Wis all vcr,' weil "or t-hcin to talk amnis contributions: ihey would give their f4 or £"> and t r-in!c they were paying a lot. In ft brief discussion which followed, Councillors generally opproved th. chairman's iriews and C,i. T,-lcVr cm-jha>i-.ed the generous, contributions beii'g made both iCrcct.ly ami andiieclly by dairr farmers,.

<Y. M«-i thought tint :f the (Vjuucil Iml £KIO To fi]K;n> Hie wiser I olirv wHild ln» to liiifl (iii[i]<)\lucnt by it oit lhe.ir vmuU. I 1 irmilv tiin <■luiirnui:i 1110V1M fiilImv.v "That liiis i- nut in favor «i laan.lliji.op OV«T any (if .i.-t'flli <• i im.iviw would Jail, i:i tl.o majority of «•#«*, oil tnittnU 01 mort'. r O'.'iipy ins li -priced I;iiiik nii'l l.vist t i |o.v, t!)" y too, Laving Mready ri.utriimtcit tin'migli daily factories, ._.n\ < imi|rtuv, baron f.ictoiii's. ,nnd kindred (.fsaciations leaving in wany Mse< tlx" i. ndlord fxeifi|,!. lint, i :at, tl.k- Council is in favor of a war t.ix being 1 r>vh-il on jaM lanfK mid mort; ; a!iP* over £:t('o )M'if year, liaxnl on land »n<l income tax princ-iplcs and tiiat- a m;iy «-f Ihis ic-oliiiini i,,. forwarded to the Minitter."— .Seconded l>v Cr. Bclchcr an J tarried,

AN OLD BATTLEFIELD TRICK. The tiso of British bugle calls by the enc-mr, an instance of which is reported from the scene of war in Europe, is a battle-field trick not unknown in New Zealand. In the llauhau war days of lSbj-70, Te-Kooti's best fighting mail, a young half-caste Native, named Baker McLean, carried a bugle which he had seized from the bugler of the military guard at the Chatham islands, when lie and his fellow-rebels made their escape in the pirated schooner Rifleman. While on the Chathams he had been taught the various field calls by the white bugler, and this knowledge lie turned to account in the hush fighting which lasted for two years after the escapees landed on the East coast. When the Government force were engaged with the Itauhaus in the forest, or in rough mountain country, it was discovered that on more than one occasion that the •olonii'.l soldiers had been misled by the bugle calls which they imagined had been sounded by their own men. When the Ilauhaus, for example, were hotly pressed by the white skirmishers and Baker McLean found the. bullets whizzing about his ears, he would sound the "cense fire," or the "Retreat." and the confusion thus caused in a fight extending over a long front where detachments were apt to lose sight of each other, always worked to the slim brown man's benefit. The battered bugle which had been through so much work in the bush was taken from Ilaker Mr!/>an when he fell to Captain Gilbert Mair's carbine in a fight near Rotorua in IS7O, and is now in the New Zealand Museum—Lyttelton Times,