New Zealand.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 281, 6 May 1915, Page 8

New Zealand.

BACK FROM EGYPT. 113 MEN RETURN. Wellington, Last Night. Ilie transport which returned from Egypt Un 3 morning brought 113 men of all ranks, under Captain Sharp from , the main expeditionary force. ' The party; comprised UD rank and 'file ana 2 officers invalided, i prisoners to complete sentences, 1 officer and 11 men of tie medical corps, 1 chaplain, 1 dental officer, and 24 men classed as "umlesirao.o. Ihu names of the returned men will not >li(> available until the authorities have had time to verily the lists.

CIRCULATING FALSE NEWS. PREVALENT AND DEPORABLE PRACTICE. SSfi' '■ Auckland, May 5. , At the Police Court Isabella iMo'rpeth, 'a widow, was charged with sendiii" a telegram addressed to a resident of I'rasertown, .Hawke's Ray, contrary to the war regulations. Liout.-Colonel Hume, the officer commanding the military district, said the ease was brought to.stop the prevalent and deplorable practice of circulatin<^:acorrect reports of casualties troops. The telegram put in by defendant on Friday read: "Commander Plugge 'and seven hundred New Zealanders killed." The message was stopped by the censor.

I lie defendant pleaded not guilt v. She stated she heard the news from a gentleman in the street, whose address she did not know. This man heard it from another, who said he saw it on the Herald board.

Mr. I-razor, S.M., said the defendant's explanation bore the impress of truth, 'but she had ibeen most indiscreet. Ai s-ie was an old lady a nominal fine of £1 and costs was imposed. The Magistrate remarked that perhaps it would he a iesson to people circulating such rumors to learn that the maximum fine for the offence is £IOO.

GERMAN STEAMER FOR SALE. Wellington, 'May 5. The Government; has received information that the German auxiliary schooner Elfrieda will shortly be brought before the Prize Court at Fiji. It is probable that the vessel will afterwards be available for charter for trading purposes in the same trade as she was previously engaged in. Any New Zealand firm desiring to secure the services of the vessel should apply to the Customs Depart'nient, Wellington, for particulars.

ARMY APPOINTMENTS. Wellington, Night. His Excellency the Governor has approved of the undermentioned grants of temporary rank, promotions, appointments, and resignations of ollicers employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force: — Staff Lieut-Colonel \V. 0. Braith.waite, D.5.0., P.S C, Imperial General Stall', from General Stall' OJlicer, first |( grado. . c 'v--f. a J or ci,lu 'l L ' 3 Shawe, reserve of ollijC'ers Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's to be General Stall' OHicer, third ■ .grade, with the grant of temporary raiik.

r . Major N. C. Hamilton, Army Service 'Corps, Commanding the Divisional Train, to have the temporary rank of Lieut.-Colonel while so employed. The following captains of the New Zealand Staff Corps to have the tempoi,'W ra "k of major while serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force: Captains H. J. Brown and Guy iowlcs to be majors; Captain N.' C. Hamilton .(Army Service. Corps) and Captain N. Sv.JS'alk (New Zealand Howitzer Batcry) to be captains. The following lieutenants (dental surgoons) to be captains:—Willia'n MatJcinzie, William Aitkr;ii, John Connor, Donald Stewart Milue, Kenneth MeCormaek, John Philip Jory, Thomas Russell Ritchie, Francis Parnel! Tynions, John Ballam Don, William Gladstone Scannell, George Stanley Sharp-*, Hertrand Sibbald Finn, Douglas Maunsei) 'Beere, Arthur Liman Logan, Ernest Herbert Rawson, Raymond Alfred Dearsley, Donald Benjamin Green, John Sanders, Fan-child.

Lieut. !•'. Waite (Nov Zealand Engineers), Lieut. P. 15. Grcenhougli (New Zealand Field Artillery) and Lieut, 11. J. Daltry (New Zealand Howitzer Battery), Quartermaster (Hon. Captain) K. P. Coady (Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiment), Second Lieut. B. L. Joil (Queen Alexandra's 2nd Wellington West Coast Mounted Rifles) have resigned.

Honorary consulting surgeon ,;> Lambert Cronsby, jYI.D., 1.'.R.C.N., to b- honorary consulting surgeon to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force with tlie honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the New Zealand Medical Corps. RUNAWAY GERMANS CAPTURED. i ~ •,. ~ Wellington, Last Niylit. The two Germans who 'escaped' last .night from Somes Island were recaptured .tjlij afternoon at Orongorongo by a party of military police. REMOVING A PENALTY. Auckland, Last Night. Acting on the suggestion of Mr. J. It. •Pagm, the Auckland Rugby Union at this evening's meeting decided to a-k its delegates to place, before the animal meeting of fie New Zealand Rugbv a'nion a recommendation that all suspensions be removed from the Rugby Union players who have left or who leave the Dominion with the expeditionary force or reinforcements. Advice has been received from Pretoria that Lieutenant Ronald Matheson, I!s years of age, of the" Imperial Light Horse, has been killed in action in tierman South-Wist Africa. He belonged to ,'l'aurauga, where his mother still resides.

The now r.imous :;;ngo Embrocation, or Training Oil, can be bought from the following saddlers:—U. Edwards (New Plymouth, A. J. Ki.bby (Waitara), Purelias and Son (Urenui and Uruti), I!. Meuli (Eltliam), E. Grossman (Tariki and Inglcwood), T. C. Street (Okato), T. J. Middcnhal! (Opnakc), E. Tobler (Okaiawa), S. Ayiward (Whangamouona), Cosgrove and Co. (Manaia), etc. For Children's Hacking Coughs at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6, 2/6.