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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14571, 5 April 1918, Page 4

TOWN EDITION.

Auckland : Arrived. Arahura, at 2,15 p.m., from Gisborne. j The steamer Koutunui left for north at 3 p.m. j Chung Ling fc»>o "Scotch Chinese" juggler, was accidentally shot during a i performance at the Wood <3reen Empire. Theatre, and died from his injuries. Two hundred and fifty wives of Aus- ' Italian soldiers have arrived from overseas. Fifty of the "Witmber will settle m Victoria. Many of them#have babies. ! The Red Cross shop to-morrow will bo m charge of Manutuke, Muriwai, Waingake, and Wharerata districts, when a •Vi-cat variety of goods will bo on sale. The jumble stall will b<< well stocked with children's made-up clothing. , i The report of the three master mariners who conferred recently on the . proposed outer harbor scheme as drawn up by Mr. Leslie Reynolds, lias not yet been handed to the Board, but is expected within a. few days. J The Auckland Racing. Club's autumn meeting resulted, m a fresh totalisator I record being made for a two-day meeting the sum of £121,543 passing through the machines at the fixture, wliich is an increase of £17,454 on last year. | A message from Wagga to the Sydney Herald states: There are indications of si recurrence of the mice plague, which did enormous damage last year. Mice are present m all the paddocks and are breeding rapidly. Houses, barns, and .' stacks of produce are invaded. The following additional appellants will come before the Military Appeal Hoard on the 9th inst : Thomas Oppenshaw, slaughterman, Te Hapara (appeal Iby employer) ; and 1 Joshua Woolford, i I gheepf ariner, Matawai (adjourned ap- ! peal). j A Balclutha family last week received a cablegram from their son, sent from London, asking for money to enjoy his holiday from the front, and a soldier who returned m the middle of last week was iv a position to say that lie had seen the cablegram despatched before he (the returned one) left London. A trying time was experienced on the steamer Waverley recently, iwhile she was bound from. Patea to Terakohe. ' She was caught m. the storm, and' lost a lifeboat and four lifebuoys, besides sustaining minor damage to her fittings, for repairs to wliich she put into Nelson. In a mountainous sea m Cook Strait on Monday night a seaman was washed overboard from the deck of the vessel and drowned, his mates being powerless to rescue him. The most costly car m the world is at present m Australia. It is an. exhibition golden Studebaker. Six thousand pounds lias been refused for the oar. In its construction) £1650 of gold was used, while the process of electroplating cost over £1400. The upholstery and top are of the finest white kid, while the body is covered with flawless, white enamel.' When its tour of exhibition is ended* the car will be taken back to America and placed m the famous Studebaker museum, along with the car used by General Lafayette 'while m America, and with other historical vehicles. An immense deposit of limestone has been discovered on an educational reserve at Waikari, Canterbury, leased by Mr Charles Trounce. The Christohurch Sun states that an analysis has disclosed the extremely high average proportion) of 82.5 per cent, pure carbonate of lime. Parts of the deposit analysed made over 90 per cent., so that the remarkable purity of the- lind can be understood. » The lime can be handled easily, being, crisp like cornflour, and no difficulty exists m quarrying it. It does not lose its empness when exposed to the weather. At present the deposit is revealed m a solid mass, but its full extent can only be guessed at. One of Sydney's special female constables came over' to Wellington last week, armed with the provisional war* rant for the arrest of a, young woman on a, charge of conspiring to defraud, iv July, 1916. She had to return, however', unaccompanied by her quarry. In dismissing the 'Charge, after hearing cvi- • dence Mr McCarthy, S.M., said : "While these (warrants are not to be lightly disregarded, yet the Court must take care that extradition proceedings are not to be -used, or, rather, abused, for the purpose of either backing up or advancing a civil remedy. Looking at it fairly, it lias not been made out to my satisfaction that the prosecution was initiated m good faith. The accused will be discharged absolutely." ' Maori labor finds a place among the many things which have been developed by the war. The Taranaki Herald observes^ that on backblock roads natives have m most cases replaced white men on metalling and; other road work. One contractor who before the war employed Europeans almost entirely now has two gangs of men working near Marokopa, on the coast above Mokau. One gang, numbering eleven, consists entirely, of fc Maoris^ and is, moreover, m charge of - a Maori foreman, who is responsible for . the carrying out of the work, and m the other gang there are only fonr j Europeans among sixteen workers. "I I would rather have the Maoris than the drunks," were the words of the contractor. The white labor which was previously available for this class of work was of a very unreliable quality. Some sensational incidents were connected with the arrest of T. A. Frost on a charge of obstructing the police at Aokautere, Manawatu. Several thefts of clothing and saddlery had been reported by farmers m that district, and m the early morning a party of police set put to effect the arrest of the suspected parties. As the police were approaching the house, a number of dogs began barking furiously, thus arousing the household, and two of the inmates dashed out, one m his night attire, the police catching a fleeting glance of them as they made for a large patch of bush nearby. One of the fugitives was after, wards seen making towards his brother's (T. A. Frost's) house, where he was (luickly followed. On the police demanding admittance they were, however, refused, and they were only able to enter after a tussle, m which all sorts of articles were used as weapons against the police. Meanwhile the refugee made the most of the diversion, and getting clear of the house made for the river. . With the intention of cutting him oft, , a constable swam the river, tmt youn"Frost got away. The brother T. £. I Frost, was arrested on a charge of obstructing the police m the execution of their duty. When the police searched the farm they found a quantity- of articles which were alleged to have been stolen, the articles being hidden m all sorts of places. The Sydney Daily Telegraph publishes tho following oxtracts from a fetter received from General Sir. W. R Birdwood, dated l Ist! Anzac Corps, France, December 14 1917:-« As you . will probably realise, with the small number of reinforcements coming forward our training establishments at the base aro being maintained at an absolute minimum. Such positions are, howevor, not held permanently, but are filled by v constant interchange of officers from l h« line at periods of six months, each brigade. m the field having to maintain its own training staff. In this way we are abdo to provide additional rest for a -r e^ am nnmDer oi officers, who aro mutable as instructors. For the same reason our policy during the progress of the war has been to replace all fit men wherever possible, m our establishments at the baße by men who have been declared unfit for further service •m the line, though these are periodically reexamined as fresh combing-outjj are made. Indeed, every available man is sent forward, for the reinforcements at 1 present coming from Australia are not : sufficient to replace casualties, and unless more men are forthcoming tihe question! of disbanding some of our magnificent units will have to be considered. I have gfent hopes that this will not be nocessary, but T mention it. only to assure you that, men .ire not retained m Endand after they hare completed their .training, when their services are so badly ,wanted at the front."