The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1915 LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 29 September 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1915 LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Tai- ( hape Post una W&imarinu News.) ,

.—« Eight thoroughbred horses, two stallions and six mares, arrived from L<ondon "by the Arawa consigned to Mr J. B. Reid, of • Elderslie. They include Sunny Lake (from the King's stables 1 ).. A sum of £365 ia> been raised by shilling subscription for the snrposc of making presentations to Generals Botha and Smuts (reports the New Zealand Herald). It has been decided "by Che Botha presentation committee that the fund shall ibe closed. Despite ftfae German attempt to "blockade 'the British Isles with ?ut>marine warfare, large cargoes C';nt'iiru© fto 'pottr out of the Hoim'-nd for the overseas dominions. "fee Arawa, -whicii has just arrived o» Wei lingtron from "London, has no less than 600 tons'of-cargo: to-pift out. We understand that owing to some misdirection at the previous post-office, printed postcards sent 'by manager of the Armies of Europe Film Company were delivered'feo residents in Taihape, *ome of whom were charged an additional surtax rof <one penny, which will Ibe repaid upon presentation of the post-cards at the Three Stars Theatre I ito-night. The -manager -regrets the 'Mender, jffor which he is in : no way re'Speiasible. An advance party was searc to Avondale racecourse on Saturday<*o prepare the camp tor the tunnelling company of engineers It is probable .that the members of the company will go into training towards the end of this week. The 'S'Bpervisfon of the -.training vwill Le carried out by Major J. E. ftmigan, General Staff officer, and the executive officers of the camp will be as; follow: Camp commandant, Captain Seville Newcomb; adjutant. Captain Sweetzer; quartermaster, Captain W. H. Feldon. \ It is evident that Britain is rtfll harbouring the enemy in her and that the Kaiser's marvellous secret service can still get right into; I the heart cf things at Home. The I London Daily Mail reprints the Budget forecast of the Hamburger fremdenblatt correctly forecasting the British income tax and tea and tobacco increases two days before Mr Reginald • McKenna delivered his speech in rhe House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Which means that the Hamburg paper has a spy who. can' even get at Cabinet secrets.

A graphic and pithy description of the colonials' historic landing at Gaba Tepe was contained in a letter written by a Rugby footballer, as follows: "It was just like a kick high and follow up—and nobody thought any more . of it than a football rush." To-night there is to be a grand social and dance in the Town Hall. As npeijial , efforts are being made by the pupporters of the Red Cross candidate to secure the best in everything--floor, music, and refreshments —there shou,ld be a large attendance. The grea:asfc possible maximum of enjoyment is promised to all who are prese.it. The Britishers of Fiji are patriotic in action as well as in word. They have already sent to the battlefields of France volunteers to the number cf about 300, and they a.re now pro- , moting a huge carnival for the raising of funds with which to maintain i their contingents and provide for the wounded: j The Rev. Ronald Watson, M.A., was ordained *cv the Wanganui Presbytery I at Marton last week. Mr Watson ' will protet-d to the Tauherenikau camp ir..rih=Jiately, where he will act as chaplain and release the Rev.

J .fames McK;»j zie, who wlil pi'oceed .o th'» front as chaplain to the Treuthara 1 Regimert. A.young lady, Miss Gladys Bamford, is doing good work by the amount she is able to collect on the train each day between Wangachu and Marton (where she goes to school). Last week she had a great "run" for the sick and wounded soldiers - ' fund, and on Saturday she passed into the funds a great collection of silver and "coppers," amounting to no less a sum than £ls 5/. Applications are being made from all parts of Now Zealand (reports the New Zealand Herald) for the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board's deben- ! tures, which have been placed on the market through the Bank of New Zealand. The total amount of the proposed loan is £IOO,OOO, and the rate of interest is 5 per cent., with a currency of 21 years. "It is hard, when the boys are being handed piles of letters, to see those '< who have no one to write to them," writes a soldier from the front. With this thought in mind, a movement has been started among the Wellington Technical School and High School students to send out each month a number of letters for those' soldiers who have ' no kith or kin to write to them. The idea is for the contributor to the scheme to write, say, an interesting paragraph, sign it, and send it in to be incorporated in the monthly letter, which will'be copied and posted. The cost of the postage, etc., will be borne by those who contribute to the letters.