LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 22 January 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

[ Tenders for leasing the pound at ' Otaki close on Saturday morning at 10 f o'clock. A" large number of "sports" left 5 this morning to attend either the Web j lington or Foxton races. j The Seventh Day Advemists in camp at Palmerstoa Nsrtb. raised over £IOOO ' for foreign' missions on Monday.. S Cholera is prevalent in the City of | Bombay. There were 130 deaths in ! the fortnight to -January 4th. I The flasmilling industry at Moutoa j is now in full swing again, despite the [fact that experienced entter3 were hard to secure. j Approximately 200 men of the Post and Telegraphic Department have been f discharged from camp since the axmistziee'was signed. ..*— * [ A rarity—a white kiwi—has been J discovered at Tahors. - The bird was jrun down and killed-by dog? at the i rear of Mr J. Eobson's milL At first I it ss2? ihcmghxjo be a fowl, bat invest!-1 i Ration pro?3d it to be a kiwi. * The skin ; **tt;' Removed and and all .stated it j ITaon* ■ * ■ s * c ~ | was the ■■ "-*-sJos4 «.? P-6" I :The specimen* will be £o:rv»i : . •~ : """-'2"iM;;j fessor Drnminond,; Wellingto% _ ~_. Bawera natives were very eatiaisaJttf I over.the .find,.and.oeered £lO jpr the J skin. -B-iieh. was dedjaed. v. ; ";' . ■

' A regular aeroplane passenger and postal service between Paris and London in connection with the Conference will begin on Monday. To-day is the 69th anniversary of Wellington. In consequence of this the majority of business places in the province are enjoying a holiday. A poll of ratepayers will'be held on Wednesday, 29th inst., on the proposal of rating on the unimproved value in the Manawatu County Council. There is a serious shortage of coal in Eltham. No household coal has been available since October. It is understood the prospects are bad. The annual general meeting of subscribers to the Otaki Public Library will take place lit the reading-room on Saturday next, at S p.m. A full attendance is specially requested. A notice of motion has been given for the next meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in/ the direction of reducing patients' fees from 9s to (is per day. In a Rugby football match Australia defeated France by thro points to nil. Lieutenant Booth has formed a powerful Maori team to tour Wales in February. Tho proceeds of the matches will be given to war charities. ( A special meeting of the Wairarapa (Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. j was held on Monday to deal with accounts from the different townships incurred in combating influenza. The Mastertou accounts wcro approximately £4025. . There is a lot of snow, on Mount Fgmont just now; more than is usual at this time of the'year. Thero was a heavy f ull Qoite recently. However, on clear days the old mountain presents a glorious sight glistening in the •sun like burnished silver. . Many New Zcalanders welcomed Tvl r Massoy and-, Sir Joseph Ward oh arrival at Paddingtou. Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, interviow.ca'an London, stated that they were dissatisfied that New Zealand had only one delegare at the Conference, .bates of further Farmers' Union Wctings are advertised. Mr Tailored Cooper will, conduct a meeting at Ohau on Friday night next, 24th January; Rikiorangi, February lith; ToHoro, February 7th. l The' flower sellers for the Red Cross Society would be glad of donations o! flowers, which are now rather scarce. Flowers may be left at Messrs f Bill* and Moore's Otaki Railway branch store, or at Mrs Witchcll's, Otaki. "The representative on a public body who lets his personal interests, or the personal interests of his friends, influence his vote on any matter of public, good, has no right to occupy his position, and is not an. honest man." —Remark of the Chairman at the last meeting of the Otaki Town Board. A feature of the national prohibition movement in the United States is the rapidity of its accomplishment. Twenty States have gone "dry',' since the beginning of the year. Tho Prohibitionists' principal weapon was Major-Geaoral Wood's testimony as to the beneut in the army zone. Charles Reed, a married man witli three children, head postal messenger at Frankton Junction, was struck by a shunting engine and thrown on to the line. He got under the engine and was dragged a chain and a-half. He was I terribly mutilated, and life was extinct when he was picked up.

Attention of our readers is called to a new advertisement on our second page, inserted by Mr Porter, the wellknown cheap grocer, of Eiddlford Street, Newtown. Mr Porter makes a specialty of mail order business, and invites the public of this district to give him a trial order. Catalogues of grocery prices will be forwarded post free on application.

The Manawatu Patriotic Society has unanimously decided that it be a suggestion to the Minister for Defence that girls being displaced from various employments by returned soldiers should be given an opportunity of being trained for work as nurses in soldiers' homes and hospitals, thus liberating able-bodied men for productive industries.

An American soldier writes home: — "They put me in barracks; took away my clothes and put me in, khaki; they took away my name and made mo No. "5; sent me to church, where I'd sever been before, and made me listen to a sermon for forty minutes. Then the parson said, 'No. 575, art thou weary, art thoa languid?'and I got seven days in the guardhouse because I answered that I certainly was."

! In reply to enquiries as to the ex- ' port of butter to America, the Hon. D. !H. Guthrie states that it will not be ! poasible .to grant permits io export further quantities of butter to Vancouver beyond the amount already bo»ked for shipment by the Makura. The position is that the Imperial Government was agreeable to allow a limited quantity of butter to be exported to Vancouver, and that quantity has been filled. Further inquiries made have resulted in a statement from the Imperial Government that the original quantity, for which the permission was given carmoj be increased. '"

lEeeoanting some of his experieneea while at Home as one of the NJZ. Vim | delegates, Mr F- Pirani told the Waagauni Edaeation Board that Sir Thos. ' Mackenzie was regarded as the best ' High Commissioner New Zealaad had | ever sent to Londgn. and quite the best lof tie colonial High Commissioners; now there. He had been iclefafjgabl'j in the interests of New Zealand soldiers- The speaker did not think math of the way some of the resident New Zetlanders in London treated . their ;,Higb CaiemJiaioner. His fault was [gizi'he -teas-totA a ia&hispable mac, as. his" wort oi to.HijweveT^asnotabaAtra.t.

Certain Te Horo fanners emphatically resent certain suggestieas Blade at the farmers' mooting, held at Otaki, as likely to injure the cause of unionism.-The matter will probably be mentioned at,the farmers' meeting held at To Horo on the 7th of next month.

A motor cyclist, who has just cot pleted a tour of jthe North Island, considers the roads in the Horowhenua county compare most favourably with any roads he traversed. The local roads, in his opinion, are superior to the great majority of those he traversed.

The question of erecting a bubble fountain in Levin was considered at the last meeting of the Levin Borough Council. "Provision has been made

for horses," said one councillor, "the: why not for human beings?" Enquiries are to be made as to the cost o; . fountain. A suggestion lias been made that, seeing the Spring Show had to be abandoned, owing to the influenza epidemic, the Horowhenua Horticultural and Industrial Society hold a two-days' show next month, instead of one day as originally intended. The date fixed for the Autumn Show is "•Wednesday, Mar. 12th. The matter will be dissused at | a meeting of the Society's committee, j to bo held on Friday evening next. .

Speaking at tke last meeting of the Levin Borough Council, the Mayor (Mr Blenkhoru) considered that it would bo a waste of labour to set up committees to deal with any future outbreak.of an epidemic, stressing the fact that many would be willing to join saeh committees, but they might be away whan the time came for action. He. considered it would be belter t'o teach the rudiments of nursing to girls in our Stafi schools.

When a* account for spirituous liquors was before the Hospital Board afrits meeting in Masteiimi on Monday a member, with strong tempecanco proclivities, remarked that the brandy -must have been used for spraying" purposes, judging by the quantify char;: for. He disalvyed extreme surprise oa learning that in serious cases of pin monia brandy had been sprayed as ;o antitoxin, and ceased to further question the liquor accounts, says the "Age." Now, who wants to be sprayed with brandy? <