LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 18 June 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A fire at Levin on Monday destroyed the large sf.iV.les and plarit.ii] Queen .street. The contents were insured lor £•100. It is reported that the Kuku Co-op. Dairy Co.'s store was burglariously entered last night. No details are yet to hand.

At a Taranaki wedding recently

"The Bride's Dance,'' in which the men pay to dance with the bride, i.ie sum of £7." was realised—a handsome present for tlie bride.

Mrs A. Harriett, late of Otaki. Ims commenced business as dressmaker ai Mrs Kendall's shop. Levin, and will be glad to meet old and uciv customers.

Eight hundred and eight divorce petitions are set down for the current session. There are 602 undefended cases. Madge Tithoradgo, the actress, is among the plaintiffs.—Loudon 'cablegrain. -Messrs Parker and Vincent, auctioncurs, will sell the whole of -Mr \V. W. W'estaway's household furniture, etc., at To Horo on Saturday. 28th iiist. Full particulars will be advertised in uur next issue.

Efforts are being made to establish tl branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association at Otaki. It is necessary to secure a membership of 100 before a branch- cam be started, but it is believed that this number can be secured.

A ball in connection with the Hautero Rifle Club will be held in the public hall. To Horo, oil Monday next, when the presentation of trophies, etc., will be made. Particulars are advertised.

Variety is the spice of life, but th.* variation in procedure introduced at a conference in Wellington recently, when a vote of sympathy was passed by acclamation, came as somewhat of a surprise. The Government has purchased from the estate of the late -Mr D. Buick, at Palmorston North', -71 acres tit £SB per acre, to be cut up into five-acre sections for town working soldiers, also 391 acres at the same pri«e per acre, to be divided into 30-acre farms.

A clearing Vale, on behalf of Mrs-A. A. Bright, who is leaving the district to take up residence in Wellington, will be held on Wednesday next at 1.30 p.m.. at her residence, Iti street, when .Messrs Parker and Vincent will offer the whole of her line household furniture and effects.

The successful tenderers for the new Girls' High School at Patmeraton North were Messrs Trevor Bros., at £10.300. The other tenders received were: K. 8. Spencer. £l2.7i.'S; James Aldertoi:. £H.:>o\S; Rolf and Diekel. eil,000; and Hop-wood and Xeedbam, £10,9!»5. The amount, granted by the Department was 110,000.

At the opening of the Anglican Synod at Drinedhi the Primate ('Bishop Xeville). after stating that he was the senior Bishop of the Anglican episcopate throughout the world, announced his intention to resign, with a proposal that it take effect from December ."ilst next. in the course of his address Bishop -Xeville expressed the opinion that objection's could be found to the proposal to make the Bishop of Wellington Primate es officio. We would remind all interested in horticulture of the paper on "Hose History"' to be'given at the public reading-room. Otaki. on Friday night [next (under the auspices of the local Horticultural Society and Bulb Society). All are cordially invited to a't'tend—there will be no charge for'admission—while in the hands of »uch an enthusiast as Mr Witchell the subject will be dealt with interestingly and educationally.

A number of war trophies and other exhibits for the war section of the Dominion Museum. Wellington, have just come to hand. Included among these are sire field guns, captured from the Turk* by the Sew Zealand cavalry in the battles of the Jordan' Valley. The Government has secured, too, from London the wheel that steered ELM.S, tin- New Zealand daring the battle, and Jutland, the- flagpole on which flew the Admiral's flag, the two silk flags (the Eiisigii and the Union Jack] flown by i'tbe New eZaland during the battle, and the ship's bell. Other very interesting exhibits are the" relief map that was vised at"the Battle of Mewdnes. showing Vimy Ridge. Hill *>". etc., .and the relief, map of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Tte I complete service equipment ot an American soldier i* also on view. j

Since the commencement of the football season there has been * marked

'gTOT.th of interest everywhere is: the [ national game. This in probably due to | the fact that so many '' sport - ' ' are back from "over there." and those iri a position to judge predict that saeh sports a- football and hockey tviil very soon come into their own again after the year.- of war. The alert, keen voting men who play these games like to study their persona! sippearacce- both

on and off the field, taking a. laudable pride in their fitness. They dress well. and many of them wear our *»iy!l**i Vylpur Hat*, which are *ent post free for -Is <»*i- Are roa one of thesa?

GEO. rOWU)S, LTD., Manners Street. Welitagtea. If y(?i! are T.'ar»t;2jr z pair of riinsii-r.-: or golo.-h.?; for the winter, give ?>s a trial. Xew stock.just in. -Also to elcar, lakes' sad gesti' bla*feit-liae<i slippers, .with ' leather 'sales. 3s- 1I»L Irvine's Sfcoe Store. OtakL—Advt.

At a meeting of the Mastertort County Council last week it was decided to take a poll 'of the ratepayers on a proposal'to borrow £IO,OOO for the purchase of road-making machinery.

Something in the nature of-a building boom is selling in in lievihf Some half-dozen dwellings are in course of erection, whilst additions are being carried out in connection with several j others. 'A largely attended, meeting of the | congregation of St. Andrew's Presby-. i tcrian Church at Auckland passed a resolution protesting against the pro-

posed union with the Methodist and Congregational Churches.

.Bootmaking.:—F. Barrett wishes to notify the public of Otaki and district that ho has resumed business as boot and shoemaker. Old and now customers please take notice. Address: Dunstan Street, Otaki.—Arlvt.

. At the I'nlinerston North Magistrate's Court. Thomas Childs, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, was lined £lO for exposing liquor for sale. Henry Downey Jones Mitchell was fined £'2, with costs, for being illegally on the premises.

Mr D. St. George, our local chemist, who has just, completed his 34th year as chemist, in an advertisement elsewhere states that all prescriptions and orders are conscientiously tilled, also that orders by 'phone, wire or letter will be promptly attended to.

At a meeting of the Flaxworkers' limployees' Union at i'almerslou North on Saturday, .it. was decided to send three delegates to meet an equal number of employers' representatives to discuss the question of a new award. Mr Newton, the. Arbitration Commis- • sioner, will preside.

The* latest corsets decreed by Dame Fashion are now on view at Stiles and Matheson's. Ladies are advised to make an early purchase, as corset prices are rising almost daily and show every likelihood of doing so for some time yet. Those interested should turn to Stiles and Matheson's advertisement

in this paper, and see some corset values. "Would there be any objection to training a one-armed man- to be a noxious weeds inspector?" was a question askeil by a limbless returned soldier at a Wellington meeting of limbless soldiers. General Richardson said he thought it was a capital suggestion, and he, would put it before the Atinisterial Hoard. W. J. Jorgensen, licensee of the Gretna Hotel,, was Jilted £lO and costs at the T.'iihape Stipendiary Magistrate's Court for selling liquor to a person already in a state of intoxication, and for permitting drunkenness oil licensed premises, while W. Bice, barman, was lined a similar amount for supplying liquor to an intoxicated per-

At Auckland a deputation from the Women's National Council asked the Hon. A. M.. Myers to briiug down a Bill giving women representation in Parliament. Mr Myers replied that Mr Maxsey would no doubt bring dojjji a Government Bill during the coming session, in which case he would give it his fullest support.

In conversation with n dairy farmer tin- week, he said he had under offer hi;- '."arm of about 140 acres at £7o per acre. He added that he purchased the farm some years ago at £ls per'acre. The land had been top-dressed om-e during the period. "It is worth £xo per acre, but £7O will satisfy we," he concluded.—'' Eltham Argus.'' If the Hun- bad won the war. one of their aim- was to impose their guttural language on an unwilling world. To show from what an awful calamity

'.ve have escaped it has been noted that the German name for a tank is the single word schutEcngrabenveratchtungsautomobil. That was probably what our tanks looked like to them during the firsl attack.

Referring to the troops in Egypt, Sir James Allen stated at Auckland on Monday that he had been advised that the following steamers would be sailin- from Egypt for New Zealand:— 'Jlsmaroa on June 21th; PHsna, June 30th; Intbruk, July 20th. Sir James:

added thai he presumed these vessels would be bringing back Xetv Zealand troop-. A parchment commission signed by his Excellency the Governor-General and the Hon. the Minister of Defease is issued to every commissioned officer who was appointed direct to the Expeditionary Force, bat over two 'thousand have failed fo apply to Base Kccordj for this important document. The commissions await applications from their ■owners, and a number of ..King's Commissions are also iiled there, to be distributed in the same way. The latter are to be issued to all officers, whether appointed to the 2C.Z. Expe- j ditionary Force direct or transferred to is from the Territorial Force. i

Ths Defence Department has decided to doable the alio wa nee .paid to soldiers who are undergoing treatment in hospital, but who are not provided with board and lodging:-. The allowance wan

two shillings per day. bat as- it la recognised that this is inadequate under the »xutin'g conditions, the ziitc in futar*

w.il be four shillings per day. lu order to protect soldier patients ft»m abuses which would-i-nerfere'with their saceessfol medical treatment aad recovery

power i-> given to military atitiorifies to make stoppage* 0 £ pay f or neglect to wear the proper -badges indicating that they are undergoing/ treatment. and-for offence* wbkh are prejudicial to the t»r«csg ~i treatment axtd recovers.

■_• a. ..*&mu,t4tr are* asd fur*. ffiere are dreary damp davs fo es dare. *

it a jatmgti, eold,or sore throat occam" Take Wood*? Great PeppenaiEt Care. ii* stie treanaect ujytt i'avoojed fer J»sr. het&sse it's proajpi, potest tad PBJte. If von'vi sfthraaor gartric catarrii, . Take Woods 1 Great Peppsnaiat Cote.

Messrs True Light and Co.. the wcll-.lcnon-n fruiterers, grocers, etc., have for sale a large range of toilet goods, while their Chinese silks are of the best quality, and sold at lowest prices.'"

Mr S. J. Gilbert, organising seeretary of the Y.M.C.A., was in Otaki this morning in connection with an effort to start a branch of this world-wide organisation at Otaki.

There is a coupon tn every tin of Hudson's Badoon brand Baiting Powder, that entitles you to receive a free copy of the famous "Balloon" Baking Book. Buy a tin to-day. AH grocers. —Advt.

For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Groat Peppermint Cure.