THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 9 April 1920, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1920. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr F. Ti. Skipwith, Bell .street, is now a subscriber to the local telephone exchange. Idis number is 4. Messrs Joplin, St alia rd and Carmichael, Ltd., advertise a further list of properties that they have for sale. Mr ,T. Thompson, of Levin, has purchased .Mr O. (Sullivan's property. Xhe latter leaves shortly for Australia. The rainfall in Levin last month totalled OS inches. The heaviest fall (.ySin) was ,on the ISth, while rain I fell on ten days. j Owing to the balancing of n. -counts j on the 17th inst.. Mr F. Isherwood would be pleased to receive any on or : before flint date. A fine stag was seen a few days ago 1 ~n the Ohnu river Hat. A number of young deer were recent!;* liberated in that district, and judging by reports are doing well. An announcement of interest; to turn, I to-duv: Stiles and Mathe-mi, Ltd., i “'the big value, mail order hous',-’ [ J.evin, are showing -omo splendid ready-to-wear box suits tor men. An early inspection of these goods is recommended. The golf season opens to-morrow, as advertised. There will be a number of competitions, and a good time is assured all who attend. The prospects of the season are bright for the local club, and the membership vrifl pronabiy prove a record one. The- Levin golf iea-on also opens to-morrow. During the month of March rain fell in Foxton on seven day-, the maximum fall being on the lath, when points were registered. The totnl tor the month was 2.13 inches. During tno corresponding month or last year _ 1 inches wore registered. A house built of beer bottle- v.i - once an interesting- feature of Tonopah. Xevada. It v,-as on account ■■; ' a<local scarcity of timber that a ra.ner conceived the idea of building hir; so if a dwelling from a huge stack of beer j bottles. Over ten thousand bottles were incorporated in the dwelling. |

Mr C. Wil-lsmith has secured s. return of three and a half tons per acre of line clover from nine acres from hi* farm near Levin. Mr V, bi -acith has now purchased Mr Brown s rami on Gladstone road, the latter having removed to Ohau. The annual meeting of the OtakJ Fire Brigade will be held on Monday evening next at the lire station, when j the annual election of officer- will oe j held and general business transacted. ; A fall attendance of members is re- i quested, -I The premise? of Mr W. M. .Clark, j Oxford street. Levin, were entered dar- t in" the week end a small sum or money j and a few articles of wear fasten. An J entrsnea was effected through s bacu , window and the money extracted from : a cash register. The police have tee : .titter in hand. —"Chronicle.'' Into the crowded -tree’s f g ■ -. Vt’e-cding my way em fc day. To watch the th roag pass to ari-I fro. j And hear v. hat people say. The sporty sort just talk of sport. ; Some talk of literature: ; But the principal thought t.i the rest- | stole sort J« oi Wooer 5 Greet Peppe-nsiat Cure.

Telephone subscribers are notified that their subscriptions are now overdue, and must be paid by April 1-th, otherwise they may be cut off.

At a sale ot' Knwiu land. Levin, on Wednesday last, a section .comprising 33 acres odd was sold to Mrs Ivaliukorc Hur.inui at £lO4 per acre, while another section of 40 acres was bought by Mr R. A. Ralston at £O9 per acre.

The lion. C. J. Parr will visit Palmerston North on Saturday next, and during his stay there will be waited on by a special committee set up by the Palmerston North Hospital Hoard with respect to the request of the Board that a Ist. Helens Hospital be established in Palmerston North."

Wanted. —The public to know that we are selling our footwear at the old prices, that is while our present stock lasts. We have just purchased a large range of ladies’ and gents’ boots and shoes, which are to arrive shortly. Irvine’s Shoe Store. Otaki. —Advt. The monthly stock sales will be held at Waikanao on Wednesday next, as advertised. This sale «iil be the first in this part of the district conducted by the associated auctioneers, i.e., the | three auctioneering linns —N.Z. Loan i and Mercantile Agency Co.. Abraham j amt Williams, and Dalgety and Co. ' wlio will conduct the sales at the same . yards, the sale entries being advertised conjointly. 1 At Katoomba, New South "Wales, ! the coroner returned a verdict of acei- | dental death in the case of S.veer 1 Welight si,all. aged .1!) months. The I child with its mother, was departing j after a holiday. The mother placed i the babv for a few minutes on the 1 belli of the footpath in Lurline street. ; and re-entered a house. She returned and found the child suffocating. i T!in to a- doctor, who was out, and then to another, but on the doctor’s arrival ; the baby was in extremis: A cloutheaded nail. 11 inches long, was ex traced from the child’s throat, but efforts to restore the child were mi Mioces>ful. The question of clothes to be " (iri

V,v members of local bodies when pi<4,,t0d to H.R.H. the ITinre of Wales was discussed by Captain Tabu Rhodes, t |, ( > ~, the ( io vernor-t ieneral. and the Nelson City Coum-il a few days ago at Nelson. “Are wo, t” ‘ toppers and frock-coats. " a ~ vexed question Which the councillors rriAied to have decided. Captain Rhodes stated that a cabled inquiry in regard to the dress to be worn at 'official functions had elicited the rep J from the Prince that he would be deli.ducd to see the people in anything l~. v to wear. The sartorial proI I,m thus solved, and. according 1“ the Nelson '-Colonist” the statement v - s received with general satis! act ion Py the members of the Council. ' There should be a bumpov house at the entertainment to be gixen -if Brights’ Theatre to-night in aid of the fund- of the new Otaki Brass Hand. A portion ot the programme will be -upi.lied l,v tin- Nsi.ives, who will give two of their splendid puis, which limy have boon practising for -me mm- pa-t ... rl.-w of the approaching visit <d the 1 Tiller; of Wah-S. ni-o lmka, etc. >ex et.,len.ed visitors from Wdlingrou and a numb' > of local arti-'s will assist in tie- programme, wnwh should be a -(i* f v ioy; }>l'’ on‘ Dr. Por.mrr will tin end 1 h-- lu.mti on and give a ’W l.rief address :d the opening. ei,iec: i- a worthy line, and v.e nop> M ,p town and district residents, their hearty -uppoi-. Ihe eu- .* will be followed by a damn’. A .Mr M. O’Brien, inspector o; public health, reported to the Palmer-ton North Hospital Board yesterday that during the month of March infectiouI were notified am! dealt with as •oliew-: . . diphtheria b. oimrii- .1. inf.. - y • 1; imbbog. iniim.n,-; 2: Levin, diphtheria 2. -aterm , pi-:;;'.- It Otaki- HiJ d. : Koaizotea Town K( .‘ r ’i V-. diphth'-na K irdiuMira j,-... ... ini-: .-': 1: Hotov.h.-nua. .. . . . ; m /.Ci. .. i • , 1. .xtluonz: K: r.--.ga. ii.ffaenra 1: Oroua, tuber-lr!o-:V 3*.'influenza the total of ail , i the intlu-io-a ea-es there V. ,-!(■ i-i.r-e o: pncaoior-ia include!. All tho tim - ease- were of a mild M-T'O- ... ,i . - ,tjff close of the month tae ntrroy.' , . .... considerably. Th<torn! tuimi.er o; i.a-p-’b'e.- made was V, Zr riod out when the patient, w,-. ri . Ti e T-iace- not ... .... -■ -i,.. the report wore entirely frt-e disease. The Xueklnsd ‘-Observer” has a iok - the expense Of Foxtoa, ill -,.y> .; ... v.-ritcr give- lb - i.magi natron At "t v. Here it is: Foxtor. the historic dii.ge in tile Manawatu. alf'-r-

- .. ,-ween flood- and fire-. It ha - ■ la-. f :v oa-I is- periodical fire m ts.o following, another periodir.w of q few ffavs previously. In i.e-c the fires it catches fish in the ri-.r-r. -11 ar times fhe poptffiition has to get or. the roof to catch ’em. because true food covers the country tor nooc-rou-I'L and a gentle nun?.- may sit in the t.or.•• --• branchs— of a wlliotv tree v.l it;.t;a true pad-tool: for tinny \r stires. Ail Foxtonians keep boats and row over the tor, of ienc*-- :a flood time robing for the cow-. I'eop'e uy* across the paddocks in flood time to catch »he coaches, all or which nre .* i hr --.ilor- who arivc v:,*h the - Hi - hand avi a comptgvs it. tne other. ar>i Lav--- a -uriou- dialect of ti.ix.-d nautical and hor.se t&s«c They - a -rdendld rt-ce of children there, ri:.'; rhe b^- v £ '-.--cC'ii ~~ pri-m! to notice the of webfo-.: among them. When Foxy** hasn’t • . : street iowa for -t • the ’a •: vc become ii- t o-tet-V- - ggHyris . : ,f vt-ter her fly. rO they n burning main vtr'.-f.-t with a chemical engine, which libornr—but not the town.

It is reported that eleven of the jurymen at the trial of Alice Parkinson in Napier ljavo signed a petition for the woman’s release.

Mr F. C. Seddon, of Wanganui, has

been selected, out of nearly SO applicants. for the position of secretary to the Wanganui Agricultural Association.

A vendor at the Mataura stock sale, who sold a line of over 200 soundmouth ewes, which realised ISs Id, told an “Ensign” representative that he received 27s 6d for the same class of sheep last year.

Thus the “Munawatu Times”: —In New Zealand the average number of persons to' each licensed house in boroughs is 954. and in counties SSO; but- Otaki, with a total population of 703, largely composed of Maoris and Chinese, has live, hotels, one to IoS per-

Guard’s van F 405, which figured in the recent railway collision ot Auckland, is the identical van attached to the goods train which ran away from Hihitahi. on the Main Trunk line, last May. On that sensational occasion Driver Walsh lost his life, and the rolling-stock was mostly reduced to matchwood. An unusual “personal” in the Melibournc “Argus”: Owing to a confusion of name that is constantly recurring and is troublesome to rectify, the Prime Minister (Mr Hughes) wishes us to notify the public that in future he will not be personally re-

sponsible for any credit given 1o any persons bearing his surname, and whether claiming relationship to him or not, unless on his written order.’ A tino of £lO, or In default one mouth’s imprisonment, was imposed on Thomas Crossloy bv Mr P. L. Pollings. S.M., at the Wellington Police fourt. for using obscene language within the ( hearing of passers-by in a public place, j He was also mulcted £1 for inobriucy. Sub-lnspectoi- Emerson said that the I accused was lined for similar offences j t>ii 1v a month , 1 .1.71.1

An instance "*• what ho . slavery was mentioned by the i'Uief J tn-pcctor at a recent meeting of the . Nelson Education Board. At one place visited on the West Coast tun boys had to milk nine cows and the separating and other work, before going to school, which necessitated their gelling up at- 3.30 or 4 a.m., and lo- believed this experience was not uncommon in the district. It’s always a mv.-tery to parents how boys manage to bo so hard on their clothes. But. boys will be boy-; the ,j„ 1 v wav is to provide them with wearaides of a quality which will stand up tn their playful abuses. clothing serves the purpose admirably. ,\„y local mothers will toll you that. Call to-day and sec tlicir stocks.— ] Howard Andrew, Ltd. (also at Ohuuj. The price of new boots is prohibitive tn many families, and in consequence it is advisable to have old boots re-

paired. Toko thorn to F. Barratt, who makes them as now with the best of leather and workmanship. Don’t delay, send your boots and shoes at once—F. Barratt, Dunstan Street, Otaki fiail-way.—-Advt.

Some five or six bowlers, playing in ti c Burton tournament, had :• v, ry Irying experience on Saturday, v. bereb- they were all mad" exceedingly ill sad suffered considerable pain after partaking oi some pr<---"d beer and tongue, •vmpTom- <>* psotikihj*: j» f ; • *ll iag -ei in. with tli< result stat'-d. lortneatoiy beyond the, suffering endured im more serious effects ensued.- “ M.B. 1 T: ileine. ’ ’ A Gladstone Road farmer, with 4" , - > t- vpeiieric (; as a dairyman, made a rather inter"-' ing -'.atement to a “Chroni-ic” representative. Uhe had noticed it -la" d in ,;n;.;ii!li« la-1, week that "image ot toddor would immediately affect the milk •-•tr.plv from a dairy Itt-rd. Hr- experiled him to tW conciu.-ion that rjo'hi.ng affecte-I the supply so much a- r, cold southerly snap with a -n'lden drop in the temperature. « -pecially in the tall of the year when the milt: was going off. This, he contended, had ;; ~.e ro do witii the rnritter tri.',a ':haag" ■ feed, and from hi- observations he would say that a cold snap would result in a 13 to 20 per ecrM milk shortage next day. In preparation for the recep'ion or the Prince cs "Wales, 00-.-s :f 1 iiou-e in Auckland is being 'fora: uj . and the park-like ground- e - order. During isi« brief stay there the Prince -.rii] be the guest of the Governor-General. and it is. interesting to recall the fact that This historic old building ha= housed Royalty on two T/revious occasions, and is abbut the ouv buiiding in New Zealand with that distinction. Fifty years ago the Uake of Ti'linburgh four coining guest-» great uncle,) was a visitor to the big wooden building in Waterloo Quad-

rant, and JO year:-: back the present King and Queer: were the gue-t- ot Lord and Lady Kanfcrly. The house as built of heart of kauri, and the timber is as good to-day a- when it sheltered the Duke of Edinburgh. The “Age” says there has recently developed :rt Master ton. a low type of creature that devotes itseb to the writing of anonymous letters, bes’hnirchir.g the characters of reputable citizens. -This is the most venomous reptile that creeps on the face of the earth, and ine x,v,D.sr it is scotched the better for

the cosaaasity, Priyvte defective- arc being employed to trace sort-;. - or some of these outrageous uas-ives, and should they be discovered they will probably rmy dearly for their de-pic-si.de conduct. Society rstr-t be is a bad way y.kku it produce- icdivi'ia&l* ,-o 10.-t to ,-elf-rc--p>t-cr. that they ,-yy;'- •. ■-- "i Hie characV-r - of other- under -m. cloak of : i*". Such are -le/o-rtfing of : -r.-j hor.-e whipping, nr. better -’ill wgregatior for a. period -yee r- is ' ot P Majesty-s gatJ*. For Children-T Hacking Cough, Woods ’ Orest (Peppermint Cure is Sd, 25 B<L f

The Horowhentta County Council meets to-morrew morning at Levin.

At Waruganui three waterside workers were charged with the theft, of seven cases of benzine from a railway truck. One of their number. Charles Stewart Boyle, is the owner of a motor ear and was”tlio instigator of the theft. He was sentenced to 1-t days’ imprisonment. Fred. Nelson was fined £3 and .Tames Ross £3. Ross expresed some doubt- as to his ability to find the money, so Boyle pulled out a handful of notes and paid the fine.

A newly married couple from Tinui (Wairarapa) had a rather unfortunate beginning on Tuesday. When proceeding to Masterton after the ceremony the bridal car had the misfortune to collide with a lorry on one of the hills. Little damage, however, resulted except that the bridgegroam had t» seek medical attention upon his arrival in town, and proceeded'upon his honeymoon with a prominent piece of stick ing plaster on one side of It is face

A man saw an announcement in an ironmonger’s shop the other day as follows: 'lron sinks,” and he went in and told the man that lie knew iron sank. “Yes.” said tlie man. “And time flies, but vine vaults, acid drops, sulphur springs, jam rolls, grass slopes, ami music stands; Niagara Falls, moonlight walks, sheep run, Kent hops, and holiday trips; scandal spreads, standard weights, India rubber tires, the organ stops, and the world goes round, trade returns.” The customer bolted. Then ho returned, put his head in at the door and re marked; “Yes, 1 know, and marble busts. ” For BronehtrJ Coughs, take Woods’ Great l’eppcrmint Cure, Is 9d, 2s Od.