LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 180, 6 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ship Delmiva, which was reported to have been sunk by a Germa? submarine, owing to its Chinese crev refusing to work, has arrived safely n - Cherbourg. Mr. D. B. Frame, architect, Napier has received cable advice that his eld est son, Garnet, in the service of tin Admiralty, was drowned in the sinking of the Falabn by a submarine. The Hon. .T. G, \V. Aitken has beer nominated by the Wellington Ede.eation Board for a seat on the EdneatioCouncil for the North Island, and Mr. C. 11. Opie by the North Canterbury Board as one of the South Island re presentati ves. When an objection was made at tlu Auckland Magistrate’s Court last week to a debtor having a ‘sewing machine on the time payment system Mr. C. C. Kettle said if a wife wa.‘ prepared to spend her evenings making clothes for her children, instead of buying things ready made, the sowing machine was really a necessity. The following figures show the quantities of butter in cool store at tiro various ports on March 31st: —Auckland 17,7.16 boxes, New Plymouth 9852. Patou .139, Wanganui 1949, Gisborne 222 .V-. llington .12,115, Lyttelton 5.148 Dunedin 197.1, total 49,142 boxes. The total on March 31st, .1914, was 63,333 boxes, and the total on March 3.lst, 1913, 44,623 boxes. Application was made by the police at the Napier Magistrate’s Court last week for the disposal of the money found on the four men convicted of gamblin™ n trn ; n. Counsel repreae wii,j instructed to consent to Un money being paid over to the Maori. His Worship made an order for the return of the money, amounting to £75 5/9.

Mr. J. A. Sutton, of Waitangi Station, has brought from his upland pastures two of the most perfect specimens of mushrooms - wp have ever seen. The largest weighs 32 ounces, and measpres 15-<inc%cs,; in diameter, ‘hjchpif The other specimen weighs 2p ounces, measuring 1-1 Inches in diameter and 41 inches | Their flesh is ■rich.|— North Otago .t'isale has boon effoctecf and Co., of : a: vaiii'able" > at the corner of Lambton Qriayiahd Waring Taylor Street in Wellington. The site is at present occupied by the United Farmers’ Co-operative Store and Messrs. Nathan and Co.’s butter factory. The purchaser is the State Fire Insurance Office at a figure between //120,000 and £30,000. It is understood that tiie State Fire Department proposes to erect upon the land a building of several stories and modern design, to be used as the head office of the Department. For Chronic Chest Complaints Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1, 6 -3/6.

Tn another column is published a letter from. Her Majesty Queen Mary to Lady Liverpool in connection with the contributions of socks and belts from the women of New Zealand. We also publish a letter from Her Excellency Lady Liverpool to the women of Now Zealand, in which attention is drawn to the needs of onr own men who have gone to the front, and suggesting that an effort should at once be made to furnish each man with two pairs of socks each, in time for their despatch not later than June. As the matter of Her Ladyship’s letter is of a very important nature, we trust that Taihape ladies will look it up and respond in the same noble and [ generous way that they have done to previous calls upon them.

Mr. A. A. Minchow, United States Consul-General to New Zealand, has arrived at Sydney by the Ventura.(Press Association.)

It is not generally known that bearded wheat is quite immune from the attack of small birds, and is also a heavy yielding, good milling wheat. We hear that it is being extensively grown in the South Island.

The present crisis is helping men to a clearer idea of brotherhood. When master and man have served in the same regiment, when the artisan has received a commission, and an Eton boy has served as a private, when all' have faced death together in the trenches, and have fought side by side for many a weary month, it is impossible to think that they will return to Tie Old Land with class hatred in their heart, says Bishop Watts Ditch Hold.

.‘‘Wane, spirits ana maitea liquors, £100” was an item in the Wellington Hospital estimates which resulted in some questions from members of the board at the. last meeting. "I can understand wines and spirits/’ said one member, "but the malted liquors; is that used?” There was silence for a time while the chairman made inquiries from officials at his side. Then the secretary said, "I understand that certain members of the honorary staff must be supplied.” There was general laughter, and the item passed.

It is not always a blessing to live in hhe baekbloeks, removed from railways, and with only make-believe roads leading to the section; but some back-' block settlers in the Wellington dis’rict have lately received a small measure of compensation for the hardships they endure. They were anxious to get their wool out for rite February sales, and they raved inwardly and outwardly when they heard of the good prices more fortunate settlers were getting and they were missing. Their clips had to await the March clearingup sale, and they were more than rewarded. for the buying power was strong, and the average of quality was not high, so that belated bales from (lie back country fetched Id and ltd •ier lb more than they would have if they had been in time for the February sales.

The land gamble in New Zealand may not be quite as bad as the Tattersail’s gamble legalised in Tasmania. It is nearly so. We (Wairarapa Age) have evidence in, the ballot for a section of land in the Wairarapa that is taking place this week. There is only one prize, but if rumour goes for anything, it will be very substantial. Why is there such a rush for this section? Is it not because the land is valued at such a price that whoever may be lucky enough to draw the marble at the bail it will make a modest fort; in- ? Wo do not blame pc - pic for rushing a "snip” like this. But we do blame the Land Board, or the Government, for having undervalued the land. It is not fair to the country that its assets should be disposed of at less than their market value. If our information is correct, something in the nature of a public scandal is being perpetrated.

A case of considerable importance to merchants was set down for hearing at the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court. Early last year (before the war), a los"i company gave an indent order to a

Christchurch company for a line of ironmongery, to be procured from the United States at a fixed price, cost, insurance, freight, exchange. War bong imminent, the consignors In America paid 10 per cent, for insurance against war risk, and 31 per cent, for extra exchange. The Dunedin company was required to pay the war risk premium and extra exchange, amounting to £2O odd. The company was advised that it was not liable, and accordingly paid the amount demanded under protest to get possession of the goods, and sued the consignors for a return of the money. The case lias now been settled by the consignors paying to the plaintiff's solicitors the full amount claimed, with costs of action. It would, therefore, appear that on a c.i.f.e. contract made before the war any premium for war risk and extra exchange must be paid by the con-

Moving pictures tell a story, Life’s sad incidents are shown, Joy and sorrow, laughter, sadness, Gladness, madness, grief and moan. But tlie "movie” that upset me Was the cough that made me poor Faded from the screen for ever, Chased by Woods’ Great Feppermeut Cure.