LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sale previously announced of tho late ! Mr Hb'ddle’s properties at Kaetilu to take* place yesterday, has had to’ be posponed until the 28th November, ,lowing to t'heidelay in revaluing by th'e ■ Valuation Departments •• o

Recent by-elections, bad shown the country’s preference for progressive candidates, said , Mr. Hindmarsh, in: the. No-confidence debate in the House I He prophesied: “If there were .to be' an election now, the Liberals would! sweep the polls—except where Lab-! our would get a cut in.”

The "Weekly : Dispatch" says that the British found at Le: Gateau a cavalryman who was cut off from General Smith-Dorricn’s army in the retreat from Mons, in 1914. He hid in a wood till January 1915; when a Frenchman found him almost dying of starvation. The Frenchman had concealed and fed him since.

The great American University of Yale has received a windfall of £3,' 000,000 from an old graduate. Americans exhibit a noble prodigality towards their universities and colleges of their native land. There are upwards of 560 of these seats of learning in the States, and before the war had over 21,000 teachers of all grades, with 152,000 male students and nearly 85,000 female students. The income of these institutions is well over £20,000,000 a year.

“■We want radical changes in the Railway Department.” said Mr. G. Witty (Riccarton) in the course of the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives yesterday. “If wc want a ‘train wo cannot get it,” he said, “but if we do not want a train it is provided. If w r e want to stop at certain stations we are not allowed to do so, but if we do not want a stop wc arc given it, and all the time we arc paying a man £3OOO a year to manage the railways.” Mr J. T. M. Hornsby (Wairarapa): Wo pay him that, but he is not allowed to manage them.

The fact that the cost of paper has advanced over pre-war days from 300 to 400 per cent is emphasised in the annual report of the Government printing and stationery department. It states that apart from the fact that smaller quantities are being sent out from the mills, it is difficult to get paper at all owing to the shortage of shipping, and that even in connection with American purchasers, it is not certain that orders will come to hand. In view of these circumstances and the of the position becoming still more acute, heads of departments are urged to keep a careful check on their printing and stationery.

During the voyage of the •Paloona between San Francisco and Papeete, 25 of -the officers and members of the crew were- stricken with influenza. They were isolated in the quarters infected, and by the time Papeete was reached they had recovered.

The validity of the registration of the Freezing Workers’! and Allied Trades’ Union was a question submitted to the Arbitration Court some months ago, and the following advice has been received from the Court: (1) That the registration of the association in the proposed new name will invalid under section 23 of the Act; (2) that the various classes of workers mentioned, so far as they are employees in freezing works, may be regarded as engaged in one industry, and that those workers who are employed outside freezing works may be regarded as engaged in related industries. They may belong, therefore, to one union, and the several unions may belong to one association.

"Which boy shall it be?” shouted Billy Sunday to a Philadelphia audience of eleven thousand gathered to hear this famous "Booze” address. The question was asked after Sunday had marshalled ton sturdy boys on the platform and explained that Mr Booze claims one out of every ten! "Which boy shall it be?” asked this dramatic speaker and back from eleven thousand throats was roared the answer ‘none.’ This is James Simpson’s answer, too, for he claims that liquor robs the boy of his birthright, wrecks the home and ruins the worker. Simpson, the Labour Leader, reformer, editor, author and lecturer speaks here on Tuesday night in the Town Hall, and, judging from the crowds attracted in other centres is assured full house here. Simpson’s subject is "Labour v. Liquor.”