LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 February 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good young cow in full profit is advertised for sale.

An advertiser wants to buy a four or five roomed cottage, convenient to town. Particulars may be had at this office.

A widower with four children is advertising for a housekeeper.

A reliable woman or girl is'wanted to assist in shop and to help generally.

A young girl is wanted from 7 a.m till 2 p.m. daily, to assist in house keeping. Pronibifion of the export of pota toes, except by consent of the Minis tor of Customs, is gazetted.

Before the war, uniform Serge cost 8s a yard, but latterly it increased to 16s, and is now quoted at L'4s. a yard.

The foundation stone of a new Catholic. Church at Devenport was laid by Archbishop Cleary on Sunday afternoon.

Flowering bulbs, narcissus, fresias, anemones, etc., are advertised at very cheap rates by B. H. Just, nurseryman, Palmerston North.

A lost Kodak camera is advertised for, and the finder wil be rewarded on returning the same to the Borough Council Chambers.

Another liner left an English port on February 11 w:tii BSO -Vew Zcalanders. She should arrive at Auckland on or about Ma-en 15.

It is on the cards that an entertainment of a particularly drawing character is in preparation in aid of the Fire Brigade motor car fund.

One or two Ciermans in the Masterton district, have openly expressed their intention of returning to the Fatherland at t.-;a earliest dat3 possible.

The mails for America and Europe by the Paloona from Welington, which were to have closed on Monday evening, will not close till 5 p.m. on Wednesday next.

From the great number disporting themselves in the Hautapu river yesterday afternoon, the town must have been largely depleted of its juvenile population, therp being fill ages represented from two to twenty.

Owing to the reports of the treatment of returning diggers on board some of our transports, several ;n----stances have come our notice (says an exchange) of late jf parents cabling to their sons to return by paying their passage. A Feilding boy who disdained iho suggestion, bitterly regrets His actiou. Said a witness in the slander action in Wellington, under Cross-ex-amination: "The speech made by Di. Thacker at the Town >!all was cne of those frenzied, hysterical denunciations that no -sensible man would take any notice- of.'" '•Exactly," replied Sir John Findlay, "a sensible man would have s>:>t "P and left the hall at once.'

The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. D. S. MacDouald, has informed the North Canterbury Farmers' Union that the representations made regarding the 1918-1919 wheat crop were carefully considered by the Cabinet. It decided to adhere to its previous decision that the price should be 6/6 per bushel for good milling wheat. The Minister states that the scheme of handling adopted last year will be continued for another year.

A modest lawyer was encountered at a meeting held the o'tlicr evening. A certain company had failed to take delivery of certain goods for the body in conference, and portion of the shipment was destroyed. The chairman explained the position, implying that the fault lay with the defaulting company. "I don't think we should take on a lawsuit if we can avoid it." said the barrister. "I see there they have put in a bill for 17/6, so I think the best way to squarematters is not to pay it, TbeD if they are not satisfied tuey can sue us." The surprising diplomacy was adopted, and the meeting members contentedly smiled satisfaction at the easy waj( out by turning attack into defence.

Shortly before midday on Thursday, a shocking accident occurred at Gamman and Co.'s mill, by which Reginal Pike, an employee, lost his life. The deceased, a busman, was engaged rolling five heavy logs, down a slight slope towards the hauler. He successfully started the f'vst one, and found the next held up by a piece of timber which waa blocking it. Getting on top of the log ho removed obstruction, Thinking perhaps it would not get away until be was clear, but it started suddenly and he fell, the log passing ovsr him, and the three others in succession crushing him to death. The aecicl.mt happened so suddenly that any effort to save his life was impossible. Tho deceased was a married man, about 35 years of age. His wife, for whom great sympathy is felt, survives him and three children.—Ohakune Times.

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