LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 March 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The winning numbers in the wera Soldiers’ Memorial Art Union, are published in another column. Chautauqua opened to crowded bouses at Mastcrtcm on Saturday. The guarantors there sold £3OO worth of season tickets.

Rabbits are gradually penetrating portions of the Masterton and Wairarapa districts that have been comparatively “clean” for the last twenty years. The situation is viewed* with anxiety by settlors.

The directors of the Wellington Gas Company have announced a further increase in the price of gas of one half-penny per 100 cubic feet, making the new nett price B£d in place of Bd, which came into operation on the Ist instant.

Classes in dressmaking and woodwork will commence in the Technical [School at 7.30 this evening. B’dtth classes are open to adult students as well as those between the compulsory ages; and intending pupils should enrol at once, so as to lose no part of the school term.

The pay of boys at the present day was monstrous, (kldjcman Sir John Bell at the Guidhall (iLondon), recently in sentencing two lads of 16 to fines of 40s for the theft of two rabbits. The boys received 36s 9d a week each and such pay, said Sir John made them foolish, wicked, and discontented. The rabbits having been weighed, the Alderman, on being told ttyat, according to the Controller’s price, the value was 13s 4d. remarked that he was sorry for the purchaser.

The biggest bomb Britain made weighed 3300 pounds.

A married couple with One child are advertising for furnished rooms.

The following vessels will be within {wireless range J|aori, Mararoa, Monowai, Patcena, and the Moeraki.

A smart lad to learn the butchery trade is wanted for the Otaihape Farmers ’ Meat and Produce Co. ’s shop, Station Street.

Kenneth Wilson and Raymond Butcher, both aged six, sons of soldiers killed in the war, died at Kawakawa from gajstro-enteritis, {following convulsions from eating green'fruit.

In the original copy of the coming peace treaty it will be signed in the alphabetical order of the various countries’ names, but the copy for each country will contain the name of that country first.

Since the outbreak of the war the Red Cross and the Order of St John have supplied 2177 motor ambulances and G 4 other types of motor vehicles, such as stores lorries, repair wagons, and soup kitchens.

President Wilson lias intimated to members of the Democratic! Nationa Committee that he will not be a candidate ,'for re-election, to the Presiaoncy in 1920. President "Wilson said he would devote his time to writing history.

The hearing of the flourmilling employers’ dispute and application for a Dominion agreement :.s to be adjourned by the Conciliation Commissioner, to be held at Dunedin on March 12. The employers’ representatives, who were to be in attendance stated that they were neither ready nor authorised to proceed.

Recently whales have paid frequent visits to the most southern New Zealand seas. Last week an ocean leviathan entered Bluff harbour and careered around for several hours to the amusement of a large number of onlookers. The mouths of a few old whalers watered, but they had no tackle..

Giving evidence in regard to the system of inhalation treatment in Auckland at the commencement of Ihc recent epidemic, Dr J. P. Frengley stated before the Epidemic. Commission that the efficiency ,of spraying measures had been questioned by many. 'Tlis reason for going on with such means was the already definitely determined efficiency of the inhalation of antiseptics as a means of preventing catarrhal diseases in the camps. Above all, ho thought the provision was of considerable mental value to the nervous.

The yields of wheat this season promise to be good (reports the South Island correspondent of the “Farmers’ Union Advocate’) The heads arc well filled, and it is pleasant to see such largo piles of bags at the threshed sets. I have not yet heard of any tallies, but there are a good many paddocks about that will go 50 bushels per acre, perhaps a little more. I should not be at all surprised to find the average in the vicinity of 30 bushels per acre, if the weather allows us to get it saved properly. As for the oats, they, too, are going to yield well. I have heard of some tallies of over 100 bushels per acre. Of course that is exceptional; but yields of 50, 60, and 70 bushels per acre will be quite common this year.

Land is changing hands rapidly everywhere, and in some districts there is quite an element of excitement in the land speculation (writes the “Farmers’ Union Advocate’s” Canterbury correspondent. Prices are advancing, too, and there is evidently a feeling abroad that times are going to be good. The Government has had a great many farms offered to it, most of them situated some way in from the railway line. lam afraid that in most cases the values, placed on these holdings are on the high side. The Government will, quite properly, exercise a good deal of caution in buying land for returned soldiers, and it may be that private enterprise will beat it when it comes to the purchase of land. On most of the soldiers' settlements building and fencing has to be done, and this adds to the rent materially.