LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 14 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The population of New South Wales on December .‘list last was 1.928,175, comprising 950,238 males ami 971,9.17 females; •including 2021 ?n 11-bloodml aborigines.

An interesting atmospheric phenornonen was seen at Now Brighton. Canterbury, recently, just before noon. A vessel on the horizon was plainly reflected in the sky, and also on the sea, closer inland.

An American judge has decided against the City Council of Long Beach, near Los Angelos, who attempted to make kissing in public a misdemeanour. Prehaps the judges of the United States haA'e enough to do as it is.

The annual meeting of the Taihape branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association will be held in the supperroom of the Town Hall to-morrow night, at 8 o'clock. The attendance of all returned soldiers, members or otherwise, is particularly requested.

Good for old and young is BHARLAND’S FLUID MAGNESIA. Guaranteed highest strength, purest qualify and best value. 4

More than 2000 American soldiers in France suffering from shell shock ■were cured by the news of the signing of the armistice.

King George V.’s champion bull Windsor Knight, was sold at Birmingham recently for £4410. The animal will go to South America #

Shops in Tiaihap'e will remain open on Thursday, 17th and 24th April till 5.30 p.m., and will be closed all day on Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Anzac Day.

The Committee of the Taihape Patriotic Society are requested to meet to-night at 7.30, so that important matters may he dealt with before tho annual meeting which takes place at 8 p^.

Mr. V. Nicholls, has at his Garage, a Chevrolet Car, of exception! value, perfectly equipped, -for sale, and he is prepared to give any trial. He has also a Maxwell, a 4-cylinder Buick in good order and very cheap. Mr. Nicholls has two or three good motor cycles.

The full text of the Borough Treasurer’s report on the finances of the borough for the past year appears on page six of to-day’s issue. We commend the careful perusal of this document to aspirants for municipal honours, of whom rumour says there are to be several in the field.

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, speaking on the subject of land for . soldiers, said that Cabinet had recently (approved of an increase in the limit of advance for stocking and improving bush sections’ held or selected by returned soldiots from £750 to £1250. The increase applies only to bush lands.

The date for the municipal elections has been fixed for Wednesday, April 30th, and the Town Clerk of the Borough of Taihape notifies that nominations for a Mayor and seven Councillors will be received at the Borough Offices, at the Town Hall, on Tuesday April 22nd. For the position of Mayor there are at present two condidates—Messrs. Wrightaon and Joblin.

Cable advice has been been received by an Auckland underwriter that the steamer Malta, which sailed direct from Wellington, to Bombay en route to London, has been held up at Bombay, The cable states that owing to plague rats being found on board this steamer, the health authorities have ordered the discharge of all cargo for the disinfection of the steamer. The cargo was being accordingly landed when the cable was dispatched.

Mr A. S. Adams, Dunedin, speaking on the result of the referendum, said it is impossible to say whether many, or how many, Prohibition voters cast their votes for continuance, owing to the compensation clause, but we are satisfied that large numbers have refrained from voting on that ground. We are by no means assuming that the vote will turn out against us. If it should be so, however, w'o are satisfied that the compensation question will have boon the large factor, and wo will be prepared to fight a continuance for Prohibition without compensation at the next poll, when we hope to carry it by an overwhelming majority.”

In connection with the discovery of a German mine on the bench at Eangi--1 ilvt-i, it is stated that at least fifteen of the mines laid around the Now Zealand ccast by the German raider arc still unaccounted for. It may be taken for granted that the number of mines remaining as a danger to navigation is substantially fewer, but an exact estimate cannot be made. Some of the mines may have sunk; others, after breaking from their moorings, may have exploded on outlying reefs or lonely portions of the coast, or may have drifted right away from the New Zealand coast. It is considered most improbable that all the mines laid by the Germans will over be accounted for, and this being so, there will be a danger to be guarded against for a long time to come.

There was a lively scene at Marshland on Tuesday evening (reports the Christchurch “Press’'), when the Rev. Val Trigge and Mr. R. D. Martin gave addresses on behalf of the efficiency campaign. The speakers were accorded a fairly good hearing, though there was every indication of a “hoodlum” element being present, but when the speakers left the hall they were menaced by a company of young men wearing masks and armed with sticks, who proceeded to make themselves very conspicuous. One of them hurled a kerosene tin of water at the Rev. Mr. Trigg, but the missile missed its mark and drenched one of the “bomber’s” own friends. The presence of Mrs Martin had an influence on the crowd, and after some trouble the speakers were able to get away unharmed, though the criticisms levelled at them were far from being complimentary.

That tickling, irritating cough can be promptly relieved by a few drops of “NAZOL’' taken on lump sugar. Get “NAZOL” to-night. Sixty doses 1/6. $

The attention of those desirous of being enrolled on the District Electoral list for the Borough of Taihape is drawn to the fact that the roll will be closed at 5 o’clock on Wednesday evening next.

In Britain, beer is to be reduced in price, as well as in strength, and improved in quality. The price is to bo according to strength, .which is to be much lower than that, of beer hitherto sold.

Two women who proved that their sex could keep a secret —the two women of Lincoln who from the first know the secret construction of tanks and never breathed a word to a soul Do they not deserve a decoration?

Some idea of the magnitude of what our sailors and soldiers have dared and done may be gathered from the fact that the King has shaken hands with nearly 25,000 individual heroes in the last four years.

President Wilson’s wife, is a handsome brunette who fills the part of Presidentess to perfection. She is entirely at her ease in any company, and has a neat little appropriate remark for each person dfid a wonderful memory

The talk of honours lists reminds one that Queen Victoria used to scan those presented to her with scrupulous care. There is a story of how Gladstone, provoked by his wishes being disapproved, tore up the list in the Royal presence, and how, on presenting a second list, the Queen retaliated in like fashion.

'A few years ago the Dalwallinu area of Western Australia was just a wilderness with no living thing upon it other than native animals and birds. How, thanks to the progressive policy of the State Government. It is regarded as one of the finest agricultural districts in the great wheat bolt. What is happening to Hew Zealand’s unsettled lands?

The machine of national production must not only he set going at once, hut it must also go at full speed. To solve the employment problem, evidently we have not merely to re-estab-list industry on the old lines, but to recreate it on new lines, which will provide for large and continuous expansion.—“ Daily Mail.”

According to a Britsih Board of Agriculture return, the actual increase of areahle land from June, 1914 to June 1918, in England and Wales, was 1,400,000 acres or 12.7 per cent., the addition in 1917-18 alone being 1.153.000 acres, or 10.2 per cent. This year the corn and potato area has increased by 1,468,000 acres. Allotments provided an additional 100,000 acres under potatoes. While cattle remained at the same number as in 1916 —6,200,000 —sheep declined from 17.951.000 to 16,474,000 and pigs from 2.168.000 to 1,697,000.

Two seamen, Henry Cbas. Lane and Frank Strauford, from the liner Tropic were charged at the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui on Saturday morning with, cargo broaching. The case which they operated upon contained shirts consigned by the Patriotic Committees of Australia to the Australian Imperial Forces. Four shirts were found in possession of the accused. The case originally contained fortytwo shirts, of which thirty-six were missing. Accused were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment each, and ordered to forfeit £1 each from their pay to cover the cost of the shirts.

The polling arrangements at Rotorua on Thursday were not entirely satisfactory, and a good deal of adverse criticism has been the result. Only one polling booth was provided for the use of the civilian population, and the congestion was so great in the afternoon that a number of people, after waiting for a considerable time, went home without recording their votes. Adequate provision was not

...ade !fo.v ,'electors folding- absent voters ’ permits, and as there was a large number .of these it was, perhaps, this fact that caused most of the trouble. The contrast at the soldiers’ booth was rather marked, for at this place, notwithstanting the large number who voted everything went off without a hitch.

John Spain, appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, on remand, charged on three counts of forgery for £5, £5, and £2O. TESrti was also a charge of sending a telegram with a false signature, that of G. A McKcndrick, which it is alleged he affixed to the three cheques. Mr. Loughnan appeared for the defence, and Sergeant Matthews conducted the case for the Crown. After hearing the evidence the justices, Messrs. J. P. Aldridge and J. Smith, committed the acused for trial at the Supreme Court at Wanganui on May 26th. Accused was also remanded to appear at Wellington on the 17th inst. to answer charges of obtaining goods by means of valueless Cheques. Bail was fixed in two sureties of £IOO each, and accused In one of £SO. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough