LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 26 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The following vessels will be within wireless range to-night:—Maori, Mararoa, Pateen-a, Kauri, Baranga, Tainui, Port Alma, For Sunday: Raranga, Tainui, Manukau.

Several Wanganui shopkeepers failed to close their shops on the day when the licensing poll was taken. The Labour Department intends to take Court proceedings .against them for their failure to comply with the requirements of the law.

The batch of bonny English girls who have come to New Zealand by the lonic as wives of the soldiers created* a very favourable impression, and the spectacle of many of the "digger :V carrying babies in their arms fired tie enthusiasm of the waiting crowd. The young wives were quickly made to feel that they were truly welcome.—" Auckland Star."

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure For Children's Haekinrr Coufh

A telegram received from Greymouth states that two trucks loaded with coal broke away at the State mine yesterday, and ran down an incline, striking a miner named Muncastef, junr., breaking one of his legs, and severely bruising him. Hs was removed to the hospital.

The story is told of a French peasant woman, who sat in the ruins of her house, bargaining with a soldier over the price of butter. The soldier, in exasperation, at length exclaimed. "But the next time a shell hits her e your house , Hv;iM come down." " WJelU'' said the woman, looking at him imperturbably, "my house may come down, but th e . price of butter will not."

A case described as "Dora's" last kick (Defence of tho Kealm), was heard at Thorpe, Essex, when Miss Emma Baron, aged 81 years, a lady farmer at Great Holland, near Clacton, was fineTl £227 for using wheat for poultry-feeding. It was stated that defendant disregarded repeated warnings, saying she would obey the laws of God, but not of men.

Footballers and others interested in athletes will regret to hear of the death of Mr Archibald F. McMinn, third son of Mr and Mrs Alex. McMinn, of Auckland. Deceased a few years ago was one of the best known footballers in the North Island, and on one occasion toured Australia with a. New Zealand representative team. Deceased was engaged in newspaperwork in Carterton and Dannevirke for som e years, but latterly had been in failing health.

Advice has been received from the Patrick Henderson Shipping Company that the dockers of Glasgow have recently refused to load whisky on overseas vessels. The shortage of this spirit, which has been manifested throughout the United Kingdom during the past few years, when retail prices reached as high as £1 per bottle, has evidently become so -acute that the deckers are determined to preserve A'-hat is available. The Bhamo will consequently be a "dry ship" as far as the whisky element is concerned.

Says the Wellington Post: There is a strong opinion that the contract with the Imperial Government with respect to butter should not be renewed next session. There is growing feeling that producers should go unrestricted ou the open market. So far the cheese men have not shown anygeneral desire to "break away." It is to be remembered, however, that tho acceptance of the cheese was made contingent on the sale, of the butter. The milk supply is now diminishing. Sufficient supplies for the winter domestic requirements have been arranged.

Xow that the question of hide prices has been decided, it is the intention of the Government, to proceed with the fixing of leather prices, and the manufacture of standard boots. These mattors, the Hon. W. D. S. HaeDonald explains, . connot be dealt with hurriedly, as the interests of many parties have to be considered. Standard boots will probably not. be sold at prices much lower than those now charged, but the quality will bo guaranteed, and will be superior to that of the boots now sold at an equivalent price. The grade and price will be stamped plainly on each boot, so that there will be no room for exploitation.

Some of the recently-returned soldiers who are endeavouring to take advantage of the Government's aid in the purchasing of homes (says the Post) are complaining that the men who were in camp when the armistice was signed are placed in a very much better position in regard to the scheme, than the men now returning. The men who were released from the camps without leaving the Dominion are stated to have taken advantage of the scheme in large numbers, thus restricting the choice of the returning men even mo-o so than would have been the case nominally. Some, measure of -protection, it is felt, should be given to the men who did the a etual fighting

The hearing of the claim for prize money in connection with the sinking of the German cruiser Breslau a year ago recalls a characteristic act by the naval censor. The Breslau was driven into our minefields by the; plucky action of two destroyers, tjho Lizard v.nd Tigress, and some comment was evoked by the suppression of the names of their commanding officers. It transpires that the Lizard was commanded by Lieut. A. Gustave Ohlenschlager, whose name so shocked the censor that ho decided ,to suppress it. Mid this!, to-f course, involved the suppression also of the Tigress's CO., Lieut.-Commaudev Nevill. Had flic censor troubled to look through the Navy List he would have found many names quite as exotic as that of the captain of the Lizard borne by officers of unmistakeably British origin and of the highest professional attainments. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. For Chronic Chest Complaints When you ask for SHABLAND'S thing "just as good," but get SHABLAND 'S. Best that money can bny. 1

Mr Geo. Wrightson, one of the candidates for the Mayoralty, will address the electors at. the Town Hall on Monday night. An invitation is extended to all electors to be present.

There is a great contest for the Wanganui Mayoralty between Mayor Mackay and Cr. Sigley, and hearty "compliments" arc being exchanged between the candidates, in which the latter seems to have the best of it.

In an address at Wellington on Wednesday, the Rev. Howard Elliott doscribed fhc House of Representatives as suffering from "senile decay." He added: The National Government has been a curse to the country, and all Protestants shouljclj pull together in order that a strong Parliament should be set up.

A welcome home in the form of a dance was given to Private T. Shutc, who returned last week, in the Lodge Hall, on Thursday evening. Dancing was kept up until after midnight to th e music supplied by Messrs E. Bray and D. Mossman, and Messrs Upchurch and Sinclair. Private Shute left with the 4th Reinforcements on April, 7, 1915, and was in Egypt up till the signing of the Armistice.

Speaking at the Grand Orange Lodge banquet at Christ church, Mr. W. Nosworthy, M.P., for Ashburtoo, said he bad loyally supported the National Government because he conscientiously felt that it was the best thing that could be done during the great crisis they had had to pass through, and he would still support the present Prime Minister as long as he could, but he would never give his support to any future Government in which these was a Roman Catholic, or in which anyone who had a drop of German blood in his veins was a member