LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 27 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A wireless message has been received that the Prinzessin, with a returning draft of troops, will not reach Wellington till Sunday. Sir Robert Stout, completed 20 years of oflice as Chief Justice of New Zealand on Sunday last, having been appointed on June 32'. 1899. It is understood (says the I“la'\\'ol'3. Star) that two sections on the Lake road have changed hands‘ at £145 an acre. One is a 50-acre section. Millions of the nails tlrat are now being used in New Zealand are of Dominion manufacture. An Auc.l~;land factory is turning out three tons of "them every working day.

A whale about 30 feet long was washed up on the beach at Kakal-a--mea, near Wanganui, yesterday. From all appearances it had been harpooned in the head. An attempt is to be made to try it out. It is interesting to note that at the Palmerston North Show last week seventy-five per cent of the prize exhibts in Mangels, Swedes, Turnips, and all vegetables Were grown from Coopers’ Seeds of Success produced in New Zealand.‘’ Large and important problems will have to be faced during the next -ten years in New Zealend, said Sir Wil~ Ham Fraser, Minister of Public Works, at Dargaville, on Wednesday evening‘ He added that the future was full of possibilities, and whatever party was in power it would have to give far greater attention to the provision of roads, bridges, and railways, in order that the vast resources of the country might be suitably developed.

It has been decidedyto re-build‘ the bonfire on Mount Eden, which was mematurely lighted I=zlst Sunday night. From the tone of the discussion at a meeting of the Peace Celebmtions Committee, it is evident the deed is attributed to some pfo-German.

If you have a pet canary, parrot, or other bird why not feed it on something tasty. Coopor’s Bird Seeds are all recleaned my special machinery, blended -by experts, and acknowledged by fanciers to be the finest obtainable. To had from all ‘sto:-es.*

President, Wi]son’s pouularity in the Homeland may be gauged by the result of a “.nlodcl election” held at Lcith, Scotland, to test the p:'inciplo and method of proportional ropresont.ation: 675 voters, nine “caxuliclatcs” (names of public persons) for five “seats.” Result -of first ballot: Admiral Beatty at the top Of the list, with 207 votes. President Woodrow Wilson at the bottom with 13, the only “candidate” below him being Mrs‘ Pankhurst, with 6.

In conversation with a. Wairarapa Age repr-esentative, a master builder of Masterton stated that the cost of building to-day was not due so much to the increase in labour and material as to the modern conveniences irequired. People a few years ago were satisfied with a zinc bath. and plain fireplace. Today they insisted upon an enamel bath (costing £l4) tiled ‘fireplaces in every room expen—sive panellings, th best of gas fittings and all sorts of other luxuries.

Mr Lloyd George is seldom at a loss for a retort adequate to the occasion. A local opponent once found out this to his cost. He heard a rap at his door, opened it and found on his doorstep Mr. Lloyd George on canvassing intent. In reply to the request for his vote, he blurted out. ‘‘l ’d sooner-vote for the devil than you?” To Which, in reply, came the query, all suavity and blandness. “'\VL—ll, sir; in the event of your candidate not standing may -I have the honour of your vote?”

Mr. W. Hodges, of F. Cooper, 1.-td. Nurscrymen oof Wellington, will "be in Taihape for a few days, and is prepared to advisoiintending planters as to the most suitable val-ieitios of trees, plants, shrubs, otc., to plant. Mr Hodges can be found c/o Cooper’: Stand at the Town Hall, or c/o G-rctna Hotel.*

Stories are beingitold of they splendour of the new, servant, and some of them are pl'obT—3.bl.-y juslt» _o.jo«;v-7‘. sfories, but here is one that happens '0 be true, writes the Daily Chronicle: At a suburban villa there called a very magiiifideiit lady in a fine fur coat. The young servant—of the old scllool——who answered the door, was much impressed, showed the lady into the dining-I'oom, lit the gas fire, and then asked, what name, she should give. “Oh,v_” said the visitor, settling herself down comfortably, “just say the washer Woman!” I A

B In his newly published “Life,” M».J. B. Clynes, the Labour M.P., relates [the story of his ro~nantic rise from a ten-year-old drudge in an Oldham [cotton mill ‘to the" rank of King’s 'Ministcr He tells of the joy derived in studying a tattered old dictionary which he had bought for sixpence. after carefully scraping that amount together. Of the delight in surrepti-' tiously devouring an Emerson exposed for sale on an open‘ second hand S‘»i'aH_ Of the irresistible thrvil W“-fch came on his perusal, in a similar way Ruskin’s “Seven Lamps,’-’ the dearest [book in all England ]iter._',;tul'e to me.” And, perhaps best of all, how he was able to earn. money for other books by reading aloud to three old blind men. V " = If a certain well known Dunedin business man is as keen an agent as he is a bright wit, surely his business must prosper, A few days ago, Snj.'S ]thc “Wellington Post,” a statement made by a witness in a civil"case at the Wellington Magistx-ate’s Court to the effect that a suit which would ‘have cost five or six" guineas four lyears ago now cost ten guineas, and lwould in the near future probably cost fourteen gnineas, prompted Mr F. V. [Fraser, S.M., to remark that in the course of a year or two, at that rate men would once again content themselves with a coat of blue paint. That remark was duly reported, and ‘came to the notice of the Dunedin ,wag, one of whose agencies is that of lan American {faint manufacturing company. Next morning Mr. Fraser received by mail a for-‘mal business card and a leaflet, setting out the many excellent qualities of a certain brand of paint, with special emphasise on the facts that —— brand paint neither pealed, cracked, nor blistered and was a true treatment for the im[provement of the most viéatherwoi-n.

Remember the Big Sale commences Friday, June 27th, Wonderful Bargains in all Departments. Dress Tweed 2/11, 3/3, sale price 1/11, 2/3.-—CoI- - and Gifford, Ltd. Flags, all sizes, procurable at ,Somerville7s—( AdVf:'.)'

,3 The following vT,%'s’els will be with‘in wirelpss range to-night: Mziori, Mararoa, Pqrt Chalmers. In range of Cllath:‘.lnS:’ Paloonu, Prinz Essin.

Following their usual custom at this time of the year, Messrs. W. J. White and Sons, drapers, are holding a big Winier cleaning sale, which starts on Saturcfay. Every article in the shop has been marked at a price that must command :1 ready clearance. ‘

In emphasising "'t;'he ‘ilivery large amount of work involved in ‘the administration of ‘the Public Works Department, the Minister, Sir William Fraser, stated at Dargaville on Wednesday ‘evening, that on the present Esti-matesgthere were «SOOO roads and biidges. The Minister was expected by the public, be said, to have an intimate knowledge of each -one, and he certaiiily had to ‘answer correspondence regarding eaeh one_ I

Yesterday was the first anniversary of the wreck ‘of the Hud*dai‘t-Parker ste:unel- Wimmera‘ ofi the north coast cftNew Zealand, through the explosion of a mine. Of the 151 persons on board the vessel, 26 lost their lives, this number being composed of 10 pas~ sengofs and 16 members of the ship’s company, including the m'a’sfer, Captain K. J. Kell. The disaster occurred early in the morning, whilst. -the ‘Winimom was on the Way to Sydney from Auckland. The 125 sllrviv’nrs who landed on the coast in boats. reached Aucl~:lnnd by the steamer Clansman, on June‘ 29.

Clean healthy fruit trees are essential to the production of a plentiful supply of good, and clean fruit. Advice as to how, what, and when to spray is obtainable gratis from F. Cooper, Ltd., c/o Show Stand, Town Hall today and Thursday..*

A renla.rka,ble‘pref,exr for the underpayment of a I'\s‘.:l;-'.'.'l-E‘-d soldier was brought to light during the hearing at Marton of proceedings instituted against an emplru-"er for I’Jl‘l}‘4Cll 07:‘ the Wellington district grocers assist. ants’ award. The prosecutor was the Inspector of Awards. The employer, it appears, admitted to the inspector that he was paying a returned soldier less than the prescrib--od.millin'llfm I'ate_.- but stated that he did not consider himself ééillecl upon to pay the full rate I because the soldier was in receipt of a pension of £1 per week. The nla'.gistrate fifiposéd a fine of £5, and the employer had to pay arrears of wages as Well.

VVe notice (says the “L3*ttelton Timse” on Tuesday) the following paragraph in the shipping column of last Saturdays’ New Zealand Times: “The Hudclai't-Parlier Collier Barwen, after ‘being detained outside Westport since early on Tuesday morning. crossed the bar at noon on Weclnes—day and was bertheod at the West Coast 110131‘. at 12.40_ “p.lll. She is loa-,d—-ing‘ coal at Westpei-t ‘for’ Sydney?’ From a local source we learn that the Balrwon is to ‘load 3000 j’c0.50,00 tons at “7CSfpQl‘t. New. (me of the cétuses of the zicuie sholrtzige of coal here is the lac]-:_ of ships ‘to cpiivey the ordinary cargoes ffelfi Newcastle and yet here is a vessel * about to run off with a large quantity of coal to ‘the other siclc—-almoStV'l'ite'rally carrying coal to Newcastle. There is a screw lo'6§e somewhere.