LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 23 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“The quality of carpets prior to the war was infinitely better than it is today,” said a. witness in a civil case heard-in the Wellington Magistrate's Court on Thursday. “I have a carpet in my surgery that has been on the floor for thirty-two years. It is s’till good to~day, and I value it at £3o.’ ’ In reference to the liability of shipping companies for damaged goods, Afr‘ H. C. Campbell, of Dunedin, informed a reporter that he, had received advice showing that the English companies have altered their bills of lading, and are now accepting liability up to £lO per cubic foot and £2OO for any one package.

According to Mr Joseph ’HOOd: MP-2 the chairman of the British American Tobacco Company, the net Profits Of the company increased from £143,541 in the. first year of its existence to £3,140,174 in the sixteenth year, ended December 30th last. The drectors hope to maintain the rate of dividend ‘of 30 per cent_, free of income tax, -on the ordinary shares. V

Owing to inability to procure timber in Wanganui for back-loading to Sydney, on account of the -railway refrictions, the White Pine sailed on Thursday afternoon for Greymout-h to pick up the required cargo.

Major Richardson, referring to the new Allied victory ribbon, says the Americans ‘bought up practically the whole of the available supplies, and New Zealanderg found it a difficult matter to get any.

1 “The world can only be properly mled or governed on the basis of common sense,” said Sir James Carroll, at a meeting of the Owners’ and Breeders’ Association, at Christchurch, last week. “We have too many politicians and too few statesmen these days. We want fewer of the one and many more of the other. '

In reply to a. deputation from Paimerston North, the Hon. Hanan CtX—plained that the Education '~Depar_tment had no power to condemn schools or to erect a school. The Department could not deal with school buildings or school sites. He considered the Minister of Education ought to have increased powers.

Mr P. C. Webb is’ expected to gain his freedom sometime during the next few weeks (says an exchange). The date of his release from imprisonment, in the ordinary course, would be 13th September, but as there is a remission of sentence up to the possible limit of 26 days in his case, it is probable that he will be set at liberty before the date mentioned.

The ladies’ rep. hockey team, which is to play a match" against Feilding this afternoon, left by motorlorry this morning at an early -hour. They should arrive at Feiiding about mid—day, the match commencing at 3 pm. A dance is to be tenderedethe visitors by the Feilding folk this evening, and the local team will ‘return home to-moi*row."We h3a.ire“nla‘dL" 9:l‘rangements ‘for "the result thé"inatch to be telegraphd t_hrougl_l,’Wh‘.e'l‘l ‘ii’ w"-‘l‘ll be made known in _té_w'n'..' "V i‘ '

“Doe you ivis-h. to: say - =zinytlling,.” asked’ Mr E. Page, 5.M.., of a defend-Ean-t in the “Magistrates Court Welling:’conv’on'Thursday,- “I=don’t. suppose it is any use asking for leniency ;_this time,” replied the man, who had been before’ the court previously and had been given several cllan‘ces_ “Wofild a term on Roto Roa Island do you good?’.’ inquired the magistrate. “No; I don't think it will have any effect,’-’ said tha man, who was fined a substantial amount and given a final chance. :~

“We have been fighting the Huns, but it seems that we have come back to New Zealand to find that we still have to rrush a number of ‘Huns’ here,”,said Lieutenant-Colonel G. Mitohell.'district organiser of the We]lington Returned Soldiers’ Association, at a ‘general meeting on Monday night last. The spirit of comradeship, brovthehrhood, and love that had grown up aniong the men at the front, he continued, seemed to be quite‘ foreign to the people who had stayed in New Zealand, and soldiers had returned to find an orgy of land speculation, profiteering, and ‘selfishness "consuming those for whose liberty they had fought. ' ’

A nlOSt remarkable 9000-ton jship, [destined to make but. one Voyage of |'9ooo miles, is being built in a British ‘'Columbia« shipyard Its purpose’ is to 'carry 5,000,000 ft. of lumber (limbe: in bulk) to England. But when it drives at its destination, instead of being unloaded, it will simply be taken apart and turned bodily into LL huge luinhnr pile. For the new vessel is all cargo, ancl the cargo forms the vessel. The method of construétion is to lay down the keel and fore-and-aft ggrc.~:s timber, complte a skeleton bottom, mount donkey engines on the structui-e’, and then launch that portion of the Vessel. The donky engins hoist the heavy timbers aboard for the completion of the ship.

[ Dealing with the qustion of the jshipping shortage and the congestion of meat in the freezing chambers in New Zealand, Mr W. J. Poison, in an interview with a. Wanganui Herald pressman, stated:—“Mr Massey relied onshipping prospects to give {is the relif we require, he is naturally Optimisfic as bcomes any Minister of the Crown, but it requires a great amount of optimism to believe that the shipping in ‘sight will lift 12,000,000 eareases ofrmeat in 11 months, to say nothing of butter, cheese, and wool, which is practically what will be required to clear our stores by June 30th next. Sir Joseph Ward, on the other hand, [informs us ‘quite frankly that the number of refrigerated ships had fallen from 99 prior t 0 the War f 0 53 now, with practically half the caparityi We have further information from other sources that only nine new refrigerated vessels are building. How,? therefore, can shipping give us relief ’f I

Ladies’ All Wool Ribbefl Hose in new Heather Shades 6/11 per pair‘Collinson and Gifford, Lid.

Signifiizant I'unloul's are in circula—)

tion in Wellington that one Liberal Minister has made his decision to re~ tain his portfolio under Mr Massey ’s leadership;

Tenders are invited for felling 150 acres, more or less, of milled bush, situated on the Papakai Road. Par~ ticulars may be had from Mr D. Scott, Papakai Road or at_this office. Te§_ld—ers close on 30th August.

Contract shearers are wanted to undertake Ngamatea shearing, consisting of about 15,000 sheep, to start not later than 2nd January. A packmn is‘ also required for the mustering season. ‘All applications should be made to Mr Borlase at the Gretna Hotel, on the 26th and 27th of this month.

:Eliza'betliville, a township which sprang into existence near Birtley (Co. Durham) during the War, is now full of empty houses, and ‘no fewer than 906 dwellings erected _by the Government are deserted. The place grew up, as" it were in a. night, and hundreds of Belgian refugees and discharged soldiers and their families were drafted in by the Governnient to make munitions. After the Armistice all the Belgians departed, leaving the place utterly dcserted. There are 906 houses which were erected by the Government, .anE the Disposal Board has directed a. sale of the furnishings, which include 6000 bedstcads, 1000 armchairs, 2500 toilet tables, and 12,000 small_ chairs.’

In the course of the eloquent speech in both English and Maori, in which he ‘bade Adr'ni'ral‘Jellicoe and the emcers and men 0.,’/the New Zealafi'd welcome‘ at Wellington on Thursday, the Hon. Dr Pomare ‘stated, “I, too, have British Hood in me. Sometimes some friends of mine. saythat I got it in a very peculiar Way; that it was because an ancestor of mine absorbed a Presbyterian missionaryfi (Laughton) But, at any rate,7it ‘is good blood.” (Apr3laus"e.) vßo't-‘h-"pak"eha a‘-nd~Maori, he said, had good cause to be proud of the blood that “‘v€fa_s“‘iil"‘them. They had rorxgh€"’e:£eh"6£her;" hm; they had fought the enemy"‘side by side; and they would ‘b’ene.eforth‘ be one united race; '«'(7Al)'pla'us\e.)"'

As stated in anothperreolumn there will be a limi_terd_;etxe_nsion_of_servlc_es! in connection with_thetrains. An express train will leave._»Auckland- for ‘Wellington at 7.10 p.m. on Tuesday, and from .Wellingtonv a train will leave for Auckland on Thursday at midday; and New Plymouth to Wellington on Thursday. Connection with Napier will be made at Palmerston North. The hours of departure will be practically the same times as followed by the express trains before the -“cut” in the railway service. It is understood that in the meantime only one through passenger train will ‘be run per week, and that, any additional relief train that can be provided will be. for the purpose of dealing _with goods traffic. As the coal position improves, the department W"111«app1y further measures for relief, so far as goods traflic is concerned. . _.~

' A man‘ named Abbott was charged lat the Wanganui Police"'Con'rt on 'Thursday with iatteinpting to abscond l from bail. Abbott Was bailed out last |Mon(lay by a man ‘named McElWain, ’who was a stranger to Abbott. McElwain arranged to see Abbott the folIlowing day, but Abbott.was missing. ‘McElwain made inquiries ‘tram (the l police, and ascertained that Abbott had i left for Wellington. McElwain laid an ‘information, and Abbott was arrested. Mr Mackay, who» appeared for the accused, said that when Abbott was released it ‘was necessary f'oT"hinl to go to W7:llington, to be paid ofi from a ship, ‘upon which he was recently a deck steward, collect his belongings, and endeavour to collect his evidence. Accused, in :his evidence, denied any intention of breaking bail. He did not go near the ship. The magistrate considered that the present bondsrnan should not be responsible for the ac-' cused,,who was committed to prison to await trial.

i In the coursciiof medical evidence in the manslaughter charge heard in the Auckland Supreme Court on Thursday morning: there was some discussion on the subject of tetanus. Dr, Tresidder, in reply to His Honour the. Judge, explained tlra-to this deadly germ, which usually took about ten days to incubate, though in some cases it might be as short as five, could not exist. in oxygen. This meant that tetanus could r-01; enter the body through an open wound, because such a wound would be exposed to the air. It either entered through a -deep crack, Where the lips were likely to close, or, aswas more frequent, through a punctured wound, from which the air was éxcluded_ He added that the tetanus germ was very prevalent on the beaches of -Onehunga_ Dr. H. L. Gould, of the Auckland HosPimly oxlflailled that deadly as was 't9f311115» in tropical countries it sometimes took only '24 hours to incubate he belieVe<3- A satisfactory serum‘ Was nfiow known. early administration usually being effective,