LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 30 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Henry Ford, the Detroit motorcar millionaire, has fared badly in his libel action -against the Chicago Tl-. - bune, from which he claimed £IOO,OOO damages. The jury awarded ‘him 10 cents, about 3d. ’

The last Welilinéton valuation or the 1918-19 clip has -been made. _-All wool coming into the store in the City from now onwards will be regarded as of the 1919-20 clip, the -last, according to present a.rrange_ments_. under the requisition scheme.

The Rangitikei County Council publishes in another column, a list of polling places in connection with raising the proposed: loan of £35,000 for the purpose of metalling roads in the Rua. nui Riding of the Rangitikei County, which have not Before been niétalled.

\ One of the largest shipments’ of ‘Cor:-iedales which has ever left New Zealand for the United States is carried by the Tofua. One- hunured oneshear C.ol-ricdale rams and three stud rams are from the flock of Mr E. H. Ensor, of Whiterock, and 50 ram hoggets are from the flock of Mr O. T_ ‘Evans, Woodgrove. .

A petty ofiicer from the New Zealanfi was an interested listener at an ‘Auckland meeting of returned soldiers in connection with the gratuity proposals. “I don’t .see much wrong with 1/6 a day——£27 a year,” he said. i served with the Navy throughout the war, and my gratuity was £32. That is at the rate of £8 a year.”——New Zealand Herald.

Says the Wanganui Herz_lld:—lt has been definitely stated that Mr Clut

I\’.T.c__Kenzic, son of the High Connnis» sioner, will be an Independent candidate for ‘the Rangitikei. Mr Melch-um (I-Igntex-ville) has been announced as the Liberal candidate. If Mr Meldrum is selected, Mr Smith will contes. Waimarino. Others mentioned are Messrs Newman, 4_l3urne_tt,.- and McL'ennan.

It is understood. that the‘ money is coming in satisfactox-ily for the .£lo,__000,000 Victory Loan, but it.-is impossible to state the amount that will be‘ 1-ealisod until the termination :of the period to‘\vhich voluntary subscrpition has been extended on. October 9th. Ar rangements are in train to make‘;.lp, if necessary, by means of the compulsory clauses of the Finance_ Act, any shortage in subscriptioxis.

The conditions of present-day life in Rheims are referred to by a res;

of the city in a letter written on July 30 to a relative in Auckland. “'l‘}lel-4! are already 40.000 people 11r:;rc." ‘ill letter states, “and practically all are living in temporary ‘shacks’ in the outskirts, mainly toward Cernay, while the centre of the town is being rebuilt. All the Schools will open for the winter term on October 1.”

“Some Women Seem to think that as soon as they are nlarricd they are financially settled for life,” Said Mr J. W; Poynton, S_M., during the hearing at the Magistl'ate’s Court recently of a. case in which a woman. earning her own living, sued her husband for maintenance. “That is not so when there are no children,” continued the‘ Magistrate. “Able-hodied women can always get. work in the cities, a.nd'When a woman can earn her own living she is not entitled to any maintenance money ‘from her ‘husband.’.’ A

i Supplies of butter for the local market are now about normal. (says the [Post‘. Medium <:hee.-'e for the retail ‘trade i_,- also no\'.‘ amilablo. The bur,ter season is still backward iuthiz; district, and the South Island continues to €ll-aw-on the North for supplies. !It. has been gathered from New York ‘correspondence that, arisillg out of the 1s rate per pound which Canadian cheese reached in consequence of tue Imperial demalld for that product, purchassl of Canadian were made in New York and other export markets at ls to 1s 1d per pound and shipped from 1s 3d to 1:: 4d to Sc:lndina.Via and other Continental markets.

9 '‘‘There should be ‘provision in the law of this country to prevent the blackmail of persons through the Press,” said Sir Joseph Ward (Awarua) in the House of Representatives. “Power is required to deal with persons who attempt to blackmail people through advertisements in the Press. I think something should be done in the interests of the public life of the Dominion.”——The Prime Minster: Wlll the hOnol.n'n ble gentleman explain what he means by “b]ucknlail?._” Sil‘ -10801311 Ward: I don’lt think it is necessary for me to give cases now_ That sort of thing is being attempted in this cduntl'y_. and I think it .i-s- in the interests of the public life of New Zealand that it should be made in that direc-; ’tion when an amendment to the Police Offences Bill comes down . J

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An Otago “Daily “Times” reporter

iwho paid a visit to the fortnightly auction sale of rabbit skins held in Dun—edin states that prime winter doe skins were realising up to 17/6 per lb, or equal to 3/ each. Bucks brought up to 10/6 per lb, equal to upwards of 2/ each. The average price of all variieties offei-ing——-which included good, bad and indifferent——Wais from 10/6 to 11/ per lb. The sale showed an advance of from 3gl to 1/ per lb for some classes of prime skins, and a slight decline for poorer sorts. The niarkefil was what may be termed irregular, es- 11 pccially a's'_ regagds inferior sorts. I

The folk who commence to talk, I when the Weather has been worn threadbare, of the lack of chivalry of New Zealand men who will not give up their seats in train cars, will receive a rude rebuff on being told that ‘our greatest enemies went to the length of a sub—leader in an important provincial paper, "contrasting the bool‘ishness of the country—born with the politeness shown in this respect by the army of occupation. This news was brought to New Zealand by Major A. Clark, who has recently returned_ “I do not know,” he stated, in comment-‘l ing on it, “whether it was only a piece I of the unpleasant German servility, but ‘ in any case, it must have been notice-I able to receive suchfavoumble comment.” ' I

I The ignorance displayed by people ’of the Old Country in respect to this Dominion was exemplified by Chaplain Crick, of-’H.M.S. New Zealand, at’ the Y.M_C.A. at Auckland on Sunday. He said that for a long time all he knew about it was that its map was the last in the atlas, and that it was uncomfortably overcrowded with sheep. (Laughter.) The last letter he had received from Home while in New Zealand exprssed a wish that he would heive a. merry Christmas here. “The writer," he said, “evidently thinks it takes correspondence six months to get here." The achievements oftlthe New Zealand troops in the war had removed this ignorance." Before leaving? home a.-'Brlt-ish oflioer of'l'l.igh' rank had said tc. him: "‘ln the line the« New Zealanders are magnificent, and out of itithey are gentlemen every time." - -