LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 16 October 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A stock whip, lost on Tuesday, is advertised for.

The following Vessels will be ml-.thin wireless range to-night: Manuka, Mararoa, Kumara, Waiwera, Port Alma, Port Melbourne, and Tahiti.

It is an-nounced,, states a. special correspondent 'fo the %ominion, that the -Government has purchased 6200 acres of Mr Vivian Rid'diford’s estate, in the Mmtinborough district, for the settlement of soldiers.

He was an Englishman just out, and went to a land agent with 3, view to buying a sheep station. “Do you know anything about raising sheep?” asked Fhe agent. “OH, yes,” said the Englislnnan. “You buy a, hundred wethers, don’tyerkno'w. In twelve months they‘ each have two lambs. Then you sell the »old'shecp and have the la.mbs to the goo’d~—to say qiothing of the fur.”

Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., in the course of an address at;Carterton, urged those present to exact pledges from candidates for political honours that the trusts will receive no (matter. A firm stanfl Had to be taken by the British and New Zealand Governments if the Trusts menace was to be combatted. The Government should charter ships and save the people from the clutches of the shipping combines.

Two good breeding sows and one boar are advertised for sale. ‘

The Ordinary meeting of the Borough Councilxhas been postponed from tom_orrow evening to the following Fri-da-s’,.24th October.

A meeting of the Taihape bl'2lllCh. of the Acclimatisation Society will be: held in the supper-room of the Town Hall to-morrow night, when it is hoped" there will be a. good ‘attendance 'of votaries of.the rod and gun.

Considerable interest is being manifested (says the “Post’) in the police Drosecution against Richard Thomas Bickerton, of Wellington, on informations alleging that he practised at ‘Blenheim as an eye specialist, under the style of doctor, without ‘being registered as such. The point at issue is as to whether the American diplomas held by Bickerton give him the right to lay claim to the title of ‘‘doctor’.’ in New Zealand. '

One of the regular attendants at the Castlcelifi two-up “school” escaped inclusion in the captures in Sun(lay’s raid by the Police through delaying at home in order to set a broody hen. Starting out later for the usual resort, he had nearly arrived there when he met another habitue running like a hare. Quite unaware ‘that the latter was flying from the police, the latecomer inquired, “Hallo,“Ginger, what are you running for?” “Ginger” did not shop running, but shouted back theanswer, “Because I can’t fly.”

The sun’s mood is gradually changing fram the minimum to the maximum," said Mr Clement Wragge at Gisborne, “and during the years 1920 to 1924 the conditions will, be more favourable to earthquakes. It’s nothing to be alarmed at, and I. don’t say that New Zealand is going to be blown up, but people who live’ in places where earthquakes occuy do not want to sl;ick'V3coAc‘himne_ys "and _l‘e't them tumble down on thein_ A It’é go'o'd to have (::I'tllquakes and it shofifs that there is enough energy left to keeli ‘the’ ealltll_ »:uld_all going.” 3 _ _ '

A bold bid on ‘behalf of New «Plymouth was made by Mr ‘S..G. Smith '(Taranaki)« when he-«appealed to the Minister of A_gricult_uife, Industries, and Commerce to liifike that town the first fand last port of call for steamers com--ing from and going to Australian’ New Plynleu'Lh_. he said, was the nearest port of call to Australia, and had a harbour v,'hl'c}-1 could accommodate all 11*.-e inter-colonial vessels, and which in a few years, would be able to deal with ocean liners. ‘Australian mails, landed at New Plymouth’, -he said veouid be distributed throughout New Zealand a. day earlier than at present. The Minister made no reply to this urgent appeal.

The price being charged for fencing wire in Auckland was made the subject of a question asked the Prime Minister on Tuesday aft-221-11'oon by Mr H. POl- - (ollillemur ), who arlcc-l thzn ‘he Board of 'l‘l'a_le .nigllt he rvl~-.lues':oc'_ "+0 i_llvestig.-vie Vac allegation that‘ t.':€*lP. was a combix‘.-'3 among the nl6r.‘~h::r.ts of Auckland to keep up flle'pl'ioe of wire. He said that one month ago it was selling "for £3O a ‘ton and now was costing over .53-16. :'~lllle three out of four merchants told-'wo<lld~be cvstonlel‘S that they had not Vany Wire at all. The allegation was that they were refusing to sell _in order to force 111) the prices. Mr Massey said he would have the Board iof Trade make the inquiry as suggested.

An unusual accident occurred on the Central ‘\x'h:ll'f. .4~nd, last Monday evening, when :1. 1-acehorse fell into the harbour and was some Time in the water before being rescued. The accident occurred at about 5 p.nl., when a number of horses were being shipped on the Manaia for Whangarei to take part in the race meeting there. The mare Impudence was particularly obstinate, refusing to go into the horse-box, and on being blindfolded she backed over the Wharf’. Two boats were sent. to the rescue, but the animal swam ‘in all‘ directions, and eluded The boats for nearly an hour. She was "eventually caught and hioisted-aboard the Rimll in an exhausted condition, and after beingdoctored was landed and sent back to her trainer -’s stables at O’nehurlg3-

It was generally known aft the time when air raids were nightly expe-ri'cnc-ed that one of the great objectives of the enemy was Woolwich; but comparatively f..m~ p’(m1_1IO-—9V1_CI1 (among ‘the Jrizxxxgr Hmus'a!2ds of workers there——Werc u.w:n'e of several narrow escapes. of the

arsenal, observes a. writer in the Pall Mall Gazetfe. An oflicial states H 121? they still talk at Woolwich of the sangfroid of :1 young engineer on one of the staffs in the danger area duringmany an anxious finm. On the Saturday "morning of the great daylighf raid the workers‘ won-_. _of course, hurriedly brought out of {hose death. traps Where they were filling‘ shells and fusees. Work being‘ snS}):‘-11d(‘G, this engineer seized the oppol'hll‘lii'_v while guns were hanging, bombs oxplodi.ng, :1.1.1d German Troubes thudding‘ overhoad~——’co have 21 shave! Ami] only a few yards from his ofiice was a magazine storing over 10,000 pounds of T.N.T. he