LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3351, 2 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A lady help ‘or girl to assist is advertised for by Mrs J_ R. Cunninghamc, Kzika Road. ' A final Vl-eview of the uccounfs in connection with the T:-entham Art Union shows the net. resuv/It of the fund to November Bth as £37,259 9/3Shearing in Ha,wke’s Bay is Well advanced and the new season’s clip is imchiiqg Napier in large quantities. It is not. up.to the standard of_pl-evious years,‘ being somewhat lighter th‘.-1n ~u-sual, and is also shorter and more tender.» It is reported that the quality generally ig,..'poorer, the deficiency bei"ngfon“Van average’ a.fibu‘t 111)‘ per «sheeg;

An advertiser wants to buy an up-to-date American car, in any condition, must be cheap.

The standard wage for a. parlourmaid in the United ‘States is £l2O a. year. A genera; servant gets £144, while cooks demand iamytlling from £l9O to £360.

An Indian runner duck entered for the Mt. Albert. (Auckland) egg-lay ing c»or.test, has laid 182 eggs in as many days, which ig supposed ‘to be a» world’s record. The duck is ‘described as “Still going strong" and likely to get over the 200 mark.

“I would like to point- out,” -said Mr E. J. Howard, 5 Red Fed candidate in Christcfiurch, “that What is taking place in Russia would take place here tomorrow ‘if the workers were returned to power.” Mr Howard ought to know,” commented the Press.

It is stated that cigarettes are likely to be’advanced in price. In Christchurch an increase from 8d to 9d, and in the same proportion for larger quantities, has alrea'dy been made. Stocks are reported to be low, and the Wholesale price of English cigarettes has a hardening tendency.

During the corurse of an address at F-oxton, Mr E. Newman, M.P., said he wanted to refer to the question of the aggregation of land. This brought the interjection: “Why doesn't the Govcrnment stop it?” Mr Newman said it wouldn’t go on much longer, as the Reform Government would put itdown. The response from the interjeetor was: “Oh, rot. They said that six or seven years ago.”

The special intelligence branch of the Ministry for Reconstruction in England states in its report that the subordination of Workers to industrial regulations for which they were not themselves responsible is ‘.‘inconsist-.2 out with the rights and obligations" which ought to be inherent in member ship of any organised group of society.” The report concludes with this prophetic prone-uncement: “A new era has come upon us. We cannot stand still. We eann-ortr» return to the old ways, ‘the « old abuses, the old stupidities; yAs with our international relations, so with the relations of classes and individuals inside our own n'ation, if they do not henaeforth get better they must needs get worse; and that nieans moving towards .an.Aabyss~. . . ~ . We have awakened to the splendid qualities that were latent in our people, the rank and file of "the people. . . . a Now We [see What ‘potentialities lie in this people and what. a charge lies on us to give these powers ful-I play/’—Mr T. M. Wilford, 'M.P.

Revelations in the documents recently pirblished at Vienna shoW’.King Niehalos received £40,000 from Aust~ ria after war had been declared, sfirve only to confirm what has long been common knowledge. among Montenegrins——that treachery -in the highest» quarters caused their collapse in the face in the Austrian invasion. Niche lag has sadly degenerated since the days before the Balkan war, when he lived on 1 civil list of £I7OO a year, xvitho-ut running into debt, though he had practically no private means. “I can buy two machine guns for that,” he replied when at Vienna firnr gave an estimate for £4.00 for an electric light installation in his palace, “so I shall continue to use candles.” The little court at Cettinje was their a rendezvous of poets, the King himself being; a poet of considerable reputation through all Serb-speaking lands. He wrote the national hymn of Montenegl'o———t.he fincst'appeal ever made for the liberation of the Serbs~—and. also L 1 poetic drama, “The Balkan Ernpress,” for the opening of the first tll€‘.zLi.l*e l)n:?lt in Cettinje.

A In order to prevent the “camouflage” of German pl'odu“ce under B'el- - brands, and to give the buyer of Allied countries 9. true guarantee of origin of the Iratioxial exports u_nd‘products, Belgian manufacturers are new enforcing the rcgula.tions -of prc-war existing trade associations, and establishing; new ones for the trades which had no such organisation ‘before 1914. Welllknown and powerful associations such as the “Belgian Glass Makers’ Association” of Charlero.i,' and the “Metals and Corn Exchange” of Brussels, have taken steps since the rArlnisticc "to. hold their members ‘ontirely free from unfrifiidly influence of any kind. It is understood from official sources that fourteen of the largest cement producers have formed themselves in a. new group, and have decided those working before July. 1914, and who accept to subnlit'._thcmselves to an inquiry on behalf of their form-::-r or with the ex-occupier of theBelgian territory, -can become meniabers.

6_ IDAHO——-Governor D. W. Davis. Prohibition since January 1, 1916. Estimated Population, 1971—445,176. “There is no question of the benefit of Prohibition. Countless thousands of our citizens have been benefittted directly or indirectly by the elimination of the liquor trafiic. \ We have some cases of illicit selling, but these cannot even begin to dim the_ shining light of the hew.e'ria.” . Vi

Mr W. Meldrum, the Liberal candi-3 date for the Rangitikei CleCtora.to,E will address the electors in the Taxi-5 hapg Town Hall, next Monday even-; ing, at 8 o’clock. A cordial invitation l is extended to ladies to be present.

Alludin-g to the production of the country, Mr Massey, in his speech at Riverton on Saturday night, said that the wheat-growers had not received the encouragement they ought to have received to grow wheat. We had some of the best wheat—growing land, and yet year by year we Wer_e looking ‘to Australia for some of the wheat we required_ This must stop, and we must face the position.

In the midst of so many references to profiteering, it is refreshing to be able to record one case at least where the practice does not ‘exist. (says the Otago Daily Times). It occurred at the recent sitting_ of the Otago .Land Board. A discharged so-Idier applied for an advance, to enable him to purchase a ciiy residence, and the Board, withwhe valuer’s report before it, considered the price asked by the seller a little too high, and advised the applicant to approach the owner direct, and see whether a reduction could be arranged ifor. In the afternoon the soldier returned, and smilingly informed the Board that the price had been reduced by £SO. The -owner of the property confirmed the shateriiont, adding that she was a soldiel"s widow, and was glad to be able to assist the man. On behalf of the Board, Mr Sadd. th¢. chairman, warmly thanked the lady for her very generous action.

The Buller electors are not taking very kindly to Mr H. E. Holland, who is seeking their suffrages as leader of the Parliamentary Labour" Party. At :1. meeting last week an elector asked Mr Holland if he knew a freer country than_ New Zealand. After some hesitation, Mr Holland replied “Switzerland,’ ¥’and a section of the audience then asked if it was not possible for him to go there. Another elector wanted to know how the boys in the trenches during the’ war would have" got the reinforcements necessary for victory if all the ‘men 'l'emainin9,' in New Zealand had been “conscientious objectors.” The leader of the ext:-em‘—' ists does not‘ apear to have “been fafble to offer an answer to this“ question_._ He evidently was not prepared to Eidmit that if he had had his Way New Zealand would have left its soldiers in the lurch. Mr Holland was accorded a vote of thanks at his Birchzleld meeting, and when’ he said that he would come back later in the campaign a prominent local rnan I_-emarked that he need not trouible, sinc'é';‘t.he <listriet was going to have a practical minor for its representative.