LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3359, 11 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Applications» are invited by the Taihape Borough Council for “the position of attendant of the producer gas ongine at the Borough‘ Electric power station. ~ __

A London cable states that J. B. Coates and Co. report that only £370000 out of the four million profit is due to goods sold in the United Kingdom_ Nine-tenths of the profit is due to foreign trade. The profit on a. 400-yards reel is below two-thirds of a. 'penny.

It ‘Was currently reported in Wellington that a Well-known general, not himself an abstainer,» has given to the Prohibitionists a letter which they will be able to use with effect on the eve of the comiing licensing poll. The secret is out—Major-General Russell, of Hawkes Bay, declares for Prbhibition. -

An unusual incident occurred at an inquest in Christchurch recently. An elderly man came forward to give evidence of idcntificat-iaon. “You know the deceased,” the examining officer suggested. “I went to school with him_” “And when did you last see him alive?” About 25 years ago. I havenft seen him lately.” But the witness identified the body. '

It is said that the Wages Board proposed to be set up in connection with the railway legislation" of last sessaion, will sit in a very few days, gut Mr Massey, when asked the other day, said he could not give the exact date. He said that -the board would be presided over by Mr Justice Stunger,'who intended to go on with the business through the long vacatiin. Practically all arrangements for the ‘sitting were complete.

The travelling Medical Board, comprising Colonel Christie and ‘Major Bowex-bank, sat? 9.-t Taihape yetserday, when sixteen discllla.i'ged solders aft"tended for re examin.a'l'i.on. Each case was carefully considered by the boaf'ding Pofiicem, and exjery gpplicant was recommended for fiseatlnent. The kindly consideration displayed by the boarding oflieefs towards each and every applieam. was greatly appreciated by the ‘l'ne'ngeonce_rned_ _

» “This piece=of broome that.:.l:"-‘am ~ho'lding’may not seem -any.thing-- un-‘ us'ua’LlV-‘to -the casual observer,’-’~~staAted C<3l‘o'r'lol°Rhodes, M.P.,—lin ‘the cburse of~his opellin.g-"add:-e‘s.s-at the Lincoln FloWe‘r S].loW. “It is”vel'y like ‘the SpaniS‘;l broom, but nevertheless it has a sentimental value for me. It is gl'o'wll from seed I picked at Gallipoli. and is treasured because, it ‘brings back ,memories of the gallant New ,Z_ealalldeex-5 who fell there. ' l ’ '

b“lt_ is the irony of fate,” said an Auckland minisrter, w-ht) had just retl_n;ned from the Assembly ~ meetings irft}le far south of the Dominioh “That while the people in tllc”n'o'r’th are" crying out for I~’;tin,'the people‘ in‘ the south are htajr-ing heavy rains day after day, which are hampering the ordinarytwork of the "mm, and throwing back, as it were, the season into a very late one, altluduglx that does not mean that the fruits and crops gathered at this time. of the year will not be prolifiicfi’

The lancing of an abficess in a lions? jaw attracted a large crowd to the Onchunga Zoo on Saturday afternoon (says the NZ. Herald.) After the animal had been driven ‘into a small retangular space in its cage a rope was thrown over its -head. The lion roared and struggled in a vain attempt to. escape When the animal was firmly secupred, a veterinary surgeon lanced the swollen jaw‘, the original intention of extralcting“a tooth having been abandoned. The operation was soon over, and the lion being -set free, «paced i-ts cage emitting low growls.

So far as can be ascertained there are 227 candidates nominated for the 80 seats. These are standing in the following int’el‘ests:—-—Reform 63, Liberal 61, Labour 54, Independent Liberal 15, Independent 15, Independent Reform 6, Independent Labour 9, not declared 4. The Labourites are contesting the whole of the city‘ seats, and many of those are in the country. There are two Reform candidates infitwo of the districts, and the Liberal vote is being split in two electomtcs. Honours in this connection -therefore. even. The Reformors llave no candidates in seventeen electorates, and the Liberals none in nineteen.

SEA’I‘TLE——C-hief of Police J. F. Warren. “All intoxicated persons are now arrested, while formerly many were sent home, so that there has not been a decrease in ‘the arrests for drunkenncss. Business conditions, iho\ve~vel', are very much improved a.nd the business‘ sentiment is overwhelmingly in favour of. Prohibti-olt‘.’—Advt. INDIANAPOLIS" Mayor Charles W. Jewctt. Pxrohibitipn since ‘April 2, 1918. “Our «country workhouse has been abolished, crime reduced, and social "conditions. improved.’ Prohi-T b'if;ion' is a “sncc‘ess ‘in Indianapolis.”—¥ ‘A”d'vt; 4' ‘ - ' .

At the ‘c«lu~istehm«'&u Mzlg'is‘fra.te’s Court; a returned soldier muued Huia Gilbert Dalley was fined £5, in default, one ‘month in prison’, for .ass:lult. ing the city inspector during the disturbance at Mr Massey ’s meeting last week. V

If you are thinking of going NO1"’[l1 for land, call and see M. N. McLaughlan. it will pay you and will cost you nothing; or if you are going to Havvke’s ‘Bay, ‘he can. give you information that will assist you. His address is: M. N; McLaughlan, McLaughan Bros., lanli agents.

On ‘Saturday, punc-tually at 2 p.m., F. Ward and Co. will sell the cont'cn'.ls furniture, removed to {he mart. for convenience of sale; 221150 a lot of corrugated iron, 1-idging, dog cart, purebred Rhode Island Red foivls, a. first-prize-winning rooster, and a number of chicks (all Hal'e’s celebrated strain). They w.i11.. also offer potatoes, vegetables, and six firset—class wewnner pigs.

The passengers on the Dutch steamer Van Cloon, which called at Auckland on Saturday, were :1 most‘ cosmopolitan crowd. They numbered about 40, of whom 15 are germans, 2 Austrians, 2 Swiss, 2 British, 2 Chinese, 1 Russian, and the remainder Dutchlne.n. The.enemy subjects are going to South America for busincssa-casons, and have passports, allowing them ‘to travel at will.

Leonard Hadfield, milk vendor, was fined, £75 in tlie-Christc"hul'ch Magistl'ate’s Court for selling ‘milk ‘pelow standard. The milk _was 53.85 per cent shor't in cream, as calculated from the standard of milk fart. Defendant had been twice previously convicted. Mr McCarthy, S.M._, said that deliberafe Lidulteratio-n of milk‘ was nothing sliort of murder. The of'r'c-nee evidently had been wilfully committed, and skim milk sold as freslii milk. Defendant and his wife‘ denied this, but" the Magisfl'atG declined to :,il_ter his decis--1011. . '

Regarding ‘the (sensational happenings predicted for ‘the 17th of -the present month,‘ Mr C'lemen=t‘Wl'agg‘e, the‘ well-kno'wln sciellfist,4 writes to‘ the Auckland. papers: “”Anent, the con: figul'at~ions of the _-sun and planets ‘this month, I am no sensationrmonger. -I simply give the mathematical figu;;e;s",' and" ‘suggest: what might or might ‘net.’ oceur here; and what I have givenwout was ‘from £1 stel'ling sense of duty: Thus, nothing _wha'teNer may eccuurfinp New Zealand,pand if. people} \yVi.llho_llly use the eenmion prudence atthis. time there is not‘ the Vslpightcsf. need '6O lose sleep unless to View the Aurora Australis, which may, or may not -take place," So God’s Own Country, of which I am so very proud to be ea citi~ vzcn; ‘may safely go on its Way, and rejoice in a thoroughly sound and‘ statesmanlike GOV'ernment."’ ' ' I