LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3362, 15 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday was the eighth anniverszzry of Captvain Amll'n.d;=lél3.' Arcachin-g ‘the ’Sdu*fh' Pole. ‘- ‘ - -It is -ofiicilaly announced that: thexe are 216,000 War Wdowis in England, "of Whom 38,664; have re~niarri'efl.

The longlooked for “D 3,” ‘the Railway Depal‘t.nlent classification list, has at lcn-gtrh been published, and is now available f0.1"'all concerned. Jim Clabby beat Pooley in the boxing contest in Auckland On ~FI-iday night in the six?th'l"ouncl. The defeated man was completely outclassed. Mrs Drew notifies that hot lunch will be served at her Hautapu"Dining Rooms, on Election Day, from 11 21.111. till 2 pm. Hot tea is Sefved every night from 5 till 7 ofclock_ “Mr Ngaéta, up the East Coast, is the only man at present entitled to put the letters M.P. after him name. He was ll'otul"ncd ulrotpposerd, but I don“: wonder at it. No Maori‘ has ever shown anything like his a.bililty.”——Dr. A. K. NeWlna.n. , H

Berlin reports state Japan is endeavouring to place orders «in Germany for Iwo of the largest and fastest aerial war cruisers ever designed. According to reliable information the two cruisers must’ be full? armed and equipped with bombing apparatus. ‘

The outlook for co-titon goodsuis that higher prices will rule in the future. An American trade circular states tha‘-t Tne Inaynufacture of automobile tyres alone now calls for 750,000 long fibre cotton each year. This complaratively new demand for cotton is naturally increasing steadily. 0

On election day (Wednesday next) all hotels will be closed after 12 noon. Shops and oifices aim compelled to close for the afternoon and‘ consequetm ly need not close for the customary half-holiday if it falls on any o-tlrer day than Wednesday. Reasonable time is to be allowed f'a,ctol-y employees fo record their votes.

John Happy, 2. Mlaoxji sheal'el', is Stated to have established a world’s record at VVa.iwe:a.pa.' station, Damnevirke, on Monday last, by‘ sheax‘inM.{_,>‘ 373‘ sheep (ewes and I'.llnb~s), his record last year for one" day being 361. The other SllC£tl'Cl"s on "the station had HlO following tallies for the day: S. Patersoll 311, K__ Hotereni 309, R; Chase 303. The total for the four being_l296.

The longevity of the African grey parrot in captivity is Well known, and :1 ful'thcl' c,-"xaemple haé been disclosed Ithis week. At the 1889 July Shiow of the Wellington Poultry, Pigeon, «and Canaxy Association, Mr I-la.'i4l'y -Price has as an entry an African’ grey parrot 18 nlo‘n.ths old. This was bought by a Wellington’ resident and presented foe his» niece, in Whose -possession it h‘a's been ever since, until its demise on Thursday, at the age of 32 yeil.l's.e '

In a boxing conztest held at Waihi on Friday night, C." Venn-, featllel--‘weight. champion of New Zeeland, now ‘in the light-weight efass, defeated Peta’ Cook, light.-weigh‘st fchétmpion. They fought the fultfifteen rounds. Venn was knocked down three times, on one occasion taking the count to nine seconds. Vennlooked a ‘beaten man in the eleventh round. but made a 1-emarkable recovery in the last. three rounds. The referee’s verdict was not fa.vourably_ received by a section of the audience. ‘

The future success of the farmers depended upon their sticking tog‘ethe.r and undertaking to look after their own produce, remarked Sir James Wilson ‘-at the annual dinner of shareholders in the New’ Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Dist?-ibuting Co., Ltd. He referred to the Farmers’ institute as an example of combination. 'l‘owns--people were inclined to think that ‘ifhe farmers were monopolists because they owned a few -motor ‘cars. ‘They knew nothing of the disadvantages under which tlléfiifa-I‘lllGl's laboured.

Friday’ was the 49th anniversary of the landing of Mr Massey, as a boy of I'—L years, in Auckland. R-eferring to the fact in his speech at Thames on ]&‘l*i(iay night, Mr Massey -said that his parents had arrived in New Zealand a few years before, having left him at home at school. The ship in which he arrived was the City of Aueklland, at'»tel'wal'.ds wrecked on the Otaki beach. “I need not say,” he added, with a smile, “that when I landed I had not the ~sligh*’rest notion that "one day ’l’ \\‘ou]<'l take to politics and become Prime Minister.” (Appl‘.lllSC.)

We have pleasure in “calling attention to the -opening in Taihape tomorrow of the Carlton luncheon and tea mmns, sittxuted in No-.lgle’s Buildings, T.:-:'iln:lp(.-. The rooms lmve been t':;xt'ot’ully fivtezl up, :nlcl the :<oz'Vice will be on the meat upto—date lines. Breakf:ls’r in the morning‘ will be provided, as well as morning tea, luncheon at midday, afternoon tea, aand tea in the evening. A special fe.a.ture will be made of the supply sandwiches, and ‘the menu gencra.lly will be equal to any procurable in the cities. This institution will meet »a long-felt want, and will receive the support the enterprise deserves. T.he Nation Prohibition Committee regrets that in a recent ,-publi.2at:ion giving the text of Sir Andrew Rue’sell’S letter he is described as Coin-mander-i.n-Chief of the New Zenlémzl Expeditionary . Force H linsteatl "of G‘.rO.C.4-Aidvt‘. “ «l.

A wiroles_~; massage from Moscow states ‘that sixty million -uc.l-cs of laud

was taken from the landowners. Al- - the whole of it swzs distribuhéd among fhe peasants, The Soviet ad-4 ministers the rcnmindcr. \ .

“What .is the nIV-.lttel'..wbitll the world‘ to-day?” asked Mr J, B. Firfh, headmaster of the. Wellington College, at the annual prize-giving ceremony yesterday aftcrnoon. ,“What is at the bottom of the general unrest? Simply selfishness :and want of sympathy.