LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3384, 13 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The total W'I:1I‘ costs have been estimated at £400,000,000,000.

A smart saleswoman with two or three years experience is advertised for in this issue by Hooker and Kingston, Ltd, of Hamliton.

The Ran-gitikci General and Cooperative Timber Company, Ltd.. Taihape, have an opening for a smart boy, one just left school pxfefencd.

The owner of a small -satsuma brooch that was found né9.7l' the Tiki brewery, last Sunday week, can regain possession on‘ applying to thisofiice. ‘

li"n‘leeting of ratepayers‘ in the El-e~ when Riding of thefiangitikei County Council is to be belt‘: in th'é Fire Brigade Hall, Taihape, on Wednesday, 21st January, at 2.30 p.m. The ‘busi-. ness irS to co"u‘sidcr a proposed loan‘ for carrying out comprehensivg road improvements, including bridging the Rangitikei river.

“Some of the darkeslt pictures in society "co-day aré due to marriages contracted after the proper mating period has passed,” says Dr. Henson, Bishdp of Hereford, in support Of early marriages. ‘

General Cafimotcoi, commander of the Japanese forces in Siberia, in a Speiech, said that Japan only wished to guarantee peace. She does not desire territorial annexation, acquisition, or any other privileges 111 Siberia-

The Prime Minister stated on Saturday that Cabinet had 'decided that restrictions would -be imposed upon such industries as brewing and sugar-boil‘ing during the fruit season, ’which has already commenced, so as to ieavc as nnich sugar as possible for the purpose of jam-making and .fl'uit-preserving.

For a period of 17 months, which was the time Americla. was in the war, railway 'aeeidents"js’roduced; a, toll of 2038 killed and 9980 wounded, which means that for every 24 Uinted Staltes s'ol'diel's killed dui-ing the war the Unified Sta'fes railroads alone killed one citizen.

The amount of prop.erty held in Great Britain belonging to persons resident in Gel'.ma,ny,l Ausrtria, Bulgaria, and Turkey is estimated to be over £121,000,000, states the Board of Trade. The debt due to those countries by persons- in the United Kingdom amounts to about .£14,000,‘000.

How’ is this for a get-rich-quick‘? asks the Manawalu Times. A man bought a Pa.l=mers‘ton house for £9OO about six weeks ago. ‘The house suited him, so he w‘asll’t ‘keen to sell. However, some h'c-melcss war.-durer saw it, and asked the price. Thinking to .sc.are him off he nloclestly asked £IBOO. “Right,” came the readiv acceptance. and the sale was made. That six weeks’ incrcsmcnt is financing a trip Home for the lucky speculator.

Clothes literally cost their weight in gold at last (says a Paris paper). A pair of silk stockings in one of the b.>st'Paris shops is priced at £3. It weights thl'e.e-quarters of an oumce. The same weight of gold at the French .\Eint would be worth 105 l;3sisr_ Sixty pounds is quite an ordinary price for a. woman’s hat. Its weight is 4;oz. and its therefor: worth *tlil'ee and four times its Weight in gold. Sable coats am v:o1't11 11% times «their weight in goid. .

Hundreds of giant rats have been i‘Xtol'lnillated (says the London Daily Mail). Five hundred weighing more than one pound each are among the slain in" the Widnes district. w-her.‘ 600,000 poisoned baits were devoured, ear.-lILI meaning a. dead rat. A housx‘ rat in Grimsargh Weighed 1% pounds, and measured 18in from tip to tip. Thousands of bodies have been thrown up by the tide in the Mersey and Ribblc, proving thag the rats. having do vou:-ed the con-osfve poison, sought relief in the water.

Touching on the scarcity of butter in England, Mr J. B. Murdoch, one of the delegates who have just returned informed the meeting of dairy factory delegates at Hawera. recentiy, that during the whole time he was: in England he had only eaten butter on about ten occasions He had had margarine, which was so bad that one preferr‘c<l to eat dry bread He predicted that with the present scarcity, if New Zealand were given a free market at Home, its butter would realise probabbf as high as 55 per 1b In fact, I>oople would have butter at any Dl'iCii‘-

Mr Clark Mcconachy, champion Uiiiia.l‘(i player of New Zealand, who is to-uring New Zealand prior to leaving for England, will give an exhibition in Mr Ellis Robinson's. billiard saloon next Tuesday, when he will give a display of billiards, snooker, and fancy trial; ‘billiards. Mr Mcconachy is“ a billiardist of unusual brilliancy, and when 'l6 years of age he made a break of 735 off the red, and the highest he has made off thethree balls is 1083Playing lately in Auckland he made a break of over 700 in masterly fashionTe exhibition will commence at 8 D-'m-1 and will be an exceptional opportunity for lovers of billiards. to witness the play of the m-ost brilliant billiardist NIOW Zealand has produced.

For a C.-3-nsidol‘»:.lb]o time past We have heard a yarn, em|a.na.ting from America, to the eifeet that 11 discovery had been maéle whereby motor cars and motor Cycles ecnzld be driven as the I'eSlll'i Oi’ e.el"rain ehemi<.eaT -action ~ol] .wafel' (says Motor (_‘,_vclin»_9;). We have been I‘s;ther inel'ilecl to tzzke this tale cum grane salis. There is, 'no\\'evr-I‘, more truth in it than was anticipated, for J-Ud(*rmz—m Ball. of Nflftingliam, i"dihE.‘l‘ Of the late Capt. Ball, V.C., the famous airm:-m, h'.l_e, used the mixture with «tensiderzxble success on. a motor car. Mr Ball was highly enthusiastic over the sxmcess. -and estimafed that 30 miles could be run on one gallon, which costs onl_y sd, The mixture can be made and stored for any length of time, like ipefrol. If the hand were dippefi into\*L}:«:e n-.a.~;tm-e, said M: Ball, the water eV:v.po'ur3f.e.d_. and gavejoiff a smell‘ like K‘eenzo}e. Mr Ball gave several experi- | mental runs for the benefit of scores 0f i inquirers. V

A Chinaman said the other day

“This TOll C‘ommand»ments -are better than the Fourteen Points for "keeping the Peace among all nations."

Vella’s slmeal'ing team, which established a world’s[shearillg record at Taihape last season, failed in a I'OCCllt attempt to estblish :1 new record.

If the partiesfwho removed a. b3l'f°"" from the prelnises of Capill’s 'l‘emper~ ance Hotel, early on Sunday morning, do not return it they will have to bear the Vconscquencics

A visitor to a Maori farm up north I'l-otic.:>d that all the -pigs had their tails cut off. “What. is the reason of that]? he enquired. “What, you no know that,” said the native. “By kol'l'Y, that my ’ earmark!”

Owing to the oft exp‘:-rienced hustle and crush when anything extra good is on at tllo,at.l-es, it is aavisnble that as many as can, who intend being present, should book their seats for “The Sentimental, B1oke”“‘ to morrow evening, at the King’s Theatre. Tlrc box. plan is. at Swedlund’s, bookseller. The '~tiJno 9301115 to have ‘arl‘i‘ved in Taihape for -putting the queue system into practice.

A phonograph has been put. to a 'no‘vel use by seal hunlters of the Pacific.’ A large instrument is employed, and it is set up near the rendezvous of animals, and soon its music attracts their »astenti’on, and (they lift their heads well above the water. A hunter reports that he has been able to shoot large numbers of them While they are under the spell of the sounds so strange to their ears.

Basil King, writing in N-ash’s Magazine ‘On some of -the new world problems, says’: “Old things have now passed away, all 'things havé -become new, The quicker WC are to seize that fact, the easier it will be for us. The reactional'y—-the man who thinks he can go back to where 1914 left off, who 'attenlpt~s to begin. again on a basis that is material and nothing olse——is an an-achronisnl. He is not fitted To teach or do‘ business in the new wm'l<l that is clnerging.”

’ Even a Hun xvhr historian some ;tinlcs tells the truth. Thus in a relcevntly published book on “Die Marnaschlacht, 1914,’-.’ (the Marine campaign), aq Germanvgeneral, Baumgar-ten-Cruisis, writes as follows: “Tine great attack in the West was like a gigantic Kaisermanover, with enormous record-breaking marches, and brilliant initial success, but it endead like a. rocket. That was my impres.srion during and after the campaign of the Marne.’’'

An Onehunga. resident found a strange horse in his paddock one day recently, and turned it out on the road. Another resident, more considerate, turned it into his paddock for safe keeping. Shortly afterwards the Owner of the horse '3.ppeal'ed on ‘the scene, and was so glad to find it safe and sound that‘ he presented the residentnvith £2O for his trouble. Needless to say, the subject of hi's care was a. valuable racehorse. which had strayed from home.

A party comprising Major Brandon, V.C., of ‘Wellington, his brother, and 3.’ friend, had an unpleasant expaerience in the upper reaches of the Wanganui river. They Were doing the river in a Canadian canoe and at a spot about eight miles below the houseboat got out of the channel, and over one of the training walls, which at the time, was subnlergcd,,creat.ing a‘ strong rip, which upset the canoe. The party soon recovered and rightedtthe canoe, but had the misfortune to lose the whole of "their camping personal outfits,‘and arrived later at Pipirik with nothing ‘but what they stood up in, coming up to W.anganui on Wednesdaiy.