LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3385, 14 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Potatoes have dropped. £6 to £8 a ton in Sydney owing to increased supplies available.

From Monday, January 19th, the price 0:’? bread in Taihape will be increased one "penny on I“he 41-b 103*}. An increased 1-at-: of wages and higher cost of flour 11:15 left the b‘-I.k(".‘s no c‘.l*c~: option.

Last ..scason farmers purchased the standard size (-18 in) cornsack, which is used in most classes of produce, at 1/7. The Board of Trade has just san'ctioned '3. rise ‘to 2/6 for this class of sack t 6 the general public. '

Large quanticies 01 wool are being carried on -the railway at M-atarou, Taihapc, and Utiku. Most of the small farmers have completed shearing, but -one or two of the big stations have not9yct cut out,

No fewer than 43 resignations by t'<\ac]lcrs have been recently received by the Canterbury§Education Board. Many had resigned because they had received promotion, but a fair number were leaving "the service.

The Pacific Cable Board advises the delay on cable 11105-‘sages from the United Kingdom. is estimated, at 30 hours; to the United Kingdom four hours_ Outward deferred messages are showing a delay of 6%; days; American traffic two days.

‘ A cheese» company in the Dannevirke district has refused an offer of 1/ per lb for the whole‘of its cheese output for the next season, conditioned on the commandeer being removed, although this offers an advance of 1-{rd per lb of £ll 14/4 per ton on the commandeer price of 10%d. The offer was not thought good enough in View of the prices being obtained in the United S’r~a’r.os ‘and elsewhere lb. '

The l\i[ana;§e:ncnt of the Town H 21?! piCll'l'éS announces the scrcol'!.ng o+’ tl.-2‘: gl-ea-‘r dramatic masterpieeo, "'T‘h,~ Rainbow Trail” to-night. Now, when we make a special vennouxwement of this kind you can rest assured there is something doing. Come right along to the Town Hall tonight and you will 5100 the most bo3.u"i’r’ul pieiao of scenecraft ever witnessed in Tiaihape. Zane Grey is the aulthor of ‘the book, so that is all that is necessary to say.

' A farmer who v'va:~; attending the recent dairying conference in Auckland received a telegram announcing the birth of his 15th gra.ndc.hild. “I was 68 years af age on Christmas Day,” he said. “I came to New Zealand in October, 1879, with a wife and young family, and reared ten children, all of whom are doing well. NOW I find fha'-t I have 50 grandchildren, and‘ yet people talk about the decline of the birthrate. Surely if urannot apply to the country; 31' must be the cities thlalt -they are nlakin;__~; all the fuss about.”

Genius has been described as a capacity for taking pains. At a supper party given -at Hamilton after the. concert hy the N.S.W. hSta=te Orchestra, Mr Henri Verbl'ugghen_told a story which gives a eeifain point to the above definition. After one ‘Of Sarasate ’s .reeitals in New York Mr Herman Finck, the critic, went round To the 'al'*tist’s room and congratulated him on his marvellous playing of Lalo’s “E-spagnole” eoncei-to_ Finck said: “It Was the work of a. gi-ant-—an effort of genius.” “G'enins,” said Sal'asa'te, “d-on’t tell anyone. I have been practising it for thirty years.”

RCfC.']‘OII(3.C was made by the Rev. Father Smyth, S.M., Adm.’ at the Basilica on Sunday to the impending departlll-0 for England and Europe of A'l'('llbiSho}) Redwood. His Grace’s joul'no_y, he said, Wm: 9. mklttcr of duty. He was now of adv:-mced age, and on the Cw of his f.fr..-i::g away asked dhc pl'aym's at‘ the «:C»‘::gx':>.ga.tion for his Safe return. ;‘.\l‘:3.h'ni:<}lop Redwood, he added‘ had during his long period of activity as hvad of 13:0 C.'hul'cll in New z(-alum] done xrulu-sfhloé work in the cause of education; he was a man of marvellous ability ‘ind tact, and had cndem-ed himself fo all classes of the community, C3“301'1'3 and -Protestant alike. Archbishop Redwood left by the '.l‘ofua on MollJ.:Lj_jJ night.

Doll’t Ic:x"ve me Eightzxess and digestibility of your scones. and cakes to chance. Use SHARLAND’S Baking Powder-—'it is bound to rise. 3

A housemaid is advertised for hf‘, Mrs Sen. Reid, of the Taihape Co:fee{ Palace. i

‘A high-grade, late model, motor cycle, 4?;-h-17,, 3 speeds, with side Car is a.dVel'tised for sale.

Two horses from. Wainui, and one from Ngawaka are in the Taihape pound and will be sold,; if not claimed earlier, on'Saturda.y, 24th Ja.nna.r_v, at noon.

Some. of the matches at present being netlailed in Masterton (says the Age) are a snare and a delusion. ‘They have no right t/ovbe in a democratic country for they 'a"bsolu"foly refuse to strike.

Profiteering is not confined to groceries and textiles (says the Mauawatu Times). A small boy visiting‘ Palmerston was charged Q7/6 for :1 itaxi for perhaps half '3. mile from the railway station to Alexandra Street. -He paid up, but his host secured a description of the car and has since been on the train of its driver.

Messrs Levy and‘ Davis, electrical engineers. of Wanganuni, have opened a branch, is Taihapie in the shop labs--ly left by Messrs Fraser and Co. saddlers. All classes -of electrical work will be undertaken, including the wirring of houses, shops, etc. As this is a firm of Well-known experts, they should have 2. good .share of public patronage.

“Little things “are s:nt to try remarked a councillor at last Saturday’s meeting of the VVaimarino County Council. The “little things” consisted of the resignation of the Couiity Engineer, the Road Foreman, the Ranger and Dog Tax Collector, and to cap the 101: one of the Couneil’s surfaczzmen had a.ttempte«d mieidg that morning.

Mr Abel Rowe, the popular tenor, hasybeen specially engaged to sing during the presentation of “The Sentimental Bloke,” at the Killg’s Tlleatre, to—night, his rendering of “Doreen” in other centres has created a furore. Residents ca.n look forward not on_l:v to an excellent pictorial efiort, but to a. musical treat as 3. special musical score accompanies the picture.

It was a very cold night, and the Englishman was having a drop of hot toddy——propel-ly made. His companion a. Frenchman, said, as he watched ‘the interesting procedure: “You are a funny people, you English. You put whisky in to make it strong, you put in water to make it Weak, lemon to make it sour sugar to make it sweet, you drink it yourself, and say. “Hcl'o’s to you!’-’

A party of motorists recetltly made the trip between Wellington and Auckland in a >Rolls—Royce three—seater car in ‘excellent time, although not attempting to put up a ,rec'ol-d. The distance btween Auckland and “Tel lington ,via Napier, is over 500 miles’ and this Was covered in 22 hours. The best port.ioll_of the road was over the Tokeroa Plains, where 3, speed of 60 miles an hour was easily attained. The Worst ‘section of the route was the Rangixjiri Hills, where in some places the paoe had to be droppeq to between five and six miles an hour.

‘ The extrsiordinary discrepancy that sometimes occurs between the taxable and the marketable value of a. property was strikingly exemplified in the course of the proceedings of the North Auckland Board. As recently as March, last, year, a property that is ‘now on offer to a returned soldier was valued for taxation purposes at £1450. At the meeting of the Land Board it transpired that there was a mortgage on the property of £2300, While two experienced Valuers with knowledge of the district respectively valued the property at £2700 and £2900. Thus between the mean of the two latest valuations’ and the taxation valuation there was a difference of £1350_

At Montreal girls. pursued the Primer‘ of Wales’ car, defying ‘the panting police. Two ofvvlthem rode triumphantly to the step of the very door of the pavilion at «the top of Mount Royal,, while the Prince, holding their autograph -books on his knee, wrote his name. One daring girl stormed the car suddenly While it was moving, and kissed the Prince, Ito the delight of the crowd. The 'l_’rince, polite, but ‘pink, resumed his: salutations amid a. hurricane. of cheers. The success of the attack quickly beeanié known, and half a dozen determined girls made a rush for the car when it returned ‘to the station after lunch. They were, however, owtflanked, and one was litcmlly carried away in the arms of 3. police man just in time. ‘