LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3450, 1 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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A 5-roomed houes was purchased in Palmerston last Week for £I4OO. Two years ago £SOO was paid for it.

Bernard Shaw refused a million‘ dollars offer fofthe moving picture rights of his plays, on the grdund that the sum would be greatly reduced by ‘American and British taxation,"

The Imperial Government decided some time ago to issue a. Gallipoli clasp with the war service medal. This will be welcomed by New Zealand soldiers who served on Gallipoli and will be equally entitled to the clasp.

The Hon. J. G. Ooates will take over the portfolio of Public Works from Sir William Fraser on Thursday. He will retain the position of Post-mwster-General, but will hand over the Justice Department as soon as possible to Mr E. P. Lee. .

‘Although two Ministers of the Gospel took part’ in the “cost of living protest” meeting at Wanganui last Sunday, Mr James Aitken, headmaster of the Victoria. Aventfe State School made a. protest -against desecrating the Sabbath by holding the meeting.

The swollen gland which necessitated the recent operation on the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey became rather prominent‘ while the Prime Minister was attending the Peace Conference at Paris, but he was ISO busy there that the operation, which had even then become necessary, was delayed till his return to New Zealand, says the Dannevirke News

The Finance Committee of the VVellington War Relief Association is now holding more than £ISOO. in fespect to war gratuities forfeited by men who are not maintaining their wives and to retrospective married and children’s allowances, that the authc-rities have askedéthe committee to disxb-urse under the particular circumstances attached to these cases.

A. widow lady had her handbag snatched away while Walking"in Trafalgar Stx'eet_, Onehunga, last Saturday evening, and she had to walk home instead of travelling in a tram-. cm-. The bag contained £4B in notes which had been Withdrawn from the .;~‘:rw€ngs Bank to pay for a tombstone erected over her soni’s grave. The theft occurred‘ during the temporary tram strike.

The twenty-three Maori tribes which are to be represented at the native gathering to welcome the Prince of Wales at Rotorua on April 28 are the following:—Te Arawa, Te Rarawa, Ngapuhi, Ngatiwhatua,A Ngatimaru, Ngatipoao, Waikato, ‘ Ngatimaniapoto, Ngatiraukawa, Whanganui, Tmanaki, Ngatikahungunu, Ngatitoa, Te Aitangi-a-Mahaki, POl-ourangi, Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngaitai, Te Whakatohea, Matatua, Ngaiterangi, Te Patuwae, Ngaitahu, and Tuwharetoa.

The ready-made suit has risen tremendously in price (states the Christchurch Sun). The cheapest suit is now selling at £4 10/, whereas a year ago sac suits sold at 50/ and less. The average prices appears to be £6 6/, as against £4 less than a year ago. Yet, here again‘, tailors cannot get enough suits to sell, ‘or the variety of materials Wanted. There is .quite a boom in the ready-to-Wear business. One man backed a. statement that he had sold 50 more suits since Ist January than in the corresponding period last year by producing documentary evidence. Yet the trade maintains that its. percentage of profit is not as big as it was.

A man named Clarence Vivian Bracken was charged at the Feilding Court on Tuesday with stealing £ll from Leonard A. McGonigal, a fellowlodger at the Empire Hotel. The chief witness for the prosecution was Jean Fisher, a servant at the "hotel, who stated that, hearing a noise during the night, she got. out of her bed on to the fire escape, and, seeing a light in the room shared by the two men, looked through’ the window and saw accused taking money from McGonigal’s pocket. McGronigal was lying on the bed, fully dressed, but‘ his boots were oif, and his bed was under the window. They were all notes she saw taken frdin the pocket, and she had :1 clear view. After Bracken had taken the money he turned the light out. but put the notes in his own pocket before doing so. She ‘then returned to her room by its window. About a. quarter of an hour later accused knoclied at her door and asked if she would like some sweets, and she said she would. He then went away. Accused‘. who admi-tteld to the conatalile that he had ‘stolen £4 10/, but ‘knew nothing about the £ll, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court, bail being allowed in self of £SO and another surety of like amount.

Woodsf Great Peppermint? Cure, For Coughs and Colds“, hever fails, - 1/9, 2/9.

It is reported from France that the well-known aviator, Sadi-Lacointe has been timed to fly 1100 yards over it measured course at the zunazing speed of 227 miles an hour.

1' The tmnual geneml meeting of the bfiuia. Ladies’ Hockey Club will be “held in the Fire Brigade Hall this '-*évening at 8 o’clock. All members ‘wand intending members are réquested [to be present.

An effort is being made to form a new "football club representative of Utiku, Ohutu and Winiata. and with that end in View a meeting is to be held in the Winiata schodlfoom, on Friday evening: 9th April, at 8 ofclock, when the club is to be formed and a start made with practice.

Two former German officers, who took part in the submarine war, but are now working as fishermen, deny that the report is correct that the U 29," which was stranded off Jutland, was the submarine which torpedoed the Lusitania, says a Weekly Despatch, correspondent. They maintain that the Lusitania was sunk by the U 22, and declare that the commander of that boat became mad on. the day that the terrible deed was done. They say that he has been interned in a. madhouse in Germany ever since.

Mr S. F. Edge, the well-known English motoring authority, states that after investigating the matter of present English car prices, he is satisfied that firms are justified in asking the prices charged. More than that, he is of the opinion that any motor manufacturer Who has not advanced his price at least 100 per "cent on pre W3l‘ figures will not be able to pay prewar dividends. The reason broadly is that workers are drawing twice their former pay, whilst materials and cost of manufacturing have more than doubled in many instances.

The young ‘man Dennis Gunn (25), charged with the murder of A, J. Braithwaite and the robbery ‘of"the Ponsonby Post Office, was brought up on remand before Mr J. E. Wilson, S.M., at Auckland on Vvednesday, and was again remanded for‘ a week. On this occasion there was no large attendance of the public, an incident of unusualness, for the reason that the accused was last week remanded till Thursday of this week. By bringing accused to Court a day earlier than that for which the last remand was fixed, the police stole a march on the curious public, hencethe absence of incident about his third public appearance in‘ custody.

The Sacred Rock on the shore of Lake Rotoiti, where the famous Hongi forced a track through the bush, has been broken by some vandal, who disregarded the historic‘interest, of the country. The rock stood on the side of themain road, not far from Hongifs tree, at the foot of which the Mao»ris« of to-day place offerings of ferns and flowers. The sacred stone was near the spot where a number of the Arawa chiefs were killed when Hongi raided their territory. and it was composed of soft, sandy stone, and proved easy for some .~senseless individual to Ibreak it to pieces. The country on this road from Teteke to Rotorua is rich in historical associations, and those who respect the traditions of the Maori race will resent this vandalism, which robs the road of an historical landmark.