LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3458, 12 April 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Three one pound noies lost in Taihape on 22nd March by :1 poor woman are advertised for.

A record in wheat production for the Methven district, North Cantel~ bury, is claimed by I\lr P. Oliver, who recently thrashed out 82 2-3 bushels per acre of solid straw Tuscan.

The Government Statistician estimates the population of the Taumarunui Hospital Board district to be 10,395. Th'e Valuer,-Gencriil returns the capital value of the rateable property of this district as £3,098,625.

The following vessels will be within Wireless range for 12th April:——— Radio Wellington: Mararoa, Wahine, Patec-na,' Port Chalmers,. Waitomo, and Monowai. _ Radio Chathams: A.th.enic, and Monowai. Ra,dio4.Awa,-V nui: Westralia.

So great was the determination of many New Zealahdcrs to get away by the Makura, which sailed early last week from Auckland for Vancouver, that many of them went third class, anfl it was impossible to find accommodation in either the first or second saloons for all the prospective

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A. coslnopoli~ta.n atmosphere pervaded in the Auckland POl-ice Court the other day. Among the accused persons and witnesses there were present, in addition to New Zealanders, an lonian Islander, 3, Nine Islander, an Australian, an American, a Chinaman, a M:-1,01-i, an Irishman, an Englishman, :1 Scotchman, and‘ a Hebrew.

The recent magistei-ia.l judgment at Otorohanga. (near Te Kuiti) fining a settler for not keeping down rabbits has caused great indignation. The evidence showed that the settler employed I'abbitel's and spread poison, but the niagish-ate was forced to take the inspectol"s declaration. It has been decided to bring the -matter before the Hon. E. P. Lee, Qbiinister for Justice, and a deputation will meet him to-nlor-row to ask for an amendment of the law.

The various branches of the Police Association -have decided -to ask the Minister for Police, the Rt. HOll. W. F. Massey, to place before Cabinet a proposal that the present tates of pay should be increased-6/ per day, and that the uniform and boot allowance should be increased ‘from £5 to £lO per annum; It is understood that should Cabinet decide that the members of the Force are entitled to a f'ul'f‘hel' increase in pay, such increment will be as from April Ist, 1920. The question is now unde'r'eonsideration. ‘

The death recently of Lady Mary Aldworth, the only woman Freemason, recalls a piquant story. The Masonic Order lmsfibeen rigidly closed to women, but Lady Mary Ardworth, daughter of Lord‘ Donerziile, concealed herself in :1, gl'zlnclfat.her clock at the meeting of the first Irish 1-odge, which was held in Tuckey Street Lodge, COl-lg City; ‘She was discovered halfw:ly‘tllroLfgh the meeting, and the _£_‘;‘l‘zLll(l'lll~zlSl7Cl‘ decided that as she was present, she would be sworn a mem--ber. She was sister of the Earl of Bandon, and lmarriecl Colonel.A.ldwoljtli, who died some ye:u's*zlgo.‘ ' -.

At a. sale of Hereford‘ c_at’tle 'held at Wanganui on Friday, on_'beh.:ll..f of‘ .\{r G. F. Moore, Kai Iwi, two-year heifers uverziged .‘)7~}glls, yearling heifers 80gns/. heifer calves Blgns, yearling bulls 70gns,_2-yea.r bulls fifigns, old bulls 25-Zsgus, run bulls 22§gns. A‘ yearling’ bull was sola for looogns to Vl‘ E. M. Hutchinson, of Gisborue. This is believed to be a. record for New Zeulaml. The imported bull 'Rufus was bought. by Mr H. Campbell, of Hawke"s Bay, for 350gns. Royal N:l.\‘y_, :1 locally-bred H2-year-old animal, was bought. by Mr E. M. Hutchinson, of Gisborne, for 1000gns. Buyers were present from various parts of the Dominion. 7

Mrs "Sen-ie, of Dunedin, Celebrated her .106tl1 birthday on Friday. This aged lady, fresh complexioned» and scarcely bowed by such unwonted weight of years (says the Dunedin Times) received the congratulations of friends at her home in hel',bsthr she of friends at. her home in Trent .~\.venue, where, as she explained, owing to the inability of her (laughter, 82 years of age, to move about freely, she does the bulk of the housework herself, and challenges the most scrupulous person to presen? -.1 cleaner house. Mrs Serrie arrived at Dunedin fr-mu .I\yrsll.ire 45 years ago. A trifle hard of hearing‘, she has "remarkably long sight, while, with the aid of a magnifying glass, she can still read. She voted ,at the last election, and says she struck out fhe top line with a vigorous hand.