LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3475, 1 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A smoke concert will beheld in the supper-room of the Town” Hall this evening, to which all Government omployees» are cordially invited. None other than those in the employment of 'the Government will be admitted. The adjourned annual ‘general meetfing of the Taihape Patriotci Society “will be lleld'on Monday, ‘May 10th", not this coming Monélay, as étatell yesterfday. Theplace of meeting 'had-not yet ‘been fixed, ‘but’ will be‘publi[s.liéd later.

It is reported in legal circles that His Honour, ‘Sir Robert Stout intends £0 resign the Chief Justiceship at the end of the year, and that it is on the cards th-at'lle will next year pay an extended visit to the United States.

- The Colonist, Nelson ’s morning journal, which was established in 1857, has been ineoorporated with the Nelson Evening Mail. and its publica.tioxl- will be discontinued after Sizturday, May Ist (states a Press Association telegram).

A message from. New York states that :1 sensational episode occurred in an aristocratic episcopal church. Dr. James Marking, :1 leading surgeon, was passing the collection plate around when he was shot at and killed ‘by a man who was later identified as an escaped lunatic. '

During :3. discussion at the Wellington City Council on Thursday night about Elie demolition of a condemned building, Councillor R. A. Wright said that the Council had no power in such matters; the power to condemn was with the Health Department, and the Council merely had to carry out the demolition. '-

An important notice to. business people appears in another column from the Price Investigation. Tribunal, in which traders: are warned that any advance in the price of commodities above those ruling on the 26th of April without the consent of the Board of Trade or Tribunal is an infringement of Section 32 of the Board of Trade Act. '

Flour millers in Otago, and probably elsewhere in New Zealand, are finding it difficult to secure sufficient Tuscan wheat for {heir mixture. Tus~ can is a spring wheat, and at the time for Sowing it th”e weather was too windy to do so freely. Owing to the shortage the millers had to put into thé mixture more Hunters wheat, which is 3d per bushel dearer than Tuscan, and this increasesfhe cost of making flour. '

’l‘hel'e is one youngster in Invercargill'who has made an early start in uddiilg to ‘his means By methods that. appezu-Vsha’.dy... The ofller night\a. boy IL}Joli|lZ-{COI}; or twelve years of age had his hair cut at a barber ’s. He then -.lske'd the knight of ihe comb if he could change a. pound, handing over_ a note rolled up in :3. Ball. Change for :1 pound was given, and the lad had made a hurried exit befol'e‘the.barber unrolled the note to find it was one for 10/. ‘ .

5 The whole of the cars used by the lA.nleric:l.u army on the Rhine have lbeeu purchased by an English m'ot.or {firm of motor car agents. -A Christchurch business _man who was in London atcthe. time was told that the value of the transaction was, between one and ra-half and ‘two million pounds, and that some 15,000 vehicles were included in the deal. The cars included three _and five-ton lorries, {L number of Cadillac, Fiat, and Ford machines, many fitted with the ‘Liberty engine, whic-.h cost £ISOO-ziloue.

I The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. V’. ‘F. Massey), on behalf of the Govern!nlent and people of New Zealand, sent. la message of con»gra.tul:ltioll' to Lord 'Jellicoe on the announcement of his [appointment as Governor-General. The Prime Bfinister has now received the‘following telegram iifareply from Lord Jellicoe: “Am deeply grateful for the kind message which you sent from Government and people of Dominion. Lady Jellicoe and I look forward with much pleasure to renewing acquaintances with the Dominion, of which we 1 retain such delightful nleniories.”

There will be no dim faces at the Town Hall tonight. A car belonging to Taihape Motors, Ltd., arrived from Wellington this morning, and brought fwo complete programmes for the Town Hall. one being the Sessue 'Hay:l- - feature “The City of Dim Faces,” and the other the Paramount special feature, "Shark Munro,” foaturing Bill Hart. The former programme will be shown tonight. It is :1 curious co-incidence that “The City of Dim‘ Faces” was to be shown here some months ago, out the theatres were closed by the Health Authorities owing to epidemic.~ This time its screening has been delayed by the: strike. In other towns also a. similar} fate has pursued this picture in many‘ cases, it having gone astray on no less \ fhan three occasions during transit. However, it is so Sure. thing for Taihape to-night. '