LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3505, 7 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The police, after an all—night vigil, twere successful in securing a swag Of «liquor landed at Taumarunui on Saturday morning. It. is under-stood that a prosecution will follow. ‘ It is ‘understood that fifty recomImendations have been made by the Prime Minister for consideration by “Cabinet, when calls to the Legislative Council are under review. The Executive’s decision regarding the case of Dennis Grunn, the Auckland murderer, is not likely to be reached until Monday week, owing to the impossibility of getting the necessary full meeting of Cabinet before that time. The judge ’s report ha.s been received. It is now proposed to make those who keep motor cars pay for the plea- } sure (says the Glasgow lHerald). Pleasure cars are now to be taxed £1 per horsepower, and motor-cycles are to pay from £1 10/ to £3 or £4 when they carry a side—cal'. And the commercial vehicle is to range from £2l to £3O a year. I Housing difficulties are not unknown, it appears, on the other side of the ‘Atlantic, judging by the following ad- ] vertisement which Tias just reached me (says a writer in the Daily News), from Los Angeles, California: “Want- . ed to rent, 4 or 5-roomed house, modI crate rent. If children objected to, fwill drown ours.” E‘ The Director-General of Agriculture states that all butter _of this season ’s make now in store. including whatever small quantity «may be made between |now and July'3l, will be made available for consumption within the Dominion kat fixed maximum prices, which will be 1/5: per pound for bulk butter ex store, iand 1/9 retail. An Order-in-Council necessary for giving effect to this is inow being prepared, and when this lis gazetted the new prices will 001110 ‘into operation. This small increase in lprices is necessary in order to meet extra charges entailed by storage, lhandling, interest," etc., over the perlied during which the supply of butter; | now in the Dominion‘ will be available; } for local consumption.

“I think,” said u visitor to New !Z€:lliIll(.l, “that railway travel in the Dmninion is the \\'.()l‘h‘i in the world, and probably the most dangerous to health. I refer not only to the genieral state of uncleanliness, both in I the c:u'ri:lges’:lllcl la\':liuri.es_, but to the 'positive discomforts one is subjected to [on the .\.l:1‘lll Trunk lines in winter if one cannot book, or cannot. afford to {pay for -.1 sleeper. There are railwqys ’ in South Africa that are palatial com‘.pzlred to those in New Zealand, and ithose in Australi:L are positively lux‘urious compared to what is ofi"ered in New 7.ezll:lml. In most cold countries {the eurri:ig‘<-s are i'l‘(‘:li(‘(l to :1 pleats'unt—smn('tiines in .\nir-riv-.1 to an 1111l;>l<':'l.<:iilt degree of w:irlnth——und sleep R is lllJ(la“ possil)le tht-reh_\;. but on keen winti-_y nights on the .\l':lin Trunk ~p(‘upl(‘. have to move about 21 bit. to .I>v:e\'<-iii" theln.~:elv(=s being frozen. \Vhy zpeople in this country do not :Ig‘ita"to } for i',ef«>l'iiz in your r:lil\\‘:l_\'.~' has mystified others as well as myself.” _ i To go throug'h years of bloody wzil',: i to be three times wounded. to win the‘ {;\lllll:‘.l“\,’ .\lA(‘¢lill. and he, reeoniniended ifor :1 eonnnissimi and the \".C., and to iin:ill_y meet his end throng]: :1 little! needle lveeoining enibedded in his hand, was the fate of llegiinental Sergeant-F Mzijur Albert‘ l3}dw:ird‘ Bloor, etc., ete.,J who died under an unuestiietic in the Colonial "Hospital, Suva, quite recently. I in brushing his hand yesterday over :i mill, :1 needle found him and broke‘ all’ in his_h:iml. and the doctor zidvised an nper==tiol‘l. 'l‘O-(l:i,\[' the ninst popn-D lar _\*oun_::' man in Fiji is dead, and he was accorded :1 military}! t'unCr:ll, wliile the pulilie :itten(lallc(3l was the lziigzest seen .here for years. He \\':ls lt_>0l{(‘1l upon us the best “bombei" in the King’.~' Royal Rifles. and on one ocezision in France made :1 sortie .\'ll('fio,\‘Sfllll_Y, und on the return, finding two of his emnrndes had been left hehind wounded. rushed out and brought lmth buck to Safety. The commandunt sn_\'s he w:4.~‘ ":1 most efiioient and Qilllillli soldier. luved hv all.” All~Wool Scarfs in shades of Brown, Grey, Helio., Saxe Blue, Red, Navy, and Black, also with striped effects. Prices from 4/11 at Goilinson and Gifford, Ltd.

l The rainfall at Ohakune for the month of May totalled (5.81 inches. Snow fell on four days, Four inches being registered on the 29th. ’ It is notified that the biennial election of members of the Education iBo:11'wl villi he held on \\'cdu‘esrl-ay, ‘July 21. The retiring; member for the ‘Taihape V‘Vard is Mr A. J. Joblin, but [it is understood that a contest is cer- : min. i The payment by the Imperial Government for New Zealand’.s products .up to May 31, 1920, reached the enormous total of £139,333,400. W-001 (£50,179,254) was the largest individual item, closely followed by frozen meat (£47,390,894). Speaking at a Press gathering in London, Lord Burnham said for years there was likely to be a paper stringency which would react most prejudically on the national life. No newspaper man could look without fear into the coming year. A new note! A well-known saying about the Englishman ’s liking for destructive sport might be applied in an altered form to the New Zealancler: “It is a fine day; let us go and ask the Government. for somethin gg. ’ ’——Auckland Star. “Plenty of returned soldiers have ‘;e.r»r~.: }’.ll‘.;'C(l on land that the best farmers could not get a living from?” said Mr A. T. Donnelly to a witness in the Supreme Court in Christchurch. “'l‘hat. is so,” the Witness replied. “and they will go back to the Government.” ‘ A cablegram to an Australian paper said that while the Prince was being “received-"’ at VVoodville a souvenirhunter put a hand through a wnidow of the Royal ear and usecuerd a small vase containing tooth—pricks. The vase dropped on the platform and smashed. The “crowd” scrambled for the tooth-pricks. The Bulletin honours the incident with a cartoon: “And wliatifs that, Aunt Ellie?”’ Aunt Ellie: “That. is the,Ro'yal tooth-pick, my dear, Your father fought. for it. at Woodville. ’ ’

Mr Trevor Hill, manager of the "King’s, has‘ secured “The Mil-aclc Man” for screening in Taihapc in the near future. This fc7a/cure is~claimed to be the grandest film over produced. A special orchestra, under Mr Maling (especially brought to this country with thopicture) and Madame Annette Hayward as soloist (late of the Carl Rosa. Grand ‘Opera’. Co.) will accompany this’ picture,. as well -as a complete operating staff and equipment. Such enterprise is worthy of the best patronage. 'Particulars will be published later.

Amid indescribable squalor in a. Southwarli slum lives ex-Corporal Arthur I-I. Cross, who won both the Victoria Cress and the Military" Medal in one month of 1918, says the Sunday Chronicle. With his wife and child, the man, who sufi'ers from gastritis, and is unable to «get work, exists upon. a. disablemcnt pension of 26/9 per week. Of the £lO yearly pension that should accompany the V.C. award .he has not yet seen a. penny. A e.ountr_vman born and bred, and with a longing for healthier surroundings, he is helpless and unable to move. Critics of Sir lan Hamilton, in his conduct of operations on Gallipoli were joined last week by Chaplain Dexter, D.5.0.,' who, when lecturing at St. Paul’s Cathedral Chapter Ho-use, Melbourne, declared that the failure at Suvla Bay———which, he said, Was the crux of the Gallipoli cam-paign—-could be ascribed to the in-

'competency of the leaders, and to lan Hamilton in particular. That general, the speaker affirmed, had not acquainted himself with the true posifion of affairs. Had those in charge of ‘the operations been dovelled up with a good percentage of officers from the Australian forces who were _.fully seized with the conditions obtaining on the peninsula, the enterpl'is<* ".'0111(1 have been successful, and‘ the Gallipoli campaign carried to 2.,‘ [successful issue. I

I Mr John Prouse holds a unique re‘cord in the domain of oratorio, says the New Zealand Times. It is very doubtful if there are many baritone vocalists living who could boast that they have sung the role of the prophet in °Mendclssohn’s “l*}lijah” fifty-tln-oe tixncs in about forty years. This has boon made possible by his having been engaged to sing the role in several places in the one year, as often happens with soloists in New Zcaland. But ;\lr'Pl‘ml.~:c's efforts have not been conlinvd to New Zealand. He has sung the strenuous music in “Elijah” not only in New Zealand centres and sllb—emltl'cs, but also in Sydney. Melbourne, and on one occasion in the Albert Hall, 'l;ondo11, where his fine intlorpretation (the fruit of special? study under the late Sir Charles sS'tan~! ley-' and Sir Henry VVood) commanded] attention. Mr. Prouso also toured the United Kingdom with .l'{ub<=lik. and Australasia with Mdllo. Antonia. Dolores. Children like WADE’S WORM FIGS. Safe and certain remedy for worms. .