LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3507, 9 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Charged with drufikenness at 823"-th, Nol;thulllberlzmd, a man said that he drank daily 3, pint of methylated spirits, which he bought at a chemis4_w's shop."

,;In a Feltham, Woking, application for an ejectment order, the landlord said that the tenant had eight people sleeping in one room. “I have ‘even in _a place where 23 slept in one room,{’ the tenant told the Bench, wh_o issued an ejectment order.

“Concrete ships are a complete failure. They cost twice as much as steel vessels, and take twice as long to build,” said Sir G_ H. Hunter, head of the great ship-building firm of Swan, Hunter’s, in announcing the abandonmenf of the scheme to buildlconcrete ships on ’.Wearside.

A released prisoner, returning home from :1 ‘Kentucky penitentiary, found that the value of his farm had been doubled by the building of a railway through it while he was in prison. He also found that coal had ‘been found on the land. A coal operator was waiting to pay him £3OO for"the mineral rights with a royalty of 1/3 per ton for all coal mined, assuring him an income for a long time to come.

Thus a rather amusing “correction” in the columns of the Rotorua. Chronicle:——“The unauthorised intrusion of at ‘t’ into a Word in a pamgraph in last Wednesday ’s issue, had efiects ineonvenient.to the occupants of St. Luke ’s Vicarage, making it appear that garments sent there for transmission to Auckland in response to the appeal of Sisters Hannah and Esther would be ‘patched.’ It should have been ‘packed.’ ”

The difficulty in obtaining goods from England was mentioned by a merchant who attended a recent conference held in Vvellington. He stated that his firm sent an order for fifty different lines, and after waiting for :; long time for the goods to arrive a bill of lading was received from their buyers in‘ London. The only entry on the document was a tank of Epsom salts, which his firm was not in urgent need of at the time.

:Latest. advices from Canada regarding the newsprint paper situation in dicate a further rise in the price of paper. The result of this will be that newspapers in New Zealand will be called upon to pay an advance of about fifty per cent. on the prices recently paid for supplies and which, so far, have been the highest on record. Even though ful3lllous. prices (ten times dearer than the pre-war rate) are being asked and paid for newsprint paper, yet New Zealand newspapers are only able to secure about half the quantities ordered for this y’eal"s deliveries. '

[ Residents of the borough of Mireimar have had no milk for five days. Invalid-5 and children might have been in the backblocks. or at sea, instead of the suburb of a big city in their reliance on the condensed article. There was no explanation, no beg par-don—-simply no milk and empty billies, day after day. Efforts to obtain supplies in the city area were fruitless, as there is a shortage of milk there too, due to the firm dem:lnd_of a body of directors at Featherston for 1/6 per gallon, ex the factory. The whole milk business of Wellington and suburbs is now ‘becoming a scandal, says the Post.

' .4Xlllel*ic:lns eat more ice cream and Similar fl'o7.en desserts than the peogple of any other nation. but the Japanhave Ih<rlll stirpussed as eaters of *ice. One of their fzl\-'oux'ite dishes is tsniall cakes of ice, broken into tiny, ‘pebbl;v pieces, and eaten with sugar and 19111011. The comnionest way of eatillg ice in Japan, however, is toshave it into snowy flakes and to swallow it with sweetened water into whic‘.-1 fruit juice or sweetmeats have’ been thrown. Ice cream, milk and‘ eggs shaken with ice and other cool—} ing beverages are sold in ever—] inci-e:lsing quamity, but the old style’ nf eéitiiig raw ice, in what the Japan-H ese call the km-inizzu fashion, is still. in the greatest vogue. I

I’ The Auckland Racing C_lnb’s Winter 'N[(=(=l'ing was continued at Ellerslie on }Monday, when the big cross-Country ‘event, of the year, the Grea’r' Northern Sleeple(:li2ise, was decided: The {ace was won by Mr Acton-.»\'danls, with Lccliella. which. st-arting a I'ed—hot t'zlvour~ile, won liy lwo lengths and ahalf from ih(‘ locally-owned Slowcoacli. Tho winner got a great reception on returning ten scale, the victory being an very popular one. The attendance did e not appear up to the average, but ill was satisfactory for an off day_ The lotalisator receipts showed a fallingoff of‘ £14,811. but last year tlie second day’s racing was on the holiday, and the amount for the two days totalled £147,359 10/, an increase of £7153 10/ over 1919. . l

Specially Selected Tweeds 44-inch Wide, in shades of Gray, Green and Dark Brown Hea'ther Mixtures. Prices from 5/6 D9l‘ Yard. The Big Value House, Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

The rainfall at Te Kuiti on Saturday

night. and Sunday morning was the heaviest experienced for many years. In 24 hours five inches of rain were re-

corded‘

Mr T. H. Waters-Callingham, a dulyqualified eye-specialist, is paying his annual visit: to Taih-ape, and may be consuhed for one week only at: the Gretna. Hotel.

Messrs W. J. White and Sons have a new announcement in this: issue, in which some special bargains in Various departments are offered. A Slllefldid line of men ’S trench coats, in all sizes is specially emphasised.

The heavy rain on Saturday flooded the low-lying country at Pukekohe, causing mu.ch damage to e-.u'l.V D0t?~f0 and onion crops. which were washéd out of the ground. Fortunately there was no rain on Sunday. +

The usual fortnightly social in connection with the Fire Brigade will be. held in the Three Siars Hall on Thul's~ day evening next. These poiiulair functions !iavv3 become quite the vague, and eve»:-y effort will be made to cater for the enjoyment of patrons.

“Or such prices in lieu thereof as the Controller shall sanction,” are the important words that are being added by amendments. (in the Gazette) to the tel~nl,s and conditions under which butter will be purchased by the New Zealand Government for His Majestyl_’s Government of the United Kingdom.

A 1-einarkable c:a:~'e of cai-goqxillaging has just been discovered. The steamer Kumara arrived at Dunedin on May 28 from New Ycrk via Lyttelton, and sailed on June 2 for Melbourne Among her cargo landed at Dunedin was 5' c'onsignment of kid leather consisting of 18 cases. On opening the cases at the wharf to-day it was discovered that eight cases contained bricks and Stones only. The original contents, vafued af £2500, had been stolen.

In the presence of 25,000 spectators at Autcuill, and before the French President and Lord Derby, the French Al-my fifteen triumphed over the British Army by 15 to 5. The British were the first to score, but the I§‘renchmen quickly cvcnéd up matters. French football is advancing rapidly, and has made such an impression at Home that. the VVelsh captain of the internationals recently predicted that the Frenchmen would soon beat the world. With remarkable aptitude, the gay Parisiennes are assiiniliating the finer points of Rugby.

An illustration of how prices may soar upwards was explained to a. Herald representative yesterday by a. Wanganui carpenter. He had occasion a. few days ago to purcl'i'a,se a. plane from a. local store, for whielr he paid 22/6. While knocking outthe wedge to adjust'the blade he was astonished to notice a ticket, marked 7/6, fall out. He is now curious to know whether the ticket belonged to some other tool and accidentally slipped into the plane, but at the same time is somewhat doubtful, seeing that 7/6 was fo:~merl_v the standard price. of that class of plane.

A. Te Awamutu resident. 'who was rcIcently in Sydney, writes to friends suggesting that there must be a con{spiracy of high prices in New Zealand. “Beer is 3d to 4d :1 glass over here,” he writes, "Capstau cigarettes (id for 12, Gold Flake 661 :1 packet of 10, bacon 1/3 per lb, tailor-made suits [seven -guineas to ten guineas, the lat- ’ ter being the highest price I discoverjed zmywhere for the best imported tweeds; black or tau boots are 25/{a. pair; 10:1 is! .1/9 per lb; nIC2ITS are similarly less costly, best steak being 10d, beef Bd, nlutt,on SQ. Fruit. oft course, is very clmnp. You can get the best possible meal in the best hotels or in first-class restaurants from 1/3 to 2/-. It looks as if there is .<.mm-Hzing wrong in New Zeal2md—pl‘Oli'.ml'illg‘ somewhere, surely,” be o.onc,ludes.

‘ Jndgxnont in cases arising out of the I re.f'u.~::ll of certain workers in the allied iron trades in Auckland was given on I Monday. Judgment was given for the ilnsp(‘.cfor of Awards for £SO against ‘each union. while informations against itho union secretaries were disniissod. I The magistrate said 110 had found that the workers individually had it right Ito refuse fo work overtinie, and in ‘the cause of an individual he would. ' ham to findwthuf he "had not been 9;uil—{ fy of striking. In the present case, ‘under the direction of their unions, ' Hm men had refused to work overtime, [ not as individuals, buf as a. body, as 3, ‘means of compelling certain c-nlploy—-‘crs f 0 ‘00"Cf"1G fiertniin oaynrent W 0 other workers. They therefore con-

Verfod their right or privilege into a means of compulsion as against those employors. The magis’rmto considered that this onnsfitutor] an ulawful strike.

All-Wool Scarfs in shades of Brown, Grey, Helio., Saxe Blue, Red, Navy, and Black, also with striped efiects. Prices from 4,/11 at Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

Both men and }a.dies ‘interested in

hockey should read the hockey notes in fO-nightfs paper.

The public fzu-mvell to \_’,,r A. L. Arrowsmitlz will take place in tlfe supper-room of tile Town Hall on Friday evening next. The function win; take the form of a light banquet, and a cordial invitation is extended to“ everyone to be present‘.

Returned soldiers are ‘requested (‘to note that the full number of applicants required to settle a block of 1150 acres at Ohingaiti have been obtained, and that no further applications can be received. This block has already Been valued and it is expected that the nine men who have selected sections will be able to get a start in good time for we dairying season.

‘At’ the sociai and dance on Thurs.day evening under the auspices of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, the President, Mr L_ E. Norris presenféd Mrs J. Webb with a handsome silver vase, suitably inscribed, as a ,token of the appreciation of the R.S.A. of Mrs Webb's valuable services in providing the music gratis in connection with last ‘season's entertainments.

The British Music Society, yielding. to a storm of objection, has deleted. Richard Strauss;’ ‘jHero’s liife” from the programmes of the forthcoming concerts. The society ’.- council pleads. that it only intended "to show the bad-'-ness of the music of Germa.ny’s greatest modern composer compared with‘ the British. It is stated that the “Hero's Life” was partly chosen be» cause the council was unable to find band parts for “Gott. Strafe England.”

A -penny-in-the-slot; stamp vending ‘machine has been installed in the private box lobby of the Taihape Post Oflice, so that anyone may get penny -stamps up to 11 p.m., when the ofiice is closed. Mr Dickie, the inventor of these machines, visited Taihape, tosee if the machine could be set up in front porch of the post office, and he decided that there Wouid be too much dampness there, to be a success The Chamber of Commerce is responsible for getting this sfamp vefiding machine for Taihape.