LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3513, 26 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Eggs are at present being retailed in Master-ton at 4/ per dozen. The Government has decided to erect 55 workers' homes in Christchurch. The shortage of benzine is causing .a great deal of inconvenience to settlers in the back blocks in the North Island. A number of Taihape footballers left for Wanganui to take part with the Rangitkei Sub-Union in a match against a team chosen from Wanganui and Wairoa Sub-Union. 'They talk about a sugar shortage here," said Colonel Hunter, chief denial officer to the Education Department, "why, this communiay could do without two-thirds the sugar is consumes, and be all the better for u-' ' The Children of Mary Society of the Catholic Church are holding a plain and fancy dress ball on Thursday, July 22. The Fire Brigade has kindly lent the children their hall, for which they desire to thank them.

A cable message received from Melbourne this morning states, that September 1 has been fixed as the date for members of the Presbyterian, Methodist, . and il'ongrcgational Churches to vote on the question of organic union. How an erring husband added insult. to injury was told by the complainant in a maintenance case at the Magistrate's Court in Christchurch on Wednesday. "He boiled the kettle with my Bible," the witness :;aid. "and then asked me to have a cup of tea.' Iu Paris during April last there was a great rush to get married. In one town hall there were Go weddings on one Saturday, and .1177 had been celebrated there since January. 1918. The figures for the whole of Paris show an increase of 75 per cent over those of preceding years. During the past few days there have been phenomenal clearances of whisky from bond at Wellington and Dunedin in anticipation of an immediate increase on duty on spirituous liquors. Customs officials have received some thousands of pounds in duties within the space of a few days.

"It. may interest the legal fraternity of Christcliurch 1o know that never during my 25 years as a magistrate have ] found it necessary to give a decision on the grounds of equity and good conscience." said Mr S. EL McCarthy, S.M. at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court.

Kid Lewis, who recently defeated Bash am at the Olympia, London, in a fight for the welter-weight championship of Europe and a purse of £SOOO, has been matched to meet Carpentier, the famous French boxer, for a purse of £25,0000 in London within, the next, two months. Kid Lewis and Basham are both Englishmen. For Coughs and Colds, never fails, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/9, 2/9.

Mesdames Leslie Banks and Frank Smith b,ave sent in 5/ each as contributions to the wheel-chair for tlie use of patients at the Taihape Public Hospital.

A meeting of the Central Committee of the Taihape and District Caledonian Association will be held in the Fire Brigade Hall on Monday evening, at 7.45.' A full attendance is requested.

The Horowhenua Rugby Union informed Mr W. V. Kelsall, secretary of the Taihape Sub-Union, chat the longdeferred visit o"f a football tvam to Taihape would be paid at the end of July or the beginning : ; f August.

Some high, prices were realised at a sale of rare New Zealand books held in Auckland last week. Buller's "Birds of New Zealand," in two volumes, which was one of the prizes of viie sale, brought £l7; "Cook's Voyages," in eight volumes, and with atlas, was another keenly-contested ; prize, finding a purchaser at £24 10/. J

A British Friesian cow named Coltou Secret 111., owned by Mr G. jHolt Thomas, who runs a herd of the 2000gallon a year breed on hi s farm at iHughenden, Bucks, England, has (according to the Daily Mail) broken fill records of milk production for any breed in the country by giving just I over 10| gallons of milk in twentyfour hours. The previous best record in Great Britain, was by ;the British Friesian cow Eske Hetty, owned by the Olympa Agricultural Company, whose yield was 1011 b, or 10 gallons lib in twenty-four hours. The threatened Auckland gas strike was averted on Thursday evening by the efforts of Mr Cutten, S.M. who presided at the proceedings when the agreement under which the gas employees are now working, was framed. Mr Cutten conferred with the union and, later, with the company, and an .agreement was reached on /a basis which roughly amounted to "splitting the difference." Increases on the company's offer were conceded which, summarised, comprise an advance of wages of approximately ten shillings j per week instead of eight shillings.

A stutcmciit in regard to differentiation in the salaries of married and unmarried school teachers was made by the Minister for Education in replying to a deputation from the Technical School Teachers' Association recently. "I am fully in sympathy with the idea of married men getting some special consideration in any scheme of salaries," said the Minister. ''We ought to recognise domestic responsibilities. We may not be able to do very much for a start, but I am resolved that I will make a start in any new scheme of salaries. We shall consider it as an experiment and sec how it works."

The market for potatoes in Canterbury is dead and no trade is passing. The slump in prices has led some of the northern merchants to endeavour to cancel their contracts, but without avail as far as can be gathered. Farmers are apparently holding their stocks in the hope that the Australian embargo will be lifted. It is reported that the Board of Trade has communicated with trie Federal Government asking that the embargo be lifted and that, graders be sent over from the Commonwealth to handle the tubers at this end. Such action, it is contended, would re-move the difficulties which are preventing export at present.

j Advices received in private letters from Japan state that the cost .of j living had advanced there probably I more than in any other part of the world, which is probably the reason for much of the internal strife which lias been experienced there during the present year, of which the outer world has been permitted to learn ' next to nothing. What is known | through people who haev recently visi ited the land of the Mikado is that (living for a European staying at hot- . els common to the tourist class costs ! anything from £4 to" £5 a day. and even at such rates the Japanese Government was not encouraging visitors from outside. "New Zealand (remarks the Yorkshire Evening News) may, without any offence, be said to haev been born in Newgate Prison. It was while serving a term of imprisonment there for illegally running away with an heiress that Edward Gibbon Wakefield thought out a new and scientific scheme cf colonisation, which, after his release, he elaborated into a book that attracted considerable attention, , and resulted in an attempt to put his j principles into practice in founding a colony in New Zealand. The plan worked excellently, and Wakefield himself emigrated to the new colony, and took a leading part in its public life." N-A-Z-O-L, the scientific preparation which never fails to relieve coughs, colds, sore throats, and chest troubles. 1/6 buys 60 doses. ,2 Ladies' All-Wool Tweed Coats, specially priced at 47/6 each. The Big Value House, Collinson and Gifford, Ltd