LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 28 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A pinafore dance will be held in Bennett's Siding hall on July 9, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the Sports Queen Carnival. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Taihape and District Caledonian Society will be held in the Fire Brigade Hall to-night at 7.45. ■■• Messrs Ward and Co., on Saturday afternoon sold by auction the Municipal leases in Main street, comprised in Section 2, block 4. The section occupied by Mr P. W. Somerville brought £l2O per annum, secured by Mr Somerville, and the other was bought by Mr G. Bray for £175. A building (for removal) at the- rear of Messrs Collin - son and Gilford's shop sold for £62.

A resident of Kai Iwi, named G. Olsen, while in company with some other men near the Wlanganui gasworks en Thursday proceeded to show them a cheque for £3O. One of the men promptly pock.ert.ed Jthe cheque and made off. The cheque was signed by D. Ross add payment thereon has been stopped at the banks by the police.

If a shopkeeper gives a firearm to a customer in exchange for another, doe s he commit a breach of the regulations? Mr V. G. Day, S.M., answered that question in the affirmative in the Christchurch Magistrate's Court last 'though the weapons concerned were only boys' air-guns. He also held that it was illegal to sell to boys round lead • pellets for the airguns.

A large number of applications have recently been received by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. C. J. Anderson, from relatives of victims of the influenza epidemic of .1918 for permission to remove bodies from the graves in which they were hastily buried, to family plots. The Minister after consultation with the Health Department, declined to take the responsibility of allowing any interference with the bodies at present. In the course of a few years, he said, any danger of infection will probably have disappeared and applications for removel can Then be renewed.

The League of Nations has appealed to all nations for funds to combat the typhus epidemic in Poland? A minimum of £2,000,000 is required, and the British Government will provide £50,000 immediately, provided four other countries advance similar amounts. The British Government has called the attention of the League of Nations to the question of the Aaland Islands, which are likely to threaten international peace. This is the first occasion in which the League ha g had suck a reference made to it. A meeting of the Council of the League has been summoned for July 9 in. London-

There are now reasonably cheap hot-water ventilators on the market (says the Dunedin Star), and. jwingto the representaions of the Labour Department, these have lieen installed in several cf the retail shops ill Dunedin, whilst orders have been left for further installments as soon as possible. The difficulty irr regard to heating apparatus for shops and workrooms seems to have been solved, so Mr Browett says, and the department intends to see that all establishments for the care of which it is responsible, are heated in accordance with the regulations.

I Mile. Gaby Deslys. the French acj tress and danseuse, left personal estate of r. 7225 in the United Kingdom. Her real name wa B Gabrielle Caire, and her home was Villa Maud, 299 Promenade de la Corniche, a beaiitiful house that she built at. Marseilles. i In the will, which has been proved in j London, the total value of all her property is not given. At the time of her death it was reported in Paris that she had left £400,000. To Mr Harry Pilcer, her dancing partner ("raon bon camarade") she left the sum of 250,000 francs (nominally £10,000) and a life annuity of 1500 francs (nominally £6O a month).

Big bargain s in Trimmed Jtud Ready-to-Wear Millinery we the Big Winter Sale, Friday next. July 2nd.— Collinsdn & Gifford, Lfd.

Stumping and firewood cutting is advertised for by two capable men.

A monument after the style of Cleopatra's Needle has been adopted by the people of Whaugarei as a war memorial.

The Hamilton Borough Council has decided to submit to the ratepayers proposals to raise a loan of £IIO.OOO for providing a complete drainage scheme for Hamilton. It is proposed —if the loan is carried—to do the work by day labour.

The London "Times" Washington correspondent says: "The AssistantSecretary for Labour has been advised from Genoa that German seamen affirmed authoritatively their Government's intention to compensate submarine victims. Consequently British seamen will probably modify their attitude towards Germans."

A Palmerston paper of Thursday contains a number of special " Show advertisements offering various attractions to Show visitors. Included in the list is one from a local firm of undertakers, pointing out the prosperity of their business, and the advertisement incidentally sets out "the utmost promptitude can be assured, no matter what the distance may be.''

i.io«i\"y tnow hag fallen iu many parts of Canterbury, and falls are still occurring in some districts iu the back country and on the east coast towards Kaikoura and Cheviot. There has been considerable interruptions in the telegraphic services. The fall varies from two inche s to two feet the latter being experienced in the Hundalee (Kaikoura) and Mount Somers districts.

To 'take silk" in these days, as the new King's Counsel will find, is a more costly affair than usual, says the London Daily Chronicle. Patent fees and other customary disbursements amount to about £IOO. the silk gown which gives the KC. his nickname and full-bottomed wig cannot now be purchased under £SO. There is also a braided coat of extra superfine broadcloth to be bought as well as knee breeches and buckled shoes which may well run into £3O. Lastly by an unwritten, but none the less stringent law, the new "silk" must present his faithful clerk with a frock coat suit and an immaculate silk topper.

Practically all the cups presented for competition at the- National Dairy Show held at Palmerston North were won outright, last year, a'nd the various donors have replaced them by others of equal if not greater value. This year Mr D. H. Rutherford (Mauriccville). won the Jarvis Challenge Shield for the best Silver Wyandotte in the show. Mr Rutherford hag succeeded in winning the shield on four occasions- since 1915: Mr W. Hall (Lepperton) has won the Golden Wyandotte Challenge Shield outright He has been a competitor for a number of years, and it is the fourth time the shield has been awarded to a bird exhibited by him.

The Customs duty paid by imp or.'-, ers of French, Italian, and Belgium goods for some time has been based upon their value in francs converted into sterling, at the mint value of 25.23 francs to the £. Instructions have now been issued to the various Customs office s m New Zealand that this is to cease, and that they are to accept values converted at the current ;baiik rate of exchange ruling on the dale of shipment of such goods. This practically means that importers will be paying Customs duties on the actual cost of their goods. Hitherto they have been' paying duting on an assumed value, which was approximately twice the actual cost-r-in the case of Italy, rather more than twice.

A war story, hitherto hidden by the censorship, is now told about Pilot Easton, who took H.M.S. Renown into Pfvt P >'.iip. Some days -AV-: the

war . oke out a big German steamer from Hamburg, which had an wireless, was signalled off the Melbourne Heads, and Easton wont to her and brought her in. He said nothing to the German captain about the war. When the ship was inside of Portsea, and Easton could see a naval launch packed with bluejackets approaching he said to the captain "Well go to half-speed here." The German. who knew the port well, asked "Why. pilot, why?" and he fixed an anxiou; <>yo on the launch. "Because Britain and Germany are at war." said" The German, furious with rage at thus being trapped, as he called it, was for turning ( rouud and running for the entrance, but Easton pointed out a fort to him, and assured him the guns there were trained on the steamer. So the German succumbed, hut ki 3 manner towards Easton was very threatening. Five minutes 1 * later the Australian bluejackets scrambled aboard. The steamer is now part of Australia's mercantile marine. Bo emphatic. Insist on genuine NAZOL. "Nothing like it. for preventing or relieving coughs and colds. 60 doses 1/6. 1

A woman, to whom it is a most serious matter, lost a five-pound nolo and a ten-shilling note.

Mr G. Moss, taxi proprietor, notifies that, his car s are available day ami night, at all hours. Any trains are met by arrangement, and his undertakings may be absolutely rfcied upon. Telephone 180

The recent heavy rains have had a bad effect on the roads in the Waimariuo County. Ih the" Ruatiti district many slips have occurred, and according to reports from travellers, it will be some time before they can be cleared away.

Mr J. R. Cunninghame, of Taihape, has proved to be one of the most successful fanciers in New Zealand* At four shows he has won the tea guinea Wyandotte Shield; this year at Palmerston North he was again successful, and the much-coveted shield was won outright.

The mystery of the disappearance some four months ago of a roadman named Kenny was solved on Thursday, when Mr Frank Thompson, who was out shooting in Guthrie's bush, Rualiine. came across reniain s which were afterwards identified as those of Kenny, in the bush. There was no evidence of violence, and it appeared as if the man had been overcome while taking a short cut from his camp four miles away through the bush to Ruahine. Kenny was a single man, about 50 years of age. The police were informed of the occurrence and took charge of thecase. The Wairoa Guardian of Fridaystates: A good deal of curiosity was. expressed yesterday in regard to four jockeys who had come through by road from Gisborne to catch a boat to Napier in time for the races being held to-day. The four lads referred to attempted to leave by boat from Waikokopu on Wednesday, but were refused a passage, as the seamen would notf allow the vessel to leave the -anchorage with them aboard. Yesterday they reached the Tangaroa at 3.30 and went quietly aboard and down below,, where they remained out of sight until the vessel had sailed. The watersiders refused to handle the jockey's luggage, and at the last moment Mr Byford put it aboard himself.

The general manager of the National Bank of Now Zealand, Ltd., has received a cable message from the London Board advising that the annual meeting of the bank will be held in London on July 7, Avhen it is proposed to declare a dividend of 6 percent for the half-year and a bonus to shareholders of 2 per cent on paid-up. capital, equalling 14 per cent for the year ended March 31 last. The sum of £30,000 has been allocated in reduction of the bank premises account,. and £20,000 has been added to the resei-ve fund, which will then stand at £1,020,000. The sum of has been carried forward.