WEATHER FORECAST.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3516, 30 June 1920, Page 4

WEATHER FORECAST.

The indications for easterly winds, moderate to strong, baching by east to north and freshening. Increasing haze and cloudiness, and the night will probably be very cold, but milder shortly. Barometer has a falling tendency.

“I cannot leave Zealand without recording xuy appreciation to the Press of the Dominion for their neverfailing courtesy towards her Excel lencjj myself, and my staff,’’ said Lord Liverpool, at Wellington on Thursday night last. do not wish to flatter vrhen I say that these islands: can well congratulate themselves 011 the high reputation which as been reached by the Dominion Press for the accurate news which is everywhere circulated even in the most isolated parts of thecountry.” Increasing evidence is becoming available of the evil results of haste in shipbuilding in American yards (says a message from Shanghai). Hardly a week goes by without a new American ship having to go into dock for repairs and overhaul. In the case of a steamer which required to be re-ri-veted, when the work was completed it was found that 100,000 rivets had to be cut- out and replaced, and the cost of this operation came to £36.000. Very heavy subsidies will be necessary to enable American ships to compete under such conditions with either British or Japanese vessels.

“I am a £2O Commonwealth note, and 1 want to be cashed,” was the strange remark of a New South Wales returned soldier, who recently presented himself to the Commonwealth Treasury in Melbourne, and remarkable to relate, he was cashed. The soldier stated that while at FJeurbaix in France he swallowed a £2O Commonwealth note, after memorising the number, as his capture by the Germans seemed certain. The Treasury found that on August 4, 1914. a note bearing the number given had been issued, and was the only note of a large issue which had not come back to the Treasury. As the soldier's record was found on inquiry to be good the Commonwealth Treasury decided to accept his story, and the soldier duly received a new £2O Commonwealth note.

Extensive warehouse robberies were recently reported in Melbourne, and it is now reported that a gang of interstate thieves’are operating in Sydney. Within the present month the following large stores and warehouses have been robbed: Sweet Brothers, Newton, mercery worth £1500; Bon Marche Stores, George street, cotton goods worth £1000; Supply Stores, Pitt Street, furs and cloths worth £600; Leslie Bakhas, King Street, drapery worth £200; T. and C. Riley, Castlcreagh Street, drapery worth £150; Thomas Perry, Parramatta, tweeds and suits worth £400; Rubcnstein, Hunter street, tweeds worth £1000; Robert Blackwell, George, street, suitings, worth 5600 (I£2oo worth, after-wards found abandoned in a nearby churchyard); Schroeder, Regent street, cigars worth £6O; and a host of smaller robberies. The police say there arc large receivers operating in the city, and the stuff is* disposed of in Melbourne and Brisbane, and stolen goods are sent, in exchange, for disposal.