LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3540, 30 July 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I Owing to a shortage of sugar, Kirkj patrick and Go’s, jam factory at NelS son has again been compelled to close j down. | The case of Germany teaches us I that the time to recover our property j from a burglar is while you have him by the throat—Columbia Record. .Sir Henry Duke. President of the Divorce Court, one day recently in Loudon made decree nisis in 243 cases, which is believed to be a reI cord. j Taihape ig'not the only place which 1 “Jack Frost V has been honouring of i late. Raetihi reports thirteen sncces- ! -ive frosts, with fair prospects for I more, and Masterton reports sixteen degrees of frost.

i After a big fire in a Melbourne emporium, in which everything was desj iroyed, and jewellery, silver, and glass j melted with the heat, a box of matj dies wag found intact. According to information contained jin a. letter received by Mr Neil Oamp- | hell from his brother in America. New j Zealand mutton and lamb are selling in that country at a big price hindquarters 2/ a lb. and forequarters 1/7. A Swedish scientist lias invented a new building material called sylvenselosit. H is said to cost one-fifth oi i the price of building material in use in this country, which is known to ! the trade as wishyumagetit.

The first annual ball under the auspices of the TujjJiape and District Caledonian Society lakes place at the Town Hall, on Friday, 6th August.

Tickets are now on sale. The music will be supplied by (Tozier’s orchestra. ]< is much against my wish, sir, said a distressed parent to tlio Willesden magistrate, whose son was charged with using bad language, that my boy goes near such a place as a golf course. He must have heard the players. The Prime Minister announced in the House on Wednesday that a partial extension of the wool commandeer till 30th September next had been arranged with the Imperial Government. At that date valuations of wool and sheepskins in New Zealand will definitely cease.

It is reported that 64,000 German church bells were converted into cannon. during the war. It was a strange tarnsformation, and doubtless quite contrary to the expectations of the dohors.

For selling methylated spirits for use as a beverage, John Bain, a Liverpool chemist, was fined £SO and £lO costs, and his assistant £2O. It was stated during the hearing that drinking methylated spirits has ly increased among women.

The following vessels will be within wireless range on 30th July: With Wellington: Pateena, Wahiue, Mann West Mahwah, Paloona, Koromiko. Argyllshire, Port Alma, Paparoa, Raranga, Navua. With Awarua: Tofala, Westmeath.

Scotland will adopt prohibition within a few years, according to a prediction by Mr James Gardiner, a former magistrate of Glasgow. Hfe predicted that several counties in Scotland w'ould go dry next ele.ct.icn_ Numbers ,of plebisites resulted in a majority favouring prohibition. Mr Gardiner said: “At a meeting of working-men in Paisley the vote was 104 to 40 in favour of complete prohibition. When the country decides the question I am sure the vote will be two to one in favour of the drys.”

A correspondent writes, stating that he he has heard it said that the> recent, succession of frosts is a record for the district. He is not sure of the exact number of frosts recorded in the present series, but ho is sure that the number does not equal the series which was experienced when the railhead was at Utiku. He remembered that on that occasion no less than twenty-three successive frosts were experienced, and the cold was so severe that the huts, tents and houses of the residents were invaded hy a plague of mice from the bush.

Addressing members of the Catholic Education Board at the quarterly meeting on Wednesday, His Grace Archbishop O’Shea made reference to the criticisms which his recent utterances had raised. He affirmed that he meant just what he had said in regard to sectarianism in educational matters, but had not referred at all to the secularists, because the secularists proper had nothing whatever to do with the attack. The leading secularists he knew were not bigots, and they believed that the secular schools system is the best for New Zealand. The secularists, said His Grace, fight openly and fairly, and would scorn to resort to the tactics of the Orange bigots.