LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3543, 3 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next of the series of dances under the auspices of the Taihape Returned Soldiers' Association will be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, lltE August. The local Salvation Army Officers will be glad of any left-off clothing or any other wearing apparel, or night covering, for distribution among people who are in much need of such clothing.

Owing to the diminishing prospects of exporting, potatoes in South Canterbury are now being quoted at £2 JO/ to £2 15/ per ton on trucks.

Simultaneously with the rise in the price of sugar, the price of factorymade biscuits advanced an average of 2d per lb all over fhe Dominion.

A ballot is being taken of agricultural workers in Essex on the question of whether a strike shall be declared. The Wages Board fixed 42/ as the minimum wage, but the men through their union, have asked for 50/.

A Kingston lady recently advertised that she was willing to take a situation as housekeeper free of charge, on condition that she might take her cat with her. Evidently she had all she wanted in the feeline.

The following vessels will be within wireless range on 3rd August, 1920: With Wellington: Pateena, Wahine, Maori, Monowai, Paloona, Kcishima Maru, Ma/rante, Westmjifa, ,Moeraki, Tutanekai; with Chatham Islands: Earanga, Durham, Arawa.

The Waimarino Racing Club has decided to send a deputation to Wellington to endeavour to secure a totalisator permit for the Club, and Messrs R. W. Smith and W. Glenn, M's.P. have been asked to support the application.

Returned soldiers are reminded that the quarterly general meeting of the Taihape R.S.A. takes place this evening in the Fire Brigade Hall at 8 o'clock. The business to be transacted is of an important nature, and a full attendance is requested

The dearth of newsprint paper was brought vividly to the attention of the American public by the appearance at Buffalo last month of the Lackawanna Journal printed on brown wrapping paper this headline across page:—"This paper cost us 14J cents a pound, 4£ cents more than the meat they used to wrap in it."

The cost of the Prince of Wales' CanadisT! tour, which, according to a Pfc.rliamentaa.ry white paper, was £SOOO. is modest compared with the expenditure involved in some previous Royal journeys. King George's visit to India cost nearly £250,000; whilst

the Ophir trip cost £IOO,OOO. King Edward's visit, as Prince of Wales, to India in 3835 cost £3oojooo.

The House of Commons passed the third reading of the Oversea Trade providing Idredit of twenty-six miriens sterling to encourage exports to war-shuttered countries. Mr. Kellaway said as scon as trade negotiations with Bussia were concluded, as he believed they would he. Kussia would be included in the Bill, because undoubtedly Russia would be one of the most hopeful markets for British trade.

The first annual ball under the auspices.' of the Taihape and District Caledonian Association will be held in the Town Hall on Friday evening next, and as- every arrangement is being ma.de for the comfort of patrons the function should he a great success. The ball is the first of the season, and when the end of the season is reached .the public will be able to say that the Caledonian Ball was the most successful of all.

An auction sale of great interest to farmers, builders, and others, will be held by Messrs Ward and Co. at their auction rooms. Tui Street, on Saturday. August 7th, at 2 p.m. At the sale 6000 feet of timber, including t. and g. flooring, lining, skirting, moulding, etc., together with galvanised iron, ridging, spouting, etc., will be offered. The material is now on view af Ward and Co".? yards.

Tiie series of tresis terminated yesterday, when the weather changed, and became much milder. The num'ber of successive frosts experienced was fifteen, ant! the temperature was very low during the period of frost. In several sheltered cuttings on the railway line, Vne .frost lay for days lli'ke saow. On the higher country 'north of Taihape, the cold was most intense, and the combination of frost and fog made -conditions most un.-f pleasant. Mr D. C. Webster, who ha s filled the position of Clerk of the Court at Taihape lor some time past, left this morning for Wellington lo take up"a position with the Public Trust. Last evening Mr Webster was entertained by a numbej of friends-, and was presented with a. gold-mounted tobacco pouch as a token of esteem. In responding to the toast of his health, Mr Webster said it had given him great pleasure to associate with such a number of good sports as he had met in Taihape. He expressed his appreciation of the good wishes which had been voiced, and said he was sorry to be leaving so many good friends, with whom he hoped to be able to renew aequo in tance at an early date. Sore threat .ticking: cough, cold in the head, • quickly soothed and relieved by "NAZOL." CO doses 1/6. 3

The first aeroplane to cross the Ruahines arrived at Palmersum North from Dannevirke on Saturday.

"It is most unjust that a man should have to pay a tax on what he has notgot—on a debt," remarked a delegate at the conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union.

The Eeichstag passed the third reading of a Bill abolishing conscription. The Germans are negotiating regarding the disarming of two thousand Poles who crossed the frontier.

Will the person seen taking a grey woollen scarf from the fence at Milne 's bakehouse about 12 o'elook yesterday kindly return to linemen working there to avert further trouble.

The Prime Minister stated in the House of Representatives on Friday evening that the Prince of Wales will, at the conclusion of his Australian tour, pay a visit to Samoa.

According to Teheran reports, Pels'an artillery prevented three Bolshevik transports supported by gunboats from landing troops on the Persian coast, near Enzeti. It is believed one gunboat was sunk.

The following weather forecast was issued to-day:—Westerly moderate to strong winds, squally at times, and backing by west to south. Expect, changeable and showery weather which will probably become colder. Barometer rising.

A witness, in giving evidence at the Arbitration Court at Wellington, when the efficiency of linotype operators was under discussion, said that on racing tracks some men were faster than others. "Yes." replied Mr Pirani, "and is it not also a fact that the quickest, men get all the money?"

Official decree* have "been issued creating Provincial Municipal Village Adv'sory Ccvmxuls for Korea. This is considered a preliminary step towaTrl self-government. Several Koreans, carrying bombs, were arrested and charged with intention to assassinate officials and destroy public buildings.

The New York Times' Washington correspondent says that inquiries at the British Embassy brought an intimation that Britain would welcome «m agreement with the United Statesbased on principles simi'ar to those embodied in .the Anglo-French pact, governing oil supply in mandate countries.

Captain Gerard, of the Fifteenth Lancers, one of the most experienced political officers in Mesopotamia, was murdered by tribesmen near Tabriz, Persia, while en route to England on leave of absence. He distinguished himself by repeatedly solving thorny problems in Persia and Mesopotamia.

The British Food Minister estimates the total imported, butter available on March :3.lst, 1921, will noT exceed ninety thousand ewt. The Ministry will continue to be the sole purchaser. It is of opinion .that although a free market might bring move supplies, the price would be increased to four OT live shillings per pound.

The Egmont Box Company bos kindly donated a truck of kiudlii'p; wood to the Taihape Public Hospital. The wood will be loaded on the truck at the company's mill at Ohutu and sent to Taihape. If someone would volunteer re cart the wood from the station to the hospital, the

donation would thus be made complete, and a voluntary action of the kind would be greatly appreciated by the staff at the hospital. Any offers?

A Christehurch telegram states that j by the explosion of a child's kinematograph and the explosion igniting several films on the Boor, a boy of sixteen, named Erie Billons, and a sir! of :severtteen{. Bessie Dunsthoal received severe burns on their faces and bodies, and were admitted to the hospital. The boy was showing the films on the wall of a bedroom in his mother's house at Sydenham. He was running off films that were scattered about the floor when the machine burst into flames. A younger brother heard cries and] rushed to the door, where he met the girl coming out. He had to throw a couple of buckets of water over the flames when he heard groans in the corner and discovered his brother on -the bed. The mother, who had been out in the yard, rushed in and rescued her son. but was burned about the face in doing so. The boy was much more badly burned than the girl. A later message states that the lad has since succumbed to his injuries.