LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3550, 12 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

01' 63 applicanfs for the position Of headmaster of the Wellington (‘.olle.£"o 55 were from Australia. ‘

A pl'ival;e cable I‘é‘(3eiv<=(l from (‘.Ol- - by a Wangzmui busixmss mun states that ‘the price of tea has advanced by 21¢} per lb, and Sago and tapioca. have hardened 15/ per ton.

An American paper dgfineg a pmfiteer as “an ordinary mortal actuuated by the universal desire to get all he cam” and says that “his profit is gallged by the public’s willingness to be Erimmed.”

Mr T. J. Bennett, was motoring along a. Hastings road on Friday when a 1-oadman shovelled a, 'large stone over his shoulder, striking the motorist on the side of the head. Six stif‘ches were required to repair the dam--386.

A petition being circulated at Raetihi in favour of cpnverting the town district into a box;ough,

The sum of £3500 has been placed on the Estimates for the Raetihi Hospital by,. the Wangixnui Hospital Board. ’

All odd shoe taken by mistzxkc from the Town Hall on Friday night may be had on npplifzution at “Times” Office. I

\ “Where, a few years ago, cheese crates were'2/ each, they are now 3/6, which means about id P9l‘ lb on our cheese.”———Ml' E. Allen, chairman, at the annual meeting’ of the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy CO.

Horses are evidently not much in demand in the Patea district just now. During the last month two -horses that had been impounded were sold by auction, but they did not realise the cost of advertising the 5319-

'Dul-ing {he junior rep. football match at Levin on Saturday“- two of the Wellington players were ordered" off for making offensive remarks to the referee. T-he spectatm-e were apparently Very provo-cative_ ‘

The Otira tunnel workers at the Bealey end have accepted the I-offer made by the Minister of Works on Wednesday. The terms include :1

guarantee of 10 per cent bonus at the end of twelve months of uninterrupted w.ork with the reservations agreed to_ ‘

The fifteefith meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement, of Science opens at Hobart on January sth. With the exception of a-cooperative meeting held with the British Association in 1914, this will be the first held since 1913. It is expected delegates will be present from all parts of -Australasia. _

On Tuesday evening the police raided Watson’s billiard saloon at Raetihi and arrested all the occupants, to the number of thirty-six. Six constables ul'l'iVed to take part in the raid. The arrestees were afterwards a.r'.lllittegl Afo bailwsecurities ranging from £s‘t'o £SO. It is understood Elim; charges under the Gaming Act will"be pi-efez-red against the men 211--rested. ~

A pzxrugruph in the Tourist Depart.munt’s rcpol't.prosented to Parliament '?.j._ecCutly states that the chamois have been seen in many parts of the_re—scrvc an Mt. Cook. Last seusonherds of between 30 :and 40 and as many as 70 have been noticed at onettimc, including many young. The th:ll'_. too, have often been seen by pnrfies while on excursions. Twice during" the sum11181‘ :1 hard of 20 was seen on the Sealy range. behind the Hormi’r:lge._

Questions were aglieél in the House on Tuesday as to What constituted a small income, and led to the follow: ing:—l\ll‘ Kellettz Vvhat is a. small.income? Mr Veitch: £SOOO. Mr Jones: The member for XVangahui knows those who receive £SOOO £1 yem-' are few. Mr Fraser pressed {he point. “But what,” he asked. “is a. small income?” Mr Jones: “It is probably what you earn.” The ques-1-ion was carried no further.

The Pope has issued :1 letter culling the Catholic hiel'archy’s,attention to Pol_:.lnd's critical condition. The Pope says the Holy See was the ‘oufy Power in the world which protest-ed zigaiixst: rhe iniquitous partition of Poland. Now not only Poland is im~ perilled but the whole of Europe is again tin-e2l'tened with the ho1;ro1‘s of fresh wars. God grant that devout Poland may be spared this supreme misfortune, and anaemic Europe may hm‘ suffer this new scourge.

I _‘‘ll- would make anybody grey-hair led finding their way round the roads; ‘\\'ll-at we want is direct road access ~'t‘roln ’l‘aillape I'o Te I{ulti—-8. road to which we are entitled. Any deviation old‘:-0111 our lawful riglus with regard to the making -of the great Dominion Road from mxqlcland to Welling’ton would ‘be just another injustice lo ’l‘2lunlarunui; an in'ju'stice of which all would be cognisant and which all would abhor; and one of these things‘ that would be as unaccountable :I.<»a vacuum in :1 gale of wind.”——R<>V‘. -7E. Ward, of Tal{nlarunui.

1 A Sydney cable states that much ghnblic interest is being taken in the cftse of Sister Ligouri, a nun, who escaped from a convent at..Waggn, and was bl'oug!.ll‘ to Sydney, where she took refuge in the house of n Congrf?‘ gational minisi—el' until arrested under warrant issued at the instance of the Ronmn Catholic bishop of the diocese on an information setting out that Bridget Pnrtridgre, otherwise Sister Ligouri, was a. person deemed to be insane and without sufficient means of »‘*UPDOrt-I The Court remanded her for seven days to the reception house for expert medical observation. Protestant organisations are taking a prominent part in the case.

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.An important auction sale of house.hold furniture and effects will be held at Mrs. Barsbyis residence, Kaka ‘Road, on Thursday, August 19th, commencing at 10.30 ":i.nl. ‘The auctioneers, Messrs. Ward and Co., have be.en instructed to sell the whole of the furniture and eflccts, which comprise a. large number of supe.'rior articles‘, a list of/which is ‘aflvertiscd in another column of this issue, __l ‘

' A suggestion was made L 215 3. meet ing of the Pafcea County Council Cr. .McGrcgor that a by-law should bfl passed prohibiiring all traific, gspecfi ially motor tracicr. from passing bridges while stock was being driven over. He said that great inconvenience was suffered by drivers of stocks through meeting mot.ol'-cars on bridges. A by-law similar to what he desired was in force in one of the Hawke’s Bay counties, and he c-onsid(‘/red it should be adopted in the Patea Coun-fy. The proposition was cs‘nsidere<l by {he chairman to be very debatable, so no’ticc oi motion was give}: ‘to discuss it at next. meeting. ' I V’

Discussing a. proposal in favour of a univetrsal Saturday half-holiday, a. councillor at a meieting of ‘the Pavtoa County Council remarked that a commercial tra.v¢llei' had told him that on one of "his -trips he had three halflmliclays in :1 Week, due to the varying (lays on which Lliifel'ellt towns observed the weekly half-holiday. A councillorrz “That-‘s’ the bagman’s fuller’al!’ The chairman e.onteri<_ied that the Council had to look at. ,the proposal from a farmcl"s point of flew, and to farmers Saturday half-haliday would not »be Sui-fable. A hcouncillor: ““It will come in time.” The chairman, said that ho was opposed to it, and 3011 his motiolT.it was decided not to Q support the pifoposal. The opinion was Is3Xp_l'€SS(3Cl tllflt the half-holiclay ques- % tion was better so-ttled‘by the inlilividj ual local authorities.

In the course of a .“no~lieen.<e” speech at Melbournie Town Hall recently, Rev. E. B. Hammond admitted that prohibition in .3uneriea had not entirely prevented the evils of slygrog ntrnific, but, he urged, the many tricks in-froduced" in .the maintenance of the illegal trade wei-.e becoming “played out,” because they could only he successfully "‘wo-rliecl” ‘once. In a prohibition anea in America. he said, a ‘man had appefix'.e<l with ‘‘vinegar’’ .for sale. His query to prospective buyers, ‘Did anyone want to buy his fiviriegar?” was acconipanied by an expressive wink. ‘The wink, said Rev. Mr. Hammond, “did it.” The vinegar was sold at exhorbtant. rates.- The buyers retired to a. quiet spo-f and opened their l:-oftles, and found wlmt they least expeeted——ol-clinary vinega-1-. The angry buyers sought. legal advice which, however. pointed out that they had bought w.lr:l‘: they had asked for ——vinegar——an(l although the’ wink may have “(lone i.t.”' if. Kiwis quite u‘.-ira viros from a legal Stan-lpoint.