LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3562, 26 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A farewell social is being tendered to Mr and Mrs Chas. Cherry at the Three Stars Theatre on Tuesday, 31st August, at 8.15 p m. An invitation is extender to all. The staff of the "Taihape Daily Times" acknowledges with thanks the receipt of a special invitation to be ! present at the farewell to Mr and Mrs Cherry on 'Tuesday next. The Waimarino Racing Club has purchased a site for a course, comprising 95 acres, at £3O per acre, and sn option has been secured over another five acres. A joint-and-several for £4OOO has heen entered into with the Bank of New Zealand.

A Dunedin man writes: We are staying in a good West End hotel, and since our arrival in London we haven't been served with an ounce of butter, although it is now midsummer. If you want to do me a real service, wireless, a couple of pounds of Waitaki over. '

At a meeting of the Raetihi Returned Soldiers' Sub-Association, 'the balance-sheet was read, and showed a credit of £27 18/4, which it was decided to set aside as a sick and distress fund for returned men in that district. It waa decided to hold the annual meeting and smoke concert on 10th September.

A nugget of gold weighing 39ozs and worth aobut £lB5 was found at Kamarook (Victoria) on the 13th inst by Peter Hansen, a farmer. The find was made in a cultivation paddock, and was unearthed by a plough. The ground had been under cultivation for 40 years, -and the country was not previously considered auriferous. It is thought that the nugget had been dropped there by aborigines.

What the regiments of "brass" hats now in the Dominion will do in the event of . sane poll -v of ilei'ei.ce be-

ing promulgated we do not know. Nor do we very much eare. The Government can, if it. likes, save hundreds of thousands per annum ou dofence, and retrenchment should be put into force at the earliest possible moment. The out-of-work pi'ofessional soldiers will then have to take up a civil occupation or emigrate in search of a fighting job. Christchurch Sun.

Beef, plus Iron, plus Wine—these hree great strength-building ingredints comprise SHARLAND'S BEEF, RON AND WINE. Take it regularly and enjoy tip-top health.

Noticing that a great deal of marble was used in the old palaces and official buildings in Java, Mr W. B. Lees, who has just returned from a visit to that rich and interesting country, inquired as to its origin. To his surprise he was tol that it was all Italian marble, and that in the earlier days sailing vessels from the Mediterranean used to go out to the East Indies in ballast, and that the ballast was invariably marble in the rough. This was afterwards worked up by native labour into slabs for floors and wall panelling.

There is a story of a lady in a Southern town of the United States who stopped on the to tie her bootlace. When she continued her walk, a man who had been standing beside her walked with her. When she had gone some distance the man still kept close beside her, and she began to get indignant, and not a little disappointed that a Southerner should be so rude. Eventually she turned and angrily asked the man what he meant by walking along the street with her, and saying that she was very annoyed with him. "Madam', ' replied the man, with "a deferential smile and the Southern drawl, "I am also very grieved to have to walk with you along the street, but you have tied your bootlace to mine.