LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3565, 30 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An up-to-date four-roomed house is ■advertised for sale.

The Taihape and District Farriers have decided to increase the September prices for shoeing to the extent of one shilling per set all-round. »

For rings that will giv(* 'genuine pleasure, and make gifts that will always be fully appreciated, there is no better value to be found in Taihape than at H. D. Bond’s.

All but about £BOO has been collected. towards the Auckland Y.M.C.A. Fund of £16,000 for bringing the building and equipment up to date, and the leaders of the various teams wifi meet on Monday next to make the final arrangements for getting in the balance. Congratulatory telegrams have been received by the Y.M.C.A. from various parts of the Dominion, including one from General Russell.

Word has been received at Taumarimui from Matiero that the body of Mr. Bartholomew Hartford has been found in Mangaroa River. Mr. Hartford had been missing from Ohura for some days. The police dragged the stream arul recovered the body. At the inquest a verdict of “found drowned,’-' was returned. Mr. Hartford was a labourer, aged, 56. a native of Dublin and had been in ill-health.

When the Northern Company’s steamer Tasman was leaving Whakatano on Thursday morning a wave threw her stern on to a rock, which carried away the rudder and two blades of the propeller. The vessel continued the voyage, and with the aid of a derrick a jury rudder was rigged. The Tasman reached Tauranga under easy steam at 10 o’clock on Friday night. The vesel will be towed to Auckland.

The High Commissioner 's cnWle dated London, August 25, is as follows: The fifteenth series <• of Government wool sales commenced last night with a large attendance. Competition was more general, especially from the Continent than for several ’ months past. Compared with closing rates of the last London series, the prices of fine merinos were 5 per cent, to 7i per' cent, dearer. Other descriptions were unchanged; crossh,reads, fine, par to 5 per cent, dearer; medium, unchanged; coarse, neglected and largely withdrawn. There are DO. 000 bales shown of wools available for the series of .vhich 18,000 are New Zealand. A?

Tenders are invited for carting be ■tween 200 and 300 cords of firewood.

Thefts', of timber from building stacks have been very prevalent in Hamilton of late, and the police have been endeavouring to track the culprits. They ran one to earth at Te Papa two days ago, and as a resuUf a middle-aged man, Thomas Edward Gunter, was charged with the theft of 300 feet of sawn timber, before M,r. Young, S.M., to-day, when the police asked for a heavy penalty. His Worship described rhe theft as a mean crime, as it was easy to commit and hard to detect. He could not regard prisoner’s plea for probation, as he felt, the offence could only be met by imprisonment, and sentenced accused to fourteen day’s hard labour.

A communication has been forwarded, from the office of the Minister of Lands at Wellington 'to the Secretary of the Soldiers Mothers’ League, statin® that the question of introducing legislation to enable certain lands to be' removed from Na:ional Endowment is under consideration of the Government., The object 'primarily is to give better facidities for dealing wi h poorer lands in the North, which arc now included in the endowment, and which can only be satisfactorily disposed of under special conditions. The letter further s:atos that if this is done it is almost certain that -any proceeds' or revenue derivable from lands removed from that endowmnt would continue to be allocated as at present for education and old age yu--poses.