LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3568, 2 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hon. W- D. S. MacDonald’s body will be conveyed to Gisborne for burial there.

The Customs revenue collected f cr the port of Wellington during August totalled £236,355, compared with £99,925 for August last year.

A reminder is given that the second annual ball under the auspices of the Taihape Volunteer Fire Brigade will be held in the Town Hall tonight.

As showing the severity of the recent spell of frosts it is interesting to note that in some parts of the back country, the beautiful tree have been badly affected, and many have been killed. ' 5

The New Dandies appeared at the Town Hall last night and provided an excellent entertainment to an audience which, though small, was thoi-

oughly appreciative. Every item on the programme was good, and the concerted numbers were really excellent. The members of the company left for the north to-day, and are to appear in Auckland on. Saturday.

The possibility of the embargo on the export of New Zealand potatoes to Australia being lifted has infused some life into the market,, which hitherto had been dead. „ Latest quotations showed an advance of 15/ per ton. The season, however, is tco far advanced for much improvement to the market to take place.

It is foolish to imagine, said the* Rev. J. G. Adderley, at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, that the clergy.are the only people who have a spiritual effect on the people. Authors and editors,” he said, “for weal or woo affect your spiritual life more than we do. For 24 men who read one popular weekly journal one quarter of a person comes to church, Wc are an emotional people, and particularly our men. who are more sentimental than the women, and works of little hut emotional valije appeal to us.”

Some months ago thirteen discharged soldiers from Hokitika, all with experience in the sawm’illing industry, banded together, and ; with advances from the Repatriation Department, purchased a sawmill and two- sections of good bush at Inangahua. Although the bush Is within 24 miles of Westport, the gap in the railway necessitates carting five miles to Inangahua, thence by rail 76 miles to Greymouth. Five directors govern the venture, which is rua on a business basis, and with the economical methods adopted the timber will cost 12/6 per hundred feet. The output is 6000 feet daily.

Where is truth? (says Reynold’s Newspaper, London, of a recent • date): 'lt seems utterly, impossible to get at anything, like truth in the reports of what happens over in the East, The Russians assert that the Poles deliberately destroyed the cathedral at Kieff; and this, after some

delay f is totally denied by the Poles. Somebody is telling a thumping lie. To make things even, the Polish newsspreaders tell a tale of how the Bolshevists burned a hospital and killed 600 Polish wounded. This is the sort of material that the ordinary Britisher gets to enable him to arrive at the truth. Probably nine-tenths of it is sheer lying. Only they call it propaganda.’-” Under an article headed “Where Workers Work,” a Canadian' journal says: “If there is any one country better than any other to live in at the present time that country would, appear to be New Zealand. There the workers work as of yore and arc immune from the terrors of wliat is known elsewhere as the High Cost of Living (?). Everything that can be produced there, and this includes pretty much all the necessaries of life, is produced in generous quantities. and consequently the cost of living is low. The spirit of the New Zealander at work has apparently remained unchanged from that of the same individual at war. This is ihe spirit which the entire world needs to-day.’ ’ The largest number of Chinese to | arrive at Auckland since the present j regulations came into force arrived there by the Niagara on Tuesday. In all there were 37 such passengers for the port, that being the maximum allowed under the Immigration Restriction Act, which provides that, only I one Chinese may be landed for every j 200 tons net register of the vessel j conveying them. Three of the Niagara’s party failed to pass the education test and will be sent back to Sydney. The seven Chinese who arrived there on Monday from Sydney and Suva all passed the Nest and were permitted to land. The total number of Chinese who have landed at Auckland since the beginning of the year is now 565. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/9, 2/9.

Two re nth' men boarders are advertised far.

The record sum of £200,081 was collected in Customs du y at Auckland during August, compared with £98,233 for the same month last year.

Fairer ans Mclntosh flew from Point Cook to Flemington, where they wore officially welcomed by Mr. Hughes in the presence of fifteen thousand people.

President Wilson has approved an award increasing anthracite miners* wages, by sevenreen per cent, aggregating eighty-five million dolars annually.

A Dunedin poultry farmer vouches for the truth of his statement that he has a clucking hen sitting on a dozen duck eggs and laying one of her own daily in the nest.

What has become of that good old word “earns”? Folks are “getting,” are “paid,” and are “making” so much a day. But nothing is said about anybody * ‘ earning ’ ’ anything—• Los Angelos Times.

A young man who was engaged for gardening in Masterton /recently at 17s pe,r day confided to his employers that his father had brought up a family of nine chidren in the Old Country on a wage of 15s per week.

The Public Works proposes to spend £IOOO in improving the track over the Tararua Ranges from Otaki to Grey town. The committee in charge of the track .proposes to take cinematograph views of thes mountain scenery en route for the purpose of educating he public to. the beauties of the, track.

A quantity of silver Jewellery and other trinkets were found by the police on a man who pleaded guilty on Tuesday at Wanganui, to theft at Taumarunui. One of the articles is e trinket containing a George 111. (1817) sovereign. The police would be pleased to. receive information from persons who have lost Jewellery.

Consequent on Earaaciotti submitting an analysis of Newcastle coal, the Italian Government placed an order for an experimental 8000 tons for gas making. The price is satisfactory. It is hoped to establish a regular trade. The Government also undertook to provide ship Hransport, but it is now understood the whole transaction is held up through Australian industrial troubles. ■ *

Unless a consignment of benzine of correct specific gravity arrives in Taumarunui before Saturday the municipal gas works will be compelled to cease The authorities are in communication with Auckland and Wellington ' but hare so far been unsuccessful. Good stocks of kerosene and candles are held locally. The council recently refused a permit to a private individual to supply electric light to a number of shops.

“ Clad in 'deep mourning, ’.a young woman called on a Paris fortune-sel-ler. She asked to be told what the future had in store for her. The fortune-teller went into a hypuo'ie sleep, in the course of which she predicted that her client would shortly acquire a largo sum of money. The prediction was quite true, for after the fo,rtune-teleh had shown her visitor out, she discovered that the young woman in mourning had stolen £4OO in notes from the cash-box which she kept in the .room. Considerable interest is seemingly being evinced among returned soldiers in Canada rgagding tho prospects of New Zealand as a home for immigrants. By the last overseas mail between 20 and 30 inquiries from discharged soldiers in Canada were received by the secretary of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association, Mr. E. F. Andrews. In response to those communications' Mr. AndreAvs replied stating that prospects were good, but that a large number Avore experiencing difficulty in securing housing accommodation. Forts-tAvo French soldiers arrived? from Sydney with the Maheno on Tuesday on their way home to Tahiti. The little band has been engaged far more than two years quelling various native risings amongst the Kanakas in New Caledonia. Amongst their number are three wounded, and they ha\ T e loft one man in Nbav Caledonia, the Auctim ' of Kanaka treachery. Only laa’o Frenchmen, one of Avhom is aeompanied. by his Avife and children, are in the party. The remainder are native Tahitians. Accommodation has been found for the men in Auckland until the departure of tho Talune. by Avhich they return home.