LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3571, 6 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

German manufacturers have agreed to suppy Russia with a hundred locomotives. A daffodil day will be held on Saturday, 18th inst, on behalf of No. 2 Carnival Queen. •

British liners at Boston are tied up Giving to the longshoremen striking as a protest against the imprisonment of Mr. MeSwcney and Dr. "Mannix’s detention.

The Dunedin Grand Lodge 1.0.0. F. has been advised tha" a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Australia .will be held at Dunedin, commencing! on 20th. October next.

A salutary fine of £25 was inflicted by the magistrate at Gisborne on Les Glees'Oix, a well-known Australian boxer, for giving a false alarm of lire from a residence in which wedding festivities were being held. ■

The International Paper Company of America announces that newsprint in rolls for the last quarter of 1920 will be 130 dolars a ton which is the same as the Canadian Paper Export Association charge.

Mrs. Hamilton has abandoned the attempt to swim the Channel. Via thin nine miles of the French cogst : she said she was satisfied she had .beaten the world’s record for women, swimers and was determined to make another a'tempt. ,-.V ;

At a meeting of tlil r trot) trade em-

ployers’ association 'ah’Sydney, it was decided that any ofnployee absenting himself from work on Saturday shall not be* re-engaged on Monday unless he agrees to observe a forty-eight ’hours week.

Builders are notified that tenders ’wills'be received up till 1 noon, on ’Tuesday, September Ist, Tor the erection of a Public Hospital at Raetihi. Plans and specifications’may be seen at’J. P. Aldridge’s Office,'Taihape, and at the Town Board Office, Raetihi’'

The Feildiug branch of the Wellington Freezing Workers 7 and Retailed Trades Employees’ Union have decided to heartily support the cablegram sent by the New Zealand Labour Party to the British Labour Council, endorsing steps being taken to prevent war with Russia.

The National Board -of Farm Organisations at Colombus U.S. rejected a plan for the formation of a national wheat pool controlled by farmers. It was pointed out such a combination would be contrary to the Sherman anti-trust law and it would be wiser to market products co-operatively.

According to health reports ’there are nine thousand 'cases of cholera in Korea ?nd three thousand deaths have occurred. Great difficulty has been experienced in fiahting the disease as the Koreans are superstitious* ly concealing the dead bodies rather than permit cremation.

Speaking at a meeting of tbe Metropolitan Rifle Club, art Sydney, Captain Croft, said he was on a court of enquiry in France in 1916 at. w’hich it was stated on. opening million rounds of rifle ammunition it was discovered the bullets were only cardboard nickelled over. The ammunition was made in America.

diaries Hoyle, the American whom Zamora, the Mexican, bandit, released, ■has returned and reported ''that !an American, W. A. Gardiner and a Britisher, W. B. Johnson, were being held by Zamora, although he could not say ■what might have happened to the captives following Zamora’s defeat. Hoyle is attempting to raise fifty thousand dollars for Gardiners ransom. The taxating proclivities* of the present Government are being rather spiteful/y vented on Country newspapers. . 'Sometime ago Press Telegrams were put up 100 per cent; recently postage on newspapers waS increased by 100 per cent., <ind now the of newspapers has gone up another 25 per cent. This is a tax of 225 per cent, on the cost of newspaper production and distribution that most people are not aware 'of. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1/9, 2/f. , : : . „

Mention was made before Mr.

Justice Salmond in .the Supreme Court atat Wellington 'Oh. Wednesday of the action for £3OOO damages for alleged libel preferred by Patrick Buckley Fitzlierbert, of New Plymouth, barrister and solicitor, against Frank Oswald Victor Acheson, of Wanganui, president of the Aotea Maori Land Board. The libel complained of was alleged to have been contained in the following words used by Mr. Achesoa before the Aotea Land Board:—“I will not allow this claim (tbe plaintiff here rose and interrupted the defendant). lam not taking notice of you, Mr. Fitzlierbert. You and and have been putting your heads together to mislead the Board and Afamirikura. When Atamirikura signed this acknowledgement she received a large gum of money. A native, under such circumstances, will sign anything.” Decision was reserved