LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3573, 8 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good loading bitch is advertised for sale. Mr. d. Turnbull bus boon appointed secretary to the Waimarin o A. and P. Association at Raetihi. An old man who was arrested on Monday night on. a charge of theft of garden tools, died suddenly in the lipykup at Wanganui yesterday morning. His name is at present unknoufti, and he has a large scar on his forehead and another on his cheek. He sold, the tools to a second-hand dealer under the name of Albert Jones, of Kent Terraee. '

A woman cook is required at the Federal Coffee Palace, Station Street. Good rains have fallen throughout Southern Queensland, ensuring a bountiful spring. The discovery of the signature of William Shakespeare, scrawled 304 years ago- on. the walls of the “Haunted Gallery” in Hampton Court, has just been made. Shakespearean authorities pronounce it authentic.

M. M. Johansen, manager of Mr. Byrne’s mill at Raetihi, has been admitted to the Taihape Hospital suffering from severe injuries sustained in. an accident at the mill last week. He is making good progress. An area of Crown land, National { Endowment, in the TSTgamotea Survey District, Wanganui County, 8981 acres, has been set aside for selection by returned soldiers. The land is about 41 . miles firorii, Wanganui, and is practi- | callv all in native bush.

A Railway Development League has been formed in the King Country. The lack of interest shown by the Auckland Development League in the completion of the St.ratford-Okahukura line was stated to be the cause of the breaking away of that body.

In conversation with a well-known farmer, a representative of the Wat ramp a Standard learned that through Cutting up land for soldier settlomerit in and near Greyfcown, fit ly 900 extra cows would be’milked this season. This means that the Greytown cheese factory will have to work day and night to cope with the increase.

A Taumarunui Maori was recently arrested on a charge of stealing a tengallon keg of beer. When the Maori chief was asked to go bail for the offender he replied: tr ßy oripes, no — he te League man! I not bail him out!” League and Rugby evidently have their respective supporters, even among the native race.

A visitor from the vicinity of Taupo says that the English broom, is spreading rapidly over the pumice land. Beone of the legumes, and rich in nitrogen, its effect will be good. It is easily uprooted when preparing the land for cultivation, but its effect upon the bee-keepers’ industry is disastrous, as the honey from it is intensely bitter.

From figures prepared by a reliable authority, wo gather says the Wellington Post) that the 80 men who worked the Japanese phosphates in, the harbour at the rates agreed to by the employers and confirmed by the Disputes Committee, -received each 33s 4d a day. Their demand —the unjustified demand that led-to the stoppage of port operations and the recent, shortage of coal —was for 6s 8d extra.

The Mataroa railway accident has been recalled by a petition presented to the House of 'Representatives byMr. G. R. Sykes (Masterton) ilrom Mrs, E. J L. Welsh, widow of the late Thomas Welsh, engine-driver, New Zealand Railways, who was killed at Mataroa on 14th May, 1919. Petitioner asked for relief, as heir income from the superannuation fund was not sufficient to maintain herself and her child.

A story has reached Adelaide of a remarkable change of fortune which has befallen Miss Maud Armstrong, 19 years of age, employed as a maidat a Jamestown hotel She was visited by a. lawyer recently, who informed her ftiat her uncle had died, leaving her considerable property and money. It is assorted that the property comprises the Laurels, at Toorak (Vic.,) Wirriada Station (in Gippsland,) and the sum of £30,000.

A King Country man who. visited To A wainutu the other day had something to say about butter prices and supplies. It appears that a dairy company had regularly,- supplied sixteen boxes of butter for the sawmill camp in which he was interested, but without notice reduced flic supply to two boxes. The view taken by the mill hands was that the dairy company was talking no risks Chat supplies will bo accumulated when .the riew season’s prices are fixed. In that, belief they have decided that, until the dairy company supplies the normal butter requirements, no more timber will go forward for the butter boxes Sentence was imposed by Ma - . Wyvern Wilson, S.M., af the Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui, on Monday, on the young man named Edward Bonnar Collins, aiias Green, who had a few days, ago pleaded guilty To the theft of a dress basket from the train at Taumarunui. On this charge the accused who had previous convictions against him, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. He pleaded guilty to another charge of theft, that of stealing a pair of trousers from a mate in a boarding-house, subsequently selling the garment for I2s in a pawnshop. On this charge he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon at any time during the next six months. The accused was also charged with the theft of a quantity of jewellery, valued at £SO, from a dweVing bouse at Marton. On this charge he was remanded to appear at Marton.

Entries for the Owhaugo Stock Sal© on 16th September, are advertised. Board for three months for a schoolboy, aged thirteen years, is required by an advertiser resident in the country. A report has been circulated by the Sydney Evening News that Mr Hughes, the Prime Minister, has been able to substantiate a claim upon the •Imperial Government of £10,500,000 in respect .of a breach in the halfprofit clause in the commandeer wool contract by the sale at about half the market value, of 450,000 bales, described by Mr Mackinder as Australasian, but by Mr Hughes as Australian wool.

Through referring t an Almanac this morning several business premises were on the verge of closing up shop in order to celebrate Labour Day. It appears that the Calendar referred to was “made in America,'’ ana Labour Day in that particular part is kept up on September 6th. We will not say any more about this particular date reference because w r e ourselves “fell in" badly on taking notice of it recently.—Waimarino Call. ,

4 The report of the Statutes Revision Committee of the Legislative Council made upon the Marriage Amendment Bill, in connection with which there was raised a question concerning the attitude of' the Roman Catholic Church to children born as the result of marriages celebrated according to the laws of the State, is expected to be presented to the Council to-day. The committee is understood to have come to a decision, and it is understood that the evidence taken will bo printed and made available for publication.

The Kiwi is now extinct in the London Zoo. The death of the one specimen the Zoological Society possessed was announced in May. For, nine years it has lived a very secluded life in the Gardens, and the general public has had very little opportunity of seeing it. On occasions the keeper would turn- it out,-, ’but being a veritable bundle of sleepiness in the daytime it would invariably scramble back into its bos as soon is released. Already the Zoological Society ■ has written to the New Zealand Government, asking if just one more kiwi can be spared from the island sanctuary of the Dominion.

At the last meeting of the Wellington Builders’ and General Labourers’ Union the secretary (Mr J. M. Campbell) was instructed to forward the following letter to the Secretary of the Labour Representation Committee: “I am instructed by the above union to submit the following resolution to the consideration of your committee: ‘That this union respectfully suggests to the Labour Representation Committee that it publicly disassociates itself with the print known as the Maoriland Worker, which claims, without any apparent authority, to be the official organ of the La-

bour Party.’ I may add .that members freely expressed the opinion that if Labour must have an official organ it should be one that -sets itself a much higher standard of ethics than that evidenced by the Maorilnnd Worker ”