LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3578, 14 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Before the war, Japan supplied 21 per cent, of India’s total imports. Last year no loss than 20 per cent, of those imports came from Japan,

A London paper gravely reports the following; A bishop in the full clerical attire of )>is office was observed on his way to Lambeth Palace smoking a briar pipe.

In the Church of Scotland Assembly! held in Edinburgh.' recently, a recommendation to the people to vote for the "no-licence” provision of the Scotch Temperance Act, was approved by 111 votes to 97. Is Scotland going dry?

The immigration and emigration returns for the month of August show that 4143 persons arrived and 2443 left New Zealand. For the' corresponding month of last year 'the arrivals wore 886 and the departures 1285. During the past month 193 Chinese arrived in the Dominion |ind 23 left, the country, "

It is reported- that the export of dairy produce for 1920-21 will .exceed in value the wool for the same period, this being the first time it will have done so in tpe history of the Dominion.

M. Rousseau, the well-known sculptor, has designed a monument,/ which Belgian refugees are erecting in London as a token of gratitude to Great Britain for her hospitality to them during the Great Wav.

The famous artificial silk mills at Turbize, Belgium, have resumed operations to their former full capacity of 15.000 pounds a day. These mills were, almost completely destroyed by the Germans in 1914.

Bodies of American soldiers,, who died of wounds in England in the Bath War Hospital, were recently exhumed, and placed in special caskets for conveyance across the Atlantic for reinterment in the United States.

'• There is not a single land agent in Wellington that can say I have not seen him,” said a witness, in court when the question arose as to what steps had been taken to secure a dwelling.

A .reminder is given of the meeting of the Soldiers’ Memorial Committee, which is to be held in the Mayor’s Room at the Town Hall to-night at 8 o’clock. A full 1 atondanee is requested, as important business is to be transacted -

In the sailing of the Mayflower fom Plymouth for America lay not only the seed of a great nation, but the beginning also of modern democracy. With this present month it is 300 years since she set sail from the shores of England.

The Ihakara creamery (says the Levin Chronicle) is receiving an intake of 1100 gallons of milk per day at the present time. This is an increase on the quantity dealt with at this time last year, and' an indication that the season is going to be a good one.

It is reported (writes a correspondent to the Hawke’s Bay Herald) that two or three Tangoio Maoris have discovered a “gold mine” in the Carterton district. A certain area has been leased by the Maoris concerned, who, it is stated, are returning to Napier to form a company.

A quaint story is related by a recent visitor to the North of Auckland. The statiomnaster had left Ins bicycle standing outside, when along came a Maori, who promptly asked the man himself for a railway ticket for a bicycle. This was promptly supplied by the statiomnaster, 11 and affixed to the bicycle by the Maori, who then called a porter to put the machine "on the train. His orders were obeyed, and so far neither the Maori nor the bicycle have been seen by the statiomnaster. ‘

The Lowry ward of King George Hospital at. Rotorua, which has been, set aside for children, will accommodate 36 patients. It will be the centre of the North Island for infantile and other kinds of paralysis, and the treatment of resultant deformities. Major Wailis, an expert specialist of these kindred diseases, will have charge. It is hoped that salubrious air and hot medicinal waters, combined with treatment by medical men who have a special study of this disease, will result in many cures.

A few days ago the Rev. J. J. North, of Christchurch, was rung up by a lady who inquired about tho, Fight the Famiuo Fund. She wanted to be sure that the European need was real, and that the method of distribution was good. She said she had a considerable cheque to give to the fund, and would post itj. By Saturday morning’s mail a cheque for £7OO was delivered to Mr. North. It was an open cheque, and the envelope contained no line of the lady’s writing. The cheque was issued by the Post Office Savings Bank, and signed by a Savings Bank officer, on the Bank of Now Zealand. The lady’s name therefore is buried in obscurity.

At a meeting of the soldier selectors of the Otamakapua Block, near Ohingaiti, yesterday, the final details in connection with the settlement of the block by nine .returned soldiers were arranged. The six building* on i the property were balloted for among j the applicants, and the distribution of bricks, timber, fencing wire, outbuildings, etc., was decided upon. The matter of a water-supply for the whole block, the provision of a cable across the river, the metalling of a I road, and the provision of a right-of- j way wore also arranged by the seloc- 1 tors while on the ground yesterday, The survey will be completed this week, and some of the men propose to make an immediate start by erecting or shifting whares and putting up fences. It is expected that the individual mortgages will be ready in time to enable the men to stock their holdings from Ist October.

Damp feet usually result in a. cold. Get “NAZOL.” ATo cold is Nazolproof. 60 doses 1/6. Chemists and stores.

Entries for Eaetihi Stock Sale on Friday are advertised.

An advertiser lias 10,000 ft of seasoned heart of matai and 15,000 ft of heart of totara for sale, and in another column invites tenders for the ■purchase of same. '

The warm rain which fell yesterday will do an incalculable amount of good throughout the district, as feed for stock was getting scarce. Prospects for the dairying season are now very much brighter.

The candidates nominated for the ‘Raetihi Town Board election, which takes place to-morrow: —J. S. Ashmore, A_ W. Ashwell, P. M. Bradley, R. E. Dawson, A. C. Drury, T. A. Harris, J, A. V. Keucke, W. H. Sandford. T. Shout, and R. Sigley.

In the Mangaweka and Ohingaiti districts good lambing percentages are reported, and on one property there are nearly 120 lambs to each 100 ewes. The "cold, weather, which has caused mortality in some districts, has not affected stock on! the flat sheltered country south of Taihape.

The motor road-roller purchased by the Taihape Borough Council was given a trial run on Saturday. The roller is too heavy for the bridges ror the railway, and in order to get the roller to its quarters from the railway, it had to be taken up Kaka Road and round Raru Road to tbe Mataroa Road in order to avoid the bridges.

A farmer in the Ohingaiti district who put in about twenty acres of potatoes last season, and got a splendid crop has left the tubers in the ground, as he does not consider that they are worth while digging at present prices. The owner of the adjoining paddock has, however, not lost confidence in the next season’s market, as he was busily engaged yesterday in planting potatoes.