LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3580, 16 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Moscow reports that Sylvia Pankhnrfst has iarriveid 'at Petrograd en route to participate in the third Internationale at Mdseow. It is common opinion in Wellington that the local price for butter will not go above 2s per lb during the season about to commence.

A New York cable states that it is understood several New York hotel supply houses are importing dressed turkey from New -eZaland via San Francisco.

A contract has been let for the erection of a boy's hostel at Palmerston North High School, the cost to be aboult. £IO,OOO. The dormitories will accommodate 34 boys.

C( I do not take any notice of Government, valuations; some of them are grossly exaggerated, and some are grossly inadequate," remarked His Honour Sir W. Bassett Edwards during the hearing of a land ease in the Supreme Court.

The Durham, with 225,000 lamb earcases has arrived at New York from Wellington. The lamb .will shortly be put on sale in New York at 21 to 23 cents per pound. It is expected the Matatua and another boat will arrive within a few days with full cargoes of lamb and rabbits.

"What appears to have been a most deliberate attempt to burn the Otaki Native hostel (says Mail) was made at about 6 o'clock on Sunday morning, when two of the boarders, the Pa rata brothers, discovered a fire in the pantry. They immediately raised an alarm, and in record time the flames were subdued, but not before a hole was burned in the wall.

A fracas occurred at Mokatea about the middle of August (writes the Tahiti correspondent of the Auckland Star) 'between Chinese and natives, as the result of which five of the combatants were severely injured, and a house was burned ■ down. Luckily for the Chinese there are no Japanese at Makatea just now. A French gunboat went to the phosphate island and brought, eleven Chinese to Papeete undor arrest.

At the Magistrate's Court at Lyttelton, on Tuesday, three watersiders were charged with stealing cigarettes, the property of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company. Paul Zalinsky, watchman in charge of the holdi in the Waimana, from which the thefts were committed, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and FrederickStanding and Harnll Marsden Baines, waterside workers, each to one month's imprisonment.

Totara posts are evidently at a premium as far as the Patea County Council is concerned, being. difficult to procure, and the lowest quotation was 3/ per post. One councillor stated that he had had totara posts under, order for some months, but had not received any intimation of when delivery was likely to take place. Other members stated that they considered silver pine posts were just as good and cheaper for fencing.

"We must never i'orgefi that all classes participated in the Great War," said the Rev. W. H. Burridge at the special service at St. John's Church, Wellington. "The old principle of the British Army that the officers should be aristocrats and the men of the lowest class, has vanished. In the recent war, clerk rubbed shoulders with caroenter, merchant with miner, high with low. Protestant with Cathc'ic, and this should never be forgotten."

Some very scathing remarks about the whisky sent into the King Country were made at the Te Kuiti oCurt (the Chronicle reports). "Th'ey had a taste of the whisky,f said counsel, "and apparently a taste was sufficient_ The bulk of it was tipped out and the other bottle sent back." "What did you do with, the liquor?" a witness was asked. "We put some in a saucer to see if it would burn, and we tipped the rest out," was the reply. "And what did the other man say about the liquor?" another witness was asked. "He said he wouldn/t put it in his boots." , Another witness said it was "sheet lightning," and the Magistrate said that apparently the liquor had been tried and found wanting.

A 5-seater Ford car of a recent model, in perfect order, well shod, two spare wheels is advertised for sale, any trial giveu

A boy named Cyril Henry Knapp, whose parents reside,, at, Ngahauranga, was playing in a street there on Tuesday when he was run over by a traction engine. His pelvis was fractured, and he died shortly after admission to the hospital.

John Archibald, single, aged 30, employed in Dunlop's mine, Lovell's Flat, met with an accident through, the collapse of portion of the 'roof of the mine on August 21st, and died in the hospital on Tuesday.

The body of a man named Robert Alexander Wilson, aged 36, who resided in South Dunedin, was found in the Molyneaux river, about three miles below Balclutha, on Sunday. At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased had met his death by drowning.