LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3584, 21 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The . Renown has arrived a!' Trim- : dad. Tin Prince of - Wales is in fixer/lor t health. The Chinese Government will short- ■ ly levy an income-. ax in order to in- j crease the revenues. It is officially announced that trade with Turkey will be permitted to A us- I ‘rnlian firms, subject to certain condi- 1 tions. | It is stated that Beckett and Moran have signed an agreement to fight in London at. an early dale. The arrangement. was made through Major WiTc-on. r«* presenting a new, syndicate. Callaghan -’s offer was apparently overlate.

An advertiser requires a smart "girl for fancy department.

The Rangitikci County Council requires the services of two good grader men and several permanent roadmen.

It is estimated that in two and ahalf years agriculture will he completely restored in Belgium, including Hie Avar devastated area.

It is understood 'the Nobel literary prize will be awarded to Knut Hamson, a Nonvcgian, who Avas formerly a cobbler’s apprentice.

Mr. .1. M. Blair notifies that he has removed to Mr. J. P. Aldridge’s office in Station Street. Phone numbers are: Office 192, sesidcnce 277.

The stock of. coal in the Taihapo loco, bins has been greatly reduced within the past few Aveeks, and it looks as if another reduction of the number of trains is likely.

Advices from Helsingfors state that Raskolnikov ordered the execution of one hundred marines for mutiny in disobeying his mobilisation summqns. Order was thus re-established.

Official British statistics show that there has been a 161 per cent, increase in the cost of living, compared with pre-war figures, and 167 per cen{. increase in the prices of foodstuffs.

Serious damage has been done to the Canterbury wheat crops 'this season by the grass grub. According to growers, hundreds of acres in crop will have to be ploughed in. The trouble is bad in the Ellesmere district.

Hon. McCurdy, British (Food Controller) speaking at the grocers ’ exhibition, -said that owing to the continued rise in f®od prices, Vhe average working class family’s weekly budget would be 9/6 mofe at. Christmas than at Christmas 1919. '

The Egyptian Legislative Assembly passed a resolution accepting the principles of the Milner agreement as a suitable basis for a treaty which should be submitted to the National Assembly, which wIV have the right of acceptance or rejection.

Commandant Rudd, representaive of the Salvation Army Trade Department will visit Taihape to-day .(Tuesday), "with samples and goods sold by the Army. Goods can be inspected from 7 pm. in the Army Hall .Everybody welcome.

Approximately 400 million dollars worth of German and Austrian property seized by the Alien Enemies ’ Property Custodian in the U.SA. is stVl being held, while 300 million worth has already been returned to the owners under the amendment of the Trading with Enemy Act.

'l'lie Panhandle State, the first American built, manned and registered Trans-Atlantic liner which has sailed for Europe, in a generation, departed on Saturday, bound for Queenstown, Boulogne and London. She will call at Queenstown, despite the British Admiralty’s orders to the vessel* to omit Irish ports.

The Railway Department notifies that on Thursday and Friday next, the usual 1 7 p.m. train, Marten to Taihape will be delayed to leave at? 7.42 p.m., and will arrive at Taihape at 10.32 p.m. Holiday excursion ticke's will be issued from Taihape. and intermediate stations to Wanganui by the 5.3-0 a.m. train’on those dates, ,an account ®of the Wanganui Races.

Mr. Squires, Prime Minister of Newfoundland, is visiting London. Interviewed, lieTstatcd he was disappointed at the holding of the Imperial Conference in Canada. He preferred Loudon. He bad not hoard of 'the reported proposal by the Canadian Government to postpone the Conference until 1022 to enable the Dominion Parliaments to discuss inter-Impcrlal constitutional proposals before submission to the conference. He preferred ihat the Prime Ministers should meet to formula! ■' a proposal before submission to Parliaments.