LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3585, 22 September 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For 40 years the British public have been able to send telegrams for 6cl. On July 1 the rate was increased to V-. Buenos Aires was recently under snow—for the second time in three centuries. The electric light failed, and nil work in the port was held up. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company is raising one and a half million by debentures to provide additional equipment for the Newcastle steel plant

The Federal Government has notified the Northern Territory ofiicials— Messrs Carey and Evans and Judge Bevan —that they must resign within three days.

No damage, but a magnificent exhibition of night attire worn by citizens wi;h scared faces, followed two sharp earthquakes at Los Angeles at 4 o'clock on a recent morning.

The Scoullar Company, Ltd. of Wellington, are showing for a few days only, at the Gretna Hall, a fine range of new designs in irugs, carpets, furnishings, etc. The goods will be on show for a few days only, commencing from to-morrow (Thursday). Particurr 1 advertised.

Two lost keys on ring arc adver

Used for.

A boy to milk six cows and do odd jobs is required by an advertiser.

The Raetihi Dairy Company is paying an advance price of 2/4 per lb for butter-fat for the new season.

Mails for Fiji, Honolulu, Japan, Fanning Island, Canada, U.S.A., United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe close at Auckland per S.S. Tahiti, on Saturday, 25th September, at 5 p.m.

The Victorian executive of the Australasian Labour Party condemned the Commonwealth taxation proposals as a cold-blooded attempt to balance excessive expenditure with oppressive burdens on the people.

A thousand electric irons have been applied for to the Christchurch City Council, but not yet supplied, and as the power-house is still over-loaded the Public Works Department will not authorise the supply.

Platinum, which many yeais ago cost only 30s an ounce recently reached as much as £4O, or nearly seven times the price of gold. It has since dropped to nearly half the highest price, and now stands at £24,

The approximate number of the principal varieties of live stocky according to latest statistics in the Do ininion, is as under; Horses 344,248; dairy cattle, 882,854, total cattle, 3, 059,445; sheep, 23,614,749; pigs, 259, 647.

Five hundred Chinese coolies, under :,he armed guard of United States deputy marshals, passed through field on their way from San Francisco to New Orleans, where they will take ship to Cuba for employment on sugar plantations.

There were forty deaths in New Zealand last month from pulmonary tuberculosis. Thirteen of the deaths took place in the Wellington metropolitan area, nine at Auckland, and eight at Dunedin, and ten in the nine suburban areas of the Dominion.

A .retting pony owned by Mr. J. T. Mudd, of Oakhampton (N.S.W.), died a. few days ago, after showing symptoms of illness. After its death a brown snake, which had somehow crawled up the pony’s nostril,, was found at the back of the nasal passage, and extending some distance down the throat.

Mr. A Pickering, skin merchant, of Cambridge, notifies that he is commencing .business in Taihape, in Kuku Street, near the Town Hall, as a cashbuyer of all classes of hides and skins, from horse and cattle down to rabbit skins. He will open his Taihape office ■on Wednesday, 29th September.

A form or ailment, a trifle less severe than influenza, but worse than the or■dinary “cold,” is at present about Invercargill (states the Southland Times). A number of' eases of whole families having taken this trouble and being prostrated for a day or i wo have occurred. It seems to begin with a bad cold and an annoying cough, and a rise in temperature follows.

The graveyard vandal has again made his (or rather her) re-appear-ance in Mastorton. The ribbons attached to'the large number of wreaths in the Masterton cemetery on a recent grave, in connection with which pathetic sentiment and public interest abounds, were removed this week. A party of women were discovered in the act df taking them (says the A.ge).

According to that erudite body, the French Academy of Science, the art of ■dowsing, or water-finding by the use of the divining rod, is a serious and legitimate occupation which should be encouraged by every means. The Academy has therefore decided to nominate a commission composed of the most eminent scientists to inquire into methods of water-divining by the use of a hazel twig.

Modernisation of farm homes and general usage of labour-saving devices as a means to prevent waste of womanpower are urged in a report made public by the Department of Agricul ure, agents of which recently conducted a survey of farm hands. A reasonable amount of planning and well-directed investment in modern farm- home equipment, the report asserts, would prevent a large part of the present waste of energy on the part of die nation’s rural, home-mak-ers.

Americans are not all thin-skinned when the joke is on themselves, as the following paragraph in a New York paper will prove: ‘‘Have you any friends boastfully pointing out the American success in the yacht race, remarking on the superiority of the great and glorious native-born American’s victory, and the groat American yacht Resolute. If so, point out to them thn' the entire crew of the victorious American yacht consisted of 22 Norwegians, seven Swedes and one Dane. Tell that to the people who say that we ought to stop immigration and keep out the nndel sirable foreigner. ”