LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3592, 2 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The British rifle team has arrived at Erecmantle.

The Dunedin corporation Is acquiring the Eoslyn tramways at a cost of £35.000.

A wireless mesage from the steamer Melbourne reports that there is trace of the Amelia J.

New South Wales Cabinet has decided to raise a local loan of ithree millions for public works.

A working manager for a Wairarapa Sawmill, with an output of 4,000 ft per day, is required and a good salary and bonus are offered for competent man.

The Port Pirie, now loading at New Plymouth, will take away a record shipment from, that port of 100,000 carcases of meat*., occupying about 300,000 feet of space, also 12,000 crates of cheese. >

In the West Australian Legislative Council a Bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals has been introduced. It makes it illegal to work a horse more than foxlfy-eight hours per week. Doping racehorses is also prohibited.

A Westpoxt paper states that 'Eep Nahr has been matched against Jack Steel, the speedy West Coast rep., for £IOO aside in a 440yds race. Although Steel has a great reputation Nahr is expected to give him a good go for it. The date has not yet been fixed.

"TheTe should now be ample feed in Taranaki," remarked a witness giving evidence at the Eltham Magistrate's Court. "But there is not!" added the Magistrate. "No," agreed the witness, "the season is about six weeks later than usual this year."

Mr. J. B. Williams, who has been in New Zealand for the last four months collecting funds in aid of the miners who are on strike at the Broken Hill mines, stated, in Wellington, that the unionists in New Zelaand had subscribed between £BOOO ana £9OOO to the distress fund.

Mayor of Feildiug was successful in getting quantities of suitable firewood for the electrical ipower station in his mission along the Main Trunk line. This action was . rendered necessary thrdugh the shortage of coal and oil, and the firewood is to be used, as a substitute, A prompit and amply supply of firewood has been arranged for.

It is inj. cresting to note that Viscount Jellicoe is the fourth naval officer who has occupied the position of Governor of New Zealand, The first naval Governor was Captain Hobson, the second was Captain Fitzroy, known to science as the inventor of the Fitzroy 1 barometer, the It bird was the Eearl of Glasgow, and the fourth is Lord Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet.,

Speaking at the meeting of the Wangamti Borough Council, Cr. Burnett, referring to the locaf war memorial proposal, expressed the hope that this work would be pushed on and that no more time would be lost; too much had already been lost, he added. The Mayor assured Cr. Burnett that he would not lose any ti main calling together the committee set. up at a public meeting recently.

An inquest was commenced on Wednesday, concerning the death of a boy six years of age, John Douglas Ingiis, a son of Thomas Ingiis, commercial traveller, who expired at the hospital during an operation for an affection of the right ear. After hearing the evidence of tjie dectors who attended at the operation, the coroner ordered a post mortem examination and adjourned the inquest.

During his recent visit to the Waiouru Plains, Mr. N. C. Staveley, the Wanganui Borough Engineer, observed large numbers of wild horses, and some of them, appeared to be a good class of animal. There appeared to be an opening here for some enterprising horsebreaker to catch and break in the best of the animals. A certain amount of this kind of work has already been done, and one of the horses that Mr. Staveley used on his last trip had been a wild horse, and it had been quietened sufficiently to make it a good hack.

In the course of a conversation with a Wanganui "Herald" reporter about the Waiouru country, the Borough Engineer, Mr. N. C. .Staveley, said that he noticed on his last trip that there were very large numbers of rabbits about the plains. He had been informed that i;he country was classified as five acres to one sheep land, but even that carrying; capacity was being reduced as the rabbits increased. There was a fair* amount of trapping and poisoning proceeding as rabbit skins had a considerable market value at present. The Waiouru plains, which are 400 feet higher than the Karioi, covered mainly with tussock and snow grass, appeared:, ,in Mr. Staveley's judgment, to be suitable for afforestation work on a very large scale. He thought that hardy pines and other suitable trees could be grown there, and the land did not appear adapted for very much elss.

A three-year-old Freisian bull is advertised for sale.

Additional entries for Taihape Stock Sale are advertised.

A notice of dissolution of partnership appears in another column.

On page of this issue will be found a quantity of interesting cable news.

A quiet heifer due to calve within a few days is advertised for sale. The annual meeting of the Rangitikei A. and P. Association will be held in the Fire Brigade Hall on. Wednesday, 6th October, at 11 a.m. A full attendance of members and intending members is requested. The adjourned public meeting to consider ithe question of hospital improvements will be held in the Council Chambers at the Town Hall on Monday, October th, ait; 3p. m. A full attendance is requested.

On Thursday next, Messrs Ward & Co. will sell at the residence of Mr. J. de Luen, Kiwi Road, the whole of the contents of Mr. de Luen's house, comprising six room 9 of good up-to-date furniture, sundries, uitensils, etc. Full particulars are" advertised.

Mr H. P. Dix, general manager in Melbourne for Messrs Ben and John Fuller, picture film an Q theatre proprietors, was in Taihape yesterday and to-day. Mr Dix was the first theatrical entrepeneur to publish a theatrical advertisement in a Taihape newspaper.