LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3596, 7 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A light spring trap horse and liar ness are advertised tor sale.

The Japanese State railway administration lias decided to maintain a doctor and proper medical facilities on all the principal trains leaving Tokio.

The largest shipment of timber amounting to 1,205,000 feet, that has yet left (Ireymouth was taken by the Astuta Mam, which sailed for Sydney last week.

The postil authorities advise that the inland postage on- registered magazines now is, each copy not exceeding Boz, 2d; every additional Boz, or fraction thereof, Id.

The best recent mot is attributed to Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. Asked recently for an opinion of the French commander, he replied: “If Foch had been Bofthe, wc should have lost the war.”

“1 think,” said; an Auckland resident recently, “the train strike, the sugar strike, and the recent coal strikes have turned the feeling of the' people of like poorer classes against the strikers more than is generally known, and. more than has ever been the case before . . They are coming now to see the injustice and. folly of these strikes, particularly in these days when there are so many other hardships to be borne, and nowhere .does one hoar nojwacTays those expressions of sympathy, with the strikers 'that were to be heard in the strikes’ of other 51 days, ’ ’

The owner of gont.’s dancing shoe found on Taoroa Road may have same 011 application at this; office.

At the Mart on Saturday, Messrs. y F. Ward & Co., will sell at 2 p.m., two carriers' horses, carriers’ brake, and double set of harness.

The Little Shop, opposite the Gretna Hotel is well-stocked up with 9 cabbage ’ p ants, seedlings of various flowering plants, seeds, and fruit of the highest quality. Those wanting cabbage plants should secure them at once. •A substantial reduction in the wholesale price of starch has been notified to the Auckland braijpsh of the Board of Trade. The reduction amounts to approximately 2jd on a lib package. The representative of the Board of Trade stated that the retail prices should show a corresponding decrease. A strike rather than submit compulsorily to a bath is the latest. The liner Cretic, in Boston, recently was held up owing to the refusal of the crew to bathe". The detention affected 1543 steerage passengers, and cost the company £4OOO .a day. The authorities ordered the crew and steerage passengers to be washed for disinfection purposes. The passengers snb« mi tied, but the crew refused.

'‘The miner in the Old Country is the best of all the workers,” said Mr. J. B. Garnett), the -newly-appointed agricultural instructor to the Christchurch Technical College, in the course of a recent Press interview. “He earns his £7 to £8 a week quite easily. Ho has little ,or no appearance to keep up. He receives his coal at much reduced rates, and he lives in a cottage which is usually provided very cheaply by the colliery company. Altogether, he has very little to complain of.”

Opposing American steamship companies state that the recent agreement between Ithe" American Ship and Commerce Corporation and the HamburgAmerika line puts the United States under a serious disadvantage. It is alleged firstly that American vessels may be used to develop 1 trade for German exporters, and later will be forced out when German'vessels are built; and secondly Government-owned American ships may be forced it o bring goods from for a; lower rate than goods from the. United States.

Four, female immigrants by the Mamari who came to New Zealand to-join returned soldiers were wedded in the Dunedin Registry Office last week. The Registrar conceived the happy notion of performing the ceremony under the Union Jack afuT New Zealand ensign, and members of the staff afterwards entertained the couples at a refreshment: room. The brides7~who made a very good impression, were in raptures at the reception. None of them are remaining in Dunedin the bridegrooms all belonging to country districts in various provinces.

Some remarkable prices are being paid, for both pork snd bacon at recent sales, A representative of one of the largest bacon-curing factories could only secure a dozen pigs at a recent sale at Addington, and up to 1/7 per lb was paid for pork and to 1/3 for bacon. Less than 20 years ago some of the bacon-curing firms in the trade could secure all the bacon pigs i’ihey required at 3d per lb. At the sale on Wednesday last at Addington, though baconers kept up in price porkers went back a little, but both classes wore 501 d,., on the .hoof at figures that would make the pork and Bacon a luxury when placed upon the counter. Many bacon pigs were sold at, from £lO to £ll 6s.—Sun.