LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3598, 9 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Foxton had no fewer than 21 rest'd on cos and business premises destroyed by lire during the past three years. A man told a magistrate in a London County Court that he did not assault another —he only hit® him with a pat of butter. A blind ex-soldier applied to the Birmingham Magistrate for the reduction of a separation order made against him. He admt ted earning £lO a week by bogging.

The New Zealand Times states thac. Mr. A. H. O’Loughlin has been transferred from Ohakune to Auckland to succeed Mr. A. Duncan ns railway traffic manager.

“Why did you lend this Maori the money?” was asked of a witness at the Magistrate’s Court in Auckland. The -answer whs probably uot what ccTnnscl for the native expected: "Because 1 was foolish.”

. Black is becoming the fashionable colour for candles for the dinner table. They arc being sold, in London at 3/6 per 3b. Black candles- look very effective in old silver candlesticks, said a seller.

Al' hough it is too early for reports from the various centres, the prospects for the trout-fishing season are promising in the Auckland district. The various streams have been well stocked with fry.

Losses of lambs on. the Pakahaio Plains ■were very heavy (says the Omani Mail). One well-known farmer remarked that they were lying everywhere, “like poisoned rabbits. n He himself had lost 100 and he .'thought others would be at. least equally unfortunate.

j Lady Davidson struck the first penny | at the Sydney Mint of a coinage of | no,ooo in sterling Australian bronze.

A gig is advertised for sale at £lO, and a four-wheeled dog-cart and harness at £45.

A large number of children from Raetihi, in charge of the headmaster of the Raetihi School, arrived in Taihape on a visit this morning.

Two young Earotongan men who were found guilty of breaking and entering at Rarotonga arrived from t.haL place by the Marama this week in order to serve two years,’ imp-ison-ment in New Zealand.

A great clearing sale of men’s ladies’, and children’s boo.s and shoes is to commence at Chapman’s Boot Arcade, Alain Street, on Monday next, 11th October. For price reductions sec advertisement on page 3 of this issue. The London Daily Chronicle states: The Russian Government’s reply to the British Note demanding the release of British prisoners at Baku and the cessation of Bolshevik propaganda in Britain is conciliatory. We understand ftiat Fred Lysnar is at present being (trained by Fritz Holland, the well-known boxing master, for a fight Which is sTibrtly to take place at Palmerston. The training is going on at Waiouru Station, which was recently purchased by Lysnar’s father.—“ Call. ”

Interviewed by a Levin Chronicle reporter, a stockowner gave it as his opinion that, for' a family, dairying was undoubtedly a better proposition than fattening, as a man with 50 acres and 25 cows could make a gross return of £6OO a year. He could not take that off bullocks, and, besides, he would want a much bigger area "o carry on the fattening business.

“ While the factories can produce butter for export to Britain at 2/6 per lb f.0.b., they are "charging 2/71 wholesale in Christchurch, and the retailers, who formerly had a margin of 2d per lb, have raised their share to 34. d per lb, a modest little increase in margin of ‘75 per cent., making a gross provt of 11 per cent.”—Lyttelton Times. * . ■ ■ •

The adjourned inquest on the boy, John Douglas Inglis, who died during an operation at the public hospital on Tuesday of' last week, : was resuraM at Dunedin on Thursday. The result of the post .mortem showed that death was due to shock supervening on an urgent operation for suppuration, of the right middle ear, the patient’s condition being aggravated by pneumonia. No blame was attachable to anyone. A verdict was returned accordingly.

Mr W Rasbfey advises that he has commenced business at Mangaweka as motor and carnage painter, and will undertake motor and carriage painting of any description. Colourplates will be posted on application, and those who are desirous of having their ears renovated should book ear y. Mr Rashley also specialises in the rubber tiring of all kinds of vehicles. and has second-hand vehicles always for sale.

The secretary of the Taihape Hairy Company has received from the Department of Agriculture a reply to the company’s request for a statement of stocks of local butter in hand. The position is that there is a sufficient quantity of old season’s Taihape butter for the local market to last until the 12th inst,, and the new season’s supply wall not be available till then. > Prices for Taihape butter, therefore, will remain at 1/9 per lb till Tuesday or Wednesday.

The sale of New Zealanr meat in Loiidon was the subject of a letter received last week by the Council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce from a former member of IHe Council now in England. For some time past, the wri- or stated, lie had experienced groat difficulty In. obtaining New Zealand mutton, and he suspected that Argentine moat was being substituted. He suggested that the maker of opening shops for the sale of New Zealand meat in London, which was the only way in which its sale could be extended, should be brought before the Government. The matter was reported to the Exporters’ Commi tee. —Horrid. The Jewish Community banquetted the Chief Rabbi, Albert Woolf, who is departing from London on n lour of the Dominions. Six hundred and 1 fifty were present, including Lords Reading and Milner, Sir James Allen and Mr. i Fisher. The Chief Rabbi said the tour would take clever months. He realised that Jewish communities overseas each had uheir own characteristics, but, let the Jews of the Ive Dominions be as separate as the l five fingers, yet they should bn ready to become a mighty arm in the defence of Israel and for the protection of the Jew's wherever attacked or traduced. I

Car-y it in your pocket. “NAZOL” protects from colds, coughs and sore throats. Penetrating, pleasant, safe, and convenient. 1/6 buys 60 doses.

The Sports ’ Queen Committee, have decided to hold a Children’s .Grand Coronation Ball, in the Town Hall, on Friday 22nd October, Particulars will be advertised later.

A social will be held at the Methodist School Hall on Monday at S pan. Items will be contributed by the Eev. and Mrs. H. Peat and others. Competitions and refreshments. Silver collection.

The decomposed body of a woman named Alice Allcorn was found in a house in Parnell on Thursday. Deceased lived and had evidently died in bed from natural causes. The body had remained undiscovered since about the middle of August. Little is known about the deceased, or whether she had any relatives in the Dominion.

“It is nothing but slow murder—it’s said Mr L. Hardie, the Christchurch City Council’s chief sanitary inspector, in the course of his address last week to the Schoo.* Committee’s Association on heating systems. Mr. Hardie was referring to a system of hot-water heating used in certain buildings in the city. The deadliness of this particular system was due, he said, to the dead hot air produced. One evening in winter in a building so heated he had several ladies who .had fainted taken out. There was no power given under the law to condemn such a heating system

A correspondent passes on to Beachcomber (London Express) an experience which he says has taken his breath away. He got the ■ other day a folder containing a dozen safety pins—made in Germany. The pins were excellently made, and thanks to the Government’s laxity over the dumping evil, are imported at about three or four folders a penny. But what affected my friend in the way I have mentioned was that each folder bore a photograph of Hindenburg and a picture of a German regiment chasing and bayoneting a (presumably) British regiment. And these he said, are apparently being sent to England by the thousand. An ornament, I .should think, to any home. 1