LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3603, 15 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Entries for Mangaweka stock sale are advertised.

Exclusive millinery now allowing at shop opposite GreTna Hotel. A girl to mlncT baby for few hours daily is required by an advertiser.

White Island appeared to be particularly active last week sending up clouds of smoke and steam to"~a very great height.

The Niagara's departure from! Sydney for Vancouver has been postponed till Monday to enable the completion of the annual survey.

The announcement that Melbourne has adopted the town' of Villers Bretonneux has delighted the French publie. Newspapers recall the deeds of the Australian divisions in saving--4 Amiens and the victories of August and September, 191 S.

A dairy farmer in a very modest way put the question thusly, to a pressman: The average smoker .spends 1/6 a day on cigarettes, and the average drinker 1/6 a day on Tbeer. The increase of 1/ in the price of butter will cost the average consumer 13 per day. "Reason ft out for yourself.

The Public Works Statement, said the Minister of Public Works on Wednesday would probably be brought down on Friday week. The Statement was virtually ready now, and the Estimates had been completed. He added that there would also be a Railways Authorisation Bill.

The New York TribiTe's- London correspondent states that the British Government has offered to purchase the Ireland-Newfoundland submarine cable belonging to the United States Cable Company, which is American controlled. It is stuteu that the price is three-quarters of a million sterling.

According to advices • received __ at New York from Tokio, a Young Japanese movement has been launched. The plan is to draw upon the younger elements of the political parties and combine them into a new organisation', thus escaping domination, by politicians. Observers say the new movement gives promise 'of at least partial success. Japanese univeTsity students and youncr men who hftvo h'Ti educated abroad are expected to affiliate.

Aftar spending on the Flinders (N.S.W.) naval'base, appriwJ in Sir Reginald Henderson's scheme of naval defence, the Commonwealth Government finds it unsuitable for submarines and destroyers. .

A New York message states: Cleveland won the wbrld's series of baseball matches, taking five games to Brooklyn's two. Interest in the scries revived towards the end, the populace being satisfied that no breath of scandal attached to either team.

In the. New South Wales Assembly the Premier announced that the Government proposed filling Parliamentary vacancies by the elecllori of the next highest defeated candidate lrora the particular party losing, thus maintaining the strength of parties determined at the general election.

• Farmers of Western and Southern States of America had a meeting with the Federal Reserve Board and Government banking control agency, and threatened to hold up~prbduction oT cotton ancl~w"hea't' unless prices reache- 1 forty cents and three dollars respectively, and the Boar 3 allowed credits to farmers,

Mr Winston Churchill, in a speech at the opening of the Air Conference at the Guildhall, deplored pessimism regarding aviation's future. He was convinced it had a great and bright future. Mastery of the air would be necessary to safeguard Britain's insular position. Civil aviation would be the basis of military aviation.

Dance patrons are requested to note that the social anl dance in aid of the Bennetts' Siding sports ground imimprovement fund will be held in the Bennetts' Siding hall at 8 o'clock tonight, and not on 22nd inst., as previously announced. Mr Kilkoly's motor lorry will leave the Post Office, conveying passengers free, at 7.30 p.m. sharp, and music Avill be supplied by Mr S. Dash's orahesfra.

A remarkable episode during the recent Italian strike has been revealed. The employees of the Fiat Works were found shot in the streets of Turin. It has now been ascertained that they were tried by a revolutionary court composed of boys and girls, all under twenty. The first intention was to burn the men alive, but is was considered to snoot them. The members of the so : called court have been arrested.

| At Lyttelton on Wednesday . the White S£ar~lin"er Runic commenced to load the local portion of Eef cargo of mutton, consisting tit 30.000 carcases. Some few hundred carcases had been loaded "when the refrigerating engineer of the vessel refused "to take delivery of the mutton and the carcases were unshipped again a total of sixteen large cars being refused. The grounds of the refusal were that the meat had greatly deteriorated and showed signs of mouldiness.

London newspapers published a telegram stating that Mr Connolly, the West Australian Agent-General, was

being instructed to bring to the notice of the Imperial Government a complaint that a "London , financial ring is making millions out of Australian fruit." The National Federation of Fruit trades Associations ed to Mr Connolly that the statement was unjust and misleading, and asking him to received a deputation of importers on the subject.

"Fortune's always hiding," whistled a young man as he cycled along Queen Street on Friday afternoon, when he suddenly became aware that he was the~centro of general attraction (remarks the Auckland Star). Giving "Bubbles" a rest, he looked back to find that his way along the street was marked by a trait of banknotes blowing from his side pocket, and representing the substantial accompaniment of his employer's deposit slip that, was on its way to the bank. It stands to tho credit of Queen Street that when, the young man took the backward trail and was assisted by an excited crowd to gather up the treasure he got it all back.

"Money is pouring in, and it is desirable that the Bill should be given the Governor-General's assent as soon

as possible," remarked Sir Francis Bell in the Legislative Council on Wednesday, when "he moved the second reading of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Loans Bill authoring the raising of additional rfunds for soldier settlement. One clause of the Bill says securities to the extent of £2,500,000 may be issued as available for the "payment of denth dtuies, and I think that it producing a desire to get in first. I-am not sure of that but money is pouring in: The Bill was put through its final stages without discussion.

Lovely Smart Silk Scarfs in smart stripes and check design® at the Big Value House, Collinson mid Gifford Ltd.

Singers and public speakers find "NAZOL" unequalled for preventing or relieving huskincss and soreness in the throat. Can be taken anywhere*