LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3604, 16 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Returned soldiers' badge No 79343 may be Lad on application at this office.

The principal Fiji firms of Morris Hedstrom Limited and Henry Marks and Company Limited have amalgamated with a capital of a million sterling. •

A telegram from San Jose states that four motor bandits robbed a bank, killed the president, locked customers in the valults, and escaped with' £lo^oo.

At the Air Conference in London on Thursday, Air Marshal Ellington, director of research, stated that experiments would be made" with steam turbines instead of petrol engines.

Returned soldiers who have not yet taken their privilege 4eave, are reminded that they should procure their tickets before 2nd November, as no tickets will be 0 issued after that date. The Canara from Calcutta to New Zealand is delayed at Newcastle waiting for bunker coal. The Niagara, under survey at Sydney will be delayed several days, and is now timed to leave Auckland on October 23, for Vancouver.

In the Court of Appeal/in the case of Howe versus Waimiha Sawmilling Company, a motion for conditional leave to appeal to the Privy Council, was afTjourned till next sitting of tho Court r of Appeal. Hearing of the appeal on another aspect of tho same case from the judgment of Mr Justice Sim was also adjourned till the next sittings.

A reminder is given of the street stall for the sale of produce, etc., in aid of the. Stuart Karitane Home, at Wanganui. The Taihape Plunket 'society maintains a cot at the Home, and the purpose of the street stall on Wednesday, October 20th is to raise funds for this particular purpose. This is the annual effort of the Soand should <be well supported by the public.

At the Magistrate's Court at Timaru on Thursday, John Taehen pleaded guily to a charge of making a book at the recent Geraldine races. He was not a regular bookmaker and acted quite openly. As this was the first prosecution under the Act this session which came into force on August 28th, Mr Mosley, S.M., pointing but the penalty was i\- fine up to £SOO or three years, fined him £ls and £3 costs.

Entries for Mr Freeman R. Jackson's Raetihi stock sale are advertised.

It is announced that American marines and the Haitian police have killed 3250 bandits during the five years of American occupation of Hayti.

A meeting of ladies willing to assist the returned soldiers in' connection with the Venetian Ball in aid of the Taihape Hospital, will be held in the Town Hall on Monday afternoon at 3 30 o 'clock.

The British War Offic has distributed three million war medals of which 275 000 are 1914-15, stars. Six hun--3 dred thousand British war medals have gone to the overseas Dominions and Colonies.

The late rains have resulted in an abundance of feed in the stock districts of New South Wales and greatly improved the supply at the stock yards. Prices of both cattle and sheep have dropped considerably; with a further downward tendency.

A message -from Hamburg " states that a big fire occurred on the Ham-burg-Amerika liner Victoria Luise lying at the Vulcan yards. Following the recent outbreak on the Bismark, in at least nine other cases of German liners set on fire since armistice, incendiarism was proved.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of j Land-tax for the current year is on Mondaty, the Bth day of November, 1 1920, and that the demands will be posted on or about the Ist day of November.

A firm of London bookmakers is suing Lord Loughborough to recover £440 sterling due on a dishonoured cheque tendered in settlement of a racing bet. Lord Loughborough's defence pleads the Gaming Act, adding that the cheque was not met, because the trustees, hearing he "was betting, refused to advance the money.

A deputation from Canterbury waited on the Prime Minister on Thursday and urged the heed for pushing on with Mr Hi ley's; scheme for improving railway facilities at Christchurch and Lyttelton. ■ Mr Massey said that the shed at present under, construction would be. pushed ahead and Mr Hiley's scheme gone'on with. Scarcity of labour had been a drawback, but fortunately matters in this connection were improving, the Public Works returns showing that 700 or 800 more men were employed than was the case a-couple of months ago. The truck shortage he hopea" to overcome shortly, as a result of orders placed in' England.

The London Times, in a leader, says: The question of the marriage of the Prince of Wales has been widely discussed. There is real anxiety that the choice may be a wise one. The war, in this as in most things has brought "about a great change in public opinion, which, here as elsewhere throughout the Empire, is strongly averse to any compulsion upon the Prince to make his marriage one of policy. Britishers wish his marriage to be' one of true happiness, meaning a marriage of inclination. It follows, naturally, that the hope is that his wife will be one of his" own race. Though there have been fortunate 'exceptions, it is certainly.true that marriages of policy with foreign princesses have not had happiness, as the primary condition. The Times doubts whether the need now exists though it may have existed before the war, to restrict, the choice to the blood royal.