LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3612, 27 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Entries for Taihape stock sale on Wednesday" next are advertised.J Mr B. H. Just, of Palmerston North, has cabbage and lettuce plants for sale. ■is . I ■ ' -j -. . ,

Returned soldiers' badges 26/248 and 79343 have been found, and may be had on application at Times office.

AT preliminary notice of a two-days' clearing sale by Messrs Ward & Co., on' 'behalf of Mr G. W. Wrightson, Kaka Road, is advertised in this issue.

The Tainui, which arrived at Auckland from Southampton on Saturday, brought about 400 immigrants, including 200 girls, -who have come out to marry ex-soldiers. The girls are of a particularly fine stamp.

Mr. John D. Rockefeller is said to have made £30,000,000 of his colossal fortune out of oil; his brother Williu-Vi, £20,000; and J. H. Flagler and J. D. Archbold, about £7,000,000 each; while, within a generation, the Standard Oil Company, which started with a capital of £200,000, were a year in dividends.

The former royal family of Austria, following the example of members of the Russian royal family, are earning a living. Prince George, grandson of Emperor Francis Josoph, has taken holy orders, and in the capacity of priest has haptised his cousin's son, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria. Prince Gaudachef has taken up farming. Police in Newark (N.J.) were on the look-out recently for a new kind of rent profiteer —the kind who accepts deposits but has nothing to rent. Scores of auxious would-be tenants complained to the authorities that they had made deposits, ranging from £2 to £4, to a man who strutted around new japartment buildings, posing as the landlord.

There is in use in France an electric substitute for the barber's scissors. It consists of a comb carrying along one side of its row of teeth a platinum •wire through wihich. flows an electric current. As the comb passes through th£ locks to be shorn the heated wirn instantaneously severs the hairs, leaving them of even length and sealing the cut ends, as in the ordinary process of singeing with a taper.

A highly sucqessful demonstration was carried out on Friday at the New Zealand Rubber Products, Ltd., factory i-i Wellington, before representatives of Government Departments and leading business men. The complete processes wore carried: out, including the preparation of raw rubber, the devulcanisation of old waste rubber, the blending of these two rubbers on the imills for the manufacture of motor tyres and all classes of rubber goods, also the preparation and manufacture of composition materials for floorcovering, boot-soleing, bag-making materials, and numerous other lines. Complete satisfation was expressed, by all present.

Additional entries for the Taihape Cattle Fair on November 2 are advertised.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company advertises a sale of land in another column.

Allsopps and Sons, the Burton-on-Trent brewers, have purchased Hill Sixty, near Loos, and intend to establish an hotel. *

'Jung to a slip on the Wai.gathe Vim; on the Wanganui n'lway. trsin s< i vices with Wanganui and N2v»* PlyrnoUii were disorganised to-day.

The privilege of free rides on tramcars enjoyed at Hull by blind people and by men who lost a leg in the war is to be extended to old-age pensioners.

The French Finance Mjinjistry announces the rejection of an American syndicate's offer to purchase the French Government's tobacco monopoly.

He did not ask for bail, as he had splendid pudding for dinner in prison, said William Evans, of Newport, when committed, for trial at Hereford for alleged forgery.

A reminder is given of the clearing sale of household furniture and effects to be conducted by Messrs Ward and Co.; at the residence of Mrs Sapsford. Kiwi Road, to-morrow.

Giving evidence against a Teddington firm, fined for neglecting to have their mcahinery properly fenced, an inspector said there had been nearly .1500 deaths in the past 12 months due entirely to the neglect of simple precautions in this matter of guarding working machines.

A gas leak in the Evening office (Dunedin) being discovered, after much searching, the situation being under a floor, the plumber cut out the faulty bit of piping, and found that it was eaten through in two places by rats—one hole three-quarters of an inch long and half an inch across.

i Speaking on the butter question in i the House, Mr G. Mitchell ("Wellington South) said Mr Powclrell bad written a book to show that a man could afford to pay £165 an acre for dairy .land if the price of butter was 1/6 per lb. Then he had helped the Butter Commission to prove that the farmers must get 2/6 per lb for butter produced on cheaper land. Charles Darwin, who said the struggle for existence results in the survival of the fittest, overlooked one essential olement—rluck.' Proof of this overs:gl.\<; was supplied; by an infant member of 'Sew- York's east side tenement dwellers. . When Mrs. Joseph Veechio, the baby's mother, saw hiu fall frjni a" fourth storey fire escape, out panic-stricken, expecting to see him Wr.shcd to death. But she found him happily gurgling in a cushioned bany carriage into which he had landed, unharmed.

When asked to give" examples of the reaggregation which he said was proceeding, Mr G. Mitchell, MP,, Quoted a case of which he had information in a sworn declaration. An estate near Shannon hatf been purchased by a man who already owned two other properties. Returned soldiers had intended buying the property, on which three of tham wouid have settled. They were too laie, and when one of them approached the purchaser and offered him £2OOO on his purchase he it- He wanted £4OOO.

At a meeting of the 'To AwamutuPutaruru Railway Board, held at Te Awamiitu, an offer from an English firm to finance and build the lire was submitted, but no action was taken. The engineer (Mr J. D. Jones) re-": ported that the survey had been carried to the 12-mile peg from Te Awa-' mutu, and that' levels have been run on to the flsft on the west bank of the Waikato River. The grade of 1 in 100 j was being maintained. Instructions were issued to-the. engineer to make a flying survey of a branch Jrae into the Ngaroma district 'o tap further timber lands, and having in view the ultimate extension to a point connectig with the Main Trunk railway at Mhngopeehi. If was also decided to call a conference of the local bodies to consider road routes in conjunction with the route' of the railway.

A story comes from India to the effect that a clergyman who kept a school for native boys introduced cricket to them in order to Jotter a [ manly spirit, and they were keen on it.. After a lot of difficulties i,e managed to get a fair team inco shape, and it was decided to a neighbouring school. A mMch was finally arranged, and the clergyman impressed on the youngsters that they must do their best to win. To encourage them, he gave them 35 rupees for new bats and other tackle, nnd left It to themselves to spend tiie money on what might, be . consider*! useful. When the great day came, the team turned out for the match. On the face' of everyone of thorn snone the light of a" quiet confidence m tfceir success, but they carried fill their old tackle. "Why!" the clergyman, "what fcave xou do.ie 'frith the 15 rupees I gave you? Whore are the new bats V> "WeR sir,' replied the captain, "you said we were to win the match, so we spent it all on the umpire."

A pocket wallet is almost a necessity to every man and the splendid range, shown by D Neagle, the Quality Saddler is full of interest.