LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3614, 29 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reliable girl is required for the Crystal Bar.

It is reporter! that the crew of the Russian cruiser Gromoboi mutinied and sank the ship at Kronstadt.

Viscountess Rhondda lias petitioned the King claiming a right to sit and vote in the House of Lords, in view of the Sex Disqualifications Act.

Applications are invited for the position of registered nurse and assistant companion, the respective salaries being £250 and £l2O per annum, with free housing accommodation.

Excluding tanks, the War Office has distributed 108,958 war trophies, of tralia ',s share is 357 guns, 3751 machine guns, and four hundred trench'mortars. New Zealand's share is 129 guns, 1490 machine-guns, and 87 mortars.

At Utiku on Sunday at 8 p.m. a Hospital Service will be held, Messrs Cunninghame, Goldsbury and Lea will deliver short, speeches. Vocal items will be contributed by Mesdames Oliver, Banks, Durand and Miss Pease. r ' *':%'<».

A motor launch recently placed on Lake Rotorua by a returned soldier named Pollock, for plying for hire, Was mysteriously missed from the wharf on Tuesday. The owner had removed part of the machinery, so that she could not have been run out. Fad she broken moorings the prevailing wind would have driven her ashore. A diligent search has so far failed to find a trace. Pollock? invested all his savings in the launch.

A second-hand rubber-tyred dog cart is advertised for sale.

Applications are invited for position as office junior with good fimi.

Messrs. F. Ward and Co. announce that they have dinner-sets and ware of all kinds, and invite inspection.

Messrs. H. Jellyman and J. E. Palmer, to prevent misunderstanding, notify that their necent dissolution of i partnership was purely mutual.

The Anglican Synod at Christchurch carried the following motion, moved by Dr. A. Samlston: ' v That in the opinion of this' Synod marriage should be conditional on the production, by maji and woman, of a statutory declaration of health and freedom from communicable diseases.

The London Daily Mirror states that Leonard Keysor's flat at Maida Vale was burgled on Saturday. His Victoria Cross was stolen, but this was returned through post, on Monday with 'a. letter printed in capitals, regretting that the burglar's financial position prevented the return of the rest of the property.

In order to meet the additional ex-, penditure involved in the new basic wags, increased cost of coal and other material, New South Wales railway freights and fares' will be increaser. 16 2-3 per cent., tramway fares will be increased proportionately with a minimum of twopence for any single section. '■ A Hastings lad picked up two £SO notes in Heretaunga Street on one of the Show days, and he at once went into the shop outside which he found ihem, together with his name and address. Shortly afterwards a Maori returned to the shop in great distress, reporting his loss, asking if by any chance he left the notes "pn the counten He was made acquainted with the circumstances of the find, together with the name of the finder, whereupon the native left £5 in recognition of the lad's honesty.

The Napier watersidiers indulged in a four-hour strike on Wednesday, when an old standing grievance was ventilated. The strike, was precipitated by the Harbour Board refusing the men permission to use the rope shed in which to have lunch. The men's grievance i's respecting lack of accommodation.! A conference was held between the men and a representative of the' shipping company concerned, with the result that the latter agreed to assist in inducing the Board to consider the demands favourably. Work was resumed on this understanding.