LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3617, 2 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Entries , for the Hnntervillc Cattle Fair ,011 the 11th instant are advertised. "■ ■ ;'■ •• •

Lord Rawlinson will to-day go to Amiens to hand over the British flag belonging to the regiment which .fought at the gates o£ the town. The flag will he deposited in the Cathedral.

Might it he suggested that now would be a good time to show Premier Massey over the route of the proposed Levin —Greatford deviation? Possibly the Premier could get over it in a seaplane.—“ Star.”

On Thursday and Friday, November 4 and 5, Messrs. F. Ward and Co. will sell at the premises of Mr. G. W. Wrightsoij, Kaka Road, the whole of the furniture and effects, a full list of which is published in this issue.

A group of banks and bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan, have arranged a loan of a hundred million dollars to finance' the Cuban sugar crop. The money will be advanced to the Government, which will lend it to the' sugar interests.

The arming" of the local Territorial regiments with new rifles is expected to take place early hext year, when the new military scheme will be put into operation. This provides, it is understood* a re-grouping of the Dominion into three districts—Northern, Central and Southern—and also a re-arrange-ment of the group system.

An instance is quoted of liow well farmers are treated by the stock agents who vend grocery lines. A Henley grocer, thinking he was doing his customers a good turn, took a small supply of light brown sugar with him in his round, and was surprised to find that his patrons had been supplied, and refused to accept his supply 'unless ho had white sugar.

A suggestion was made to the Prime Minister by Mr. J. E. Hamilton (Awarua> that the names of those woolgrowers who had handed over their profits to the British Seamen's Fund should be published. Mr. G. Witty. (Riccarton): And the amounts. Mr. Massey said he did not know that it had anything to do with him, but he had "objection loathe publication of the names and the amounts donated. The Dunedin Star has been informed that the shipping companies have announced a reduction of £4 per ton in the freight on oa£s to London—a re* •duction equivalent to about Is 6d per bushel. For months past the merchants have been endeavouring to secure a reduction so as to admit of their getting rid of large accumulations of oats -.ip p avo p COII shipped, to Allsif the drought there had not broken.

An advertiser is willing to do la dies’ and girls’ plain sewing.

Three times in four days a husband has thrown a wife out of a window Th Paris. In the first case there was a quarrel, and the woman was seriously hurt. Next day there was a similar case. The next day 'was Sunday, and husbands apparently took a holiday, but. on Monday another husband threw his wife out of a third floor window. In this case, however, the woman was unhurt.

That there is still alluvial gold in this district was shown the other day when two men engaged in prospecting at Messrs. Morris,and Learmont’s coal mine washed out in one day loz and Idwt of the precious metal (says the Reef ton Times). The gold was found on top of coal, and is similar to that found in the days of Murray Creek, when rich deposits were, as a rule, found on top of all the, coal seams in the district.

A message from Paris says that microbes 100,000 years old, yet still living ami active organisms, have been discovered by Dr. Gallipe, a French savant, in the fossils of prehistoric animals, according to a statement made by him at the French Academy of Science. Dr. Gallipe declared also that not only limestone, but even quartz fossils contained living microscopical organisms, which had been there for thousands of centuries.

A matter of considerable interest to motorists was dealt with by the Wellington Motor Traders’ Association Mr. Stuart Wilson presiding. It was unanimously resolved; "That this meeting approves of the national principle of an ‘Anzac highway’ through the two islands of New Zealand as one worthy means of commemorating the great part taken by New Zealand in the Great War. and it is agreed that this association will do all in its power to help in the achfcVement of this national ideal.”

When it was pointed out to ther Prime Minister that local bodies have a difficulty in raising loans at 5-| percent. Ati-. Massey replied that the question would be considered after the end' of the session. There had been a groat deal of pressure put on the Government from interested quarters to secure an increase in the rate of interest, but it would not do so unless the Government "■quid not help it. "If we are satisfied there is a scarcity of money, and that it -is being loaned at below its value, we will consider it,” concluded the Premier,