LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3626, 12 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Basle (Switzerland) cable announces the death of th- ex-King of Bavaria. The London Evening News says it is rumoured that the Archbishop of Canterbury is shortly retiring. One hundred and fifty are reported to have be°n killed in a rebellion in Yucatan against Mexican officialdom. The Supplementary Estimates exceed £5,000,000, as they include railway wage increases and salary rises to heads of departments who did not participate in the war bonus. Expenses connected with the visit of the Prince of Wales' involve votes of about £50,000.

-A 4-ton lorry in good order is for sale. An impounding notice appears in another column. Entries for Hunterville stock sale are advertised. A gold brooch lost at Town Hail on Thursday is advertised for. An advertiser requires a honse, or alternatively, two large rooms. Mr J. Greenless, bootmaker, notifies his removal to Tui Street. All tickets in connection with tbc Hospital Carnival, except art union tickets should be returned to* the secretary immediately. The Wheat Commission sat at Sydney on Wednesday to hear the evidence of Georgeson, but owing to his illness, was adjourned indefinitely.

It is reported that the Japanese Minister at Pckin has been instructed to open negotiations for the cancellation of the Chinese-Japanese military agreement.

The death, at an advanced age, of Mrs Elizabeth Milne Gregory EyreKenny, widow of the late Judge Eyre-Kenny, took place on Monday night.

In the House of Commons, Mr Wil

liams stated that the rate of expenditure in Mesopotamia and North-west Persia was at present 2J millions sterling monthly

The Westralian Assembly is discussing the Factories and Shops Bill. It decided to close all shops at o'clock on Friday night and prohibit Asiatics, Africans and Polynesians from being registered as shopkeepers and assistants.

The Commercial Travellers will arrive at Taihape this evening and will be present at the Grand Revue, when they will be presenter with the Gold Key of the Town by His Worship the Mayor, Mr. A. J. Joblin' The Taihape Band" will play from the Gretna Hotel to "the • TownHall.; Everyone • should make an effort to"'be present on this ' auspices occasion. ]v*t,'" :,.'<•. : '"' : i>

During the progress of the ham-mer-throwing event at the Hospital Sports yesterday, a lad named A. Hall got in the way of the hammer, which had just been thrown, the 161 b weight descending on his head. The lad was immediately attended to by Dr Sinclair, and it was ascertained that he had sustained a fractured skull, but is making good progress under treat* menf.

The House of Representatives has agreed to the report of its managers recommending the acceptance of a compromise arrived at with the Legislative Council on the Legislative Amendment Bill. Mr Massey explained that the clause relating to Civil servants and their eligibility for election to Parliament had been dropped, but he announced that a bill to deal with the question would be brought down early next session.

The opinion of Mr George Hunter, which is taken by the House as being representative of lveing interests, is that racing el lbs will not take exception to the Finance Minister's proposal to appropriate / t|otaiisator fractions from next July. He hoped, however, that when times become normal the Government would not retain these fractions, but would leave them to the club, as this was their usual source of revenue for improvement. In many cases it would be a great hardship if country ciubs were permanently deprived of totalisator fractions.

Speaking reference to the Legislative Amendment Bill, which proposes to widen the margin allowed the Representation Commissioners in allocating the boundaries of electoral districts, the Mayor of Te Kuiti informed the Star representative that it would be a good thing if the Waitara end of the Waitomo electorate was cut out altogether. Ss safd that there was no community of interesr. existing between To Kuiti and Waltara. There was not a vestige of commercial interest, and not one person in a thousand from this district ever went to Waitara.

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