LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3628, 15 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Additional entries for Hunterville stock sale on 16th inst, (to-morrow) are advertised. Further general■•- rains have fallen in South Australia. The season is proving one of the most wonderful on record. The London JDaily News states that Norway, Denmark and Sweden have each sent one woman delegate to the League of Nations Conference at Geneva. This is believed to be due to representations made by the* international Council of Women at the recent, meeting.

An inquest was held at Fairlie into the death of James Calder, a settler of Sherwood Down. On Thursday, Mrs Calder stated her husband went out at 10 a.m. shooting. As he did not return to lunch she went to look for him, and found b im half way through a fence, dead, his gun beside him. She told a man -working near. This man and Dr Matheson, who was sent for, said it was clearly an accident, through the gun catching in the fence. .Death was* instantaneous. A verdict accordingly was recorded. !

A good four-roomed house, with conveniences, and situated on nearly lEacre section in good locality, is ror sale. The Fairlie ratepayers voted by 07 to 8 in favour of a loan of £BOOO to provide hydro-electricity for lighting the township and pump water to a tower for distribution under pressure. Advices from Warsaw state that the Polish Government, as a means of settling the Vilna problem, suggests that the League call a conference of delegates from communes in the affected area. A Sydney cable states that the commercial commissioner in the East advises that, contrary to earlier expectations, Japan's rice crop is phenomenal, and is expected to yield 315 million bushels .The Korean harvest is seventy-five million bushels. ,

! Several hundred police and troops I surrounded the Britannia hotel at 1 Buda Pest at' midnight and arrested forty members, of 'a notorious Hungarian assocaition after a conflict in which four were hilled and nineteen wounded. The association ha© been respondbPfi! f/»r "many Tnnvders tand has instigated anti-Semitic risings. Considerable dissatisfaction exists with the recent award obtained by dairy workers in the North Island. 'Under the awaftf the hours of work in the industry were reduced from 75 to 65 per week, but these are considered to be altogether too long. A movement is now on foot to establish a Dominion Dairy Workers' Federation, with a view to seeknig improved conditions for employees. A meeting of South Island and North Island representatives will take place in Wellington in the course of a fe*days' for the purpose of promoting the new organisation.