LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3632, 19 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An advertiser is desirous of pur chasing a light spring cart.

A lost ■wristlet watch, valued as a keepsake, is advertised for.

The Church of England Mission Society has acquired a private hotel in Wellington, upon which immigrants arriving in the Dominion will have first claim.

While still unconscious, there is no change in the condition of Margaret Allen, the woman who fell from a train at the entrance of the Parnell tunnel and was not found until ten hours later. i

Arthur Wheeler, aged 29, who lives at Crammer Road, was struck by a lump of pig-iron yesterday morning while working on a vessel in the Auckland harbour, anu haft to be taken to the hospital.

While engaged at the Auckland railway station goods shed yesterday morning a man named David Best, aged 35, of Wellington Street, City, fell from a height and received injuries to his jaw and right arm.'

A meeting of the Provincial Committee of Representatives of Local Bodies etc. in Wanganui and RangTtikei Districts will be Tfeid at the Rangitikei County Council Chambers, Marion, on Monday, the 29th November at 2 p.m.

A good horse is advertised for sale. Top wages are offered for three good carpenters. A milk-round and equipment is advertised for sale. A four-roomed cottage is advertised for sale on easy terms. A reward is offered for the return of a purse lost between Behan's Hill and Taihape, or in town. . • Accounts owing to the fir xnof Thomason and Stevens, carriers, should be rendered to Mr. P. Masters, accountant, Taihape. The shop in Sherwin’s building will be opened by the Bennett’s Siding ladies on Saturday Inorning for sale of produce, such as meat, vegetables, butter, eggs, cream, preserves, etc. The Returned Soldiers’ Association, Te Awamutu, in view of the influx of Asiatics into the district, recorded a protest against the inactive policy of the Government, and expressed alarm at the possibility of the intermingling of the Indian and Maori races. It was to ask the Native Minister to obtain information whether this is taking place. The meeting decided to actively oppose the advent of Chinese fruiterers in the town.