LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3635, 23 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An- advertiser requires (board and residence. Christopher Shead, a farmer, aged 68, died suddenly while haTrbwing a paddock on Saturday night near Invercargill. Some big hauls of whitebait have been made in the Otaki waters during the last week, and • some heavy consignments were sent away.

The fall in the price. of wool is already having an effect upon the values of land in the Wairarapa, and very few sales are now being reported.

Mr Jas. Caithness has been appointed buyer for the Wellington Meat Export Co., Ltd., in the Taihape district, and is now operating on their behalf.

Mexico is purchasing 40,00 b rifles in England and Germany to equip the army for a campaign against outlaws, especially those, fn the petroleum .districts.

After,a long illness Dr Owen passed away at Wellington on Friday last. Deceased was for about twelve years in practice in Raetihi, where he was very popular.

A youth named Gilbert Pi'zini, aged 17, when trying to catch a horse at Hamilton on Sunday, was kicked on the head and received a serious scalp wound. He is in hospital.

The ]NTew Zealand sculling championship was rowed "oh the Wairau river, Blenheim, on. Saturday afternoon, between W. Fogwell, the holder, and P. Hannan, the challenger, and was won by Ha7inan.

In regard to a record put up by a lien in the Wairarapa of 82 eggs in 83 days, a Levin poultryman states that a trio of his hens have been tested, since last March, to the present time, during which period all have laid continuously.

News was received at Kaetihi early yesterday morning that a boat had capsized on the Wanganui river, some distance above Pipirmi, and that a Maori had been browned. The body has not yet been recovered. No further particulars are available, and Constable McCowan has proceeded to the scene of the accident.

"There appears to be a popular superstition that people can bring a bottle of whisky into the King Country without notificaion, if the cork Is drawn,'-' observed Mr J. T>. Vernon, at the Police Court, Te Kuiti. "People will find it a pretty expensive superstition if they came under the eye of the law," was Sergt. Matthewte reply to this. "Oh, I know that," said Mr Vernon, "but tnat ylea is fairly prevalent.",

A reward Is offered for the return of a lost gold medal.

A boy's mackintosh coat, lost a few days ago, is advertised for.

Shearing in the Wairarapa, which has been seriously interrupted by the broken weather, is again in full swing.

Returned soldiers' badges bearing the following numbers are awaiting claimants at tjie Times office: 79343, 26/248, 26/653, 26/491, and 55083.

The annual general meeting of the Taihape Caledonian Association will be held in the Town Hall supper roonHSh Friday, 26th instant, at 8 p.m. sharp.

A distressing accident occurred as an up-river soldier settlement on Saturday afternoon. John Amos, a returned soldier, while working in the bush, fell on a sharp stake of cut supplejack, which entered the abdomen ana pierced the internal organs. A horseman was dispatched to Pipiriki for assistance, which reached the injures man shortly after one o'clock on Sunday morning, after riding over twentyfive miles in heavy rain and pitch dakness. By daylight Hatrick and Co's. steamer started for the settlement, and, getting the wounded man aboard, left for Wanganui, seventy odd miles away. Upon arrival therr Amos had to undergo an operation. His condition is serious, though the doctors are hopeful he may survive.