LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3640, 29 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good bushman is required for sawmill at OMngaiti.

<* Cabinet lias approved of the constitution of the Waikato Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association with headquarters at Te Awamutu, ,

The period o£ availability of the four weeks’ railway ticket for returned soldiers has been# extended to February 28, 1921. Any returned soldiers who have not used their warrants may get them on application to base records.

At the Marten Court on Friday a man named Joseph Robertson was fined £lO and costs £2 17/ for assaulting Robert Waters, a racecourse dctectimo on Sept. 1. He was also convicted and fined £2 with two guineas costs, for trespassing on the Marton racecourse on the day of the recent spring meeting.

A Maori leper recently discovered in the Taumarunui district was isolated at the pa for a time and rumours to, this effect created a little alarm. D r T. J. Hughes went from Auckland to see the man, and then it was decider to remove the leper to Wellington, but the crews of various steamers threatened to strike if he were put on board to go to Lyttelton. At last a special crew ’was put on the Janie Seddon, and the man was taken down and put on Quail Island.

The person who drinks methylated spirit in lion of the spirit, or spirits usually obtained across the bar of the public-house, is not unknown in New Zealand; but if ho does so after April Ist next, it will be in face of the warning, “Poison.” By Order-in-Oouncil it is directed that on and after that date the Customs Act shall be amended as follows; ‘Every vendor of completely denatured methylated spirit for sale without, restriction shall, prior to the sale' thereof, cause each vessel containing the same to have) securely attached thereto a label with the following words printed thereon: ‘Methylated spirit: Poison: Not to be taken internally. If so taken it may cause blindness or death, and it will induce general physical decay.’ V

SEASONABLE XMAS GIFTS featuring Ladies ’Hand Bags and novelty Handkerchiefs at' the Big Value House; Colllnson & Gifford Ltd.

Good wages are offered to a boy to assist on a farm. The ladies of ‘Taihape will be pleased to know that “Elsinore” is showing in their town next week. A specially interesting stock will be displayed, in eluding Frocks in Voile, Ratine, Stockinette, Crepe de Chin?, and Taffeta, A few exclusive Navy Costumes. Skirts in Summer materials and Silks. Also Blouses in great variety. At the Gretna Sample Rooms, on Wednesday, December 1.

The Motutara Estate of about 3000 acres situated on the West Coast, aud distant from Waimanku by seven sold by the Hon. E. Mitchelson to the Government for soldier settlement purposes. The property which is gooa grass country, has been used a£ a stud farm for cattle and sheep. Surveyors are now on the ground and it is expected that arrangements will be perfected for the opening of the property in subdivided areas (ranging from 15 to 20 acres), for grazing and'dairying, early in the autumn. The property is very accessible, convenient to Auckland, and should prove very successful for the purpose for Much it has been purchased.

A whisper that a two-up school was in session at Western Park set two Newton police officers on the trail the other night. By skilful use of cover they got within fifty yards or so of a group of suspects conducting some secret business under a lamp at the lower end of the park, and could not get close enough to effect a surrpise. Just then a man and a maid engrossed in discussion of sweet nothings came along, and a ready-witted police officer induced the lady, with the concurrence of her friend, to change esco ts for a portion of the stroil. By this camouflage the officer was enabled to conduct a stage flirtation convincingly enough to carry him unsuspected to the group under the lamp, when he pounced on the “desperadoes.” He was rather disgusted to find that his. eap : Hire consisted of a “jackpofi” of tenpence, and four boys, aged 15, who had been exploiting the thrilling intricacies of a game of draw poker. The boys came before Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., at the Juvenile Court on Saturday on a charge of participating in a game of chance in a public place, and were put on probation for six months. ■—Star.