LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3641, 30 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An advertiser requires ladies' and girls' plain sewing. A furnished residence at Wanganui is to let for the holidays at £3 ,10s per week. Liverpool has completed 100 of the 1200 new houses Which are being provided. No one wants the mandate for Armenia. There are no oil wells in Armenia. The manufacture of margarine in Auckland upon a commercial scalp is to be commenced shortly. The .body of Tututi Herewene was recovered at PipiriKi yesterday morning, near where he "was drowned on Monday last week. '

The Kangitikei County Council gives notice of a poll in connection with the proposal to raise a loan :of MO.ODO for the. "Erewhon Riding.

"This man is a public pest. He begs from soldiers, and has even tried it with a policeman," said a policeman in a begging case at Lower Bridge, London.

While bathing in Ngnngura River, near Kiripaka, on Saturday afternoon, a Dalmatian named Jim Krevick, aged 24, a bushman, got into difficulties and was drowned. '

The Masterton Age .states that some person or persons visited the Masterton cemetery recently and stole the whole of the riboons and cards from the grave of the late Mr A. W. Hgg.

The death is announced of Mr William Baker, head of Dr Bamado's Homes. He gave Up a lucrative practice as a barrister when the founder died in 1905. and took •control of the homes.

It is announced in the Gazette that His Majesty the King has approved of the retention of the title of "honourable '' by Sir James Allen, on the ground that, he served continuously for more than three years in the New Zealand Ministry.

The late Mr James Bull (formerly of Rangitikei), who had lived in London for a good many years, and who died on July. 13, at the age of 88, left estate of the value of £50,144. Mr Bull made a number of bequests to various charitable institutions'in England. Replies to the circular sent out by the executive of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union have been received by the secretary (Mr W. Huey) from almost all the branches. In every case support for the proposal to form a farmerfs political party in the Dominion has been recorded.

j. iie ma rivet lor rosin in japan xs reported to be so overstocked that it is feared it will take four or five years to work off the surplus. For the twelve months ending last April 100,OuO barrels of resin ' were imported, each containing 5001 b. When trade was at its zenith n Japan the- consumption of resin did not exceed 30,000 barrels. The policy of the Government was that there should be a main arterial road from 'Auckland to the Bluff, saio* the Hon. E. P. Lee (Minister of Industries and Commerce) in a speech delivered to the Chamber of Commerce. This road should be kept in I good order apd fit for traffic at all | times. New Zealand had now arrives at a stage when „the people should ; know that they had a road in thoroughly good order, and fit for general communication -throughout the country. He believed that the Minister of Public Works would take the project in hand and see that it was carried out.

Sore throat, tickling cough, cold in the head, quickly soothed and relieved by NAZOL. 60 doses' 1/6.

Additional entries for Taihape stock •sale are advertised.

A notice in connection with claims to the estate of Patrick Eiordan, de-c-eased, appears in this issue.