LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Borough, on Monday night decided! in favor of the weekly half-holiday being observed on Wednesday. A small farm in good! order, with sixroomed house, six miles from Pahnerston North, has just changed hands at £IBO per acre. Advices from Wellington show that there is a chance that the mine-owners may decide to shut down on the go-slow miners, and thus precipitate a general upheaval .j

It is understood "that tbe Taranaki Association of honey producers, which has stores at present at Waitara, intends to remove them to Wanganui and to erect them at Castlecliffe.—Chronicle.

An alteration is being made in the method! of collecting fees from visitors to the North Egmont Hostelry. On and after Sunday, February 1, the park fee for each passenger, as well as the vehicle fee, will be collected at the gate. One of the largest land transactions recorded in the Waikato has just been completed, when 1400 acres at Te Kawa were sold by Mr. J. B. Teesdale to Messrs F. Quinn and J. O'Sulliyan, both being Taranaki men. The purchase price was in the vicinity of £70,000. Owing to the coal shortage the Auckland City Council haa decicfed to reduce services to-day and cut out the services on the hills, thus creating a gap in every RMVice. About one third of the staff of the tramways will be temporarily suspended, one-third of the men standing down each week. The Taranaki Producers* Freezing Wortos have been advised that in addition to the allotments previously stated they have received notice of Anther allotments s—Waunaaa? SOOffi crates of cheese, •February 5. Northumberland:: 12,000 crates; of cheese, February 20;. Port Caroline: 12,000- cratesi of cheese.. February 25; Suffolk:: 23i500J boxes; of butter h March; 10. Th> most valuable! household! remedy rW stomach; tirauM'a* off cliildrmr is= SBari laud'* Magnesia-.. It is* usedl regularly ' ii; tlpusaad&ofillomes;, Soldi eM^gwißxe.-.

The Baihvay Board sat in camera at Wellington yesterday. The Ruapeliu arrived in the stream at Auckland at C.lO a.m. yesterday from Liverpool with ]r,l> returning- soldiers. The southerners were to leave by train at 7-30 p.m.

It is announced that territorial camps, which in the ordinary course of events are held during March, April, and May, will not be held 'this year, but tliev will be revived in IIEI, when full peace "training will be resumed (say.* a telegram from Wellington),

Almost unparalleled pvices arc being obtained for all classes of poultry, especially ducks, on the Duncdin markets at present (stales the Otaao Daily Times). Bucks are now-selling at from 12s Bdl to Il's lOd, while afcout ,/ e f ame time last year they were rea-hr.rtf'.from *5 to 4s l)d. Uaeoa pigs aiM ,iiow a considerable rise, the price of p.-oen portnow being almost equal to that at which bacon was quoted for the corresponding period of last year.

Some relaxations are being made by the Department of Internal Affairs in respect to passports and permits. Passports are still required, but instead of a separate permit to travel being issued, passports are stamped giving this permission, hi the case of aliens the passports must Dear a double authority to travel. Police reports are still necessary, although this precaution may be dispensed with m the case of citizens who are known by the officials to be of good repute.

The trip to be taken by members of Parliament to Samoa next month was discussed by a meeting of the committee of management of tile Merchant Service Guild. Ultimately, a motion was passed recording the committee's empHti" protest against the Mokoia being sent to Samoa, and it was decided to call a special- meeting to go into the question more fully. The secretary in the meantime is to approach other marine bodies so as to obtain their views. The committee expressed the opinion that the trip is unnecessary, and will consume a great deal of coal that could be put to more profitable use in New Zealand

Br. J B. MacDiarrnid, who has lately returned from Ms travels abroad, is mst now in Hawera. He suggests that the best cure for dissatisfaction with eonduions )n New Zealand is a trip abroad. After being in England and visiting various places on the outward and inward •«PS and being advised of the conditions obtaiwng m the United States and various other parts of America, he haa come to the conclusion that New Zealand is just about the best place on earth to live 'n; he is convinced that there is here a higher standard of comfort than any! where else, and that the cost of living »«% <*« per than elsewhere. Why, he says, « a meal at . in London cost you Cs or 7s.»—Star.

. A meeting of the committee set nn m connection with the'fonnatio, of I Held m the Workers' Social Hall last Wght, Mr. E. Whittle presiding A let ter was received from Lieut-Col Weston accepting the office of preside rZ ™!"g all the assistance^We various members of the committee' also "ported encourage prom™ f sip port, and there could he no doubt Z once established on sound lines Z atcciafaon would prove a success. Owing to th non-arnyal of information 7rZ other associations -the meeting that lo have been held to-uight to eke office™, etc., was postponed for a fttThe performance of "The Messiah," i„ We ngton, on Tuesday night uv ' thi Wellington Clioral Uiiion"fd th/lS uuect on ot M. Henri 1 erbrugglien was described by the Dominion a» an arttoS experience that will linger »"t Memory c f those who heard it. £ chorus, especially augmented for the occasion had been traiued to a Z, e T° f Pei ' feCtion ' and toured b/SI he £ft ■ orel >estral splendour of f f r y little to he desired. Never he by the brilliant aJhvro iiul f i' f PastnvnT «,-„„ i » 10 > ana the famous close of the concert t)m\ «• tlle heartily cheered $° ?«*»"»» were pei cent, of the profits of the tornT d l7f a r e now d~would ol handed to the Mavor of WellinT™ + be held in trust f„ r t £ to f music m New Zealand. iu " MlaDce of

The iO Loan and Mercantile draw TuS%dM ir ' Stratf ° rd^e °" luesaay, J r d February,, at 1 p.m Full particulars will be i'ou'nd outage So tins issue. e a l

ramits and guardians of schoolboys mo not.hed that the Melbourne Ltd mye a (.wall stock of excellent quality navy mdigo flannel college shirts made of tiie famous '-Doctor" flannel All sizes in stock.