LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A slight shook of earthquake was felt in Now Plymouth at seven o'clock last night. The establishment of a city mission has been decided upon by the Diocesan Standing Committee of the Anglican Church in Auokland, and the Rev. Jasper Calder lias been appointed missioner. The staff of Messrs. Ambury's, Ltd., are holding their annual picnic to-day. The party, which is expected to number about thirty, leaves town at &.30 for the North Egmont Hostelry to spend a day on the mountain.

High prices for land are still being realised in the Waikato. A farm of 50 acres three miles from Cambridge, changed hands a few days ago at £ liiO per acre, which constitues a local record.

The value of the gold and silver entered for duty at Auckland during the month of April was as follows:—Gold, 12,1G80z lfidwt, valued at £51,165; silver, 15480z 14dwt,-valued at £429. "That the New Zealand Government, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Government, be urged to issue a separate medal to all those men who participated ! n the Gallipoli operations," was the nature of a resolution adopted by the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. A total of 201 mild and 18 severe cases of influenza were notified during the 24 hours ended at noon yesterday in the Auckland health district (says a Press telegram). The cases were distributed as follows: City six, suburbs seven, county districts one, Waipa County one, Te Kuiti two, Te Puke one. Of the mild cases 55 were in the city and 71 in the suburbs.

There is a policeman in Auckland who can.say that he told the Prince of Wales to "move on" (say? the Auckland Star of Monday. It happened at the railway station when there was a big surging crowd to see H.R.H. go soifth. In the press of people the man in blue did not recognise the had; of the young man talking to a returned soldier on the platform, and it was not until the people in the vicinity laughed that ho realised he was trying to move on the principal actor in the send-off. A smile from H.R.H. and a salute from the policeman explained nmtJ.»r».

In a short note to a member of the Daily News staff Mr. F. W. G. McLeod, who left by the mid-day train on Monday for Hastings to meet Mrs. McLeod, says he was fortunate to reach Wangnnui at 8 p.m. and was immediately invited to take,part in the civic concert in His Majesty's Theatre, singing in the choral ode "The Banner of St .George" (Elgar), with the Wanganui Male Choir, assisted by a ladies' chorus and the Garrison Band. Misses Caldow, Natalina McCallumm (soprano), Lillian Croucher (violin) and Madam Briggs, and Messrs. L. Craig and Hubert Carter (tenor) were the artists. H.R.H. was present with suite during the entire performance, which commenced at 9.30 p.m., after he had visited another function at the Opera House controlled by the "Diggers" —a musical sketch, "Egypt-land." 1 Mr. McLeod was afterwards present at the reception at the Sargeant Gallery, and expected to see something of the celebrations at Palmerston and Hasting?.

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Mails which left New Zealand on 19th March; readied London on the 2nd inst. The Ministei of Education announces Unit Cabinet has decided to pay a fionus to teachers in the same way as to other branches of the Public Service. I he Prime Minister stated yesterday that the rail way men's grievance will 'be dealt with next week and the Post and Te|egrauh officers' requests the following; week.

■Tvpieally American! Because a juryman failed to agree to a verdict of guilty in the case of Alvin Calhoun, a negro alleged to have confessed to the murder of N". K. Arnold, a young white farmer at. Talluah, Louisiana, a mob publicly whipped the recalcitrant juror and dipped him in a-mudhole. After the chastisement the mud-covered juryman returned to the jury-room and agreed to a verdict of murder in the first degree. He was then ordered to leave the town by a delegation of citizens-' Some remarkable diamond discoveries have been made in Johannesburg recently, and new company flotations are to be expected. The finest stones are expected to be found at Rouxville, a JPree State farm, which has yielded £20,000 worth of diamonds in two months, wltli a minimum of labor employed. Stones from Rouxville shown at Johannesburg recently fetched £l3 a carat. Another mine near the Premier promises to equal the Premier's: resplts. Mr. Robert Semple, former organiser of the Federation of Labor and ex-mem-ber for Wellington South, is at the head of a pnrtv of workers who propose to undertake the construction of a long tunnel through a range of hills enabling Wellington City to tap an additional supply of water for its largest reservoir. The principle of co-operativo labor in connection with tho construction of the tunnel has been approved by the City Council. A loan'will have to be authorised by ratepayers for the work. The Scotland Yard .detective accompanying the Prince, of Wales, was much struck with the beauty of Fukekura. Park on.Mpnday. "I've been all roundthe world; in America, Canada and the Kuropean' countries, but I've seen nothing to equal your park," he said to a News representative. He left, the sports ground, which he remarked was a natural amphitheatre, only more beautiful than anything £hey have in modern Greece, to see what he could of the grounds, taking a'series of photographic views. The Prince, too, was greatly "impressed with the Park. The first thing lie said to the Mayor, after being introduced, was: "You've got very fine grounds here; they'would take some beating'" The jjity is; that the Prince and party only Trad time to see a corner of the grounds. Another half-an-hour and they could have, at anv fate, seen the chief features of interest in the grounds.

A tourist who recently returned from the Milford Sound track visited, in tlie company of the rest of v the party, Mrs. Donald Sutherland, who',' along with her husband, has spent so many years of lier life in the solitude of Milford. Mr. Sutherland, it. will be remembered, died Inst year, and a,., number of months elapsed before the outsidij world knew, Mrs. Sutherland, who is far advanced in years, having had to dig his grave and forage 4 *for herself until the arrival of ihe Hinemoa. on one of lier periodic visits. The tourist mentioned, who was one of the last party to go over the track for the season, states (savs the Southland Times) that Mrs. Sutherland was quite determined to spend' the wintor alone at Milford, although many requests to lier to eome away havo,. been made by .relatives and others. However, except for a few expressions in regard to the loneliness that would be hers, when, she saw the party departing she appeared quite■ liappy, despite the fact that she not see a living soul until the Hinemoa arrive: in three, months or more- The trackmen havo *een to it that she is well supplied with provisions and firewood.

(lermanv and New Zealand, prior to the war, had developed business aggrepaling a million sterling in value annually. Our imports from the enemy in 1013, when it was, of course, a commercial friend, amounted lo £5£7.933 and the exports totalled £337,445! Germany took th; whole of our casein output, valued at £(>4o2, and 70 per cent, of .the scheelitc ore mined in Western Otago. Kauri gum valued at ,€27.880 and wool £277,9.18 were the other chief items of export. As for the imports from Germany valued at double our exports' the latest statistical information shows that we were in the habit of getting one-third of our supply of musical instruments, glass bottles, glassware, china and porcelain, and dyes from Germany. Motor vehicles anil parts were imported to the extent of £71,230, but this figure represents only 7i per cent, of our total imports in that line. A onesided business entirely in imports used to be conducted with Austria-Hungary, from which in 1013 New Zealand took goods valued at £18,352, and from Turkey we imported £27,880," representing dried fruits.

Says the New Zealand Herald:—The railway strike will prove to be not an unmixed evil if it impresses upon the Gpvernmer.t the vital importance of maintaining good roads as an alternative means of transport. As a people wo have shamefully neglected our roads. The facilities for sea transport, the multiplicity of .good harbors, and the long coastline encouraged i.his tendency in the first instance. Settlement hugged the shore, and as it penetrated into the interior it depended upon railwavs.' We have never been forced to develop our inland communications as continental peoples have; we have never learned to value the ro:\d as our forefathers valued it before the age of the locomotive It ii< clear that this contempt of the road cannot be perpetuated much longer. Cnr civilisation is growing too complex, and the inland population too numerous, to depend so implicitly on coastal (services and narrow gauge railways. Wo must have roads, pood roads, and plenty of roads, roads that are passable in all weathers, and roads that will serve motor transport as the railways serve steam transport.

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The social and dance to have been held at Rahotu on Friday evening lias been postponed till Tuesday, 11th May.

The following linos are excellent value to-day at the Melbourne Ltd.: Cream "Doctor" flannel, :1s 3d yard; ladies' pure wool cashmere hose,- 5s fid pail'; ivy mending, in three-quarter ounce balls, Is fld; men's Irish lawn handkerchiefs; Is; ladies' white hemstitched handkerchiefs, 6d; men's English made pure fur felt hats, 29s Cd.

Messrs. Treweek and .Toll, advertise two propositions. in dairying lands at, Hawera, both of wliich are good and present opportunities to get in on the best lands, few such opportunities being available now. With the prospect of good prices in the coming season for dairy produce,, these two farms are sure to sell quickly. Poor Eltharn got badly snubbed over the visit of the Prince (says the local Argus). First it was included in the places of call, and then got bumped out. Stratford, Hawera, and even Patea were favored with a visit from the Prince: Poor Eltharn] How is it to get even with the g'ther towns of Taranaki. Somebody had better grow a monster cabbage, or turnip, or pumpkin, so that we may "lav it over" the other towns.

A married man, with nine children, who was called upon at the Hawera Magistrate's Court on Tuesday to show why an amount he owed had not been paid, admitted, under examination, that he spent monthly about 22s on tobacco, and that when he visited town fortnightly he usually had two or three drinks. Tiro Magistrate expressed surprise at so large an amount being spent on tobacco while household requirements remain unpaid for. "I could not afford to spend 22s a month on tobacco," said the Magistrate, "and you have no right to spend such a large amount when the money is needed for vour children."—Star.

Dairy producers will no doubt bo . interested to know (says tht? Mnnawatu Times) that hi future (mother'buying institution will be wooing them for their produce when the commandeer censes. Representatives of English and Scottish wholesale cp-operative societies will arrive, in New Zealand in a week or r>o, with a view to making arrangements for supplies of both butter and cheese for these huge institutions, the capital of which approximates £80,000.000. It may he of interest to Know that they could sell the,whole of the New Zealand butter in their own stores, and over 50 per cent of the cheese output.