LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Newton King, Ltd.'s, New Plymouth Haymarket on Saturday weaner pigs made up to 21s, good slips to 28s, and stores £2 3s. Messrs. L. A. Nolan and Co. offered for sale at their mart at New Plymouth on Saturday the Devon Street property, consisting of a section of 1 rood 22 perches, with a two-storey 11-rooined house thereon, situated on the sunny side of the street, between Gover and Eliot streets, in behalf of the trustees of the late Mrs. Capel. Bidding started at £I2OO and several offers were received, but the property was passed in as the reserve was not quite reached. Exactly what loss the city and public have sustained because of the shipping dispute will perhaps never be known, but (says the Dominion) there are those who put it down at not less than £25,000. The city itself must have lost £IOOO a day in tramway revenue and wages alone. The Gas Company's three day.i' total loss will be a very substantial amount; the wateraiders have lost three days' pay; the idle ships have lost three ; full days, and many factories have bec'n kept idle through .'having no power to "make the wheels go round." "People who drive motor-cars are apparently not familiar with their responsibilities," said His Honor Mr. Justice Herdman, addressing the Grand Jury at Cliristchurch. "It is notorious that motor-cars and motor-bicycles are driven in a most reckless manner about the streets." The case under notice was one in which a man was charged with manslaughter as the (result of a fatal motor smash. "Cases of this kind are becoming [quite common," continued His Honor. "Some of the drivers of motor-cars don't I recognise that they have a duty to the public, and that if they commit a. breach of that duty they render themselves liable to criminal as well as civil proceedings." The Ashburton Guardian has the following: A fragment of the story of the march to Parihaka in 1881, which dispelled the Maori menace at the time, was given by Lieutenant T. Hayes at the Ashburton Volunteers' reunion. He referred to a question in Parliament regarding medals for those who served in the campaign, and to Dr. Pomare's suggestion that the campaign was something of a looting expedition. Lieutenant Hayes said it was true there was a lot of looting, and that was about all.that really was done. He remembered the march to Parihaka, the surrounding of the pa, and the busy sharpening of the old sword bayonets that were attached to the muzzle-loader Enfield, with which most of the British force was armed. Two guns were pointed into the pa, but it proved a bloodless victory, a strong party of navals and constabulary marching in unopposed, &nd taking the surrender of the various tribes in Parihaka. The Loan and Mercantile wish to draw clients' attention to their Stratford sale which they are holding to-morrow at noon. Full particulars of stock to be offered will be found on page 8 of this issue.

Members of the Equitable Building Society of New Plymouth (Second Group; are notified that subscriplions will be due and payable to-day, Monday, August 30th, at the Secretary's Office, Currie, Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., from 1 p,m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—Advt. An atmosphere of Nazol is a great protection against influenza. Inhale it very irejueftjly day aad night.

Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., understands that harbor boards will be given the same powers as local bodies in providing homes for their employers under the Housing Act. "The ease is as weak as it cm be. However, I will grant a divorce, but it seems to me that if we go on as we are doing at present, it will soon be as easy to get a divorce here as it is in America," remarked His Honor Mr. Justice Edwards in the Divorce Court at Wellington. At a meeting held last evening in the Workers' Social Hall under the auspices of the New Plymouth branch of the Labor Party a resolution was carried, With one or two dissentients, supporting "the action of the national executive of the New Zealand Labor Party in congratulating the British workers in their endeavor to promote international peace." The Auckland market was comparatively bare of oysters last week, the pickers being unable to work on account of the rough On Thursday 155 sacks were received at the Stato oyster depot from Russell, this being the last shipment to be brought from that district • this season. Pickers commenced operations at Kaipara on Monday, but no supplies have yet come to hand from there. The Ruapehu, which reached Wellington on Saturday night from England, has a parcels mail. The Taranaki portion should come by the mail train tonight. The Westralia, with mails from Australia, the East, and the United Kingdom, was duo at Wellington last night from Melbourne direct. It was doubtful if her mail would be handled before to-day, so that the Taranaki portion should arrive to-morrow afternoon. A sensation of an extraordinary kind for Auckland to witness took place an Queen Street during the luncheon hour one day this week. The central figures of the drama were a married woman and a prepossessing young lady of about 23 summers. It that the young woman emerged from an office in Wyndham street, and walked to the foot of that thoroughfare. There was confronted by the, other party (whip in hand), who administered several blows on to tlie young woman's face and back. The cause of the incident, it is alleged, was a domestic difference. A farmer who iias a mixed farm near Faliiatua, and milks 100 cows, told a New Zealand Times representative that cows will not milk so well this year as last owing to the shortage of feed which is apparent in the Manawatu and Wairarapa districts. The grass has been checked by the recent cold winds and frosts, and now bears a witheredup appearance. lairy farmers will be itble to carry their stock all right, but their milk returns will not be ns good. Lambing is ;;cnerai, and some good percentages are being obtained. ITe himself believes'he will have all twin lambs, according to present indications. Members of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce are elsewhere invited to attend a complimentary luncheon to Sir Arnold frridley to-day at May and Arrowsmith's, at 1 p.m.