LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the New Plymouth Court to-day, William MeDermo'tt will appear on re mand to answer charges of assaulting H. I'. Jlogue on October :">.

To-night a meeting of New Plymouth ratepayers will be held in the Workers' [fall to consider the loan proposals, upon which a poll will be taken on Wednesday.

At Newton King, Lid.'s, New Plymouth haymarkct on Saturday there was a good demand for pigs, but only i* small number offering. Klips made up to 37s Cd, a good store fetched £2 13s t)d, and a sow £4.

Taking last season's butter output of 5l)0,000ewt as the basis of the current season's product, the butter producers will receive an additional £3,140,060. The New Zealand consumption last year amounted to 220,000cwt, the balance of 340,000ewt being exported.

The German papers of July report that all German hangmen have struck work, asking for an advance in wages. At Meiiiingen a murderer could not be executed, tha hangmen at Halle and Munich having refused to carry out the sentence.

The Shaw Savill liner Mamari left New Plymouth yesterday morning for Wanganui, carrying produce for the Home market from New Plymouth anil Waitara. The details of the cargo were published on Saturday. The Mamari will complete loading at Wanganui and Wellington. She is due at Wellington about Friday, and will sail about November 11th for London, via Panama.

The suggestion that experts should be charged with the duty of deciding what land should be reserved for forestry purposes and what for the pastoral industry was made to the Minister for Lands by Mr. 0. J. Hawken (Egmont). The Hon. I), H. Guthrie replied that what happened was that a provisional proclamation was put over lands for forestry purposes; but the Lands Department had the right to take back from the lands so proclaimed any portion that was suitable for settlement land The experts of the Forestry and Lands Departments could quite well do all that was necessary.

At the Wellington races recently considerable amusement was occasioned by a notice being displayed to ile effect that a roll of notes had been lost, and the finder was asked to return the money to the secretary's office. N'eodless to say the money was not recovered. It was a Petone businessman who had lost the notes. While watching a race from the stand an excited individual jostled him. Later he discovered that all his money had vanished. The sum stolen was a comparatively large one. There were other cases of theft reported and the police were successful in arresting one man who had been under suspicion. ''l am quite unable to understand the drift of the Labor movement to-day (writes Mr. Laurence Johnston, a lifelong supporter of the Labor Party, in the Auckland Star). Sunday after Sunday in Quay Street we hear a bitter [ tirade of abuse of the British Government, wnile physical force is advocated in the coarsest and most brutal terms. [ am quite satisfied that these speakers do not truly represent Labor, but rather the shirker and the traitor, and whof ever will help to put an end to this sort of propaganda will earn the lasting gratitude of all right-thinking people—incudirig every sane Labor man and woman.''

The kitchen garden competition to be conducted by the Taranaki Agricultural Society is "drawing a fair number of competitors. The Society will receive further entries for a day or two yet. The New Plymouth Horticultural Society's schedule for the 1920-21 season has now been printed, and copies may be had free of charge on application to the secretary.

Answers to Correspondents.—Yes, Japanese crepes are best for children's dresses. Crepe is easy to wash; you neither iron or starch it; the colors art fast dye; and is the most economical and serviceable material you can buy. The Big Store, Waitara, offers a big range of styles on page f/ur. Write for patterns.

A baby voting contest is being promoted by the New Plymouth branch of the Society for the Health of Women and Entries from parents of babies under two years of age who are willing to allow their children to be nominated will be received at Mr. P. E. Stainton's office for one week, commencing to-day, the hours being from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

These are some more of tho bargains that are keeping the Melbourne, still busy:—Ladies' unlined raincoats, 755; check lined ditto, 85s. You will save 10s on each of these. Beautiful pale blue crepe de chine blouses, 32s fid; Lisle gloves, Is pair; fancy Jap. kimonos, 5s lid; men's cashmere socks, 4s Cd; men's Horrockses' pyjamas, 15s 6d.