LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The tall in the price of wool is already having .an effect upon the values M land in the Walrarapa, and very tew sales are now being reported. ' It is reported that a Palmerston nurseryman j s t o appear before the court shortly on a charge of profiteering, it being alleged that he charged a client about double the recognised scale of prices for rose trees supplied. The Postal authorities have received advice that the R.M.S. Niagara sailed from Vancouver on the 17th inst for Auckland, with 261 bags;of mails for New Zealand and 1072 bags for Australia. The Paloona left Melbourne at o p.m. on the 22nd inst. for Wellington, with 92 bags of mails for New Zealand, and the s.s. Tahiti left Sydney at i p.m. on the 22nd for Auckland, with 84 bags of mails for New Zealand. The members of the ladies' committee who have helped the Taranaki Agricultural Society during the past few years in various directions, but particularly in the catering, were entertained by the Agricultural Society by a " trip to the Stratford Show yesterday, over SO making the journey in buses. They spent a most enjoyable -day, being entertained to luncheon and afternoon tea. The party arrived bade in town about C p.m. The five, hundred Union Bank of Australia £1 notes which were missing are stated officially to have been stolen while in transit from Wellington to the bank's Gisborne branch. They were forwarded on Tuesday, November' 18, in a registered packet ' through the post, but failed to reach their destination. It was subsequently found that a bag of registered mail matter had been tampered with on the steamer between Napier and Gisborne. "There is a sort of tendency in the air to-day, all over the world.'to think that we can get along without working hard," said Lord Jellicoe in addressing the children at Haw-era yesterday His Excellency added: ''There never was a greater mistake than that. Whatever the situation in life one will never have real happiness—and will certainly never have real prosperity—without hard work. Whether yon work with your hands or your brains it is all the same." His Excellency advised the children to work hard and to play hard. As the procession of cars that attended His Excellency's short visit into the country near Hawera yesterday morning was returning a brief stop was made at the corner of Victoria Street and the South Road (says the Star) The unexpected stop was caused by the. car driven by Lieut.-Colonel Cox over-, running and colliding with.a car immediately in front, with the result, that the impact hurled Lieut. Colonel Cox's three-year-old ison forward on to the wind screen. The little chap's chin broke the glass, and inflicted a severe flesh wound, which necessitated several stitches. His Excellency, on learning of the occurrence, immediately came to Lieut.-Colonel Cox's car and enquired after the little sufferer's welfare, and later forwarded a box of chocolates addressed to Master Cov. and on which was a note: ''ln admiration of a little boy's pluck." and signed by both Lord and Lady Jellicoe. SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, the unequalled remedy for colds, influenza. chest troubles. headache, indigestion. SANDER'S EXTRACT the surest protection from infections, fever, diphtheria, meningitis. SANDER'S EXTRACT proved at the Supreme Court of Victoria to have healing powers not possessed by other eucalyptus preparations Insist on the Genuine SANDER'S EXTRACT. There, is no "inat as srood."

The Age reports that the retail price of lamb is being reduced twopence per lb in Maslertoii this week The Hawke's Bay Herald states there has been a continual slackening olf in the coastal trade of late, and matters will shortly be in such a state that Messrs. liichardson and Co. may be compelled to lay up several of their small coastal vessels. In previous years work on the coast at this period has not been bright, but this year matters appear to be much more serious. A Waikato resident who has been on a tour of the South Island, asked as to the outlook there, stated that in Canterbury there was a distinct feeling of pessimism abroad regarding the financial aspect. In Dunedin the pessimistic note was not so pronounced, hut the spirit of caution was very much in evidence. From inquiries diligently made, there was no apprehension regarding the militancy of labor; all the foreboding is based on the prospects of financial stringency. "We slept in the scrub that night with only one rug over myself and four children," was the statement by a wife in the Wellington Magistrate's Court, when asking separation from her husband and maintenance, reports the New Zealand Times. The wife stated that her husband came home, broke through the window, and threw everything out of fhe house. They slept that night in the scrub. Next morning she found her clothes had been burned. Her husband tried to drag her into the house, but her son fetched the police, who took him into custody. Needless to say a separation and maintenance order was issued. A correspondent from Pohu, Uruti, reports that in the Puke Valley, Upper Waitotara, a mamaku tree-fern, which was felled, was measured and found to be 110 ft long on the ground, without the stump, which, probably, was 4ft high, making a total length of 114 ft. "Many mamakus reach 70ft here," he writes, "but the one I have mentioned is the only one I have seen that was more than that height. 1 know of several cases of trees growing much higher than their fellow's. A neighbor of minftv felled a white pine, or kahikatea, that was 204 ft long, measured after it had. fallen. About 40 chains from our homestead there was a rata with a girth of 88ft, 4ft from the ground. It was destroyed by fire in 1913, and now only the stump remains." Says the Wanganui Herald:—There is evidently very substantial ground for believing that prices in certain lines of commodities will come down with a clatter before many weeks have passed. Local retailers, particularly in groceries, are exercising the greatest caution at the present time as to how they place their orders, and only essential lines are in request, and this no doubt accounts for •commercial travellers stumping the country from one end to the other and reporting to the heads of their firms "that there is very little doing." In conversation with a reporter a retailer stated that the representatives of the firms referred to are trying to make a "welter" of it on the last lap, and that he knowingly shook his head. He concluded by stating that the public would notice a considerable difference as soon as the Christmas trade was over.