LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Ford motor-car appropriated from a Hawera garage on Monday night by a. young man unknown, was recovered by the police at Petone yesterday, having been abandoned on the roadside.
As the result of the state of fowl wheat and pollard supplies, the Board of Trade has decided to grant permits to import limited quantities of fowl wheat. Applications must be made to the wheat controller at Christchurch. —Press Assn.
The Postmaster-General has" decided that the new scheme of rural mail deliveries shall come into operation on January 1 next, when tide mail contracts generally will be re-let for tile ensuing three years.—Press Association.
A meeting of guarantors of the North Egmont Hostel was held yesterday afternoon, when the following were set up as a committee to direct the hostel-. Messrs. J. 8. Connett, A. Boon, A. E. Sykes, P. E. Stainton and T. C. List, the latter being appointed chairman pro tem. It was arranged to inspect the hostel in company with Mrs. Cameron, the manageress, with a view to bringing its fittings, etc., more up-to-date, and, if possible, to extend the accommodation, which has proved inadequate of late.
Since it became known thlat the Timaru murderer had not been apprehended, a number of people have gone to the Christchurch police station with the information that a man hlad boasted to them of having committed the crime. The police satisfied themselves in every instance that there was no justification for such a claim, which they regarded as nothing but bravado. A man who was ledged in the cells on Monday night for drunkenness also made such a boast, but the police arc quite certain that he could not have been anywhere near the scene of the rtime at the time of its commission.
A large two-storeyed workshop at the rear of Pursers, Ltd., Devon Street, New Plymouth, was damaged by fire early last night. The building, which is a concrete one, was left intact at the usual knocking-off time in the afternoon, but about 7.30 p.m. flames were noticed issuing from the. workshop, and the fire appeared to have a good hold. The brigade were quickly on the scene, in response to the alarm, ami the flames were checked before they hhd time to spread to the adjoining premises. The building contained a good deal of inflammable material, and most of the ground floor was gutted, while the second storey also sustained some damage. The fire appeared to have started in the polishing room, though there is no evidence as to the cause. The building is covered by insurances, but. the exact extent of the damage was not ascertained last night.
The meeting of ratepayers at New Plymouth on Tuesday evening was the biggest and liveliest held in the town formally a day. From the statements and speeches made tlife ratepayers present obtained an insight into hydro-electric matters they could not otherwise have got. The proceedings lasted three hours. Mr. Blair Mason spoke fen- nearly an hour, and thie Mayor for about half-an-hour, questions and speeches by others accounting for the other hour and a half. The chief motion was carried with! only siix dissentients (amongst whom were four councillors). There were over 1.50 present, and the room at the Soldiers’ Club proved quite inadequate, the side-room being opened to accommodate the overflow, whilst the door-way and passage of the main room
In the course of lifis speech at the annual dinner of the combined bakers and pastry cooks at Wellington recently, Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P., said that at Bapaume he had 80 Maoris in his command, ami there was a battalion or more of Americans in the line, close to them. The Americans could not lindenstaml; the New Zealand manner of treating the Maoris, whom they spoke of as coons. The! Maoris, or, rather, some of them, were in an estaminet having a drink, and some of the American soldiers were there. They told the Maoris not to come drinking there the next day, as that was “Independence Day.” “What, day’s that!” asked one of the Maoris. “That is the day we drove the British into the sea,” responded the American. “That so,” remarked the Maori. “TKat’s the day the , Maori throw the ‘Merican out of the 'window”
According to the Mercantile Gazette, which writes strongly against a Stat* Bank and a Farmers’ Bank, “New Zealand farmers are mostly speculators, and most of the farms iii New Zealand are for sale.”
An experienced commercial man writing from Soerabia, under date June 2’3, remarks:—“Java has not yet been seen |he worst of the trade depression. The Germans are certainly very active. It looks as if British firms would have to buy from them to be able to compete in these markets. The prices of British goods are prohibitive.”
A gentleman who was bitten by a katipo was advised by a friend to poultice the place with boiled onion, and bathe it also in the water in which the .vegetable had been boiled. This relieved the pain and discoloration in a few hours, and as it was so affective he wrote to a Christchurch paper to make the remedy known, as the bite is a particularly poisonous one. A Sydney paper states that at Forest Reefs, near Orange, there is a man, his wife, and six children who consider 16 pounds, of roast beef not too much for a “square, feed” for Sunday’s dinner, with a liberal supply of vegetables thrown in. The eldest child is a boy of 16, and he thinks nothing of, and is not distressed, by eating at one meal 21b of sausages and a similar quantity of chops. i Hope for the bald is held out by a machine invented by Dr. James Thompson, a New York physician, which, it is claimed, can sew hairs on human heads. A very fine needle worked by electricity can “affix”/ 100 hairs an hour. The machine was exhibited at the annual dinner of the New York Bald Head Club, and, after dinner, the inventor sewed one hair each to the heads of eight members.
Dealing with the financial stringency, the Mercantile Qazette says:—“There is only one way that the situation can bq met, and that is by thrift on the part of the Government. Dra-stic retrenchment free of any sentimental influences must be the order of day, and we hope, when Mr. Massey returns in the course of a few weeks, he will realise the need for economy and get to work in earnest. Government finance is the key to the present situation.” An interesting point to motorists was determined in a ease in the Magistrate’s Court at Waihi, in which a taxi-driver sought to recover £25 damages caused through a mounted man riding into plaintiff’s car. The defence raised was that immediately the car came round & corner the glare from the dazzling headlights prevented the defendant from seeing anything, and that his horse got out of hand and collided with the car. The Magistrate (Mr. Salmon) held that plaintiff’s failure to dim his headlights was negligence on his part, and gave judgment against plaintiff. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Paris states that a modern “Court of Miracles,” reminiscent of that described in Victor Htigo’a “Notre Dame de Paris,” has been discovered. Scores of beggars, blind, lame, deaf, dumb, and paralysed, repaired nightly to the house of “The King of Egypt,” himself a professional “blind beggar,” and squandered the alms received in the day-time in night-long revelry. The neighbors complained, and the police ejected revellers, who, undaunted, resumed their revels with increasing joyousneas on an adjacent piece of waste ground, the blind seeing, the deaf hearing, the armless men playing instruments, while “palsied cripples” flung down their crutches and foxtrotted merrily in the. glow of a campfire. Police who interrupted them were driven back with crutches and imitation arms and legs. On the following morning the police returned, but the beggars had disappeared to resume their fraudulent employments.
An interesting point relating to the origin of wheat was referred to by Dr. Hilgendorf in a recent lecture. He said that for centuries it had been imagined that wheat as* we know if had gone through n.o process of evolution, this belief being due to the observed fact of the unchangeability of wheat due to self-fertilisation. Quito recently, however, plants which were the undoubted ancestors of wheat were discovered growing freely, chiefly on Mount Hebron, in Palestine, 1 and also in the Balkans. These plants were a large wild grass, and, altogether, some seven classes of that grass had been found. In some part's of the world those grosses were grown for food purposes. Lord Northcliffe is keenly interested in aircraft—it was the Daily Mail that offered the first big prize for the roundEngland flight—and he pricked up ears at onqe when he heard the whirr of the Kohimarama seaplane, which was taking a flight over the Waitemata as the Makura camo-' up to the wharf. Speaking abiput the disaster to the airship Pv3B, Lord N. rLhcliffe expressed great regret at th? death of Air-Commander •E? M. Maitland, whom he described as one of th-e best-looking men in the British Army, and one of the most daring airmen in the Empire. Lord Northcliffe recalled how Commander Maitland was once- passing over his own house in an airship, jumped into his parachute and landed right on fyis own lawn. Commander Maitland was one of the guests at the big luncheon given to Lord North[diffe just before he left London, and naturally the death of such a distinguished man and personal friend has been a great
Professor Macmillan Brown found Lord Northjcliffe, vtith whom he travelled on the Makura, obsessed with the idea that war between Japan and the United States was coining near. “I assured him.” Professor Macmillan Brown says, “that it would not come for a century at least. My reasons are that Japan is really governed by the Elder Stateamen the Genro. They are tfye wisest men in naval, military and financial matters in Japan, and they know very well that if they go to war with the United States, not merely the American money market, but all money markets, Will be closed to them; they also know that war of that sort would mean enormous expenditure — ten times, a hundred times, greater than Japan can afford. Japan is a poor country—it has little coal (most of it is lignite), and almost no iron ore. Japan hopes to exploit China, but it will take Japan a century or two, if ever it succeeds in its exploitation of China, to gain a. financial position that would warrant it to enter into a world war.”
A football match will be played on the Pukekura Park sports ground on Saturday, 10th inst., at 2.30, between a team from Messrs. Newton King’s New Plymouth staff and a team from the New Plymouth railway staff. The proceeds are to'be devoted to the sports ground. Find out about the “PRESTO” Motor Care Fire Extinguisher. It should be conveniently situated on every car. Buy now; you may have cause to be thankful. Manning Co., 5 Bedford Row, Ohristqhuyebr *
“You cannot make a healthy child out of bread and tea,” declared Dr. Ada Paterson, in her address at Masterton. “It cannot be done, although some mothers appear to think it can. A child must have a diet sufficiently varied.” Attention is directed to a recent advertisement notifying that tenders for inland mail services for the next three years close on September 12. Several amendments appear in the tender forms, perhaps the most important one being that which releases a successful tenderer from purchasing the equipment of a retiring contractor in any case.
Regarding the Maori population of the Dominion, preliminary figures ehow the Maori population to have inpreaaed from 40,776 in 1916 to 52,554 in 1921. The latter figure includes 3055 half-castes living as Maoris. Of the total Maori population, 50,476 (males 26,672, females 23,804) are located in the North Island, and 2078 (males 1090, females 988), in the South Island.
“He was such a talker that I got away 'and left him to my wife in the end,” said a witness in the Auckland Supreme Court. “I hope he found in her a warrior worthy of his steel,” Mr. Justice Stringer observed,, amid laughter. Some boys are curious, especially the one that wanted to know the Alpha and Omega of the egg. Always give wings to the hoy who trys to find out, and if your own curiosity should be aroused about the Whiteley Shtow, just take wings and fly - there yourself.
Thfc Clarke Memorial Hostel is now open, and girls who wish to reserve rooms should apply at once. Particulars are advertised in this issue.
The Melbourne Clothing Company offer a nice range of men’s colonial tweed and worsted suits at much reduced prices. Suits from all the leading Dominion mills are represented, and buyers are assured of getting fit, quality and unusually good value. Prices range from £4 9s 6d to £7 10s.
That milk quickly becomes contaminated even when the greatest care is taken is well known by everybody. What chance, then, has milk of remaining pure for long after it has passed through the dirty machines and utensils? Every dairy farmer in the country should use plenty of “Sinus,” the champion cleanser,’ which ensures pure, sweet milk at all times. Ask for “Sinus.” Don’t take substitutes.
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