LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 June 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The steamer Waimate, which was sold ia month ago to Italians, is ashore near Clap© St. Vincent. She is a total loss. The crew was saved (says a London! cable.

A strong protest against the new railway .tariff is being organised by 7 the Auckland coal-mine owners. _ It is contended thait the increase will bear heavily 011 long distance customers, and that the consumption of foreign coal would be encouraged to the detriment of the local industry.

The British House of Commons has agreed to a. Government motion applying Imperial! preference of one-third on imports of lace and embroidery.

The New South Wale® Cabinet has decided to recommend to the Labour caucus, for ratification ta proposal that, Parliament ,sdt only from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A Wanganui auctioneer remarked to a. Chronicle reporter yesterday that stock generally continued to be in good demand, and sheep were selling remarkably well. They had, of course, experienced a favourable season, but with wool .selling as it was, the prices were higher than might be anticipated. A cruise from Auckland to Dunedin in the motor launch Lady Una is to be made by the owner. Mr. C. G. Macindoe, and a party of yachtsmen, next January. It is proposed to make calls at Gisborne, Napier, Wellington and Lyttelton on the way dow n the coast, and providing the weather is favourable, Dunedin should be reached in a little over a week.

The estimates of .the effect of the revision of the railway' tariff, in tne various alterations winch permit of anything approximating, a reasonable calculation .lead to the conclusion tint the increase in revenue from the various proposals embodied in the new tank' should be in the vicinity of the £3'<u,000. .

Questioned at 'Wellington regarding the Lyons case, Sir Francis Dell yesterday said: “1 have nothing to 43ayex cept that if Lyons does not go- lie will -go to- gaol.” The time allowed for Lyons to leave the country has now expired, and he is liable to arrest 'and is likely to appear in court ®oon. In the W'hangamomona district considerable damage was caused by tne recent storms. Several fillings had been washed away and some of the largest slips ever seen in the country had come down. In one place stumps and logs had been piled up to a height ox about 20ft, and a number of men had been engaged on various parts to cut a track through in order to give access. Much of the new metal that had recently been put on the Whangamomona Hoad had been washed into the river. The successful tenderer for the Hamilton war memorial cenotaph having withdrawn his tender, which approximated the architect's estimate of EidOO, a hitch has occurred in connection with the project. The price submitted by tiie next tenderer is £SOO in excess ox tne estimate. The matter was cousideiea by the committee, and it was suggested that less expensive material should be employed, it was accordingly decided to ask the architect t-o amend his plans so as to bring the cost within the amount available —£1500.

“The policy initiated by my predecessor, Mr Coates, is that a post office must be run on a business basis. The Postal Department during the past two or three years has been called upon to pay —to find out of revenue—interest on the capital expended. That was never done before, and it is to the credit of Mr Coates that he has initiated a businesslike arrangement under which post offices must largely be conducted on that basis,” stated the neev Postmaster-General (Sir C. J. Parr) at Wellington on Tuesday.

The total amount invested on the totalisator at -race meetings held under the jurisdiction of the Racing Conference during last season amounted to U 5.731.651. Of that amount the Taranaki district contributed £315,152 10s, and the Wanganui district £741,966. Motor-bus competition with the trains and harbour ferry steamers threatens to become serious in Wellington. Three more privately - owned •'buses have arrived. Two 17-seaters j,r e to be pdiced on the Island Bay run ,v the Passenger Transport Company, and the third," a 24-seater, under the management of the Wellington ’Bus Company, will run to Lower Hutt. I’his brings the number of private 'buses to seven, but it, docs not bring finality. This first company in the de d lias stated, says the Post, that it v.i 11 add to its fleet in the very near future, and with the second fleet brought down under the management of Yew Zealand Cars and Motors, Limited, comes a promise of no less than 30 more ’buses, the bodies for which are being built at Auckland. There is still another large company, it is stated, to enter the field with a fleet of .-•omething like 20 ’buses, and with a . 0 -y considerable capital ha,eking. The Railway Department -advertises in this issue particulars of train <a-r----rangeniente and of issue of cheap excursion • fare® in connection with Moasear Cup match -at- New Plymouth on 27th June. NO MATTER HOW SLIGHT. ' When a cold develops, no matter how slight it, male he, the wise person immediately begins to take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. They know liow quickly it will break up the cold and prevent the annoying cough developing. The concensus of opinion all the world over is that there is no preparation for the treatment of colds and coughs that equals Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Advt. Children like Wade’s Worm Figs. Safe and certain remedy for worms. — Advt.

A warning has been issued by the Minister of Public Works that outdoor electrical wires, though covered, should always be considered dangerous . and recommending that where, -.building trade employees had to work near them the wires should be protected or temporarily disconnected.

A conference of local bodies in Christchurch metropolitan area is to be convened by the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) 'with the object of obtaining assistance in the erection and maintenance of medicinal baths.

Arrangements are well advanced for the children’s and adults’ plain and fancy-dress ball, to be hed in the Town Ha I .' Kaponga, to-morrow evening under the auspices of the- Anglican Ladies’ uild. and everything points to a pleasant evening. Numerous costume prizes are offered, judging to be by ballot.

Providing sufficient applications ar e received by the Under-Secretarv of Immigration" from farmers .who are desirous of co-operating with the Government in maintaining the success of the scheme, the Government intends in the next 12 months to materially increase the number of hoy immigrants for service 011 New Zealand farms. The success of the scheme of boy immigration to New Zealand has impelled the Government to decide 011 this course. The Times’ Toronto correspondent says:. The Canadian Government, apparently impressed by the strength or agitation against the adoption of a new Dominion flag, has now announced that the Government has no intention of proceeding with the proposals to prepare a design for a Canadian national flag. The committee appointed to prepare a design has been discharged. It is stated that further action has' been postponed pending discussion in Parliament, but the opinion prevails that the proposal has been permanently dropped. There have been some high-scoring performances in the Wellington Rugby competitions this season. Among those of note on Saturday was a tally of 76 points by the Wellington College B team in "the seventh grade. Heavier scoring than this has been recorded, says an exchange, but in this case the performance was exceptional by reason of the speedy process of piling up the points. The game was played in two spells of twenty minutes each, so that the rate of scoring, practically two points per minute, must be something in the nature of a record. The- heirs of Madame Pellerin, who lived in .seclusion- and apparent poverty, were astonished to l learn that the police had discovered 820,000 francs Ai securities and bank notes -hidden a safe (says a Paris message-). The police invited the heirs to- come to the house and claim, their unexpected iortune, meanwhile locking up the shares and oaish in the safe. The heirs received their .second surprise when the safe wa® re-opened, for they found that burglars Had heard the story and had been there first. The whole- of the money and securities: was stolen.

In connection with the Bank of New Zealand’s offer to rebate £1 5s per share to preference shareholders in the Taranaki Farmers’ Meat Co. under certain conditions, a meeting of preference shareholders who have objected to pay calls was held at New Plymouth. Mr F. Eberlet presided over an attendance of 100 shareholders. The chairman explained the reason for calling the meeting, and it was resolved to go into committee. A resolution was carried refusing to accept the bank’s offer of £1 5s rebate per share, and deciding to carry on the present proceedings The Millerton correspondent of the Westport News telegraphs:—“At a special meeting of the Millerton Miners’ Union, a discussion arose concerning the employment of men awaiting work in the colliery. The union demands a more equitable selection when employment is available, and wants ali men to be put on their turn in order of application. The local management is employing men suitable for the form of work that is required, all cl as a consequence trouble has arisen. It was decided that the men should remain idle until the manager ceases to differentiate from the method of selection of men suggested by the union, and a strike has now been declared.” At the camp of the 2nd Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles Regiment at Waverley there is a total of 25 officers and 370 other ranks. 'Of this number about 80 per cent, are mounted'. Lieut.Colonel D. Munro is in command, and associated with him are Captain Stewart, brigade major of the Second Mounted Rifle Brigade (chief instructor) and Lieutenant McCaskill (adjutant). Colonel-Commandant Powel, commanding the Central Military Command, will inspect the camp on Friday. Includued in the course of-instruction irom day to day will be musketry drill, care of the horse, use of the-Vickers and Hotchkiss guns, and : general mounted duties. 011 Sunday the camp will be open for inspection bv the public.

An attempt is being made to compile a complete roll of the names of those men from the borough of Hawera who went on service overseas in the war. This work is being undertaken as a commercial enterprise by Mr. W. G. Coburn, of Wellington, himself a returned soldier, whose methods have the entire approval of the R.S.A. and who carries credentials from the executive in 'Wellington. Mr. Coburn has already completed the rolls of a number of New Zealand- boroughs, providing for the first time as complete a record as is possible of all who left for thewar, which records are afterwards made available to the public in printed form. The work entails a house to house call for the collection and checking of names, and this is now proceeding in Hawera.

The judgment of Mr. Justice Alpers has been delivered in the case of Thomas Frith Trimble, of Omata, v. the Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society of New Zealand, Ltd., which was heard at New Plymouth on May 26 and 29. The plaintiff fails to secure a recision of his contract to take shares, on the ground that the company failed to carry out an undertaking to establish saleyards at Okato but the Judge criticises the conduct of the general manager and the directors and says that he would deprive the company of costs if he had power to do so. Judgment was given for defendant, with costs on the lower scale, £lO 10s allowance for the second dav. costs of interlocutory proceedings (if not already fixed), witnesses expenses and disbursements to be settled by the registrar. At the hearing Mr. A. A. Bennett appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Spratt for the defendant. —Taranaki Herald.