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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17826, 7 January 1920, Page 4

Only a small mail came south by the express from Ohristchurch yesterday, comprising, some 38 bags and 12 hampers. The advice received by the local postal authorities was that tho Maori, owing to inferior coal, did not reach Lyttelton till 11.30 a.m. yesterday. Some 113 'Frisco parcel bags, 41 bags of mail, and 17 hampers were shut out, but these will roach Dunedin by the first express to-day. A great deal of interest is being _ shown by discharged soldiers in Otago_ in the opening for selection of thro© grazing runs in the Cheviot district (North Canterbury), and a large number of applicants have been passed by Mr Sadd (Commissioner ot Crown Lands). Tho runs will be open for selection within the next day or two, and it ij anticipated by the Land Board officials that there will be a record number of applications from all parts of New Zealand. Mr M. C. Henderson (city electrical engineer), who left Dunedin some months ago on a visit to America and England on .business connected with tho local electrical and tramways departments, arrived in the Old Country about a fortnight ago to pursue his inquiries there. According to tho latest advices received ho had been spending a few days in Edinburgh. An Auckland Press Association telegram states that there is a benzine famine in Auckland, amd several leading _ firms stated that they are absolutely without stocks. Others hare a few cases in hand, but these aro being merely held for the completion of regular orders. A oargo ot 50,000 cases is expecbsd next week, and this should relieve the position. A Press Association message from Christchurch states that as the ferry steamer Maori steamed through Lyttelton Heads yesterday morning, bearing the returning men from the troopship Rimutaka. it was met by an airplane piloted by Captain L. M. Isitt, who circled several times round tho sbsamer to the evident pleasure of the soldiers. A soldier's burial was accorded tho mortpul remains of 'Sergeant Saddler Edmund M'lntosh yesterday afternoon. The ooffin was borne on a gun carriage to tho Southern ComettrX from the homo of the deceased soldier!* parents in Peter street, Caversham, the pall-bearers being four staft sergeant-majors of tho Permanent Defence Staff. Lieutenant E. W. Healy represented the Defenco Department, and TVumpcter Bell sounded the "Last Post" at the graveside. The late Sergeant M'lntosh, who was 49 years of age, was a veteran soldier, and had seen service during the Boer war. Ha went away fromi New Zealand as a trooper with tho mounted section of the Main Body, and returned on January 5, '1916, just four years ago. He was discharged on May 10 of the same year, but had been in and out of hospital ever E>ino3 with heart trouble. Recently tho Travelling Medical Board had ordered him back into hospital,, but on Tuesday last he was taken to his home, where he died shortly afterwards. A meeting of Taieri fanners will bo hold this week to consider the olaims for wages, etc., made by tho Thrashing' Mill Employees' Union, shortly to come boftfre tho Conciliation Commissioner.

There is still a marked shortage ot cement in Wellington; indeed, tho market was baro to-day, and there is small chance of fresh supplies arriving this week. Since the acute shortage prior to Christmas the situation has not improved in the laast. The holidays have intervened, and the works had been closed down for a week in casea where they had coal to continue burning. Where they had none it was of course impossible to turn out cement. So at the presenj; time, when the. men are prepared to start work, operations on dozens of buildings have had to be suspended—Wellington telegram. A serious accident occurred to-night at Alexandra Park (says an Auckland telegram) when a motor cycle, ridden by William Charles Macklow,, collided with a motor cycle ridden by Selwyn Craig. Both cyclists were thrown heavily, and Macklow, who was 25 years old, was taken to tho hospital suffering from serious internal injury, from which ho died shortly after admission. Craig sustained a broken arm. Both men were practising for motor cycle sports. A man named Nicholas Walsh, about 58 years of age, a oarter employed : by the New Zealand Express Company, and residing in a four-roomed house at 78 St. Andrew street, was found dead' in bis bed about 11.30 last night with his throat cut. A razor was lying near tho body. An inquest will be held.

The Conciliation Commissioner will sit in Dunedin on January 20 at 10.30 a.m. to hear the thrashing mill employees' dispute, and at 2.30 p.m. to take the plasterers' dispute. On the 21st, at 10.30 a.m., the dispute of the tailoresses and other female employees engaged in the clothing trade will come .before the Conciliation Council. About four years ago tho big elephant with Wirth Bros.' circus when, engaged in drawing the cages containing the other denizens of tho jungle out of the local railway goods yard espied a water' tap which' had not been properly turned off, and he promptly turned on the tap to its fullest extent and drank his fill. A few days ago the animal arrived again in the goods yard, and, guided by the same wonderful and unerring instinct that leads tho toper to his favourite house of refreshment, made straight for the tap, which he had held in grateful remembrance since his last visit here. Mr H. Y. Widowson, S.M., presided over a short sitting of the City Police Court yesterday, when Cornelius Rex, who had been arrested early in the morning by Detective Boer and Sergeant Bolton, was charged with the theft of an overcoat, valued at £2 ss, the property of Thomas Gallagher. Detective Sergeant 'Kemp, in applying for a remand until next Wednesday, said accused came from Australia, and nothing at present was known as to his and it was necessary that certain inquiries should be made oonoerning him. The application was granted, bail being allowed, accused in his own recognisance of £50 and two sureties ,of £25 each. A travelling showman plied a very profitable trade at the Port Molyneux sports gathering on New Year's Day until his methods were objeoted to by a hitherto guileless publio, and then his troubles commenced. His stook-in-fcrado consisted of various articles l —useful and otherwise—and should the competitor succeed in "ringing" any of them they terame his property. In order to induce oompetitiom a few coins, 10s and £1 notea were phced among the articles. One of tho patrons succeeded in ringing a 10s note, which the ehowman refused to hand over. The sequel quickly followed, tho whole outfit being smashed and soattered broadcast. That was the end of this portion of the day'u entertainment, the showman boating a haaiy and strategic retreat

"la the Union Jack kept too much in tho locker?" The question suggested itaelf to two New Zoalandera during their recent tour through tho United Sta/tea (saya tho Lyttolton Times), i'Vom one side of America to tho other they saw tho Stars and Stripes floating everywhere in the broeze. Oixteido and, insido every school ami publio building, abovo every factory, bank, and business houso it waa unfunlod, and at shows or other public functions :t was invariably tho only decoration used, (in some of tho larger buildings the flag was not allowed to becomo invisible at night time, but was illuminated the wholo night through by soarchlighte. While, of course, tho British, arc noted for an undemonstrative characteristic, it is yet questionable whether exhibition of the Union Jock would not in the long run have a stimulating effect on patriotism. The- London Times Trade supplement tho other day published a copy of a letter reoently received from Germany by an important British firm offering Germanmade cycle tyres and tubes. The letter stated that "Owing to tho low labour coats in Germany these tyros and 1 tubes will bo> turned out at figures represening from 10 to 20 per cent, tender those at present being quoted by tho British and American manufacturers taking into consideration that ;t German workman capable of working in the tyre industry is paid 100 marfes weekly, equal to 18s at the present rate of exchange. Seeing that wagea seem to be one of tho cardinal factors in this manufacture, it is only natural that under these circumstances it will be very difficult for another country' to turn goods out art; anything like a competitive figure, where for it should be in your interest to overtake part of these deliveries, having goods stamped with your own trade mark." This is tho olass of competition that not only British, but Australasian manufacturers will have to contend with unless duo provision is made to scotch the evil.

Last Juno a young farmer wiho had just got married furnished his house at a cost of £60, and re'oontly he sold his farm, and sold his furniture ait what he gave for it to the now purchaser. Ho took another placo, and thought all he had to do was to repeat his order for 1 furniture and get it at the same price. Imagine his surprise when he was told that the furniture was now worth £90, or 60 per cent, more, and that it couldn't be supplied for less; also that theTe waa a likelihood of a further rise at tho beginning of the year, as a. rise hod taken place in tho best timbers suitable for furniture malting.—Auckland) Star.

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