NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19257, 22 August 1924, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Since 1914 the Manawatu Racing Ouh has paid £105,579 6s in taxes. Four bankruptcies have already been recorded in Mastcrton this month. It will cost £15,000 just to bring the English Association team to Australia ami Now Zealand next winter. Plasterers are being offered 3s Sd per hour in Auckland, with a guarantee of 10 hours’ work daily if desired. An additional inducement is the paying of tram fares.

As showing that the demand for land is reviving, there were some 69 applications for three farms, ranging from 200 to 750 acres, balloted for by the Gisborne Land Beard.

For a good Tailor, Home experience, try MacLeod MacGillivray, Rattray street.... East week 16.150 tons of coal was exported from Westport. Westport Goal Company shipped 13,151 tons, and the Stockton Company 3029 tons. A proposal that a great scientific conference should be held in Auckland in 1928 or 1929 to inaugurate the War Memorial Museum wa.s announced in Honolulu by Sir Edwin Mitehelson. Whitebait is now on the local fish market (announces the Wanganui Chrondo). A few of the fish have made their appearance m the local rivers, and a good run is expected in the course of the next few weeks. , ' Comfy” Hot-water Bottles for sale at Waters’ Pharmacy (under Savoy).... “The law of England does not allow one crime to ho raised in order to prove, that another crime may have been committed bv the some person,” remarked Mr T. M. Wilford in legal argument at the Supremo Court in Wellington. “That is one particular in which English law differs from French law. They go into the whole hietory in France.

Eggs consigned to Wellington last wdek by the Fahiatua Egg Circle totalled 480 dozen.

A calf without legs or tail was bom on the property of Sirs 1L M’Donald, ot Kiwitahi. Where tne legs should hav«. been tnere are steumps a lew inches long, with a similar stump lor a tad. The arum id appears to be quite norma] in health. There was snow on the \Vaimarino plains when the Auckltund-Wollington express passed over them at an early hour on a recent morning, and when » passenger went to rub tne dew oft’ the inside of a carnage window he found it was a thin coating ot ice! 'i'Wwi (says the Wanganui Herald) despite tha fact that tile heaters were working at fud pressure. Come and see our snow twingiit-—we an open till 9 p.m. Friday nights.— Sooullat and Chisholm (Limited)... Sinypathy with returned soldier settlers in their straggle to make a success ol their holdings in the Waikato County was shown in a practical way by members of the Waikato County Council. A resolution was carried that all unpaid sooner,' general rates in the county and in the To Mira Settlement shoul bo written oft up to .March 31, 1924. The best when it costs no more is always cheapest. Always aak for Black and White Whisky; it’s guaranteed all ten years 01d.... Increased activity lias been shown at the Allen ton Woollen Mills during the last three of four weeks, and practically all the looms are now working (says the Ashburton Guardian). For a number of months previous to this, work was exceptionally slack, the cause being ascribed to the groat amount of tweeds and other materials imported into the dominion. These importations created a depression in live industry right throughout the country. The most palatable breakfast bacon obtainable is the famous sugar-cured at Barton and Trengrove’s, Manse street (and all branches), Dunedin.... , “1 think it would bo a good idea if the cotncil, when the reconstruction of the roads is being carried out, took steps to have the words ‘Welcome to Invercargill worked into the roadway at the boundaries of the town,” said Or H. J Tarrant at a council meeting (i ©ports the Southland Times). While the suggestion was received with a good deal of laughter by several councillors, the novelty ot the idea appealed to them, and the Mayor said that it could be considered at a later date. Country folk! Try our prompt and reliable mail service. Waters’ Pharmacy, 20 Princes street, Dunedin.... ___ There are approximately Sj.OCO Crown tenants in the dominion, of whom soldier settlers number a little under 5000. it would, therefore, be a very lengthy and expensive matter to revalue land held by civilians in the same manner as lands held by soldier settlers, states the Minister ter Lands, who points out that, the civilian lessee has the'statutory right to a revaluation when he has held the land sufficiently long to enable it to be sard whether the land was properly valued when disposed ot and Children’s Goods in our showroom are all being cleared to make room for new shipments. You will be surprised to see the assortment—Bibs, Bootees, Singlets. Frocks. Coats, and Knitted Dresseaoll at sale prices.—A. F. Cheyne and Co., Mosgiek... .... , ■ The advantage of direct carnage of carcro by water from the South Island to the Waikato River ports was stressed by Mr A M Bisley, president of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, at a of teat body. In a recent tour of the South Island he found merchants much mterMteu in a proposed regular service. lle out that so far the steamn- serwee had not been well patronised. The chamber dc oided to enlist the co-operation of southern progressive societies in an effort to stitnn)at(f shipping between the South Island and the Waikato. The finest cofiee grown on earthjs Blue Mountain Jamaica. Tins Kreat coffee s obtainable in New Zealand only te°m A Durie and Co., coffee specialists. 3z. DmeA’.2rS£S'tallt tor Mr A. W. Brr.n* bv Messrs D. M. Darroch and Sons bhoa Bay. has just been launched. The vo.se! will have a carrying capacity of about M) tons all her cargo being carried on deck. She*is 73ft long, with a 22ft oeum and a draught s 4ft 7in. The vesse. which is to b© named the Owlnti. will be kek rifi-tred Like the other five vessels of a type owned by Mr A. W. Bryant, the Owhiti mil engaged in the harbour and coastal trad*. .. ... Men’s Working Shirts, navy dr.U with white stripes, fast colours, worth 10s 6d. sale price, bs lid, or two for 13s 6d. Another P line of English. Italian CWon«l Felt Hats, high-class goods from 25s to 39s 6d; now 19s 6d to 2Sa 6d. See them. A F. Cheyne and Co.. Mosgiek... . The early bird caught the bargain at a large sale of second-hand motor cars he,d at ? New Plymouth recently. The first car on the auction block was a five-seater Austin 1914 model. “Are there any bids said the auctioneer. There were no nub. and he repeated the question. A tenner.” came a voice from the crowd. The engine was ticking oyer perfectly yet no further hid was forthcoming, ami the car was knocked down for £lO. _ The tyres alone were very nearly worth the Storekeepers.—-Wo supply "ff small goods of the finest qunlitj in the dominion. Irejhly made da-b' - 1 '” eral concessions.—Barton and Treogrove, Manse street. Dunedin... ~ . During last weekend- Mr A. H -. a memter of the Hatching Committee of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, and Ranger Evans, paid a visit of mspection to the society’s eyeing station at 1-ake Te Anau Chatting to a representative of the Southland Times the other evening, Mr Stock mentioned that up to the Brno of hi« visit a total of 1124 fish (458 malea and 666 females) had passed through tee hands of the curator and that so far 2 010 000 eyed ova had boon secured, and the greater portion of this was now ready for planting out, in the various streams throughout the province. , . . At the tariff no doubt it is the beat m Dunedin— Prince of Wales Hotel.—Charles Hinchcliff. proprietor. , Telephone Id.*.. Best brands of liquors.... . While visiting the Kaiapm Woollen Mills Viscount Jelliooo discovered a man nanus! H Gould in the boiler room. Gould had been a stoker on H.M.S. Birmingham in the North Sea. His hands were soiled with grease and coal dust, but that mattered not. Lord Jellicoo insisted on a handshake and the stoker obliged Hefore his Excellency left the mill the employees gathered outside. His Excellency walked along the group and said how alcased be was to meet them. Do any of you come from Home?’’ he asked. “I do,” replied a young woman. “frae Galashiels.” “Ah,” said the Governor-Genera!, turning to an official with him, 'ha- s where you come from.” I.ord Jellicoo addressed the employees, and was given hearty cheers as he drove away. Oban ism (970): Since time began the ten fingers of a man have been his best friend. There are ten reasons why you should get it at the Oban—all good ones.... As an instance of the suitability ot Auckland’s climate and Auckland soils for the growing of sweet oranges there are on exhibition in an Auckland shop three oranges weighing 2ilb; they measure respectively 11m, 12in, and 12,1 m in circumference. They wore grown (states an exchange) on a seedling tree raised by .Mr F J. Best, of Avondale, and the variety is known as “Best's Seedless” orange. Not only does this variety produce largo fruits, but the/ are exceptionally fine, being very tree from fibre, remarkably itiicy, and of groat sweetness. The fact that seedling oranges can bo raised m Auckland of as good a flavour and character as the famous Washington Marvel is a direct proof thut the district, or at any r ate certain portions of it, can bo classed OS true orange country. ( Milton district farmers! Grays Big Store” has some splendid Horse and Cow Covers —tip-top value. Call and see them— A joke in which the victim turned out to be other than the person intended was played upon a mao prominent in Labour circles during the week. He was preparing to make a. trip to Wellington (says an exchange), and called on friends at a. rendezvous, where brother Labourites gather, and while there happened to leave the room for a few minutes. His bag, which was on the floor, contained an unopened tin of 50 cigarettes, and before he relumed to ilia rooie this had beep neatly pillaged the cigarettes extracted, the tin filled with sawdust, and the lid neatly gummed down again. Quite in ignorance, the victim left later, but a couple of days afterwards returned and related how ho had purchased a tin of cigarettes which contained nothing but sawdust, and he wound up by stating that the tobacconist had made good the loss by giving him another tin! It was only when bis friends showered cigarettes upon him that he realised what had happened. The very thing for folk to eat Is heaps of Hitchon’s Bacon. It makes them comphy. fat, and sleek, Or I cm much mistaken....