LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 3 November 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

You can gut it cheaper at Stewart's." The !j-..;mii/.>-1i Council meet to-night ui 7.M0. Try D. Jones, Egmont Street, for plumbing and tinsmithing rei>aii\s. Telcpliyno 111.* A reminder is given ol' the Welcome it •me dinner and serial li> returned soldiers. which is being held in the H.-.irleyvillo Hall on Wednesday next. The b'otnnrng Officer for the Bor;>ii.'.di in this issue invites nominations ■'!' tiie sea! on the Council rendered ; -:iti 1 In- the resignation of Mr. A. Duvics. Hat week is round again at ILL!., IL'woiu. and ever;.- branch in the Dominion is making a sjiecia! display of nils for men ami children, so you are invited to inspect their stock of new ■cuson 's ha Is and caps. A lemiiidor is given of the Domain ■!(■.!rd',--. euchre party which is being ■nhi in the supper room of the Town •l:il tomorrov a! ,S p.;... footballers md cricketers are asked to attend in ■'■'li force and assist the Hoard in its ■.' oifs towards fho improvement of the ■■p.rts gro.jnd.

"The su:>."';( mood is gradually changag from ike minimtMa to the maximum," said .Mr. Clement YVraggr, at .lisborno, '-'and during the years 1020 •i 1!)::-! tie conditions will bo more favourable to earthquake-;. I) 's nothing ii be jil:it11:ot'i at, and I. don't say thai \ew Zealand is going to lio blown up, 'ml people v. ho bvo in places where ■:■. :-tli(pi:il-.es occur do not want to stick 0 chimneys and let them temble down >ii I hem. It's good to I'.avo carthP'altes, and it snows tliar I'iiero. is en- ;;•_.■!] (.;.,-. ,-gy ie-fi (o keep m'.O Olll'l !l Ullll :'i going." K Mr. Mnssey had l-.oi (defied to be ' Tanner and a Prime Minister lie would have made a good journalist, \ .'lfc* McrmMio. Tim compact pro;:.:ici.'e i:■.-■ i;■.I by him a week ago mows that lie possesses a sense of .vord v;ihi? : ; a - :d a power of condensa'ion which politics have not destroyed. ! may not lie generally known that ' ■•': r. Massey has a very crilicai eye t'or •:.iposition. Jn revising drafts of ■■ eeches or manifestos, lie is punctili--1 ..•■ about punctuation, and any phrase i'.at offends is either excised or ammded. Armistice Day A uni ver.-ary this year :■■■ ••> be celebrated in l'alea. by a grand p'ain and fancy dress ball, which is ■'•ing tendered (lie ladies of the district by the L'eturned Soldiers' Assoalion for the splendid services ren•i ie,! |.) i!>e troops during the war. The I'etiii'iied men, with a very coniinendi'ilc sjiirit, are sparing no pains to Vake flio evening a memorable one, and s'imv f'nat they are grateful for the .ork of I lie la.dies on their behalf during tins lime they wore a! the front. The event promise,; to be the function of the season.

The most up-to-date excuse for a strike was mentioned the oilier day in one of the Glasgow courts. A dock labourer was caught in the ad of pilfcr:ig a bol'lc of whisky from a case in i ship's hold. When he was handed >ver (o Hie police his pals at once ■ ■eased loading, demanding the dismis--al forthwith of the watchman who Vh! deteded the pillager ! The emdoying company declined to accede to '.his impudent request, and apparently is a protest against crime being penshod (for the man admitted h's guilt) blocked off work till the following :i:oi ning. :;'' ■■'-.' v 'Thai there lire some '"white men" hat the coiinlry can be proud of was •ihowii by the action of a local farmer : fe-.v days ago. A relumed soldier who had fought and bled for his country, ■md who had lately gone on the land, .isited the farmer in question on loaning thai, the hitter had some very line leifers for sale. 'The price id' the heifers was £Jti, and the digger, after picking out ten of the best, was preparing to write out a cheque for the amount, when the farmer stopped him ,iiid said: "£.:!'<) is the price of ihe heifers to any ordinary individual, as ■ou wen! and fought for us, the price to you is £lO only." As the digger was away. Hie fanner noticed him glance al Ihe remainder of the herd, and immediately said: "could you do with any more.'" The digger admirled he could, whereupon the farmer ■ -Ji'«l, ''Take what you wan I and never bother about ihe cheque, pay when you like -you have earned the cattle ten times over," The digger said it was well worth going through the hardships of the campaign to see the pleasure it gave Ihe palriolic owner of Ihe cattle lo act as he did.

A youth for general farm work is enquired for in this issue. A dwelling of six rooms within live mi mites' walk of the Post Oificc is advertised for sale in this issue. A. concert and dance iu aid of the tV.nds of St. George's Church will be he'd in the Town Hall on Tuesday, Xivomber I.Sth next. The Domain Hoard, in another column, notifies that as it has sold the glass in the Domain, any person interfering with same will be prosecuted. Meesrs and Jones, in an advertisement in this issue, notify that they are cash buyers of eggs in any quantity, and give highest prices for same. Brown : "I just met a man who told me I looked exactly like you." Jones : "Tell me who it was, and I'll knock him down !" Brown : "Don't trouble. 1 knocked him down myself !" In view of the altered train arrangements Messrs Bennett & Harding will held their weekiy auction sale on Saturday in future, commencing on Saturday next, the Sth inst. The official opening of the local Bowling Club takes place on Wednesday n xt at - it.m., when all visiting bowleg and (he general public arc cordially ir. >ited to attend. In a crowded tramcar a stout woman v:'nly endeavoured to get her fare out o.' the pocket of her cloak, which was n htly luiltoned as a precaution a i'.inst pickpockets. After she had be mi working in vain for some minutes a gentleman seated on her right said: '■'Please allow me to pay your fare." '!"■ • lady declined with some acerbity, a;ol recommenced her attacks on the 1 '■'•ct. After these had continued for s . .:<} little time, her foliow-passenger s'id : "You really must let me pay y./ur fare. You have already undone n-y braces three times, and I cannot s" :nd it any longer." •>.. Tuesday's Christchureh Sun says: In C .' enervating heat of yesterday after- ■: on a brewery lorry on which three 1 ace of barrels of beer rocked con1' -itcdly, proceeded quietly along OxI : d Terrace. The delegates to the I ptist Union conference wore filing o■ t of the Oxford Terrace Church, a s ire or more standing on the steps as ,!•■> beer approached. The delegates - rveyed the evil with a cold, dispara- ■ 'ig scrutiny. Hut the lorry did not ;; s.-:. The hirsute driver was not with- <: ! his humour. Directly in front of lie main entrance the lorry came to a e mist ill and the driver asked the s'mple, unanswered question, "Where ■" i you want them to go .'"

The Newcastle (England) Chronicle -: ys : "It is understood that Mr. Mas- .-■ y, tlit? Prime Minister of New Zea- ;■. id, hastened off home immediately i a the signing of the Treaty. Mean- ■ '.file, Mr. Hughes is'detained in Eur ipe on public business. These two col- . sial statesmen stand in sharp contrast '. efore the public eye. Mr. Massey has done notable service at once to :.'e\v Zealand, and to the Empire. Mr. ; ughes has perhaps served Australia •, ery well, but so far as the Empire is c ncerned his persistent interference in ! : ghly controversial British questions ' as earned for him a position which .•■ ems to demand a much smaller niea-s----;'.re of gratitude." Serious losses to farmers have been , aused in the Northern AVairoa district by tin apparently new disease that litis made its appearance among cuttle, '..rites the Northern AVairoa correspondent of the Auckland "Herald," of reports indicating that sonic farmers have had their stock reduced fully 50 per cent, by deaths. A curious feature is that animals apparently in the i-Itost condition seem most easily to fall victims to this scourge. Death 'i:-:-utillv follows soon after the first hull-

:;i1 ions of anything being wrong are observed, 'riie only noticeable indication is, in fact, that the animal, after sitting down, is unable to rise again, ■•win;;' to weakness in the hindquarters. .'»« recoveries have been reported, an J one farmer lost l>3 cows out of a herd »f -19, solely as a result of the complain t. Kvery effort has been mad? by ;lie farmers to trace the cause of the disease, but without any mi! .-recess, ionie attribute it to the eating of certain grass, but no evidence ha.? yet been adduced to prove this theory."

The bulk of opinion elicited by a question put by the "Weekly Dispatch," London, to a number of celebrities in England was to the effect that the use of the term "Hun" as applied to ihe Germans should now be dropped. Incidentally, Bir Thomas Mackenzie remarked : "It, is not a word that I have used much, having preferred to condemn the Germans in other terms, but its application has been more than justilied during the war. Feeling is still very bitter against the Germans, and to raise this question now will not, in my opinion, lend to lessen the use of the word as a description of the Germans."

Sunn.* ol! (lie <j I<f hands who attend the annual Trafalgar dinner ol' the Koynl Xavy and lioyal Marines Association in Auckland have had interesting experiences. One derail during a lull in the speaking was relating his experiences with the tleet at iSelmslojiol during the Crimean war. Another, who joined the Nnxy in IN.">-I, was in the Jirst iron warship of:' the British Xtivy. He was also one of the crew of (he first, turret ship when it was taken out 1o be tested by big gun tire. 'From the remarks made by some of the old sailors, it was evident that the ironclads were regarded with suspicion by the men trained in Britain's wooden wails.