Local and General.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 23, Issue 32, 10 August 1923, Page 4

Local and General.

An interesting official report on the "Copra Campaign Malaga" (from Matautu to Falelatai to Aleipata), undertaken last month, and completed on 15th ultimo, will appear in next week's Samoa Times. x

Horseowners are reminded that entries for the Apia Turf Clnb's inaugual meeting, to be held on Flag Raising Day, will close on Wednesday next with the secretary, Mr A. Tobin.

Verses by "Dominie," celebrating the experiences and emotions of the "Tofua's" pas sengers while in quarantine at Apia last week, will be found on page 8 of today's "Times."

Temperatures taken daily at 1 p.m. in the Samoa Time? office, show the following figures:— Friday, August 3rd, 85; Saturday 86; Sunday 85 ; Monday 85 ; Tuesday S5; Wednesday 78; Thursday 87.

A London wireless message states that Mr David Lloyc George will make a visit t the United States and Cauacb this winter, addressiug the World Brotherhood Cougreon 14th October. He will pay visits to Detroit and Xe York.

Captain Cauipbe'; , . ) who :.- i» Apia just now, teils a ston of au old veteran who Ik,-. beeu admitted iuto the Ro\ Scottish Fusiliers He had only one eye, and one day he turned up with the artificial one missing. Later on the man, whose name was O'Hara. was quietly given a guiuea and told to go to Edinburgh and get a new one. On the way he fell into the hands ct friends, before long the guinea had gone west except tor a solitary sixpence. O"H a : was very fond of his commasing officer, and felt he ecu V not retain without the ney eye. Suddenly an idea struck him. He bought a bottle o: lemonade, broke it, took the glass marble out, touched it up with red and black paint, and slipped it into the socket *And, M ulates Captain Caa: f belL "he paraded with t-

Says the "Fiji Times":— The L.M.S. yacht John Williams is lying in Sydney harbour at present awaiting repairs. Some /io,ooo was spent on the vessel 18 months ago, and it is now found that further extensive repairs are necessary, but funds are not available. Some of the native crew will arrive in Suva in the Niagara and here await the arrival of the Jeanette for their homes.

A Washington wireless message, dated 3rd August, records an extraordinary parallel in the death of. President Harding and the collapse of President Wilson. The message runs: —"There was a striking parallel between circumstances which led to President Harding's fatal illness and those which preceded the collapse of President Wilson. During a Western speaking trip in IQI9,1 Q l9, Wilson left Washington with avowed purpose of carrying gospel of peace to the people: the conception of world peace as hinging on American participation in world court. When Wilson cancelled remainder of trip at Wichita, Kansas, he had travelled 8,200 miles in the heat of late summer, delivering more than forty speeches. When Harding surrendered to order of physicians he had travelled 7,500 miles, making upward of sixty speeches.

Attention is drawn to the advertisement, appearing elsewhere in this issue, of a debate between representatives of the mercantile community and the "Apia Accountant Students' Society. The subject is " That the present stoie* taxes, salary taxes aud business license fees in Western Samoa should be replaced by au Income Tax." It was arranged to toss for sides, and it so happens that the representatives of Commerce have to uphold the present system, while the members of the Society, in this case Administration officials, have to make out a case for an alteration. An invitation is extended to all interested, including ladies, whether members of the Society or not. This occasion offers a unique opportunity to those desirous of giving voice to their opinions, on taxation.

The increase of the value of a business investment by nearly half a million per cent, is revealed by the death of Mr C. M. Pattullo, a papermaker, of Monrose. Mr Pattullo put £5 in" 1905"* in the British Distribution Company (Ltd), of Cannon street, E,C., which was formed to carry on business as merchants, agents, contractors, traders, distributors, and manufactures. Two of his family risked another between them. The .shares are nominally £ 1 each, but tip to October, i 922, only one shilling* had been called up on them. Each share which cost one shilling

is now valued at /214, and the 120 investment is worth £oS)6oo.

Cockney to Yankee: Is the Mississippi as big as the Thames ? Yankee : Say, kid, it would just about make a gargle for the mouth of the Mississippi!

Otira tunnel, which pierces the Westlaud Alps, New Zealand, is the longest tunnel in the British Empire. At the official opening on Saturday last, mention was made of the fact that the tunnel is five miles and a-half in length.