The Te Aroha News Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6544, 15 November 1924, Page 4

The Te Aroha News Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL

American steel manufacturers show but slight interest in the reports concerning the possible formation of a British and European steel trust. ' . - I ■ ' - . \ Increases in the prices of men’s felt hats are foreshadowed, due to the drowning of rabbits owing to floods, combined with a falling off of the import of Australian rabbit skins. It has been provisionally agreed that the negotiations between France and the Soviet, in connection with the •proposed treaty, shall commence on January Ist. , Cammell Laird’s have secured a half-million sterling contract to construct a railway in New Zealand from Kakahi to the southern end of Lake Taupo. Signor Marconi has returned after an absence in his own yacht, experimenting with beam wireless. He now announces that the beam system is equally effective by day and night for any distance. Submarine K 22, while going out for manoeuvres, ’ struck the Portland breakwater. Her nose became embedded in the rocks,, and the submarine remained aground for ten hours. A cruiser then towed her off.

The Brazilian Governmeht admits that a new revolution has broken out. The' ci'ew of the battleship Sao Paulo, the finest in the Brazilian navy, mutinied. They seized the ship and left the harbour in her. 1

'"’ The twenty-sixth annual show .of the Hauraki Plains A. and P. Association will be held in the Paeroa Domain on Wednesday and Thursday, November 2Gth and 27th, and the entries will close witl| the secretary (as advertised) on November 18th.

The Times eulogises Mr J. H. Thomas’ work at the Colonial Office. His was one of the few personal records in the MacDonald Government which not only was irreproachable, but which carried a certain distinction.

Owing to preservatives being mixed with the butter exhibit in the Canadian pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, in the design representing the Prince of Wales mounting a horse, the butter cannot be used for consumption. It will, however, be used for waggon grease.

The voyage of Captain Cook along the eastern of Australia is to be commemorated by the erection by the Federal Ministry of two suitable memorials on prominent landmarks. One. will be at Possession Island, and the other at Port Hicks. The memorials will consist of brass plates,-with raised gold lettering. ’

The effectual “squashing” of an* irritable disciple of Mrs Grundy by two happy old gentlemen armed with vast quantities of rice with which to sprinkle a happy bride and groom, was witnessed at the departure of the mid-day express for Invercargill one day last week. The young* couple were being farewelled Ijy hosts of friends, and confetti and rice were flying about in the time honoured fashioa when a few grains alighted bn another traveller who, with many scowls at the party, demanded that the fun should cease. “Senseless .practice,” he muttered. “Ought to be put a stop to.” He might have interfered further but with whoops of; delight-two jovial friends of the 'bride and bridegroom descended upon him and tWo large bags of rice were poured over his furious features. He glared balefully at the hilarious crowd, and, swallowing hard, subsided into a corner to rid himself of the thousands of little white pellets with which he was adorned.