LOCAL AND GENERAL

Temuka Leader, Issue 7555, 22 March 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A social dance will he held in the Victoria Hall, Winchester this evening.

Dominic Broderick, aged U years, was killed at Waitalunia on ’fuesday through falling off the truck of a threshing plant.

The Geraldine District, High School, Swimming sports, which were to have been held next week, will take place at ihe Baths on Friday next.

A final reminder is given that on account of thV Tcmuka and Gerald, A. and P. Show being held at Wim Chester to-day, business men and shopkeepers are requested to close at 11 o’.cloelj.

A Dunedin telegram slates that the price of coal is to be advanced a hymn, ten cent, within a w'eek or so. It is stated that the increase will be general throughout the Dominion.

The Minister lor Agriculture, Victoria, has announced that Britain is advancing £2,000,000 monthly on account of the 3,000,000 tons of new wheat. The total value of the crop is £22,000,000. 4' i,vi t jin» i

Through the medium of our advertising columns the Commissioner oi Crown Lands invites tenders for the grazing of 381 acres in the Seator tli Settlement, near Wasbdykc. Tenders dose on the 2nd April at -1 p.m.

The annual Show of the I’cmika and Geraldine Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held todav. All the arrangements on. the ground were completed yesterday, and the Show should be a complete success. All sections of the will he well represented, so there will be plenty to interest visitors. The profits will go io Patriotic funds, and the hearty support of |ho public is confidently expected.

“The greatest blot on our mmsirial system,” said Mr W. D. Hunt, of the National Efficiency Board, speaking at the Expansion League luncheon on Friday (says- the H«go Daily Times), “is the position of (he casual labourer. In many cases his outlook is uncertain from day to day, ami he has to spend much of his lime in enforced idleness. To my mind the man who can live m this -position and not go the devil must' be an angel from heaven.”—(Applause and laiighleiv)

The hearing of the perjury charges against Maori witnesses in the Rua trial last year was opened in the Supreme i Court at Hamilton on Monday afternoon. Benjamin Biddle, a son-in-law of Rua, and MaUui Hake pleaded guilty to charges of perjury, and each was sentenced to nine months hard labour. W. Hape, native interpreter, was charged with secreting a witness, thus perverting the course of justice, pleaded not guilty. He assert oil that ho helped the man away because he was told to do so bv Mr Euudon, solicitor for the defence in the Rua ease.

Leave your orders for new horse covers, and get. the old ones repair ed.—Douglas B. Muir If vour child has a nasty cough give the little one “NAZOL.- .Five drops on sugar will work wonders. "NAZOL” always reHevoa. 6Q do»*t coat gal t !/•*

Through tho medium of our advertising columns Mr A. Smith announces that he will run his motor lorry from Temuka to the Winchester Show Ground to-day, the. first journey starting at 10,15 a-m-

The first frost of the season is reported from. Christchurch. The other night a 'sharp frost played havoc with tomatoes and marrows, and a huge grower reported tinvt half The crop of tomatoes was affected and would probably be spoiled.

The Conciliation Council at Auckland, after a sitting of ten days, arrived at a settlement ot the, dispute filed by the' Timber Workers* Union. The settlements affects over 2000 men. A substantial increase ol wages is involved.

The C.E.M.S. has raised £16,500 for the • Hutments’ Lund in England, and proposes to raise a similar amount if necessary. In New Zealand the society proposes to collect £IO,OOO, of which sum £IOOO has already been collected in Canterbury.

The suggestions of the Geraldine Committee for the selection, appointment, etc., of Trustees for soldiers’ farms, which has been, referred to as the “Geraldine scheme,” have been given the official approval of the Commissiouco of the Efficiency Board for Canterbury.

After 18 months’ service in Egypt and England, Burgeon-Captain. ]?, T* J'utham, of Palmerston North Hospital, has returned. In an interview, he said that one', af the most astounding features of the war had been the oxceedibgly small death-rate liiom disease, in comparison with previous wars, this being due to the great advance in preventive medicine and belter organisation of sanitation iu the camps. Dr. Putnam paid a great tribute to the work of the nurses. Ho said bo thought that next to the men fighting in the front line, the -most deserving of credit are the' stretcher-bearers and the hospital nurses. '

A cable from Loudon slates that a football team of New Zealanders from Hornchurch, beat a team of Canadians by 38 points tu 3.

For Sale.—Set second-hand gig harness.—Douglas B. Muir

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVER TISEMENTS.

A, Smith, Tcmuka, will run motor

lorry to Temulta Show. Commissioner of Crown Lands— Tenders for grazing 384 acres of land. P. W. Hislop, Mayor of Geraldine— Bequests business people to close premises to-day at II a,mi, S.C. Pictures Co., Ltd.—Pictures at Temuka and Geraldine. »