LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18487, 31 October 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

America and the Allies are, according to the United States National Servica Handbook, faced with a ■wheat shortage of 250.million bushels.

In the Wharepoa Hall to-morrow evening a welcome social will be tendered to the returned soldier boys. A special invitation is extended to all returned boys.

By special request the little Saskatchewan town of "Prussia" will be! changed to "Leader." Prussia and Berlin are now being wiped off the map of Canada.

Concrejte .ships, 200 feet long and costing £20,000, are to be construct- j ed by a syndicate^ in Montreal. They j will be ready in less than three months.

Four Oliinsemuri County ratepoy- j era, says the Te Aroha News, are required' for the Thames Hospital Board. Fiom present indications,! we understand, only two of the County members. tare seeking reelection on the Board. j

Very high prices are at present miling for sto^k in England. At the Ringssbridge fair, held recently, fat bullocks realised £50 each, Tho average price for breeding ewes was about £5, store wethers £3 10s, and lambs £2 14s.

To celebrate bis seventieth birthday, Mr. Joseph Holt, J.P., ihe well-known. Liverpool shipowner, is giving £70,000—£1000 for , every year- o"f his life—to charity. Thirty thousand pounds goe® to ,sifcart a fund for the benefit of marine engineers and firemen, and .£SOOO to Liverpool Cathedral.

Announceanenit was made on September Ist, by physicians of the Jewish Hospital!, Philadelphia, Ithat the gerai of infantile paralysis ha» beep discovered and isolated. The cure of the dread disease, it is believed, is a matter of but a short time now that the germ can easily be studied.

In reply to Mr Payne, M.P., who asked the Attorney-Ganeral whether any enquiry had been made By the j police /dspad'tiing the Howard Elliott letteips, the Minister (Hon. A. L. Herdman) said that tbe result of the police reports was that there was no foundation for the sta,te>ments in two of the letters. A Press Association message states that Mr P. C. Webb, M.P. for Grey ; who has been drawn jn the ballot, ha 1* tendered his resignation to tho Speaker, to take effect, the ! week after the close <<f the session, on ihe ground that he thinks it inadvisable that his district should be unrepresented during his absence at the front. ' » . ■ Owing to the isilting up of the river at Paeroa, the Northern Steamship Co* has decided to send a boat to Netheirton, a smaller boat being used for thei Paeroa service. The new time-tabliet appears in our advertising 'columns. The question of the isilting'up of the river was referred, to recently by Mr Roland in the House of Representatives. , Notice is given that &t a\ special meeting of the Thames County Council, a resolution was passed and will •be submitted lor confirmation at the County meeting on Neiveniber 6, authorising the Council to raise a loan of £1300 for the purpose cf construction of a ferry across the Waihou River, together with other works. A copy of the resolution is open for inspection at the County offive, during; public office hours;, until November 6. Mr. W. H. Potts, returning ©nicer for the W&iotafoi, Ka.uae~ j ranga, Parawai, Totora, Puriri, Hikutaia, Tairua, Turua, and Piako ridings of the County of Thames, gives notice that the •triennial election of councillors will bo held on Wednesday, November ■14, and that one councillor will require to be. elected' for each .of ihe said ridings, and that Wednesday, November 7 is the day and: the office of the Thames. County Council the place for receiving, nominations' of candidates for tfoa office of coun- i cillors for each of the said ridings.