LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The total of troops still abroad is now only 6760.

Tenders are ituvited for 'the iformin,g (labour only) of a concrete a,nd asphalt tennis court at Hopai, Haurak/i Plains.

Mr Ha,rry Collioie, who was *ov some time in the Tairaru Distiri'Cil-i Homos, died ait, tihe Auoklainid flkxapdl tlail on Tueeday last), ag'od 70 yeaang.

jA|piplica,tio!nsi for the position of cleaner for the Taranu School, addressed to Mr. Emsoll, secretary of the School Committee, will be reoeived; up till Wedinesday necct.

The Borough Conunoil decided ait last) meeting on tihe motion of Ctfs Ckiitoin asod Muiir, tlo emoiploy' married meni instead of single men wherever passible.

Anxiety is felt in Inveroargill for the safety of a party of five men who left Halfmoon Bay for ,Ruggedy in an ordinary fishing boat on Thursday last.

Between Monday and noon <m Thursday 23 oases' of ililfluienza ia North, and Sou-tih Canterbury were reported to the district health officer. Nine oases were pneumonic.

Whiite Island is agadii. uimisuially active, thimwiiig off a wlumii o£-,steainn fronK a/booiib 11 •a.m. yesten-day, and aibouit four timeis as large as om the occaedon recenltly rapotttad.

In the fiirat year there was a total otf 135,811 convlicittionß. 102,600 mieai and 33,211 womiemi. In thte last the, figure was 29^075, of whom 21^853 were mem ajnid 7,222 wierc womeni.

Inquiries do not .indicate thaib tihei suippiy of baoom pigs has imiproived. Thio demand for bacon camjcub be met, and dlealems cay th«y set. rto sprbspectt of better siuipiplies for* came monjtihs to coiinie.

.Misa Cora MeMn, tilie gifted lyrio Eojprano, has been added to ithe Jong, lifllti of ithose who will oontiribute songiS ait the OoarKnieirciial Travelers' Coniaert for the Ladies' Benevolonit; Society's funds on,. Sept. sth.

Hie rptficta of Portland ceiraen^ ha® been advanced by 9s per ton : ac froui August i* The risel is aititiribuited V a rise of 10b per tom in the prioe of oaai, and the increased! cost of freighite, wagjes, and general stores-

Two ipensoms am Irishtcwn. haive let oontraotg for th© arecrtricfn, ,of housesi. feiaad Of. Hardmian! a/t last Oounoil mieeitu'ng'j buife the bualdws could not. possibly get the timiber Up unless tihe ruts in, the road wetro filled. The CJounoii deciided thati thiis showld bo k a^iemded 1 to. a* onoe.

We regirfctti to reiport /the deaitlh of Mrs V. L. Savagei, of" Patetonga," ait the Thames Hosptfitial, yesterday afternoon after a start illnessi, in her 29tih year- Mrtg Sa.vagei came 'onit from England aiboiuiti 6 yuars ago. She leaivoa two little: children, the young'cat: being a few days old.

Moat of tituo police districts are within'the oiperartiiJoni of the Coaitrwl Board Orders, and ia these tihe niunaiber of ooniviicitaon.si were reduced froan 126,724 kt 1914 to 28,90 C in, 1&18. Poilice districitei paa'tly within the Orders showed 7,666 convictions, reduced to 1,785. In (police distaicte now cionrtroUed convicibione feJl from 1,421 to 334.

J Tlhe Public Work s Dfepartmieinib advised the Auciklamd Repia/tr'iaition, Dejpartimetnib tbait 20 man; are requireri fo!f tihe North Auckland. Tlr-ii'iik radlwiiV wonka beyond MaiuaigatiuxytlG', gangia are being foii'Tued, A furtihciri 20 men aa-e required for wad cleatr-ingi'-amid road-foaimafctom worksi at Kaniwhaniwhiai, 18 miles torn Hamilton,, 15 for rioiad'-widening a,t, Te/Miro;, seven mnlesi fimmi Oainjba-idge, ahid lO for tihe foirmaitiom of stiop-banikisi om the Waihou Rdivetr 1, five miles; froati Paeroai. Laerti week the Repatriartdon Departmeinti sefnib 45.■ men toi raiilway works a* Tfauramgia, amd at the; Main Truaok end of tihe .Sfetubford railwaty.

I* is; a-pity, remarks a Londiani paipeir-,, itih&rt) it ha® been decided to te&ve the markg, of daanag 1© done by i Gerraami bomib toi-the bioaize siphinxes a* tfae bafie of OLeespaibr&'a needle as a "war remjindea-." The hofes m these crealtiumes' sides ar e ugly, and we shall have plenty of ''war reminders'' without 'going in for umlorvelinieiss No lone knows, by jt,he way/what Uwagediea have been emaoited around Cleopatra'a Needle in -tih© dim -.pasb,.- but thm obelisk ha® seen Khiglisiiimetn' die grimiy, befotrte, even that dreadM tir'agedy of iitl e German, boanb and the tramcar upon tihe dark embankment. Six men lobt, their lives,, im a gallant buti fruata«3B aitrt©in<pt fo save -iJie Needle from (paa-iing oompamy wilth the sMp -aha* towed it to England, dvmtog a stoomx im the Ba,y of Biscay. I* was subsequenitly adjift for some time before it was recove cd.