LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LIII, Issue 14070, 18 December 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j - ' *; ■ . Corp. H. S.; eirokeir, of.. Thames, will retiwii tli© Kakoiaa..

A qualified sister is advertised for by the secretary of the local Hospital Board.

Mr T W. Rhodes 'Lit. this -issue re•tuTfas» thiwiks for re-eleotion a.n.d renerwal of cianfidanicie. T!hei Friinne Miaiisituv also retunns thanks for tiie loyalty to the pairty.

It w*as stated at a, political meeting In the Te Aroha 'district tliat one of the soldier settlers on the Mangatepara Estate, near Morrinsvillft > received a. return of only £3 10a foil" -oream for ten cows for the moaith of November. ,

l!hd oldest soun of Mr .T. W. Rhodes, Mr E' J. Rhode®, of the Supreme Court, Naipiiei', ha>s been appointed oleirk of court at Waipawa aaiid Waipiikaauu He recemtly returned aftei 1 aibout tlu'ee yeoiis* 'sei-vice in.J:he ti'einoTiesi.

An octopus measuring about 12ft from tip to tip of its tentacles was recently captured oft" Motu Otaai Island, Tauinin-ga.

"No Ruibbing I Lauadiy llelp> has caiptured the woanein t si' v<vt©, also ours. — W. Wood amd Sous.—^Advt..

In the Argentine 'Republic, if v man engaged to marry hesitates beyond a. reasonable time in leading his fiancee to the altar..,he is heavily fined.

"We've been doing so much, I think to should change our name 'to the '"Performers'"'-instead of Reformers." —Dr. -A. K. Newmaai_ Reform candidate for Wellington- East.

Lobsters. are sa.id to nave a great dread of thunder, and when peals are very loud will swim to 'deeper

water

In a. letter to the Times, 'Moslems of Cyprus urgently plead for the retention, of the island under British rule, and protest against the idea of i*s being ceded to Greece "on sentimental grounds."