LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18243, 17 July 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday's Sharemarket. On the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday the following sales were reported:—Commercial Bank, 14s; New Zealand Breweries, 34s tid; South British, 51s.

Umbrella Found. The police advise that they have an umbrella found in the Park on July ir> The owner should apply for it at the Police Station.

Maintaining Roads. As farmers we cannot afford to pay the cost of maintaining roads at the present price of primary produae," said Mr J. Carr at a meeting of the Ashburton County Council. Eventually they would have to ask the Government to derate the farm lands and make the users of the roads pay. It took the wool off COO sheep last year to pay his local body rates and land tax.

Brothers, Not Cousins. "If Australia, Canada and New Zealand can only regard America as a brother and not as cousin, then the future of the white race in the Pacific is assured," said Mr D. Wilson, of the Oregon University debating team, when bidding farewell on behalf of the team to Christchurch friends. "In the Pacific, it is a matter of races, not of countries; of colour, not of nationality." Remedies for Chilblains. The visiting students from the Oregon University are deriving a great deal of amusement from the seriousness with which one of their efforts at a display of humour has been received (says the Christchurch Times). On arriving in New Zealand they certainly encountered real winter weather, and in attempting to contrast the warmth of the we-come accorded to them, with the churlish climatic conditions, one of them humorously said that they had to come to New Zealand to suffer from chilblains. The kind heart of the New Zealand people went out to them in their sufferings, and they have received sufficient boxes of ointments and bottles of liniment to treat the ohilb'ains of practically an army. One of the students, on displaying the latest addition to the stock of remedies, slyly remarked that one thing New Zealand and his own country appeared to have in common was the number of "infallible" cures for each of the ills that flesh is heir to. But apart from the humorous side of the matter, they fully appreciated the kindness that prompted the many remedies sent them.

Believe It or Not. The following appeared as a news item in the Taranaki Herald of May 30, 1574: —"A fine bay horse in California was found suspended one morning from a cherry tree, by the neck, and dead. He had been left hitched to a branch of the tree, which had grown so rapidly during the night that it raised him off his feet and hung him. And they don't think of fencing in California."

Value of Slumps. "The 1922 slump made the dairy farmers in the ,Waikato," said Mr C. M. Hume, Dominion supervisor of herd-testing, in addressing a meeting at Rangotea on Thursday. This was not because they had more brains than farmers in other districts, he said, but because the drop in prices made necessary an improvement in methods for self-preservation. Mr Hume said that he was of the opinion that the present depression would have a similar result.

Non-Smoking."

Following the practice in some countries on the Continent, says the Railways Magazine, the Great Western Railway in England has labelled 25 per cent, of its passenger accommodation "non-smoking." "It is not only the male smoker who has nowadays to be considered," says the magazine. "There is also a large proportion of smokers among the fair 'sex, while many women not actually indulging in the habit themselves seem to love to journey in the more or less fragrant atmosphere of a smoking compartment'"

A No-Confidence Motion is before the House, but there is no Question of any no-confidence ideas in the mind of any man who gets his clothes her?. To have the confidence that you are well and correctly dressed, get your clothes at Jorgenseh's.*

Hockey and Rugby Dance. The College Old Girls' Hockey Cub and the College Old Boys' Football Club are holding their popular monthly dance in the Queen's Theatre on Monday evening, 20th inst. There will be the usual number of novelty dances, and a dainty supper will be provided. The Collegians' Orchestra will be in attendance, and Mr G. >S. Buchan will officiate as M.C.