LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 47, Issue 143053, 17 March 1921, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Panama, per Haroto close at Mastertou on Monday 21st inst., at 6.30 a.m. Mails for Aus> tralian States, per Garbeta, close nere on ’Saturday, March 19th, at 4.30 p.m. “I have just returned from Central Otago, where sheep were selling at 9s a dozen,” was the remark of Dr. J. P. Frengley, when faced at Ashburton with a hospital-building programme to cost £20,0Q0," to which the Government was asked to contribute half in the form of subsidies. Apparently the Hospital Board did not require to be told that this was another way of asking: “Where is the money to come from?” “The notion that booksellers should be acquainted with more than the titles of ‘best sellers’ might he developed withVrare advantage to the public,” says a London paper. “It is true that London has bookshops were books are really known, and advice can be given the customer if he needs it. But it has also bookshops —anjl some say they arc the majority —where remarkable ignorance is shown by the,,assistants and proprietors of any books beyond the more popular novels of the hour. It was in such a shop that a customer asked not long ago for a translation of Hine, pronouncing the word according to the German. The assistant said that he had never heard of this author. The names of fhei translator --and publisher were mentioned to assist him. ‘Oh,’ he then said, ‘you mean Hane, the Scotch poet’.” We wish,the writer in the London paper knew some of our New Zealand shops. In one we know a man asked for a copy of “The Taming of the Shrew.” “Who by?” asked the assistant. In another an enquiry for the “Golden Treasury” produced a cookery book bearing that name. Always use “NO RUBBING” Laundry Help for wasin.g clothes.*

Porcelain coinage has been struck •at the factory of Meissen to supersede small paper money, and is now in circulation in Saxony.

It has been deeided to close the Palmerston North Borough Council offices between the hours of 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. each day.

Very favourable comment has been made upon the excellent work and rapidity of the borough staff in tarring and sanding Perry street.

Owing to the financial situation, the Education Department has informed the Wellington Education Board that it is impracticable to grant several of the board's requests at the present time. At the Wanganui Hospital Board meeting yesterday, says the Herald, it was stated that a woman receiving charitable aid was the best-dressed woman on the lawn at tho recent Wanganui races! The Board decided to discontinue the charitable aid.

At the sitting of the Petone Magistrate's Court yesterday, 78 motor car speed limit cases, 54 of which were “catches” from the recent race mootin''-, came up for hearing. A conviction was entered in each case, fines ranging from £1 to £2, with 7s costs, being inflicted.

A large gathering of -Maoris yesterday celebrated at To O.re Ore the fortieth anniversary of the unveiling at Tc Ore Ore of the monument commemorating the peaceful blending of pakeha and Maori and the introduction of Christianity. The Natives also discussed the advisability of removing the monument to the Masterton Park. Mr. Taiawhio Te Tau, who was t'he previous day elected chairman of the Eongokokako Maori Council, presided, and speeches were made throughout . the day by leading chiefs of the district. The annual smoke concert fo the Red Star Football Club was held in tne Druid's Hall last night, there being an attendance @i over 100 persons. Mr. E. J. Southgate (patron) occupied the chair, and a most enjoyable time was spent. The following toasts were honoured: "The King,” “Wairarapa Rugby Union,” “Kindred Sports,” “The* Ladies,” “The Referees,” “The Press.’ items were rendered by Messrs. D. Wilson, J. W. Henderson, T. Woods, G. Slater, Seorrar, H. Williams, S. Lee, and a recitation by Mr List. „

Rathe.r a comfortable-looking car was pulied up in a Napier street and a bystander drew the attention of the driver to the fact that he had lost his number plate. The obliging individual promptly offered to get a piece of chalk to mark the number on the ear, in order to save the owner being fined three quid. He went into a shop and returned with the chalk, and then the following dialogue occurred: “What’s your number!” “1 have not got one.',' “Well, you’ll be fined.” “Look on the •back of the car.” The bystander did so and on seing a crown said: “Oh, so you travel for a brewery?” Tho driver then explained that the crown represented Royalty, and that the ear belonged to the Governor-General, and was not governed by the law r s of the land. —Taumarunui Press.

The ease was continued in the Magistrate’s Court at Masterton yesterday afternoon in which the Public Trustee proceeded against C. T. Elers and his wife in connection with matters affecting the administration of the estate of the late Mrs. Ethel Louisa Donaldson, daughter of the defendants. Mr. R. R. Burridge appeared tor the Public Trustee, and Dr. Trimble for Mr. and •Mrs. Elers. In his evidence C. T. Elers, native agent, said that before leaving her home for a private hospital, deceased , had caused a jewel ease to be brought to her bed, from which she apportioned the contents, requesting witness to carry out. her wishes. Before leaving her house she handed tho key to -witness, instructing him to take charge of the contents for her infant child Tangi. Evidence was also given by the nurse, Mrs. Martha Thompson Jackson, and a man named Phillips. On the suggestion of Mr. Burridge, the Magistrate agreed that counsel should submit legal argument in writing.

The arrest of a divorced society woman, Marianne Koponv, has, according to a Vienna message, caused a great sensation there. She is charged with having attempted to poison a rich pawnbroker,* Maurice Frey, whom she invited to a first-class hotel lo luncheon, afterwards ogering him sweets. As he found the bon-bon tasted suspiciously, he surreptitiously took it out of his month and hiil it in his pocket. He shewed it to a chemist, who discovered that it contained a most dangerous poison. Frey afterwards summoned the woman by telephone to his office, where she was arrested. She confessed that she intended to murder the pawnbroker in order to obtain extremely valuable jewellery which he carried on him. Her lover, a married man, was found in her flat last August dead from blood poisoning. Now it is suspected that she poisoned him, and the criminal investigation department has ordered the exhumation of the body. The woman, it is said, is given to heavy drinking, and is a morphinomaniac.

A help is required. Position as liousekeper sought. A house is advertised for sale. A lost tyre is advertised for. See fruit advertisement on page one. A lady’s tricycle is advertised for sale.

A reliable man requires charing work or window cleaning.

Waitresses engaged for Masterton races sec advertisement on page one. Advertiser has vacancy for two gentlemen boarders in private family. A great Easter sale will be held at C. D. Shoosinith’s store, commencing tomorrow, at 9 a.m. Mr. B. S. Gerrand will conduct a sale of household furniture and effects ail in excellent order, on account of Miss Beil. The sale will take place at 26 Albert Street on Friday, at 2 p.m. The Wairarapa North Sub-committee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society will hold its annual meeting of license holders and others interested on Tuesday next, 22nd inst., at 7.30 o’clock, in Mr C. C. Boss’s office, Queen street.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers /to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that Returns of Land must be furnished not later than the Bth April. Forms of .return may be obtained at any postal money-order office; they will not be sent to taxpayers from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes unless written' application is made for them. Lessees in occupation of land owned by Natives are now required to furnish a return of land so occupied. Sparklet Bulbs B or C now procurable. Write for new Bubber Washers and Pin, enclosing threepence postage. Sharland and Co., Ltd., Wellington. * Wood’s Blood Punnet and Tome —A uowerfu.. nerve and blood tonic Pne* fid. H. T. Wood, Pharmacist, and - emist (by exam.), Masterton. *

The Masterton sittings of the Supreme Court :will open to-morrow afternoon. The creditors (victims) of Farrow’s Bank, London, are to receive 3s in the pound. On account of the Supreme Court sittings there will be no meeting of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce tomorrow. At a. meeting yesterday of the South Island Brass Bands Association, a letter was read from the North Island Bands’ Association, suggesting that one big combined control be held annually, in the North and South Island alternately, it was eventually resolvdd that no action be taken in the matter. Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., said in the House yesterday that there was a suspicion that the fafal fire in Wanganui was duo to- the use of cheap matches. He asked the Minister of Industries and Commerce to cause an analysis to be made of matches from stores throughout the Dominion, and tests of their combustibility. Mr Lee expressed pleasure that the matter had been brought before him, and promised to have it looked into.

The Department of Agriculture and Commerce at Tokio estimates the season’s rice harvest in Japan at 63,000,000 koku (one koku equals approximately live Imperial bushels). With the 5,000,000 koku carried over from last season, and with the prospective. crop of Korea and Formosa, the total is expected to reach over 90,000,000 koku. According to the Japan Weekly Chronicle, the present is the richest rice crop ever known in Japanese history, and it is computed that supplies will exceed demand by some 30,000,000 koku. )