LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14260, 10 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Falsehood is in a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished.— Dr. Parker.

For Hie concert by the New South Wales State Orchestra in Hawera 15s is being charged for reserved seats. There was an unusually large crowd / in Victoria street, Hamilton, last night, ' the visitors to the Trots no doubt swelling the attendance.

The second concert given in Auckland last night by the New South Wales Slate Orchestra drew a very large audience. The orchestra again made a vivid impression by reason of its great performance.

Hamilton housewives begin to fear that the sugar famine will result in a waste of small fruits, and compel them to abandon the winter store for their delectable home-made jams, compared with which the tinned variety is a poor substitute.

On Monday next a special meeting of the North Auckland Land Board will bo held. The business of the meeting will be the consideration of adopting some means whereby the applications from returned soldiers for financial assisance will be executed with greater expedience.

The whole of the records of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force were recently brought back to New Zealand by Major Westmacott, formerly officer in charge of war records in London. These records are now being indexed, filed and stored in the old E.N.Z.A. Barracks, which has been specially set apart for that purpose. Jelly fish are still so bad in Hauraki Gulf that fishermen refuse to risk the loss of their nets by putting out from Thames. One launch swept beyond Coromandel, and received a few fish, but others running towards Waiheke still found jellyfish too thick to risk using their nets.

“Wc are down to ounces,” said a prominent coal dealer i,o a Post reporter, when questioned regarding the acute shortage of coal. These words appear to sum up the whole position as far as Wellington is concerned. Coal for household purposes is unobtainable, and dealers during the past few days have been mainly engaged in turning hundreds of orders down.

A well-dressed man is said to have visited the Chinamen of Otaki and district and telling them that a Chinese boy in Wellington had met with a sad misfortune, secured quite a sum of money from them. He is also said to have visited a residence at Manakau,and while the owner’s attention* was diverted stole several articles and a sum of money. The following officers and executive councillors of the Federated Seamen’s s Union for Auckland district have been declared elected: President, Millbank; vice-presidents, Messrs D. McLellan and H. Williams; treasurer, Mr" W. Simpson; secretary, Mr T. F. Anderson; assistant secretary, Mr J. T. Kyle;, executive, Messrs Millbank, Aiiderson' and McLellan. Mr W. T. YouOg has 1 been declared general secretary. Thousands of people witnessed the’ funeral of the late Motorman Small,, one of the victims of the recent tram 1 accident at Wellington. The funeral was of a most impressive character andf was one of the largest held in Wellington for some time. Members of the tramway service—inspectors, motormen, carshed and powerhouse hands—attended in large numbers. It was a striking tribute to the respect in which they held a comrade who had died while on duty. They formed up in two single files, the majority of the men being in uniform. 4 An Ashburton resident who has recently returned from a tour in the Norlh Island informed a Guardian reporter that he considered, after seeing thehigh prices paid for dairying land in the north, land in the south county was. selling too cheap. In the Waikato,, where the land boom started some years: ago, and had continued to the present time, it was not uncommon to pay £BO. to £9O per acre for dairying land, and then, in order to make it pay, have toput, up to 2i tons per acre of manure, on per annum. The farmer who could; stand the cold had a much easier time of it in the Ashburton County, and thedrain on his pocket to buy in was noL nearly so heavy. At a public auction, held at the Auckland Land Board’s Offices yesterday, five educational reserves with a total area of about 2493 acres, were offered .for lease. The reserves are situate im the Eotorua, Awakino and Taurangas counties, and in Hamilton East. Of the-* five, four were passed in, and the re--maining one, 200 acres in the Maunga--mangero survey district, was leased at £lO per annum to Mr L. H. Phillips. Tiiis sale is the second of a series being held throughout the Dominion during this month. In all 41,000 acres are being opened for selection. In the Auckland and North Auckland districts, there are about 100 sections totalling; 13,000 acres, 10,000 of which are being offered under a renewable lease, while the remainder under lease by tender, and sale by public auction. The sections ore suitable for grazing, building and' small holdings. When the transports Kigoma and Ruapehu, the last two troopships loleave England, and now on the water, discharge their complements on New Zealand shores, the only members of the Expeditionary Force remaining to he repatriated will bo certain details in England and France. The number of soldiers still abroad, however, is very small, and consists principally of a few details in London dealing with the disposal of New Zealand Army stores, etc., and educational students. There are also five men in France attending to. deceased soldiers’ graves. It is anticipated that the demobilisation schemewill be concluded by January 31s(. After that date any troops remaining in England will be repatriated from time to time under the direction of the High Commissioner, as passengers by convenient vessels.

There is every indication of all goods of Japanese manufacture becoming much higher, as Japan, like other countries is full of labour trouble? and unrest. In fact, in many lines, they are discussing (he prohibition of export. This is going to make a huge difference to the goods on which we depend solely on receiving from that country. In view of this we are buying all the Jap. goods we can, and holding for the benefit of our clients. We have probably enough crepe dressing jackets and kimonos to last us this season and next. These goods are well worth buying now, as the prices have advanced verv little at present. Jackets Gs lid, gowns 11s Gd, to 21s. These are elaborately embroidered. —Hall's Drapery Stores. "NO RUBBING” Laundry Help is free from all chemicals t other injurious chemicals, hence the popularity of “NO RUBBING," Is packet.—Ginson’s. • The King of Tonics Forsythe’s Vigor Tonic—invaluable as a pick-me-up after influenza, colds, etc. Bottles, 2s Gd and 4s Gd—Forsythe, Chemist, Hamilton

Mr R. M. McCallum, M.P. for AVairau, wuo has been staying in the aistrict for the past fortnight, returned to Wellington last night. During his sla> Mr MeOallum motored, with his famil) , to both Rotorua and Auckland. In the course of an interview with a Times reporter he was most emphatic m Stating that his visit to Rotorua hail nothing to do with the much heralded -meeting of Liberals. He deprecate*. ' any such conference, and said he toil certain his fellow-members of t Liberal Party would view the matter in the same light. As Parliament w. s not at all likely to meet until June re saw no reason for the small, thoug determined, band of Liberals mee mo in any hurried fashion. When they * there would, no doubt, be som plain 'talking, as well as sound thin cing, for the ultimate good of the country as a whole, apart altogether from the desire of some to push themselves to the front at (a most inopportune time.