LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14265, 16 January 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults ot his friends.

The Board of Trade requests grocers to confine orders of sugar to one wholesale distributing firm.

The Makura is not' proceeding to Sydney, but remains at Auckland for a week, and then returns to Vancouver. A Press Association cablegram states that Lady Dudley denies the sale of Witlcy Court, which was cabled yesterday.

The cadet training in No. 4 Group will be re-commenced on Monday evening, after the break of the holiday period. The weather in Hamilton has been decidedly unseasonable during the last 24 hours. Last night there was a heavyfall of hail, and during the night and this morning a cold wind blew. “The sooner, we get names of County j-oads disentangled and distinct the better,” said Gr. J. H. Burnet at a meeting of the Waito.tara County Council. He mentioned several roads which were known by, half a dozen different names. The By-Laws Committee was instructed to revise the names of roads in the County as soon as possible. !

Profiteering is not confined to groceries and textiles (says the Manawatu Times). A small boy visiting Palmerston North was charged 7s 6d for a taxi for perhaps half a mile from the railway station to Alexandra Street. He paid up, but his host a description of the car and has since been on the trail of its driver.

“It takes me about li hours Jo drink a long beer,” said a witness in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court. He was a defendant in an application for a prohibition order, and his state mem caused some merriment in the Court. “And how many long beers have you had this morning?” enquired the • i.'xgistrate of the witness. The witness very deliberately replied that he had not had any long beers.'

The repatriation officer, Mr P. H. Burbush, visited Matamata on W.ednesdav, and assisted the residents to set up a Repatriation Committee. Representatives from the Town Board, Farmers’ Union, Chamber of Commerce. Matamata County, Piako County, and Returned Soldiers’ Association have been nominated to act on the committee.

At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union last night a letter was read from the Vancouver Union asking that a New Zealand Rugby team 1 should be sent there next spring to play a series of matches on the Pacific Coast. The letter mentioned that Rugby is in a flourishing condition, and that they had many good players. A reply has been sent asking for further information regarding the seasons, etc., in that country. A lady visitor to the town had just cause for getting into a state of mild excitement last evening when, on getting to her lodgings, she missed her handbag, which contained jewellery and money to a fairly substantial amount. Everything was astir for a time hut the missing bag and its contents turned up this morning. The owner had attended an entertainment house in the evening and had gone out, leaving her property behind her.. It was handed over to her tills morning when she called in search. Needless to say it was a very thankful owner who received the bag and.its contents.

A total of .68 caSbs' of itifllicriza, all except three being of a mild character, were reported to the Auckland Health Department during the three day period which eiidc* 1 at noon yesterday. The cases were distributed as follows: — Citv, 15 mild cases; suburbs, 15 mild, on© severe; Waiuku, two mild; Streamlands, one mild; Waikato (Hamilton), two mild; Te Kuiti, five mild; Morrjnsvillo, five mild; Cambridge, two mild; Huntly, two mild; Walton, three mild; Otorohanga, seven mild; \\ aitomo, two severe, one mild; Thames, two mild; Omahu, one mild; Tauranga, one mild; Tangaroa, one mild. “And do the Americans still believe that they won the war?” was asked Mr J. C. Ward, who returned from the United States this week. ‘‘Not only do they believe they won the war on land, but' on the sea, and then afterwards they performed the incredible feat or clearing Hie North Sda of mines in a miraculous period of lime. I was reading of the ‘ incredible ’ feat in a paper, and noticed on the same page a cablegram where a captain of a steamer reported having sighted about a thousand mines oil' the- Danish coast, which kind of throw doubt upon the thoroughness with which they performed the ‘incredible’ rent.”

There; is every indication of aJI goods of Japanese manufacture becoming much higher, as Japan, like oliioe countries is full of labour troubles and unrest. In fact, in many lines, they are discussing the 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 tins 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 very lit,lie at present. Jackets 6s lid, gowns 11s 6d, to 21s. These are elaborately embroidered. —Hall’s Drapery Stores.'

The Manavvatu Daily Times reports that Mr H. Voss, the well-known Karere landowner, has added to his estate Mr W. I. Lovelock’s farm of over 300 acres, the price being £125 per acre. Tire authorities of the Smithsonian Institute for Scientific Research, have announced that Professor Clark has. invented a multiple charge rocketcapable of reaching heights of over 200' miles. Progress-is being made in the work of erecting a dried milk factory at Waitoa for the Thames Valley Cooperative Dairying Company, Ltd. It is expected that the factory will b* in readiness to commence the manufacture of milk powder at the loginning of next season. Large mobs of shoe]), transferred from Poverty Bay district to Waikato on account of the want of feed caused by tiie absence of rain, are passing through Rotorua. On Saturday 200 U sheep were driven along the stock" truck, and 2800 were paddocked to await transport by rail. Another mob of 6(100 was reported to bo on the road from Gisborne. While the war was in progress licenses were issued temporarily lo youths between IS and 21 years of ago, for driving taxi-cars in Wellington. This year the age has been raised again to 21 years, with the result that already several applicants have been f requcsted lo produce their birth certificates as evidence of their majority.

Speaking on the high prices of bacon,, a gentleman who is an authority on health said lie would make pork such a price that people would not buy it. “Since the pork famine of the last six c months or so,” he says, “there has been, a marked falling off of disease (especially one), and for the benefit of health it would be belter to prohibit tiie eating of pork than the drinking of good beer.”

Several men have recently applied tiy the Wellington Repatriation Board for loans in order to set up businesses which they propose shall be run by their wives or by hired labour while the applicants themselves are engager! in some other occupation. The has not considered itself obliged to assist men in the execution of such projects.

In regard to the material and design of the headstones to be placed on the gravestones of soldiers, no definite decision has yet been reached. The committee however, should present its final report shortly. For graves in the Dominion the headstones will be of New Zealand stone, but it is ■ not thought possible to arrange for the same material over the graves of soldiers buried abroad.

“If Americans want to stay young and live a century, they must rid themselves of Chicago’s meat industry. Chicago is the curse of America. Her meat products shorten the lives of Americans by decades. By this I mean that people who want to live a century must not eat meats as produced in Chicago.” Thus said Dr. Josiah Oldfield, the famous 90-year-young English authority on longevity.

The farmers of Lumsdcn district showed their patriotic spirit in a practical way on Saturday, December 27, >\v turning out in strong force with their teams and implements to help three returned soldiers who have taken up sections in the district. A splendid day and honest labour resulted in a large block of land being not only ploughed but fully cultivated ready-for sowing. In to-day’s issue the hairdressers announce an increase in hairdressing saloon charges. This has been rendered necessary through the great increase in the cost of the articles used in saloon work, added to which is the fact that wages have increased from 90 to 100 per cent compared with prewar rates. Notwithstanding this great advance in wages, country c-mployerS-are very often short-handed, the housing problem being such an acute one that married men. cannot be attracted from the larger towns, to which single men also show, a strong preference. Under the existing conditions the saloons arc showing little profit, and several shops throughout the Dominion have had to close this department cf their business altogether. The transport .Kigoma brought back a dozen military prisoners who had been tried by court-martial in England and sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment. Four of them, under sentence for purely. military offences,, were reprieved and discharged on arrival of the vessel. Six of the men,, whose conduct had been good, had their sentences considerably reduced and have now only short terms toserve. One of the other men is under sentence of years’ penal servitude for manslaughter, the shooting of a. New Zealand officer while he was attempting to take a revolver away front the prisoner, while another is serving a similar sentence for attempted mur-’ der. The two latter men were takento Auckland under armed escort. Councillors of the Woodville County spoke with complete unanimity concerning the advantage of linking their district up with Mangahao, when a progress report of the hydro-electric scheme was read at the last meeting of" the Council. Cr. Macfarlane predicted electricity revolutionising farm, dairy,,, and domestic work. He urged the necessity of making early application so that the country districts would not be overlooked in the big demands of Wellington city. A suggestion was made by Cr. Macfarlane regarding the standardising of polos and plants. Ho contended that if the material was purchased by the Government and was of a uniform stamp local bodies would he able to obtain it more cheaply. The following is a copy of a Ingram forwarded by Mr H. Holland, M.P., to the Attorney-General: —“1 desire to lodge the strongest possible protest against your action in the deportation of Moses Baritz from New Zealand. Notwithstanding that Baritz ’s attacks were directed mainly against the Labour Party and individual Labour members and Socialists, including myself, I voice the sentiment of the Labour movement in saving that the utmost freedom of expression must be conserved; that the idea of autocratically delivering sentence without any semblance of trial is repellent to .fair-minded people, destructive of all that is best in British jurisprudence, and reflective of the worst feature of Prussianism. ’ ’

For the seaside we are showing a fine range of children’s and ladies’ bathing suits and caps at special holiday values. All sizes are stocked, including bathing trunks tor the smaller . bovs.—Hooker and Kingston, Ltd., the House of Satisfaction, where yon o-et 3d discount in every us spent, (idoff in every 10s. 9d in 15s, and so on. This is the store where your money goes farthest.* "Trifles by being ivesplsed Grow Great.” Especially now, a cold seems trifling at first. If ignored, it gets a hold of the whole system and serious comp l ;- cations are liable to follow. This is more likely to happen in summer when colds come unexpectedly. That’s til the more reason why you must have Baxter’s Lnu? Preserver handy. \ dose at the ’ eginning and all is well. A course when a summer cold has hold of you and the trouble is quickly 'dispelled. Thousands praise ‘‘Baxter’s.’’ Yo-.n will too—after one tattle. Order it to-dav—it’s grand. 2/() buys largo size from Chemist or Store