LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14774, 13 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts. Several sailors from 11.M.5. Chatham were in Hamilton to-day, For one of the rarest known stamps in the United Kingdom, the lOd redbrown, issued in 1865, £250 was given at Harmer Rooke's sale in London recently.

Scrim that was selling a few months ago at is 9d is now selling at is .per yard, says the Wanganul Herald. First grade scrim before the war sold at 6d per yard.

A tennis court is being constructed in Hawera of a mixture of a new cement and sawdust. The cement is being manufactured in Taranald, and will mix easily with paper, garden soil, rubber, and almost any other material. The full extent of its .possibilities has not yet been plumbed. At a meeting of the Waikato Cricket Association executive last evening, a report was received from the special Committee which was set up at the annual meeting to inspect the Seddon Park wickets. It, was decided to carry out a further inspection on Saturday, the committee to meet on the ground at 3 o'clock with the groundsman. The output of the Ngaruawahia butter factory is approximately eight tons per day. reports tlie Ngaruawahia Advocate. The dryish spring, with less luxuriance of growth than usua. 1 , is assisting the buttermakcrs to produce a high-grade product, a wealth of growth meaning a variety of flavours, which is difllcult and sometimes impossible to eliminate.

At the Thames Police Court, Sergeant McDonnell commented on the strange way some men picked up, or attempted to pick up, a living. The two men in the dock, he said, apparently made a practice of camping near an abattoir. They got hold of discarded horns. One of them was a polisher. The horns were scraped and polished, mounted in a cheap way and then hawked about for sale.

The surgeon-superintendent reported for the five weeks' ending October 12, that the number of patients in hospital at last return was 116 males and 77 females; admitted since, 12S males and 02 females; deaths, 6 males, 3 females; discharged, 123 males and 90 females; remaining 115 males and 76 females. The daily average attendance was 195, and the number of operations 111.

The Innes Memorial Shield, which goes to the winning senior team in the Hamilton Rugby League competition, the Grigg Bulldog, for the winners of the "knock-out" round, and the various medals which have been presented for competition this season, are on view in the window of Mr F. T. Wilson, mercer. These will be presented at the social gathering which the League will hold In Toorak Chambers on Saturday evening.

The current issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review is abundantly inter ■■■ spersed with high-grade illustrations, representing sport in all its phases and topical happenings of cosmopolitan interest. The' pictorial section depicts Cupidon's brilliant victory in the A.J-C. Derby, the A.J.C.'s spring campaign at Randwick, yacht racing at Cowes, and Plymouth regattas, American and French stars at tennis, Jockeys v. Boxers League football match in Auokland, members of the local Amateur Operatic Society in "A Country Girl," and a miscellaneous selection of other attractive subjects. • Constable Wade states that he cannot say too much in praise of the part played by the miners of Glen Massey, who rendered such valuable aid on the occasion of the accident which occurred at the Mile Bush on Saturday night, says the Ngaraawahia Advocate. After doing all they could for the surviving members of the unfortunate motor party, says Mr Wade, their successful efforts to extricate the body of the late Mr A. Upton from its difficult position were hazardous and herculean in character. When Mr Massey, at the civic reception at Wellington on Monday, was praised by the Mayor for his fighting qualities, he told a little story he was reminded of. On the way to Vancouver he developed something like a boil on his neck, and when he arrived he was unable to wear a collar. The papers were very aDxious to obtain interviews that he was not particularly anxious to grant. One of the papers came out later with the announcement: "The Prime Minister/ of New Zealand arrived by the Niagara last night, and is staying at the Vancouver Hotel. Coming ashore with his neck in silk handkerchiefs, Mr Massey looked exactly like a retired prize-fighter." "I think," Mr Massey added, "they followed it up by saying 'or a prize-fighter who had not retired.' So somehow I got the" reputation of a fighting man outside of my own country." At the Central Power Board's meeting the engineer reported that less than half the suppliers along the completed power routes had linked up so far. ,Mr Overton attributed this chiefly to "financial reasons, as many of the settlers had not the money to purchase the motors just at this period. This prompted a member to remark that if they received only Is progress payment, as was forecasted-for butterfat, the prospects were not too bright. It would be much better if every person along the high tension routes were to j connect up with the supply. It was | further remarked during discussion j that the Board should go nowhere unless the signatures were obtained and a deposit secured.

An interesting development in connection with Nauru Phosphate :s reported from. England. Owing to the low grade of the Slag now being made it has been decided to use high-grade Nauru island Phosphate to mix with Hie Slag and su increase the analysis uf it. In a recent issue of the Fertilizer Journal the South Wales Basic Slag Company advertised "Slag Phosphate," consisting of half low-grade Slag and half high-grade Nauru Island Phosphate. This measure will enable the supplies uf low-grade Slag at Home to be profitably utilised and disposed of to farmers, but from Lhc point of view of New Zealand farmers there will be very little advantage liu paying freight on Nauru Phosphate to England and freight bark again to New Zealand in the form uf Slag, when the genuine high-grade phosphate can be I roeured direct from the Island and ground locally. The New Zealand Department of Agriculture desires this development in the Home fertilizer trade to be known as widely as possible and recommends the use of the lurally ground article, which procedure, as Mi- A. F. Eljis, Commissioner for tin' Island, points out, will enable lhc local grinding plants to be worked to theiir full capacity and so ensure economical production and lower prices for manures 26"? Miss E. C. Christie. Victoria Street, Hamilton, was successful in winning lhc Quin-Qilenna Competition. The verse will appear in Saturday's Issue.*

The skilled Chiropractor adjusts Ills patients without pain. See Mr D. C. Klackie, Everybody's Building:, Victoria Strroi opp. House and Daking). Lady atimiMiv. Consultation free: 10-tS,' and 2-4, Mon., Wed., Frl. 7-8 p.m., and by appointment.*

Tim official opening or St. Paul's Tennis Club's courts will lake place uii Saturday next, at 230 p.m. The fortnightly euchre tournament of the Hibernian Society will be held in St. Mary's Hall to-night. "If every person in the Dominion ate a pound of honey each year it would consume the entire season's output," remarked the chairman at the meeting of the Beekeepers' Association at Hamilton to-day.

"Just now we have five distinct parties in the. House," haid Mr G. U. Sykes, M.P., at a luncheon in Masterton. "There is the dominant parly; the Reform; the official Opposition Party; the Labour Party; the National, Progressive and Moderate Labour Party; and then that, noble band of independents. I claim to be one of the Independent Party."

The wholesale price of butter in Christchurch has been further reduced by 2d a lb., and the retail rates arc accordingly lowered from 2s id lo is lid lb in most, instances. Several city grocers, who for the past few weeks have steadily cutting with butter, are. retailing standard Canterbury brands at Is lOd, and selling their own brands at is 9d per lb. Canterbury factories, says the Sun, are obviously making determined efforts to prevent North. Island factories from gaining a footing on the Christchurch market, and to this the latest revision of prices on their part is largely attributed. The drop in the wholesale prices >is from Is lid lb net to Is BJd. Since the season opened on September 1, factory rates have been reduced by s}d lb. At tlic meeting of the management committee of the Waikato Cricket Association last evening, It was decided to accept the nomination of the Ngaruawahia Club in the local competitions. It was also deoided to invite entries for a junior competition, and provided sufficient teams enter, this competition will take place. The committee have engaged the services of a groundsman for the early part of the season. An immediate start will be made in getting Scddon Park In order and players and others interested are asked to attend at the Park on Saturday afternoon to get things going. Entries for the senior competition will close on the 21st inst., and those for the junior later in the month. Notice to this effect will be advertised. The committee intend to hold an opening day to which mem--j ers of lneal bodies, officials of Hie club and association and the general pi'blic will be invited.