LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15101, 23 November 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A cable message states that the newspaper printers' strike has spread to Berne (Switzerland). A London cable message states that owing to fog, the wool sales have been postponed. /

Mr Adlam, vice-president of the New Plymouth Veterans' Association, In the. course of some remarks stated that there were 700 Maori war veterans still alive in New Zealand, the youngest at a recent conference being 72.. Visiotrs to the Coast during the week-end report that already pohutukawa flowers are to be seen (says the Thames Star). The trees are not yet in full bloom, but the Maoris say that the early individual flowering indicates a very dry summer.

Mr Christcnsen, one of the two Labour candidates contesting the Palmerston North seat, stated at Terrace End on> Monday (says the Standard) that the New Zealand Labour Party's land policy had been drawn up by a watchmaker !

"My sympathies are . with • the masses," stated Mr T. in a political address! at Roseneath,'Wellington. "I have been a wage-earner, but I have not been a unionist, because I have had to work too long: hours to be a unionist. I have always gone for the biggest salary I could get, and I, always got it, beoayse I have not been afraid of work."

There is no more delightful emendation of a hymn than one that was made necessary by the advance 'of modern locomotion in "The Son of God goes forth to war." Bishop Heber wrote: "0 God, to us may grace be given, to follow in the train!" Tims it stood in the earlier books. When the coming of the railway gave the following "in the train," a familiar meaning unknown to the Bishop of Calcutta, revision committees were obliged to provide against the laughter-provoking Quality of the line by altering it "To follow in Thy train."

Signor Mussolini, the Fascist Premier of Italy, is a practised swordsman who never refuses a challenge, and whose duels are innumerable, according, to the. London Daily Mail's special correspondent. One of the most remarkable young men of Europe, this is the second act of his career, dramatically contrasting with the first before the war. Before he was aged 30 he was the unchallenged dictator of the Socialist Party, but the war revealed him as an ardent patriot, resulting in his immediate divorce from the Socialists. He is dark, clean-shaven, and of medium height. His waist is slim and his appearance is almost dapper. His movements arc lithe and abounding with energy. Mrs Thrifty, of Frankton, was entertaining some friends at afternoon lea the other afternoon, when the conversation drifted to the furnishings of the home. Mrs Kecribuyor was in the room and was enthusiastic to mention about the beautiful linoleums in Parquay oak and effects which she purchased for 8s lid running yard, and a nice tapestry runner for the hall to match at r >s 3d yard, and a pretty grey goat skin rug in a largo size for 29s lid. She says things are much cheaper here than in Auckland, at least she has found them so. .Mrs Thrifty asked Mrs Kecnbuyer where she rnutte these purchases of the beautiful furnishings, and her answer was the big store with-(he new fine plate glass windows; lei me see, the name was Hooker and Kingston's, where you get service and satisfaction always.*

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To have lived under five sovereigns, to have served under seven bishops, and to have seen nearly 70 years in the Anglican ministry in New South Wales, is the record of Rev. Septimus Hungerford, who now, in his 98th year, resides on the heights overlooking Mosman's Bay, Sydney. "If there is one thing more than" another New Zealand has cause to be proud of it is our Supreme Court judges," said Mr Massey in his speech at Devonport. "We can trust the judges as being thoroughly unbiassed and impartial. During the 30 years I have been in Parliament I have never heard any suggestion of a case of 'graft' where a Supreme Court judge is concerned." The Prime Minister's remarks evoked hearty applause.

The statement of assets and liabilities in the estate of Hector Clarence Groves, of Morrinsville, farmer, who has been adjudicated a -bankrupt, shows debts to unsecured creditors amounting to £166 3s 2d and to secured creditors £4140. The estimated value of securities is £4OBO, leaving a total deficiency of £226 3s 2d. In a written statement, bankrupt attributes his failure to the high price paid for the land he farmed and the low prioe received last season for butterfat.

In connection with the proposed farm college at Ruakura an important and largely-attended meeting of educational, local body, and agricultural delegates, to the number of about 50, was held in Hamilton this morning, when it was decided to give the scheme every support and to set up a strong committee to act in' conjunction with the Auckland committee towards the realisation of the object. A full report will appear to-morrow.

"In Central Otago the Government has brought the irrigation scheme to fruition," said' the Hon. Mr Anderson ey his meeting at Gore. "Some years ago Dr. Hyde told me the Central would be a dairying district in time to come. . I thought then it was hardly possible this would eventuate, but from what I have seen recently, after the water has been turned on to the land, I am satisfied that in a few years Central Otago will be either an important dairying district or a locality in which the holdings are small and producing an enormously greater amount of fruit than it is to-day." A Christchurch correspondent writes that a firm of boot manufacturers keeps a safe in its factory. "There is no secret about the fact, and the safe was on a recent morning laboriously broken open with a drill and chisel. The work of forcing it must have entailed at least an hour's hard toil. The safe contained the office cash,' books, ledgers and account files. Disgusted with the unlucky 'haul' the burglar evidently departed without discovering that one of the books contained about £9 worth of postage stamps. The irony of the whole business is- that the safe was not locked in the first place. A twist of the handle might have saved the industrious intruder a good deal of time and perspiration." < It is quite safe, to say that not a late train leaves Cathedral Square any night in the week that does not carry young children who might to have been in bed hours previously (says the Christchurch Press). A week or two ago, during the progress of some competitions, dozens'of youngsters, many under 12, went home, for several nights in succession, by the last trams. That sort of thing, whether the children have been to "the pictures" or to a Band of Hope gathering, is grossly unfair to them. A Rangiora schoolmaster had the courage a few weeks ago to denounce the carelessness of parents in allowing their children to keep late hours at entertainments. There is great need that the injustice to the children, against which he so rigidly protested, shall. be impressed upon parents who too often, one is compelled to believe, place their own pleasure before their children's welfare. Too much work before school is bad for a child, but too little sleep after it is much worse.

An exhibition of paintings of extraordinary merit is at present to be seen at the shop of Messrs Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., Hamilton, where -Mr Robert Procter, a well-known New Zealand artist' is showing a number of exceedingly "fine oils of scenes painted during his period of study in\ Italy. Probably the two best works are the Carnival Scene, Venice, aria a Mountain Inn, near Tivoli. The subjects are both well-chosen and full' of animation, the former showing the famous Riajto, beneath which gondolas cast the reflection of. their brilliantly coloured lights on the placid surface of the canal. The effect is one that could be produced only by an artist of exceptional merit, such as Mr Procter has proved himself to be. The Inn scene was painted away in the mountains above Tivoli, at a halting place for mountaineers, several of whom, with ,a couple of the Bersaglieri; sit quaffing tankards of wine, handed round by laughing maids. The technique is particularly good in this picture, which one can stand and admire with an insatiable interest. Other pictures -include a fishing scene, with several smacks ready to put out to sea, entilled, "Blue and Gold," a-can al scene at Chioggia and a view of T.e Henga, on the west coast of Auckland. The exhibition is-well worthy_of*a visit by lovers of art. s The recent installation of automatic electrical semaphore signals on the Hutt railway line has been a source of great interest to travellers on the line and on the Hutt road. The motors of the signals are driven by power supplied from Wellington, and the switching of the current is done by the trains themselves without any human agency. The system is apparently so satisfactory that it is rather surprising to learn that it is apparently exceptional in British practice for electrical equipment to be used on lines several miles long. The electrical operation of railway signals has already been adopted in Britain to a considerable extent at crowded junctions and other places where the traffic is dense. It has not been adopted for any great distance on main line railways owing to the limitations of the apparatus hitherto available. Half a mile, it is stated, seems to form the outside limit for the usual system, and beyond that limit the "cost of'the electric battery power and of maintaining the installation become eccssive. Much interest has therefore been taken by railway engineers in a new system successfully tested over nearly three miles of track. A distinguishing feature of this new system is that the current, is only applied for about half a second for each- train passing over the track. This gives an enormous saving in current compared with the other system where current is always flowing. Alternating current is employed—a fact which enables the new system to be applied- on the rails of electric lines operated by alternating current. Sharland's Tomato Sauce makes a good addition to Soups and Gravies. It makes them richer and more appetising, (5) Influenza germs lodge In mouth and uose. Nazol destroys them. n Ladies and Gentlemen! The whiteness or your linen is a tine index of your characters and an absolute triumph Tor "NOrtURBING" Laundry Help.—ll. Mowlem, Frankton. ' **