M.B.O.B. SOCIAL EVENING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 19, 22 January 1910, Page 7

M.8.0.8. SOCIAL EVENING.

About 90 ladles attended at the Club Rooms last evening, representing each parish, and a most successful meeting and social was held, at which it was unanimously decided to call the proposed bazaar "The Marlst Brothers' Bazaar." The bazaar will open lv the school rooms next I-Jaster, aud the funds will be devoted to the purchase of a new house for the Marlst Bros.' statlou at Pitt-st. After the meeting the ladies w_re entertained at (supper, and several good items were given by the musical branch, under the direction of ilr P. J. Clarke.

The Hon. Seymour Thorne George, one of the directors of the Waihi Goldmining Company, has just visited the Horahora Rapid (says a Waikato paper). He states the preliminary survey is about finished, and that there will be from 40 to 50 men at work there in a very short time, and the number will be increased later on. He thinks it will take fully 18 months to complete the work; but he does not think the scheme to make the Waikato River navigable as far as the rapids is feasible, owing to the strong and rapid currents. He stated his company would thoroughly prospect the Maungatautari Hill for gold, and incidentally mentioned that the company had had a number of prospectors out in the Urewera Country for some time, but so far no gold-bearing stone had been found. Re making the Waikato River navigable, Mr. Mervyn Wells, of Cambridge, intends to thoroughly sift i this matter, and he will personally inspect the river and find out what obstructions there are in it, and if they can be removed easily. The First Battalion Rand will play the following programme on the rotunda, Albert Park, to-moTrow afternoon, commencing at three o'clock:—Quick march, "Ponderous" (Ord Hume); Hymn No. 30 (Mendelssohn); "Ciijus Anima/m," from Rossini's Sta-bat Mater"; trombone solo, "Pilgrim of Liove" (Bishop); gTand selection, "Maritana" (Waillace), by request; melody, "Simply Aveu" (Thorpe); march, "Viva Edwardus" (Ord Hume). It is only natural that after six months of prohibition in this electorate ■business men should take stock of its results, and express some opinion upon its advantages and its disadvantages, remarks the Maaterton "Daily Times." That it brings in its train both gains and losses must 'be admitted by all intelligent people, the point to 'be determined being as to whether the profit or the loss is the greater. Our Eketjihuna contemporary published a statement which, indicated that the loss was greater than the proflt. T-iciLour own representative in _3ke.tah.t_na interviewed no less than 38 .business men. Out of the 38 witnesses no less than 27 found prohibition '•bo be beneficial, three were adverse to it, and eight were neutral. For the time being, the preponderance of evidence is altogether in favour of prohibition, and it was a tactical mistake for those wa. 'were opposed to it to have raised the question at this juncture. The Southland branch of the Farmers' Union has been in direct comunication with "The Central (Unemployed) Body for London," an institution under the control of ihe British Government, and as a result of the negotiations (says the "Southland Times") three families of picked immigrants have arrived in NewZealand by the s.s. Morayshire, and will shortly take up their work in Southland. Two of the families will go to the Dipton district, and the other to Balfour. All boar excellent references as to character and qualifications for farm work. It is understood that the Farmers' Union executive has also cabled for 10 lads for whom work is available in the district. Impure water causes bladder troubles r —i WOL-FE'S SCHNAPPS ia invaluable.