LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 December 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a- meeting of the Hawera Ladies Golf Club, held last night, it was decided to support the men’s club in whatever action they might take to provide links.

It i s calculated that wool worth £IOOO was sold every minute at the sale held in Auckland recently.

A donation of two gold brooches to be given to the two girl points prizewinners at the recent Dixon banner competitions was yesterday handed to the controlling committee by Mr J. R. Corrigan, M.P. The girls to receive the trophies are E. Wards, of Mokoia, and P. Toy, of Tawliiti.

When Mr Barton, S.M., was explaining to members of the legal profession a proposed revision he intended to enforce next year so far as atmeetings of the court in his judicial district was concerned, Mr Slipper said that he wished to enter his “perpetual protest to Wanganui’s magistrate having to go up country at all.” “We are a city now” and we are treated like a village,” he added, An Oamaru resident a few days ago had an unexpected windfall. Twenty years _ ago he lent £25 to a man who was in straitened circumstances. He had lost sight of the man, and had forgotten about the money. The' receipt of a cheque for £7O in payment of principal, interest and compound interest, with a covering letter of thanks, convinced him that acts of generosity do not always not go unrewarded. A meeting of the Dixon Banner Committee was held last night, when a bal-ance-sheet was presented which showed that a loss of £9 2s Id had been incurred in conducting the recent sports meeting. Undoubtedly the wet weathere was the cause of the deficiency, but it does seem unfortunate that the committee of about 20 citizens, who give their valuable time gratis, should meet with such discouragement. Perhaps some generous persons will show practical appreciation of what is beinV done. °

Winsome in Toy land,” a musical play for children, will be given in St Mary’s Parish Hall to-night. The children, under the direction of Miss Clarke and Miss Picken, have worked very enthusiastically, and an enjoyable evening is assured to all who appreciate the abandon of L a children's performance. During the interval the vicar will present some special prizes awarded for Scripture, which have been presented by ladies of the parish interested in the school.

Writing from London, Mrs. B. C. Bennett states that she and Mr. Bennett are having a very happy tour. “To me everything 1 have so iar seen is wonderful. We entered our names in the visitors’ book at the New Zealand Commissioner's the other day. Result: Stormed with requests for interviews. Nothing doing. The Exhibition is grand. We have spent two whole days there and are going again to-day (October 28). The poor begging make me feel sad; the next minute one passes a couple wearing probably a couple of thousand—RusH sian sables, etc.—on their backs.” Mr. and Mrs. Bennett nere leaving on October 29 for Ireland.

“White horses are becoming scarce,” is a warning one hardly expects to find in a musical journal (says the Manchester Guardian). The explanation is, of course, that from the tails of white horses is derived the, hair for the violinist’s and other bows. And whilst satisfactory substitutes of silk and metal have been found for the catgut (really sheepgut) strings of the violin, up to the present, if we except the churchwarden pip© which Paganini is reputed once to have used as a bow, nothing has been found to take the place of horsehair for violin hows. Evidently the matter is now becoming serious. Will it come to this, that the horse, now rapidly bejng superseded by the motor, will, like the ostrich, only he saved from ultimate extinction by its tail ? And meanwhile, to take time bv the forelock and safeguard our large orchestras from the calamity which threatens their string-players, ought not some wealthy amateur to endow each orchestra with a white horse for its own private use?

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People who are inclined to hold back supplies of eggs in the hope of getting better prices at Christmas should hear in mind that an amendment for the Sale of Food and Drugs Act passed this year requires. that fresh eggs should be really what they are sold as. The inspectors of the Health Department have m hand the enforcing of the new regulations. The executive of the Federal Association of Superannuated Public Servants has been informed by the Secretary of the Department that payments for the month of December will be made prior to Christmas, and that superannuitants will receive their warrants in time to enable payment to be made to them on 22nd instant.

“We have many failures nowadays, and debtors seem so slip in and out of bankruptcy with ease, especially in Auckland, remarked a creditor at a bankruptcy meeting at Auckland. “There is nearly always a motion of sympathy passed. We have to pay our debts, and why should not the bankrupts?”

The Rev. Jacob Erwin Spence, whose death is announced at Dunedin, came to New Zealand about forty years ago. He was settled in Clinton charge for a while, then he went to Chalmers Church, Dunedin. From there he went to Pieton. but returned to Otago and was minister at Waihola whence retired about twelve years ago. He was Moderator of the Synod of Otago and Southland when the union of North and South was brought about. “There seems to be a false idea current amongst the public that a magistrate may tell the Press not to report cases. That is not so at all. The Legislature provides that where a person is liable for imprisonment or conviciton a magistrate may prohibit publication of that person’s name,” said Mr. Wyvern Wilson S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court (reports the Christchurch Press). A settler in the Oamaru district informed a representative of the North Otago Times that the rabbit pest is not nearly so serious as it was a few years a.go. Only in those localities where trapping is permitted are the labbits to be found in considerable numbers, he explained. The diminution in the pest was attributed to the operations of stoats and weasels and to systematic poisoning. During the hearing of a dairy case at the Otaki Magistrate’s Court this week reeling (says the. Maily ran high, and the inspector was asked if it was desired that the whole farm should be laid down in concrete and slieds made like palaces. The whole position from counsel’s point of view was very unreasonable, in fact, absurd, and he said actions by some inspectors would be, the means of causing farmers to give up dairying. Sevaral occupants of an Oamaru hairdressing saloon were somewhat surprised when a. man entered tile saloon door and addressing a patron who was in the chair, and in the course of being shaved, said, “You take a week’s notice, I don’t pay you to be shaved in the firm’s time.” The person to whom the remarks were addressed, although slightly surprised (relates the North Otago Times), consigned the intruder to a climate of warmer reputation than that of Oamaru, and informed him that he could keep liis job A young native not long ago appeared at the Police Court at Whakatane and presented what he took to be a summons (states the Press). The Court officials, however, did not remember having taken proceedings against this individual, so they examined, the document and found that it had never been issued from the local court. The young native had a companion who was inclined towards practical joking, and the latter had conceived the idea of sending the document to his friend, perhaps without thinking of the consequences to himself. His native friend, however, took the matter more seriously and duly appeared at the Court, only to be told to go home. The final and most serious act in the comedy occurred a few days ago, when the manufacturer of the document was fined 10s and 12s costs for issuing an imitation of a judicial process.

Speaking to parents and friends at the breaking-np ceremony of King’s School, Auckland, on Friday, Mr. S. Clifton-Smith said that even two and a-half year’s residence in New Zealand had failed to reveal to him any definite reason why the Dominion had declared against the use of the Bible in schools. Scripture continued to rank with the boys as one of their most interesting subjects. Day by day they delved into that marvellous . storehouse of human endeavour shot through with divine purpose. As a schoolmaster carrying on the terriffic responsibility for development of character of small boys, he reioieed that the Great Book w,as available to him for his purpose. The death of Mrs. Frances Catherine Kissling, at the age of 79, removes an interesting link with the early missionaiy days of the Auckland Province, says the New Zealand Herald. Mrs. ivissling was a daughter of the late Archdeacon Maunseil, one of the earliest missionaries to come to New Zealand, and the second vic-ar of St. Mary’s Cathedral. Dr.-Maunseil arrived in the country before the time of Bishop Selwyn, and will always be remembered in the history of the Dominion a_s a great Maori scholar and the translator of the Old Testament into the Maori language. Mrs. Kissling was born at the missionary station at. Kohonga, on the Waikato River, and came to Auckland when the iVlaori wars endangered the lives of white people in the outlying settlements She was married 58 years ago to the late Mr. G. S. Kissling, son of Archdeacon Kiss ing, first vicar of St Mary’s. Mr. Kissling was afterwards manager of the Auckland branch of the Bank of iNew Zealand. He died four years ago. Mrs Kissling was married in St. Mary’s Cathedral, with which she has been actively associated the greater part of her life, and besides taking, an interested part in church affairs, she possessed a remarkable knowledge of Dud incidents in the early history or the province. She is survived bv three sons. XMAS BOXED SUITS.

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