LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 April 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two North Island undergraduates were arrested and charged with creating a disturbance by threatening- to fight each other. The magistrate had strong doubts as to the really pugnacious inclination of either of the alleged combatants, so he said to them, sternly: “Gentlemen, I shall dismiss you on this occasion, but, upon my word, if you are brought lie re again I shall positively bind you both down to fight.”

“I am not going to make you a present of 50 guineas,” said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Auckland Police Couit, when counsel, Mr. Gould, asked for a solicitor’s fee of £1 Is in each of a number oi prosecutions of companies for failing to take out licences. Twentyone cases out of fifty were dealt with, and the magistrate allowed counsel 10s 6d for each case.

A great evening is promised for Friday at the Manaia Town Hall, when a grand entertainment concert and dance will be held in aid of the. Manaia Public School tennis club. A full programme will be given, and various dompetitions run, such as “hoopla,” and quoits. There will be a. gift stall, and other attractions. The Hawera Pipe Band and Manaia Brass Band will be there to assist, and everything points to a marked success.

“There is nothing sentimental about me. 1 was for nine years in the Australian bush among bullock drivers, and I know something about the treatment of animals, but I do say that the way defendant treated his donkey was simply disgraceful,” declared a. .Methodist minister in giving evidence against a circus hand, Clyde Cahill, who was charged in Wellington with cruelly illtreating a donkey. Defendant did not appear. The evidence was that Cahill struck the animal with a heavy stockwhip about twenty times while driving between Tawa Hat and P'orirua. He was fined £4. “The Ciown is the only visible thing which binds the Empire together,” said Sir James Allen at the Gisborne Rotary Club. He added that if it were the only existing tie he could not regard it'as a guarantee of the long continuity of the Empire. There were other intangible bonds, traditions which no one wanted to lose, self-interest, safety, and the piopagation of British ideals throughout tne world. Of these sell-interest had a most compelling force. What, lie asked, would be the position of New Zealand in the event of a . war in the Pacific, but for her membership of the Empire? Who could say how long her people would be safe fiom hostilities, or her sea communications kept open? Self-interest alone was a binding force that would compel co-operation. Members of the Hawera Savage Club are given a reminder of the .annual general meeting to be held this evening in th Wharepuni (Foresters’ Hall), when, alter the business meeting, a series of musical items will be given, and refreshments supplied. / In aid of a distressed member ol the Oddfellows’ M.U. Lodge, a committee under the lion, seoretaiy, Mr G. Collins, has arranged a charity ball for this evening in the Savoy Booms. A special .attraction will be a Taranaki waltzing championship, while members will be present in full regalia. Music, floor and .supper are receiving due attention, and the indications are for a thoroughly successful evening.

A lecture of great interest to the farming community will be delivered by Mr P. M. Page, of the State Forestry Service, at Matapu Hall tomorrow' (Thursday) evening, and a cordial invitation is issued by the Matapu Farmers’ Union to all interested. The 'subject, a very practical one, is “Farm Forestry. ’ ’

Members and intending members of the Hawera Miniature Rifle Club are notified, by advertisement appearing in to-day’s issue, that the annual general meeting will be held on Monday next, 11th inst.

To-morrow (Thursday) afternoon, at 2 ’clock, in the Hawera County Council Chambers a general meeting of the Women’s Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union will be held. An address will be'given by Mrs. F. Poison Dominion president. All ladies interested are cordially invited to be present. The annual general meeting of the Hawera Roy Scouts will be hold this evening at 7.45 o’clock in the hall. All interested are invited t<> attend. To-night, in the Hawera Borough Chambers, the Hinemoa Ladies’. Hockey Club will hold their annual meeting, and the committee stress the need lor all members to be present, so as to give a> fillip to the season's operations, which will open very shortly. Eiverlea will be cn fete on Friday evening, on the occasion of the grand opening ball .in the hall. Special preparations arc being made by the committee to secure good music and to have a capital floor, while the ladies are arranging a. great supper. There will also be novelty dances and a grand march.

For the opening hall of the sen sou at Mokoia- on Friday, a free bus will leave Latham’s garage at 7.30 p.m. preparations are being made by a strong committee. There will he free novel tv dances. Everything points to n oreat success. Aching teeth ended when you apply Earraclough’s Magic Nervine; 1/6. — Advt.