Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 21 July 1916, Page 2

Local and General

Mr S. Dixon announces in another column that all horses or cattle trespassing on the Recreation Ground will be impounded. At the evening’s service Presbyterian Church on Sunday next, Rev. Swinerd will take as subject : Four Judgements, Two Resurrections. A welcome to all At the Taihape Show on Thursday last, Mr D. Starr of Huntly, took first prize for White American Cock, and Mr W. Shaw first and second for Duckwing game. Mr John Williams, miner, Huntly South, employed in the Extend Mine met -with a nasty accident to his left eye by a piece of falling coal on Friday last, and lias boon off work during the present week.

Mr Thomas Hall, ~ District Land Registrar, notifies that it is his intention to register the partial surrender of lease No, 20832 at the expiration of fourteen days from the 20th July, 1916. We would draw the attention of our reades to the fact that the Huntly Bowling and Croquet Club hold their annual social and bridge tournament on Monday next at the Miners’ Hall. Roll up. A sale of work in connection with St. Anthony’s Catholic Church will take place in the King’s Hall on the 28th and 29th July. Besides the many other attractions, the children will render the following items : “ Grand March,” “ Tipperary Dance,” “Action Song,” Japanese Maidens,” and “ How’d You like to be a Baby Girl.” Mr J. S. de Montalk reports that he held a very successful sale of fruit trees on Saturday last, at the King’s, Hall, Huntly. The stock was from the well-known Waikato Nurery of Mr Best (late Forest & Best), and realised good prices all round; also a pen of prize Bantams from Mr H. A. Clinch's poultry yard changed hands at satisfactory figures.

A grand patriotic vaudeville entertainment by the Huntly Juvenile Dramatic Society of 56 talented artists, in aid of the Sick and Wounded Soldiers’ Fund under the direction of Mr J. Carmody and Miss A. Wylie will be held in the Miners’ Hall, on Wednesday, August 9th. The admission 2s and Is being low should be within the reach of all and a bumper house should he the result. The Town Board is to be congratulated on its choice of an engineer.SAll will concede that, if any local candidate held the necessary qualification he should be chosen. It was found that several local men had those qualifications, and we congratulate Mr Petheran on his appointment. Mr Petheran has had a wide experience, having served his time in the Old Country, and having had experience both at sea and on land. Ho holds a First Marine Ticket. We beg to remind our readers that the social promoted by the Huntly Browling and Croquet Club will be held on Monday evening next in the Miners’ Hall. The promoters are sparing no effort to make the evening an enjoyable one, and they expect to make it the social of the season. We are informed that tickets are going off well, and that visitors will be present from Hamilton, Ngaruawaliia and Taupiri. Miss Adela Pankhurst addressed a fairly well attended meeting in the Miners’ Hall on Monday evening last. Mr Jordan, vice-president of the Miners’ Union presiding, introduced the speaker in a few remarks, the subject being “ The War and the Worker.” Miss Pankhurst is a fluent spsaker. She did not give her audience much else but what had been traversed by other speakers on several other occasions, the old story over again. She spoke for about an hour and half, and was listened to attentively throughout.