THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan 31, 1917 FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 31 January 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE." HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, Jan 31, 1917 FLASHES.

The usual monthly military memorial service will be held in the Lyric Theatre on Sunday afternoon, February 3rd, at 2.30 p.m., and an address will be given by Chaplain-Captain J. W. Shaw, M.A., late of the Hospital ship Maheno.

The Defence authorities have now decided that only unmarried men will go into camp during February and March. No men of the Second Division will enter camp before April.

In New York over 100,000 Gwrmans have had to shift their quarters owing to the new law prohibitiug enemy aliens from living where a view of the waterfront may be obtained.

A strike involving 100,000 'workers is in progress in Berlin, many of the strikers being women. One of Krupps' coal mines near Essen is involved in the upheaval, as are the Germania shipyard and the Kiel torpedo factory.

Except between 7.45 and 11 p.m. the electric display lighting of New York, including the huge advertisements on Broadway, are to be suppressed. It is estimated that 125,000 tons of coal annually will thereby be saved.

An interesting lecture "Life on a Hospital Ship," dealing chiefly with carrying the wounded from the Somme battle across to England, will be given by Chaplain-Captain J. W. Shaw on Saturday evening next, February 2nd, in the Woohill Public Hall. He will also preach at the Sunday morning service there at 11 a.m.

We would prevail upon all who hare the interests of this important district at heart to send us Country News— reports of meetings,,socials, and doings generally ; also accounts of the district and local needs. Help us to help you—make your district known.

" Haig's offensive," read the dear old lady, who was a close student of Armageddon. "Well, I'm not surprised at even the General being rude to these dirty Germans," muttered the old dame as she turned over the page.

The Rev. J. W. Shaw, M.A., of Mount Eden Presbyterian Church, late Chaplain of the Hospital ship Maheno, will conduct the evening service at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Helensville, on Sunday next, 3rd February. Mr H. Jenkins, of Ahuroa, will be the preacher at St. Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church' Kaukapakapa, on Sunday at 3 p.m.

" Vanity," is the title of the big attraction pn the first-class programme to be screened at the Star Theatre on Saturday evening next. Bright and clever ;Emmy Wehlen will be seen to great advantage in this wonderful story qf the amazing adventures of a clothes mad girl. The' passion for beautiful leads a wilful girl into dangerous paths, but when the life of the man she loves is threatened, her better nature triumphs.

At the Takapuna Jockey Club's Summer meeting on Saturday last, the locally-owned horse, Mrs Jas. Hand's Mullingar, carrying Bst 91b, came second in the Cup, being defeated by Glenopal (7st 21b). Polydamon was favourite. On Monday (the concluding day's racing) in the Rangitoto Hack Handicap, Lough Ennell (also owned by Mr Hand) cams to grief and fractured a leg. Unfortunately the horse had to be destroyed. J. Conquest, the rider, had his collar-bone broken and also suffered from severe concussion.

When the Canadians stormed over the top of a certain famous ridge and the battlefield was full of needy, suffering men, a y V.M.C.A Secretary appeared serving out hot coffee on the ridge within half-an-hour after it was stormed, before the line was yet consolidated. " Everybody else was lying flat in that rain of bullets," one of the men said, " Everybody except just that secretary, and the sight of him standing alone, forgetting everything except the men he was risking his life to help, is what gave religion to me."

One of the biggest attractions of the year is "The Woman Who Dared," a tense dramatic production based on a story of foreign diplomacy and intrigue, and patrons will have an opportunity of Seeing it at the Star Theatre on Wednesday evening next. The " Dramatic Mirror," one qf the severest critics in the world, says ; « ' T;he Woman who Dared,' taken frpm tjie plqt of a Q. and N. Williamson nqyel, provides, a succession of thriUs and diplomatic intrigues calculated to Please 31l lqver§ qf international romance. Miss Michelena, as the beautiful heroine of the drama, scores a, pronounced hit by her brilliant acting."

An officer friend, says a writer, •Wm*where in Palestine," sends me an account of what he calls a "sing-song," which, he says, was rudely interrupted by a party qf Turkish snipers, " Qne of our fellows was in tl;e middle of 'The Bedouin Lovo Song,1 when about a score of bullets came through the roof and walls, and our little party broke up in disorder. All the same," ha adds. " the Turk is a far cleaner fighter than the Hun—he doesn't poison the water, or that sort of thing. And the food here is quite good. We shoot a lot of rabbits and' put 'em in the stewpot." Twenty-five dozen men's singlets and underpants, also pyjamas and suits, at a disqqunt of §/8 in the £—at the Ideal grapery Store, Commercial Rqai. * "