LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Helensville Hospital is being kept busy with newcomers —about a dozen have arrived lately, baby boys predominating. The To Pna property of 18 aeresowned by Mi' O. Sand in has been sold to a Fei! ii;i:-C buyor. The.price per auie works out in the vicinity of £1.70. A " popular gii'l " contest in aid of sport.-; ground funds is being held at \V;iir.\;!uku. The candidates are Misses V. ;.';::ie, "'Pat" Ciishmaii and A. Fletcher. J'voiniiuler is given or the meeting at Par:!;:ii to-morrow (Friday) evening re the Shelley Beach railway scheme. The Maii\':l ihiriding ratopa\ rers are especially iulercsLod. Tin.-c is every indicatiou of -an early spring this year. The ]>each trees have been in bloom for some time, most of the dci.'uUions trees are already putting on their mantles of green, and the kowhai is e!o;lie! in a cloth of gold. Most garden pv-'nUii'i? is vrs'l forward, and the flowel" g;;;-!!■■!.■; show promise of early bloom?.

Tw i ; ii-jii-viii.! glorious years agone! \v ;i-:i King Milesius furle ! his sail. Ami y,':.u:i-d fair lilriu's Isle upon, He r.iimed that realm " Sweet Innisfail." Alas, his ships their cables sprung, 'Mid stonu no craft oould long endure. In vain his strength of limb and lung, He had no Woods' Great Peppermint Cure

Arrangements are being made for a military ball, to beheld in the Agricultural Hall, Helensville, on Thursday, 22nd September. See particulars in advertisement next issue.

An extension of hours at the local telephone exchange will probably be made in the near future. Likely hours will be 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., with an hour Sunday morning and evening.

The Hot Springs grounds are beginning to look well, and the caretaker and staff are busy getting things in order for the coming season, which is expected to prove a record one.

At the Presbyterian Church, Helensville, on Sunday evening Madam Russell will sing "O, Divine Redeemer" (Gounod), and Miss Lillian P. Russell will contribute "Hold Thou my Hand" (Main).

Boring operations for hot springs on one of the Parakai boarding house properties has now ceased. The bore was put down to a considerable depth, but the flow was practically nil, and boring was given up as a bad job.

So far no trace has been discovered of the Ford car missing from Lambert and Son's garage. Several supposed clues have been followed up, but none have proved correct. The firm is being put to a good deal of expense travelling to various points in response to information received.

It is said that dairy farmers in the Waikato are getting scared about the prospects of dried milk and glaxo. Costly buildings have been erected, and those interested are dubious about getting an adequate return through the industry. More than ever dairy farmers are pinning their faith on butter and cheese.

After twelve -years a postcard sent from Paddington has just been delivered at Putney, and its recipient, an ardent suffragist, is convinced that its early arrival is entirely due to the introduction into the post-office of women-helpers, who took the trouble to read it and

noticed that its message was of/ an urgent nature. —London Punch.

Tiiere is an old Maori tradition that when the kowhai blooms'the schnapper co;ne in. This would appear to be correct this year, for the kowhai is in bloom, and some big fish —'" Captain Cooks" —are being caught, says the Hokianga Times. In the upper reaches of the Rawene river the mullet are schooling in their tens of thousands, and the river is teeming with kawhai in splendid condition.

Heard in the Kaipava train :—You can always teli a newchum immigrant. At first he is suspicious and silent, and wants to keep to himself. If a single n.an, it takes from six months to a year to break him in, to fit him to be at home with colonials. Married couples take a longer period to become acclimatised. They were never so well off as when they came to New Zealand, yet some make nasty comparisons between this and the old

country

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and CoLds, never fails,

The Presbyterian Sunday School concert in the Lyric Theatre this evening promises to be a fine attraction, and it is practically certain that there will be a large attendance. A varied programme has been arranged, and besides local artists the engagement of Madam Bella Russell, one of Auckland's leading soloists, should prove a big draw. Items by the children include the famous Mother Jarley's Waxworks, which has been rehearsed for weeks past. Admission is 2s and Is.

"For the life of me I'cannot see why the Church should not advertise," writes Rev. H. Pefle, vicar of All Saints', South Acton, in the parish magazine. " I wish someone would give us a really good sign- post with the name of the church on it. Why should these artistic signs be the perquisites of the publichouse ? Again at night the church's exterior is often dark and gloomy, whilst the publichouse, cinema, or theatre is a blaze of light. I should dearly love to have a blaze of light outside our church, so that you could not pass anywhere near it without being compelled to ask, " What is that v place ?"

A recent cable stated that the singer Caruso had left the " usufruct" of his estate to his widow. The word usufruct is not a quite uncommon one, and implies that the widow was to have the income from the property, literally " the use of the Iruit." Apparently neither the Wellington Dominion nor the Post had ever met with the word, for they printed it with a capital as if it were the name of a' place. The N.Z. Herald omitted it altogether. It remained for the Wanganui Herald to plunge really deeply, as follows "Caruso lived the life of an Italian gentleman on his fine place, Usufruct, near Venice, and he had hoped to spend all his days and fortune in peaceful happiness i n his beloved Italy."

A lecture on Japan will be given in the Star Theatre on Tuesday evening next by the Rev. H. T. Steele, for fifteen years a resident in that country. The position which Japan has earned for herself in the world makes it natural that all intelligent people should desire to know more about her. The majority of books on Japan are misleading, because the authors thereof have not lived in close touch with the people they profess to describe, hence Japan has been praised as a paragon of virtue or condemned'as-a race of Asiatic Huns. This lecture will afford an opportunity for the people of Helens viUe to hear the experiences of one who was daily in close touch with people of all ranks, and w'-io knows something of the grave and gay in. the life of a people in many respects so unlike ourselves.