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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day the telegraphic service has been so badly disorganised that news has filtered through very scantily and at wide intervals. Whangarei has been victimised through this ctmse oftener than is pleasant, and it looks as though there were some radical defect needing more thorough investigation.

Several ladies anc gentlemen left Whangarei by brake this morning for Paparoa, whcr» Ibe annual Agricultural Show is to be held to-morrow. The party incladcd Miss Clark-Walker, who will judge the table decoraf.ioiio, flowers, fancy work, etc.; Mrs Goodson, who will sing at the concert tomoriow night; and Mr and Mrs F. G. Radcliffe.

As Crs. Bray and Harrison, who with Cr. Chaprn;>n ronsiitute the Cemo-

Tory Committee of the Borough Council, were absent from the town, the meeting of the committee to deal with the question of the placing- of John Freeman's memorial stone on the wrong grave at the Kioreroa Cemetery, did not. take place this afternoon, as originally arranged.

Among the outward bound passengers by to-day's boat was Mr Lionel Baxter, who will go to Melbourne and study veterinary surgery.

The cooking and woodwork classes for the day school pupils at the local Technical and Manual Training School have been resumed. The evening classes will commence early in March.

A sample of mercury, assayed from the cinnabar ore, mercuric sulphide, or vermillion, fvom the big deposition, at Puhipuhi, was brought into the "Advocate" office to-day.

•>- A telegraphic message from Rawene, I received at the Auckland police headi quarters yesterday, stated that a mail named George White had been killed in the bush at Taheke on Tuesday.

In the wood-chopping competition at the Thames A. and H. Show, a splendid performance was put up by M. Griffin, who won from scratch and proved himself easily the best axenf<i» on the ground.

A further consignment of bricks haa arrived at the Town Wharf by the scow Ethel Wells, to the order of Mr W. Beehre. The bricks will be used in building the new theatre in Cameron-street.

For the fourth year in succession ihe Raglan County Council has collected all its rates. For the current year ending March 31st, 1912, the total rates of the county amount to approximately £7000, and the whole of this amount was paid by February 9th. The above amount, of course, was all due by Europeans, as owing, to the state of the law the county does not place lands occupied by natives oa its rate book.

Sergeant Moore arrived back in Whangarei this morning from kohe where >ie had been attending toq|

duties in connection with a charge of Ely-grog selling by a Maori. The Native tad five charges against him of taking Lotties of whisky along the railway line and selling it to the navvies. He was convicted and fined £5 and costs by Mr Atcheson, S.M.

Mr Fraser, the County Engineer and Mr McKinnon, the clerk, left for Ngunguru to-day to attend, a meeting of the ratepayers in the Kiripaka riding, in connection with the raising of a special loan for roading purposes. The Engineer will also be engaged upon matters connected with the spending of the Government grant for the snagging of the Ngunguru river.

According to the County Engineer, the construction of the road from the Onerahi station to the upper level should be put in hand as soon as the Government grant of £100 is available. The road laid off will be fairlysteep, being graded at 1 in 12 and 1 in 16. It will run round the foreshore past Mr Groome's store and through the lower end of Mr Steadman's ground, and will then take a turn and run at the back of Mr Steadman's section, in a westerly directiou to the top.

Some would-be wit, with an original though grim turn of humor, inscribed the following epitaph on a tombstoneshaped piece of card-board, which was placed at the head of a patch of tarred metalling at Harrison's corner, this morning, and which drew considerable attention and caused much amusement to passers-by:—'"To the memory of our civic fathers . Citizens are requested not to walk over their last resting place. Here lies our good old Mayor. Also lies tty his side our worthy Borough Inspector. R.1.P."

It will come with rather a shock to the farming community who have been in the habit of coming down the line on a Wednesday or Saturday to find that the goods they order ;uier their arrival in Wnangarei at 11.40 a.m. cannot go forward by the 4.30 p.m. train as usual if they live this side of Hukerenui, as b> this afternoon train only goods are taken when :hey are consigned to stations between Hukerei.ui and Kawakawa. To enable goods to be forwarded that day they would have to be at the station by 11 a.m. so as to go north with the 1 p.m. train. It is restrictions such as outlined that lead to the management of the railways being so unpopular, as naturally country people have little means of keeping" in touch with such regulations; in fact, it will take the business community all *heir time to remember by what train goods for different points can be forwarded along the local railway lir.e.

Anyone who could be amused by the trashy comic pictures screened before the audience in the Theatre Royal last evening by West's Pictures must have had his sense of humor specially trained for the occasion. Absurdity was carried .o an almost inconceivable length and several of the wouldbe mirth-raising films failed so dismally that they were practically received in silence by the unresponsive audience. There was a double doSlt of Tontolini and, judging by the applause, the bulk of the audience would not care if he took a holiday, or sank into oblivion altogether. The dramatic firms were pictorial adaptions of "penny horrible" yarns, and as such, were acceptable to a certain section ct" those present. However, the scenic f'lms were good and gave very interesting- and instructive views of the porcelain works at Worcester and ot' Alpine scenery and the means of roading almost perpendicular mountain slopes. A few more of the latter class of picture could be wubstituted with advantage for the Indian absurdities, which have been dealt out at nauseam.

It has been decided by the Orpheus Skating Syndicate to open the rink for the coming soason at the beginning of _.. • next month. Prominent agitators, it is said, induced some forty youths in the West-1 port district not to put in an appearance at territorial drills. Between twenty and thirty of the number are eligible to serve. The police are proceeding against a hotel licensee in the Feilding district for employing a female not registered as a barmaid in the capacity of serving out licensed drinks. The case •Will be heard before Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M. Cabinet has accepted tenders for the construction ut departmental offices at Plymouth, eight cottages •at LaktOtoleridge for the use of the power house staff, for the construction of station buildings at Glenhope * on the Nelson end of the Midland for constructing a new postoffice at Pleasant Point, and a tower in Addington post-office, in which to place the clock recently provided by public subscription. The Minister of Railways anticipates that this year's revenue from the New Zealand railways will reach a total of not less than £3,600,000. He estimated that it would be £3,525,000, but ten months' figures show an excess of £7000 over the anticipations, and two of the best months have yet to be counted. Holiday traffic, in spite of uncertain weather, was particularly good. Another feature to which Mr Millar referred with satisfaction was that the percentage of expenditure to revenue would probably show a further decrease this year.

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Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 4