Local and General.

Northern Advocate, 13 March 1913, Page 5

Local and General.

The cricket match Hukurangi v. Whangarei, which was to have been played on Saturday, has been postponed till March 29, on account of the Whananaki Sports.

The Golf Club championships in the A grade last year were won by Miss Storey and Mr. W. White. Mr. H. S. Hill won the junior championship for the men. The ladies' matches were not completed.

A meeting of the council of the Society will be held r on Saturday evening, when the question of making application for an •open season for imported game will be discussed. A number of the members of the school committee paid in subscriptions towards the purchase of Mr. May's property. The committee has to provide £62, and about half of this amount has been promised or subscribed. No difficulty is anticipated in raising the required amount. Prior to his leaving Whangarei on Tuesday morning to join the staff of the Auckland Telegraph Office, Mr. W. H. Simons was presented by his fellow employees in Whangarei with a handsome silver-mounted companion and shaving outfit. Many eulogistic references were made of Mr. Simons' good qualities as chief clerk and as a citizen. —Since her first appearance at shows in 1903 Miss Jessie Campbell of Wanganui has scored 174 firsts, SO seconds, 3 fourths, also starting in 47 other events. Twelve championships, 3 reserve championships, and 3 points prizes are to her credit. Miss Campbell has won 34 riding competitions, 83 driving contests, and 43 out of OS jumping competitions. Several recent arrivals in Whangarei will greatly strengthen the regimental band. These are:—Messrs. Albert Lethaby (solo cornet), Arthur Lethaby (solo trombone), Pearson (G trombone), Whitelock (E flat bass), <y Kean (solo baritone), Beckman (soprano cornet). Mr. Edgar Reed is returning to Whangarei next week with the intention of taking up his old position in the band. About sixteen members of Marsden Golf Club attended the an-, nual meeting last night. It was decided to raise ladies' subscriptions to half a guinea, and men's to one guinea. This has become necessary on account of a slight deficiency last season. The membership „Qf. the club now stands at 71. Mr. 'W. F. S. Briggs was appointed secretary- for the ensuing year. The season is to open on Saturday, April 19. A number of boys have been in th\ habit of amusing themselves on Sunday afternoons on the truck at the Engineering Company's slip. Last Sunday some of the youngsters were caught playing there and given a warning that a repetition would lead to their appearance in the Magistrate's Court. The company has frequently been put to considerable inconvenience through boys playing round machinery left in the yard. They open steam and water cocks and omit to close them again. Boys would do well to accept the warning given ;and not meddle with the plant.

The Manaia landed the following passengers this morning from Auckland":—Captain Garland, Messrs. Smith, Atkinson, Crawford, Harnett. Blackburn, McGlashen, North, Ridg•ley, Alison, Massey, Dunks, Swarm, Drummond. Bach, Jones, Cishmo-e. Shoebridge, Russock (2), Otto, Higginson, Patterson, Basset t. Woods, Lowe, Bailey, Turner, Simich, Redcliffe'Courtney, Goode, Rameka, Rowbottom, Rev. Edge, Bidcroft; Mesdames Crawford. Harnett, BlackburnMcKenzie, North, Marshall, Higgir.son. Sloane, Wellington, Norgrove: Misses Palmer, Parkinson. Conyngham, Mawhinney, Parkinson.

There was a very tragic ending to wedding festivities at Albion (Queensland) recently. The ceremony had ■been performed, and the clergyman was convcved to his home at Albion by motor car, the occupants of which were Thomas Gcddes (52), a clerk, Ims wife <3S), and Harriet MTntyre (C 3). The clergyman alighted, and ithe car was proceeding down the inclii'e in Alice Street when the driver, in attempting to avoid two children iv the middle of the road, dashed into a cart, with the result that the car cap-ized and rolled clown the embankment and the occupants were hurled out with great force Mrs Harriet M'lntvre suffered such serious injury that she died on the way to the hospital Thomas Geddes, brother of the bride, received severe lacerations on the face, head, and left ear, and his right ear was torn nearly off. He also suffered injury to the right shoulder and concussion of the brain. Mrs. Geddes suffered severely from shock. Both were conveyed to the liospital.

It is expected that the engineers employed upon the smaller coastal steamers in New Zealand waters will present demands to their employers within a few days for better wages and working conditions. No difficulties are anticipated, and in all likelihood a friendly agreement will be arrived at.

The members of the executive oh the W.C.T.U. at Invercargill have stituted a campaign against liquor advertisements on tram tickets. They threaten to boycott the electric trams, and are asking members of the temperance organisations' to refuse to accept tickets bearing liquor advertisements. The union is also agitating against Sunday trams, and intends to oppose candidates for the Town Council who will not support their .views on these matters.

Shop-lifting has been rife in Wanganui of late, especially in drapers' shops, and business men have been under the necessity of dropping their usual practice of merely warning offenders. The result was the appearance of a well-dressed woman in the S.M. Court the other morning. As the case was chiefly intended as a warning to those with similar proclivities, the Bench convicted the woman and ordered her to come up for sentence when called upon.

A marriage was solemnised yesterday between Miss Isabella Campbell,, daughter of Mr. Campbell, of Three Mile Bush, and Captain Murdoch McGregor, master of the Waro. The bride, wearing a white satin gown with silk trimmings and veil and orange blossoms, was attended by her sister, Miss K. Campbell, and her nieces, Misses A. and M. McLean. Mr. Colin McGregor was best man. The bridegroom's present to the bride was a handsome chain and pendant, and to the bridesmaids pretty gold brooches. After the ceremony over two hundred guests were entertained at the residence of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. McGregor have gone South. The new Point Elizabeth State Coal Mine, which is to be formally opened by the Hon. W. Fraser, Minister for Mines, on his visit to the West Coast next month, will mean—according to Mr. Bishop, the Government officer who has made an exhaustive examination of the seam —a very considerable Micrease of the output of coal from the State mines. He reports that there is in situ 132 million tons of coal, of which 49 million tons may be wen being sufficient to provide an annual ontput of 500,000 tons for a period of 99 years. The railway to the mine, which has to be taken through very difficult country, has cost £170,000. The Minister for Mines is of opinion that under favourable conditions the output and profit of the mine will be fairly handsome. Some surprising statements con| cerning fiaxmill hands were made before the Trade Commission at Wellington by Mr Robert Gardner, a wellknown ftaxmiller. The point arose after witness had explained that he paid some if his hands up to £G per week, and in some cases over that amount. Boys were paid as much as £2 12s a week. This led a member of "the Commission to inquire whether men went on the land after some years at work. Witness replied that of some 600 men who had been in his employ, he knew two only who "had risen "above their position." The men got their money and went off to the nearest race meeting. The amount of money wasted by the men was very large. Witness, in reply to general questions, said the industry this year was prosperous, byit prices fluctuated, and were determined by the price of Manila hemp.

It, is stated that Hindus are being imported from Bombay to sell fruit in the streets of Wellington—an importation which naturally is not welcomed by the white hawkers of Wellington. ' Hitherto the vending of fruit in the streets has been exclusively in the hari|ds of Europeans, which is rather remarkable, seeing that the Chinese have such a big hold on the retail fruit trade at the capital. The municipal inspector states that he was a little in doubt about issuing permits to Hindus (six) at first, but on looking up the by-law he found that there was nothing to prevent such a procedure. The character of every applicant for a stand must be vouched for by two citizens, and this was complied with in the case of each of the Hindus. At present there are 22 street fruit hawkers' stands in the city. and the inspector has the names 0i 33 applicants for stands. They are balloted for on April 1 of each year, and each successful applicant pays a license (for the year) of £1.