LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Weather Bureau forecast for 24 hours from 9 o'clock this morning: — Westerly winds, strong to gale, and veering by W. to S. The weather will probably prove squally with heavy showers. . Barometer rising after 20 hours. Tides good; sea rough off shore.

Yesterday morning Mr C. Thomas noticed a number of eels in the stream just above the railway station. Hβ put out an ordinary fishing line and succeeded in landing five of them. The weights of the fish ran from twelve to twenty pounds. It had been previously reported that very large eels were in the creek, but up to 'yesterday none of them had been caught.

Who is William Wallen? The r-ost reliable watchmaker and jeweller. Successor to E. A. Simmons, Cameron Street, Whangarei. Charges moderate. - — AdvL

On Saturday afternoon Grahamtown and Ngapuhi hockey teams played a practice game, which resulted in a win for the former by three goals to two.

Four students from the School of Medicine arrived in Whangarei yesterday and left by train this morning for Kaikohe where they will assist Dr Cawkwell in connection with the prevailing epidemic.

The district coroner (Mr J. M. Killen) is proceeding to Otonga thjs afternoon for the purpose of holding an inquiry into the death of Mr Alex. McKenzie, a farmer in that district, who died suddenly yesterday

After a hearing which extended over three days the Auckland divorce case W. H. Paterson versus Mabel Paterson and Gustav Kronfeld resulted in a verdict against the . petitioner.

Mr Oliver Smith died at Georgetown, near Oaniaru, last week, at the age of 102 years. He was born in the Shetland Islands, and had been in New Zealand for thirty-seven years. He never had an illness sufficient to make him stop work for a day, and his faculties were unimpaired right up to the last.

Sarah Nugent, a rather frequent offender, was charged at the this morning with drunkenness, but failed to appear when called. Mr Hemphill, J. P., ordered that the amount of defendant's bail (£1 10s) be estreated. To-morrow morning she will be placed before the Stipendiary Magistrate to explain the breach of a prohibition order now current.

There will be sitting of the Magistrate's Court to-morow morning. Two charges of breaking and entering at Whananaki are to be heard, three alleged breaches of the borough bylaws will be considered, and t the list also includes seven cases under the Defence Act, and one of 3isobedience of a maintenance order. There are twenty-four civil cases.

It was reported to the health au- 1 \tharit>y to-day . thatt several (Maoris visited tbe town on Saturday but escaped, the vigilance of the police. Dr Frazer-Hurst has asked us to request that 'business people will 'ask any Maoris who* for the present enters their establishments to produce his ■(permit. Maoris are not allowed to enter the town without a signed authority and any of them who do so are liable to a hea-vy penalty.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., through their agents, the Auckland Farmers' Union, report that they are in receipt of the following cable from their London Office, under date August 27th, 1913:—Butter: Market firm for finest grade, which is scarce, but the market for inferior and secondary qualities is dull; 75.000 cwts. equal the total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the,week ending Saturday, as compared with 62,000 cwts. for the corresponding period of last year. We quote Danish butter at 1225, finest Australian salted 108s, unsalted 110s. Cheese: Market firm.

To-day the following regulations in the inland parcel-post system were brought into force:—No receipt will be given to the sender on posting an ordinary inland parcel, and no receipt for such parcel will'be taken by the post-office on delivery to the addressee. For an inland receipt-parcel, the extra payment for which is one penny, the Department will give a receipt to the sender at the office of posting and will guarantee to take a receipt from the addressee on delivery. In the <went of any injury for the loss of a parcel being made the sender must produce his receipt, and no claim for compensation for the loss or damage in the post-office of an inland parcel will be entertained unless a receipt has bep.n paid for. If the sender of an inland parcel desires the personal receipt of the addressee, such receipt will be obtained by the Department on payment of the fee of '2y 2 d.