LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Northern Advocate, 6 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

-"•A wedding was performed at Kawakawa on Saturday >at which the bride was eighty-four years and the bzidegroom seventy-nine years.

Telephone subscribers are notified that to-morrow is the last day on which telephone connection subscriptions are payable. Should any subscriber fail to pay the requisite fees the connection will immediately be cut off.

The Whangarei butchers evidently intend encouraging, as far as possible, a cash trade, and with this view have made a marked difference between cash and booking prices. Weekly accounts if payed regularly will be charged at cash prices. A full price list will be found in our advertising columns.

The sudden death occurred yesterday morning of Leonard Hutchings, sixteen years of age, a son. of the late Mr Walter Hutchings. He was talking to his uncle Mr Sidney Hutchings at about half past ten and then appeared to be quite well. About twenty minutes later his mother found her son dead. Medical attendance was qui,ckly summoned but was unavailing. Dγ Walker, who was called in gave a certificate that death occurred during an epileptic seizure. The deceased lad was recently apprenticed to the carpentering trade under Mr Foster.

OThe "fault" met with in the Northern Coal Company's new mine at Hikurangi has been pierced, and the miners are now working on a full face of coal with an output of about one hundred tons per day. A number o£ these rock faults have been met with, but each successive one is smaller than its predecessor, and it is. hoped that few, if any more, will be met with. The company has had indifferent luck with this mine through flooding and faulbs, otherwise the output would have nearly doubled by now. Mr Tattley, the mine manager, has every confidence that within a very short time all obstacles will be overcome.

The visiting association football team which played against Whangarei on Saturday was entertained at the Railway refreshment rooms in the evening, Mr V. Barton presiding. The customary toasts were proposed and honoured. Vocal and instrumental items were contributed by Messrs Clarke, the Auckland Glee Party, Barton, Powell, Millington, Willis, iardley, Smedley and Churchill. In proposing the health of the visiting team Mr Barton pointed out the difficulties with which enthusiasts had to contend in popularising the game as very little interest in Jt had as yet been displayed by the public of Whangarei. He anticipated, however, that the visit of the Auckland team would give it an impetus. Mr Kirkwood, manager of the team, said he hoped that the result of the visit would help to make the game more popular in the north and that next year he would see a Whangarei team visit Auckland.

that the Mayor has returned from his holiday jaunt to America, Whangarei, municipally speaking, is about to get busy again. Mr Steadman is anxious to have a poll taken at as early a date as possible on the question of raising a loan for an extended water scheme, and the establishment of electric lighting in the borough. In regard to drainage extension, it is improbable that this item will be included in the loan proposals, as the Mayor is contemplating a loan from the Government without a poll. Mr Steadman informed an "Advocate" representative this morning that before he left for the United States he had practically made arrangements for raising a loan to meet the requirements of the borough as far as water, lighting, and drainage were concerned, but he contemplates having to start fresh negotiations owing to the alteration made in the rating system since he went away. The carrying of rating on unimproved values will, is his opinion, make "a lot of difference" in regard to obtaining the money. The poll will be taken as soon after the borough engineer completes his plans as possible.

Who is William Wallen? The most reliable watchmaker and jeweller. Successor to E. A. Simmons, Cameron Street, Whangarei Charges moderate. —Advt.