LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 21 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The only Sharemarket'transaction recorded to-day was in Auckland Trams (ord.) at 22s 6d. ; The telephone fire alarm system is now. in operation in Whangarei. Notices have been placed in a prominent "position before the houses of residents who have agreed to permit the use of their telephones as fire alarm centres. The notices which indicate that the telephone may be so used consist of black boards on which white lettering is painted. Calls may bo made at any time of the day or night. There are about a dozen of these alarm centres in the town.

-Members of the. Ruakaka Mounted Rifle Club recently were engaged in \ their annual class firing. Good shoot- . ing took place,- and their performances are reported as being distinctly, creditable. Their uniforms are slow in coming to hand owing to the number required for/the Reinforcements. Members' of the\ Helena Bay • sand Tapuhi MounWd Rifle Clubs have purchased khaki uniform shirts, in .which they look smart and soldierlike. The various rifle clubs have furnished several men for the reinforcements to the Expeditionary Force. '. Considerable attention end unstinted praise have been bestowed on the exhibition of pictures from the brush of Mr vG. E. Woolley, and now 'on ■'view in the window of Messrs Heath and Morrison. The pictures, which are entirely original, are to be shown in the Auckland Society of Arts Exhibition next month, and are of exceptional merit. An outstanding painting is of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. The painter has been successful in achieving wonderful light effects and the difficult perspectives of the snow-clad mountains. Popular interest is taken in a picture, painted at the time of the Boer War, and entitled "Reported Missing: Still No News." Mr Woolley treats of a similar subject in a painting just finished, "The Girl He Left Behind Him." The departing soldier is one of our New Zealand "boys" and, despite the similarity of the Imperial and Colonial uniforms j could not be taken for any other. It is a picture which really needs no title, and, as such, is an example of the prin ciple upon which the artist is now working. A smaller painting, entitled "Calm" is another which plainly indicates the intention of the artist. A little gem is "A Heavy Sea at Mata--pouri." Mr Woolley visited Europe some time ago, when he cycled in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and the British Isles. He studied hard in London and came home with hundreds of sketches """made whilst on his varied travels; One of the pictures on view, "Greenwich House Drive," was painted in New Zealand from a sketch pencilled by the artist when staying at Greenwich House itself in Derbyshire, England. t"*

At least two seats on the'.Whangarei School Committee will be open for candidates at the forthcoming election. Mr J. li. Horn, who has gone to Europe, has forfeited his seat, and Mr W. Strugnell, the present secretary, has declared that he wilWiot stand for re-election.

The town clerk of Dargaville has written to Mr. H. Weaver, who was president of the North Auckland Court at the Auckland Exhibition, saying that the following resolution was unanimously passed_at the last meeting of the Dargaville Borough Council: —"That this council expresses it satisfaction at the good work which has been done by the Executive of the North Auckland Court in its efforts to advance the interests of the North, and approves of their method in dealing with the surplus money on hand."

It is good to give, praise whore praise is due, and for the service rendered to Mr Hardwiek and party at the time of their accident on Monday.;night Miss Cissie Arnold, of the La'ngham House, in addition, to those already mentioned, is worthy of high praise;;' Being somewhere near the spot when the aeeident occurred this young lady helpel .'a the difficult task of carrying Mr Leslie from the creek into which he had fallen on to the road, the state in wVch Mr Leslie then was demanding a amount of care. Miss. Arnold then speedily procured hot water and carefully bathed and attended.the wounds of the sufferer until the arrival of. Dr. Ward. While Mrs Leslie was being carried to Mr Hardwiek's house on a stretcher Miss Arnold walked'the whole of the way and gave Mrs Leslie necessary attention, and then stayed late at the house to render what further assistance she could. Any one who.gives several hours of valuable time, and shows such presence of mind and ability at a critical time is well worthy or mention. .