LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 8 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I To-morrow will be observed as 1 "Missionary Sunday at the Baptist 1 Church. Pastor S. B. .Maiden will \ preach morning and evening, and a 1 retiring collection at the close of i the evening- service will be taken, i The county chairman (Mr .7. R. , Mclnnes) and the county engineer | Mr W. M. Fraser) have accomi plished a record. They travelled Si; I miles in the county car on Thursday | through the northern ridings, and at ' various points laid off works. The biggest bag of pheasants that went down by the midday train today fell to two Hawera sportsmen, -Messrs F. Barraclough. and W. Lash. The shooting was done in the 1 neighbourhood of Tito hi, and no fewer than 25 brace of pheasants fell to their guns. They speak very highly of the district and of the sport afforded. In writing on the matter of specially addressed correspondence i'or the United Kingdom the Pest Office authorities state that in the present exceptional circumstances correspondence despatched via Suez is ■ subject to delay. Letters, etc., posted for later mails despatched via San Francisco or' Vancouver generally reach their destinations before these despatched via Suez. In order, ■ however, to provide for the require- • ments of' banks and other business . institutions, where the despatch of * . duplicate documents by different mails is desired, the Department advertises despatches via Suez i'or specially addressed correspondence only. Large quantities of letters, evidently not duplicates, are being posted, superscribed for despatch by the Suez route, and in order to remove misapprehension it is announced thai at the present time the best routes for the iramsmission of correspondence for the United Kingdom are those via San Francisco and via Vancouver.