LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 5 December 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Various views are held on the projected Parliamentary tour of the northern districts, and what Rodney County Council thinks of the matter is I expressed on page I of this issue, where interesting dissertations will also be found concerning the Australian coal trouble and the export .statistics of northern meat. tA.ll the latest market quotations, whether Whangarei, New Zealand, or England are set forth in detail on page 4. The Whangarei Chamber of Com- * mercc has been endeavouring, and with some success, to arrange improved shipping facilities for the Christmas holidays. Mr W. J. Reeve, formerly Clerk of " the Whangarei Court, left by the boattrain at noon to-day en route for I Stratford, after spending a few days' leave in the Bay of Islands district aud Whangarei. For the month of November the vital statistics appearing on the books of 5 Whangarei registrar, Mr F. Bird, show that there were three marirages, two of which were Maoris (one belonging to the Mormon persuasion), 14 births (7 boys and 7 girls), and five deaths, the greatest age recorded in the lastnamed connection being 89 years. j. At the Whangnrei Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr C. H. - Chissell, J.l', a second .offender in the person of Edward Bobinsoii was charged with drunkenness, on the information of Constable Hill, who arrested accused at 0 a m. yesterday in II Cameron street. A fine o£ £1 was imposed, with 48 hours' imprisonment. t The accused, who had 7s 7d in his pos--0 session, elected to "do time," but bc--3 fore noon a friend came to accused '3 1 rescue.by producing the balance of the = fine. The Sunday School Anniversary J Services at the Whangarei Methodist '" Church 011 Sunday were very 3 !argely attended. A feature of the services was the part taken r by the children, not only in the singing of the anniversary hymns, but in 1 reciting passages of scripture, and rendering solos. The Minister, Rev. H. 1 Daniel, preaching at the evening service, contrasted the uumbers in the Methodist communion at the time of Wesley's death, and to-day, results showing astonishing and world-wide progress, that enabled them to say, the ' preacher declared, that the Methodist Church was the largest in the world.