LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 12 November 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A diversity of news appearing on the first page of to-day's "Advocate" comprises further reference to the in- :' fantile paralysis outbreak in the North, comment on the Bussian situa-' tion, remarks on the reel'tiiting decline 1 in Australia, statistics in regard to the cost of living and t& the civil-life set-! tlenient of returned New Zealanders, and further details of the Zeppelin raid. Mr H. G. Welle' peace views are given bh.pagd 4. Ah interesting relic of the war has just been returned after two years to Mr and Mrs A. Bissett, late of Feilding and now of Wanganui. It consists of the bugle used by their son, George F. Bissett, before he was killed on Gallipoli. The bugler boy had engraved on the instrument the name of , each camping place fend the bugle has three bullet holes in it* A breach of promise case which promised to aftord considerable inierest to the Auckland public was set

down for hearing in the Supreme Court on Saturday; Miss Elizabeth M. Grist wished' , ! tfd recover from Ernest Hunter the 'slim'of £2000 as a solatium for her injured affections. A conference of. the parties, however, resulted in a Comprise at the eleventh hour. Two butisy' -landed from the s.s. Kanieri this morning, caused some diversion upon the town wharf. After .confinement on shipboard the animals did not appear to desire further restraint and they started off to gain freedom. ' The men in charge, however, wisely refrained from exciting the beasts to a chase and they were given time to cool down before yarding up. At a meeting of the Waitemata County Council on Friday last an offer to allow the Council to take the land necessary for stopping the sand drift at Kopironui, which the engineer reported had been silting the Kaipara River to a serious degree, with resultant flooding, was read from the Minister of Native Affairs. The offer was conditional on the Council agreeing to indemnify the Department for any claims in connection with the taking of the land. The Council decided to give the indemnification. The timber industry is showing considerable activity in the Northern Wairoa, according to the "North Auckland Times." The white pine output has been largely increased since fine weather set in. It is anticipated that in the near future a double train service will be carried on daily between Dargaville and the log-skids. During the twelve-monthly period ended March 31 the railway carried '7,752,000 ft. of log and sawn timber, and it is expected that quantity will be doubled during the current twelvemonthly period. The main supply of white pine for the several sawmills is now practically contained in the Kaihu Valley, although some thousands of I sunken logs have yet to be refloated in the Awakino, Mangonui, Kaihu and Mangakahia streams.

A rather interesting motor-car trip was made yesterday, to-ordw to enable one of the parties to get to Auckland to attend a funeral. Messrs A. Bray and J. HL Stallard (with children) comprised the outward-bound party. Leaving Whangarei at 8 a.m. 'they arrived at "Dargaville at 11. Mr Stallard reports that the roads were dry and were better this side of Tan. ' giteroria than on the Dargaville side. The party left Dargaville at noon and

crossed the Mititai ferry. Passing through Raupo, Matakohe, Paparoa and Maungaturoto the car arrived at Waipu at 11 p.m. This morning tlie machine left at 4.30 and arrived in Whangarei at 8 o'clock. This scribe asked Mr Stallar"d where the worst roads were and he said "between Waipu and Whangarei." "The roads," he added, "were excellent between Ruawai and Matakohe, from Matakohe to Paparoa they were fair, from Paparoa to Maungaturoto they were bad, from Maungaturoto to Waipu they were good, but from there to Wha-

ngarei

Owing to the recently-gazetted Regulations covering the control of wharves and shipping, it is announced that it will be impossible in future to admit any persons to the ships or wharves at which such vessels Hβ without special, .permit, which, cessity, must be restricted to those whose duty'requires access thereto. .This is considered .'essential to , the

safety of shipping and troops "embark

ing. In order, .ioweyer, to. enable uext-of-kin w.ho so desire to say goodbye to soldiers, arrangements have

been made whereby a special train will be run from Wellington to the camps and will return to Wellington, concession tickets being issued to bona-fide next-of-kin. Soldiers in camp will be notified of the time and date such train will leave Wellington, and in turn will notify their next-of-kin. Small parcels which next-of-kin or friends may desire to give to soldiers may be handed either to the soldier personally during the visit to camp or addressed to the intended recipient, care of Transport Shipping Officer, X Shed. In the latter event they will be placed on board the transport by the Shipping Officer and distributed after embarkation by the ship's quar-

termaster,

Sharland's Magnesia is'particularly soothing when the digestion is disturbed and there is a nasty taste in- the <nouth.

A reminder is given of the annual meeting of the Whangarei Swimming Club in the Parochial Hall to-night.

A dastardly incident is reported per Press Association from Waiongona, three miles from Inglewood, -vhere the milking machinery of a settler named Hine was demolished by an explosion which is supposed to have had dynamite as its basis. There is nothing to indicate tile perpetrator of tlie outrage.

At the "Whangarei Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr E. W. Burton, S.M., an old offender for

drunkenness, Edward Eobinson, was

fiped £1 and upon a charge of procuring liquor while prohibited he was fined £2. A first offender for drunkenness, who had also been guilty of obscene language, was fined a total of £3 Sβ; . Speaking at the Hospital Board meeting to-day Dr. Frazerhurst, Medical Superintendent, referred td the question of public health inspection and stated that he had reecived a letter, from Mrs Elvey, Kauika road, with reference to chicken-pox in the district. He pointed out that as superintendent of the hospital he had been appointed to represent the Health Department in this district. The officers of the Health Department in Auckland were Dre. Monk and Hughes; they had to cover the whole of the Auckland district, hence his appointment here. If matters wer6 referred to him he would give advice and refer the cases to Auckland, but if they were important he would at once ring up Auckland and ask for

instructions. For instance, a country district had recently rung him up and reported a case of small-pox, and as a result he had asked the Department at once to send a representative to report. If there were any urgent matters of public health he would see to them and report, but if they were not urgent he would communicate with Mr Gillespie, the Board's inspector, and give him instructions. There had been some difficulty in the past in getting in touch with Mr Gillespie as he was not on the telephone, but it was understood that this matter was being attended to. Whangarei Agricultural Show on Kensington Park, Thursday and Friday, Nov. 22 and 23. Entries close Saturday, Nov. 17, 10 p.m.—Advt.