The Ohinermuri Gazette. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 2610, 23 February 1910, Page 2

The Ohinermuri Gazette. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 23, 1910. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A good heifer, close to profit, is ad vertised for sale.

The Railway Department notifies that holiday excusion tickets.will be issued in connection with the Pukekohe Show on Friday and Saturday next.

" A Royal Commission " is the heading of a new advertisement in this issue' by Messrs J, and W. Harp, to which we direct attention. '"' ' <

Tenders are invited by Mr Gillman, architect, for the erection of a printing office for the Te Aroha Mail. ParticulfU's will be found in the advertisement in this issue.

In connection with Lord Kitchener's visit to Auckland next week, the Northern Steamship Company advertises that return tickets from Paeroa to Auckland will be issued by the s.s. Waimarei next Monday evening at the reduced rate of 7s 6d. The Waimarei leaves Paeroa on Monday evening at ten o'clock. The tickets will be available for return up to Wednesday, 2nd March.

Mr J. L. Hanna, solicitor, of Paeroa and Waihi, has a business card elsewhere in this issue. His office in Paeroa is situated in Normanby Road, and the office in Waihi is in Seddon Street.

Train arrangements in connection with the races at Hamilton on Friday and Saturday next are advertised in this issue. Tickets to Hamilton will be issued at excursion rates on Friday and Saturday.

In another column are published the weights for the hack races at Hikutaia on Monday, 7th March. It will be seen that sp'endid entries have been received, and there is every indication that the gathering at Hikutaia will be one of the most enjoyable and, successful yet held by the club.

The Ohinemuri Jockey Club invites tenders for the purchase of the privileges in connection with its race meeting on 17th and 19th March. The tenders include the gates, grandstand gates, cards, luncheon booths, refreshment, booths, and stabling. Conditions of sale may be seen at the office of the secretary at Paeroa, "where tenders close at seven o'clock on Tuesday ovening next.

In the Waihi Police Court this week fourteen offenders were fined ss, with costs 7s in each case, lor riding bicycles on the footpath. Four were fined similar amounts ior riding without lights, and another was fined £1, and costs 7s, for driving a vehicle without lights. " All lovers ot good romance," says the Bookman, " will be glad to know that Mr Rider Haggard is just now engaged upon two books that have to do with the experiences, in love and war, in youth and early middle life, of a certain Mr Quartermain, as related in M.S.S. of his that have recently been discovered." It is reported that Bob Fitzsimmons, the ex-champion boxer, will test the abilities of young Syd., his nephew, at Timavu, and that it the young fellow makes' a good impression on his uncle he will shortly have the actor-pugilist for his coach in the noble art of selfdefence. A Timaru business firm got a surprise recently on receiving a dividend from a bankrupt estate. It amounted to the munificent sum of 2d. The letter in which the two penny stamps were enclosed cost one penny to send, and as a receipt was asked for, the firm named will have to spend halt the dividend straight away in forwarding one, leaving them one penny net. The firm also has to undertake to make a pro rata refund of its dividend should any unforseen claim come in. The firm acknowledged receipt of the* money, and added, "Please accept our best thanks for your remittance." it is evident that there is a good deal of drinking and loose behaviour on the night express to Auckland, says the Waikato Times. A passenger states that a party ot three —a man and two abandoned women — had a high old time en route. They drank whisky until they were in a maudlin condition, and then the man and one of the women went out on to the platform and sat down ; the train meanwhile rocking through the curves and cuttings between Ohakune and Taumarunui. After a time they returned unsteadily, and finished the lust of three bottles of whisky. Much hugging and kissing followed, and they settled to sleep in the smoker, sprawled about in ungainly attitudes. One female flopped on the floor ot the carriage and began to snore with her feet^ under one seat and her head against the other. Several passengers passing through for refreshments had'to step over the inebriated woman, who completely blocked up the passage way.