The Ohinemuri Gazette. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXVII, Issue 3503, 10 March 1916, Page 2

The Ohinemuri Gazette. FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A woman .to assist in the kitchen is wanted for the Paeroa Hotel.

The official list issued by the Government discloses ■ that 253 men in the town of Ngaruawahia; are considered eligible to join the reinforcements.

A quiet but pretty wedding was celebrated at the Presbyterian Manse, Te Aroha, on Tuesday, the contracting parties being Miss Jessie Sharp and Mr. E. V, Arthur, both popular residents of Te Aroha. The. bride wore a travelling costume of navy blue, with ostrich feathers., The bridegroom's gifts to his bride were a solid gold chain and bajngle.

As an instance of his influence, Rua, the Urewera leader, announced a few years ago that on a certain day he would walk on the waters of the river at Whakatane. % great crowd collected to see him. "Do you believe I can walk on the water?" he asked. "Yes," shouted a number of natives. "Well," he said, "so long as you believe I can do it, that is all that is necessary."

To avoid mistakes it is as well to make a not that Nyall's Agent, Thomas, Chemist, has removed opposite Council Chambers. Paeroa.—Advt.

At the Thames County Council meeting on Tuesday, reference to the departure of Councillor Bagnail's son with the 14th Reinforcement quota was made by Cr. Claxton. Members expressed their appreciation of their chairman's action in giving his son to the cause, and of t)he young ma,n's patriotic spirit that had prompted him to offer himself.

Mr. Chas. A. Banks, who was consulting engineer for the Paeroa-Wai-hi Gold Extraction Co. at Paeroa, and lately manager of Iwer-Denere Mines Ltd., in British Columbia, went to England recently, and is now in Flanders, having gained a commission i,n the Royal Engineers. His many Paeroa friends will be pleased to hear of his promotion. Mrs. Banks is at present staying with friends at Paris.

A good story, in which the humour depends on the note of exaggeration, concerns the capture of four German prisoners. . A British Tommy was placed in charge of them and told to take them to a certain point in the rear of the lines where prisoners were being collected. When the Tommy reached his destination he had only three prisoners in his charge instead of the four he set out with. When asked what became of the missing prisoner, he explained, "Well, it was this way, sir. He was a married man, and I'm a married man; and he got talking about his wife, and I got talking about my wife; and he'd got kiddies and I'd got kiddies, and we talked about them j$ and then we got an to our 'omes, and we talked about them, ,and he made me so bloomin' miserable that I shot the blighter." .

Horrockses' White Calico, 36 inch: es wide, Nos. A.I, A.2, A.2X., has advanced to QV^d per yard Wholesale. Cullen's price still 6 3/4 d yard, until present stock is sold out in the above numbers. —Advt.

An advertiser wishes to purchase a light sulky in good order: also set of harness. ' '

The Paeroa bowlers leave for Te Aroha to-morrow to play a match with the Te Aroha bowlers.

A young man aged about 19 or 20 was taken to the hospital from Paeroa yesterday, believed to be suffering from infantile paralysis.

A sitting of the Assessment Court in connection with the Ohinemuri County Council and the; Paeroa Borough took place at the Courthouse on Wednesday, and will sit again on Monday. A report of the proceedings will appear in our issue of Monday.

A very emotional scene occurred at the consecration of Bishop Brodie at Christchurch. on Sunday last, when Mrs. Brodie, mother of the Bishop, was led up to the throne immediately on the enthronement of her son, to receive the first blessing at his hands. The new Bishop embraced her very gently, and many of the, congregation were visibly affected by the incident. On Cu.uay afternoon the Paeroa Brass Band, under the cdnductorship of Mr. He yes, will re,nder the following musical programme in the Domain, commencing at 3,ls:—March, "Torchlight Brigade," (Bulch),; Valse, "Myrine," (Laski); selection, "To Arms," (Hunter); march, "Viva," (Laurendon) intermezzo, "Silver Bell" (Bulch); valse, "Angelia," (Laurendon); march, "The Cordiale Entente" (Douglas); fanfare, "The Allies," (Bulch); 'God Save the King."

At 6« o'clock on Tuesday afternoon Sergeant Cassells was. apprised' by telephone from Te Uku, near Raglan, that a young man named Charles Davidson was alleged to have entered ,the house of Richard Livingstone earlier in the day, and, taking a gu,n from the wall, loaded it with a cartridge from his pocket, pointed it at Livingstone's head, and forced Livingstone to write out & cheque for £4 18s 4%d, which sum Davidson said Livingstone owed him for work done. Davidson was arrested at Whatawhata yesterday, on a coach bound for Hamilton with the cheque in his possession.

"Germany," says a writer in "Life,'; "may breed again bet population and outlive her tragedy of a Germajny of old men, women, and children. She may recapture her ojd trade. Humbled and purged, she may even reset some little of that diadem of learning, philosophy, poetry, and song that she has trod into the kennel. But in the lifetime of no German living today will she recapture that only sweetness that makes the . lives of nations, like the lives qf individuals, endurable to themselves—the respect a ( nd friendship of their neighbours. That is the twentieth century that belongs to Germany."

Experience teaches the best place to get your prescriptions dispensed with pure drugs is Thomas' Ohinemuri Pharmacy, opposite » Council Chambers, Paeroa. Telephone 14.

If the young lady who has managed what she possibly imagined is smart business in the securing of absent soldiers' pay .could have been present at the Chi;istchurch Women's National Reserve meeting last night (says the "Press") she would certainly have felt the reverse of comfortable. Miss M'Clean had just been paying a fitting- tribute of reverence and respect to the women 1 who. have bravely give,n up husbands, sons, and sweethearts, and then she referred to the other side of the picture. "The women who don't wortc, and won't work," she said, "I don't know what to say about them. It is dreadful when you hear of a case as we did the other day of one woman, who, to prevent herself having to work, is in receipt of part of three separate soldiers' pay. She is not a woman!" declared... Miss M'Clean with vehemence, "She is a disgrace to her sex."

Several humorous incidents of camp life at Trentham were told by Chap-lain-Captain Walker, at a Methodist meeting in Auckland. He related the story of v a soldier,; who, in rendering a solo at a concert attended by, the men, attempted to reach a note higher than his vocal powers allowed. His embarrassment was rather accentuated when a member of the audience immediately after the failure gravely asked in military, form if there were "any complaints." Another humorous incident occurred on a route march near Trentham. A farmer and his wife, both well over the allotted span of three score years and-ten, were interested spectators of a portion of the march. Upon seeing them the soldiers promptly commenced singing the popular ditty, the chorus of which runs, "Halloa, halloa, who's your lady friend?"

You may go further and Tare worse, Buy your Nursery and Toilet requisites from the direct importer, Thomas, Chemist, opposite ; . Council > Chambers. Paeroa.—Advt.

London is becoming cursed with a new vice—that of opium smoking, and unless the authorities take drastic action to prevent its growth, the evil will become wide-spread and incalculable harm will be suffered by a large number of people, who for the most part are acquiring the habit through innocent curiosity( says the Sunday D2spatch). It is an evil arising out of the depression that war inevitably brings. The earlier closing of clubs and restaurants, the dark streets, and all the various restrictions which have brought about the disappearance of the gaiety of London at night—admirable and necessary as these precautions may be— have resulted in the craving for some new diversion which shall take the place of the old. Some evilly disposed persons have started , this opium-smoking craze in the West End, and their victims —many of them persons of weak wills—are succumbing to the vice.