LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 8 December 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Look for the advertisement for pickle and jam bottles for sale.

Attention is drawn to the advertisement in this issue for rooms to let.

A street mart will be held next Monday in aid of the annual Xmas tree for the Convent children.

A sale of seasonable wear for ladies will commence on Thursday nextj, at the Club Hotel sample rooms.

A garden party will be held in the High School grounds on Friday next. Folk dancing, tennis, and an exhibition of manual work will take place.

Pungarehu school operetta on December 11th will be filled with colour —mirth delightful songs dainty dancing—excellent talent.

The total population of China is given at 470,000,000 according' to the latest figures compiled by the Ministry of the Interior. As compared with statistics compiled by the post office in 1926, China's population has registered a significant decreaso of more than 15,000,000.

"Sweet Kitty Bellairs," the talking, singing romantic comedy in technicolour, comes to the New Theatre on Friday and Saturday next. This screen version of the Belasco stage hit, is the .story of the most fascinating of all the world's flirts. Don't stay away.

The euchre party in aid of the Convent school children's Xmas tree, which was announced for Friday, December 11th, has been put forward one day and will be held on Thursday next, December 10th. The prizes to be awarded are valuable, the supper first class and an enjoyable evening is promised all who attend. According to a Whangarei strawberry grower, the present season hais been the best he has known, since starting his gardens 14 years ago (says the New Zealand Herald). The berries are all of good size and colour. In the northern district the strawberries are always ahead of tlvose of Auckland, and this year were three weeks earlier.

A nest of eight katipo spiders with a down each containing three or four dozen katipos in embryo, was discovered in the garden of a private house at North Beach, Christchurch, on Monday, by Mr. E. C. Larsen. Two of the spiders were captured alive and taken by Mr. Larsen to a chemist's shop in the city, where they were placed in a bottle of spirit.

"I'm -suing a. client in the other Court to-day, and if I get that I'll be able to pay—if not. . ." said a man in the Christchurch Magistrate Court recently, when he was charged with not paying his unemployment levy. The magistrate (Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M.) : "You'd better not rely on that." A Solicitor: "I don't think ho had—l'm appealing in tßa't case."

"Scottish thrift has often been misunderstood," said Dr. S. F. Hunter, of Knox College, Dunedin, in litis St. Andrew's Day sermon at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church. "The people who give the biggest sums to charities and deserving institutions are Scotsmen. This liberality is made possible by 'this very thriftiness. But the saving characteristic has often become sheer meanness, and a mean Scot is just about the meanest creature on earth."

Corban's—the wine you can. offar your friends with entire confidence.

A reward is oiTered for a brooch which haus been lost. Attention is directed to an alteration in the hours of attendance at his dental rooms in the advertisement of Mr. A. M. Mac Diarmid on this page. Whirling along at a breath-taking speed! Whizzing ahead at a thrill-a-minute! And bang! You come up short against a tremendous That's the feeling you will get watching "Manslaughter" at the New Theatre, where it opens to-night. Before 40,000 spectators at Swansea the South African Rugby team beat Wales by '8 to 3. V * * * The. Queen, who is saying at Buckingham Palace, is suffering from a slight cold and is remaining in her room. It is expected she "will be about again in a few days.