LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume XXXIV, 19 June 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reminder is given to territorials of tho weekly drill to bo held to-morrow night. Mr R. Gibson late Ist mate of the “ Mana ” has succeeded to tho command of that vessel.

A reminder is given of tho Fancy Dress Skating Carnival to be hold in the Druids’ Hall, on Coronation night. Judging by the attendance on Saturday night, and the enthusiasm displayed generally, this event should be an unique success. Mr G. V. Pearce, M,P. Chairman of tho Patea County Council has received the following telegram from Mr H. Pollen, Under Secretary for Internal Affairs; — 11 Coronation sudsidy of £250 for Hall ac Manutahi and Alton approved,”

Playing for Cambridge University agaiast the visiting Indian cricket team, Collins (son of the Hon. Dr Collins, Wellington) made 111, and with Mulholland, scored 250, a record first wicket partnership for Cambridge. In the course of his sermon at the Presbyterian Church yesterday the preacher (Mr J, W- Russell M.A.) speaking on the value of symbols, made the following pertinent queries : —“ Was loyalty dead in Patea ? Could we gather to the installation of tho Mayor and refuse to gather to celebrate the Coronation of oar King P”

On Sunday night next we learn it is Mr White’s intention to preach his patrotic sermon on " The British Empire, its rise growth progress, present position and possible future,” When this was preached by him in Kumaar he was requested by the Mayor to repeat it in the Town Hall. A crowded congregation resulted, His ■ Worship the Mayor, tho Town Clerk, tho Anglican and Presbyterian Ministers being with him on the platform. At South Carterton recently, while at tea, a young mother heard her baby cry. She quickly went to it and found tho little one’s cot blazing furiously, though the flames bad aot reached the child, who was crying because of the suffocating smoke. The mother groped her way to the cot and rescued her child, at the same time quietly calliug her husband, so that tho rest of tho household would not bo disturbed. Ho came at once, and between them they successfully extinguished the ffamos. The cot bad been stood about four foot away from tho fire, for warmth, and a tpark had evidently " popped ” out on to tho cot hangings, which blazed up. Tho whole of tho clothes and the mattress were destroyed,

The following is a copy of a letter forwarded by tho member for Patea, Mr G. V. Pearce to Mr E. L. Barton, Mayor of Hawera in reply to a communication for the latter, with reference to a Coronation Memorial for Hawera, “In reply to yours of June 9, I nm pleased to give you a subscription toward a permanent memorial of tho Coronation of our King, George V.— tho ceremony at which ho is crowned, and takes tho oath to act with justice to all his subjects. In those quiet times few of us in the British Empire realise the advantages wo enjoy und»r a limited constitutional monarchy, as compared with such governments as obtain in Mexico or Turkey at the present time, aud on tho Coronation of our King it behoves us all to show our appreciation of tho monarchy under which tho British Empire has achieved such freedom, happiness and greatness among nations,”

A new type of State school has been designed by tho Victorian Public Works Department, and tho first is to bo creoted at Kow to meet the increase of population. Tho building will be of weatherboard, tho insido lined with asbestos sheets, above a jarrah dado. The roof will bo of corrugited iron. Along one side of a lovel floor will bo tho teaching platform, with a hylos plate blackboard above, and on the opposite side a continuous platform, Trunk vents in ths walls aro to afford ventilation, aud yitiatod air is to bo extracted by pipe vents from below the ceiling, through the roof, Ramps are to take the place of doorsteps, for tho sake of safety, With the exception of parts finished in white enamel, oiled wood will bo used throughout. As the school, which will accommodo 120 scholars, will bo different from any other in Victoria, visiting teachers will be given the opportunity of making observations from the platform, both as to the design of the structure and as to teaching methods.

[ Tho following items concerning the Coronation are from tho London Times: Tlio pink carnation known as Lady Hormiono ia the tlowor selected for the Coronation bouquet which tho Queen has signified her willingness to accept from tho Gardeners’ Company. Lady Hermiono is nn English border variety, and some hundreds of blooms are being specially grown by various growers for this bouquet. The Gardeners’ Company will select tho choicest of these. Tho bouquet will bo offered to her Majesty in a very beautiful silver or silver-gilt basket of Jacobean d sign, being a reproduction of tho design of the basket represented in tho crest of the Gardeners’ Company A handsome Honiton lace handkerchief has been worked by a number of ladies of Devon as a Coronation gift to tho Queen. Tho Maries of British Guiana, most of them black women, have subscribed more than TOO aa their contribution for a Coro nation gift to tho Queen. The subscrip lions number over 1000. An illuminated address has boon prepared for presentation to her Majesty. Germany will bo represented at the Coronation by tho Crown Prince and Crown Princess. Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia will go to England as unofficial visitors, There will bo deputations from tho regiments of which King George and Queen Mary respectively arc colonels-in-chief and from tho Germany Navy, of which King George ia a la suite. A mull', lost on Ball Road near tho Alton Hotel is advertised for, Captain Dixon requests that all accounts duo by him bo rendered before July Ist next, The Railway Department notifies that all goods sheds and wharves will bo closed on Coronation Day. IT UR OBJ EOT [ON TO ITj “ Tho only objection I have to Clnunberlan’a Cough Remedy is that tho children are always asking for it,” writss Mrs J. 9 Phillips of Rockwell St. South Broken 17*11, N.S.W "My 1 'ddieshavo both boon subject to colds and croup ever since they wore born. My eldest boy was so bad at one time that ho was in bed for a week In fact we despaired of his life, but thanks to Chamberlain’ Cough Remedy ho was soon well again.” Sold everywhere.

The members of the Patea Rifles, notified to parade at the Foresters Hall p‘n Thursday next at 10 a.m, |T It has been suggested that in view? of the fact that there will bo practically nothing doing in Patea between 1 and 4 1 p m. on Thursday next a friendly game of football bo played between the Territorials ' and tho Fire Brigade. The idea is a good one and well worthy of consideration. The Chairman of the Domain Board (Mr „G. D. Hamerton} recently wrote to the Lands Department asking for a subsidy towards the cost of planting an avenue in the Domain, to be known as King Georges’ Avenue: Mr Hamerton has now received word that the sum of £2O will be placed on tho estimates for that purpose.