LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Issue 10422, 15 May 1909, Page 2

LOCAL AMD GENERAL NEWS.

The tatter D>ay Saints will hold their usuial . servicps to-m-jr-row in the .'Kirkwiood St. Kail.

Football and' hockey m-aiteihes at Thames this aSternoom. At football City and Suburbs meet, and a* hockey; Kaiuaeiiamgiai Old Boys v. Thames.

The Rev. >A>. Harding' preaches at the Primitive* Methodist Churcih tomiorrow and at (Miaifcatoki at 3 p.m.

The W&iM ladies take a very keen interest in golf and the links &ne well patronised. Thainieia is declidedly backward in not indiuilging 1 mr this popular sport.

It®v. James Mine, 'MLA,, preaches at St. Jamea^ iPrfesbyterian Clhureh tomorrow at 11 aodi 6.30^ and at Puriri at' 3. Ml are cordially invited to the services.

(Ajjb the Warden's Court yesterday the application of the Kuranui G.M.. Co. far reduotiiion to 6 men for 6 months was granted amd not adjourned!. •- .. . : '

:A! girl named Cider, of Waihi, hadlthei misf-ortune to slip the other day whilst walking: along: the footpath and received severe injury to ber hip.

The pastor of the Bai>tist and Cbngregaitiona! ohurohe® will •■'ontimue the study of the books rf Dtamdel and JonaE to-imorroj morning andi evening. A¥ the evening" service the cihioir will contribute an anthem.

His Majesty the King has been pleased to direct that the Hon. Jas. 'MbGowan, who £as served for^more than three years as a nuemiber of the Executive Council of the Dominion of INew Zealand, shall retain pefma,nently the title of "Honoura,ble."

Tb-mioiTow at St. Fraincis evening devotions ait' 6.30 p.m. the eloquent dean, of Paeroa, Very Rev. J. J. Htaoket, will expound the subjejt "Often misrepreßented , continually misunderstoodi, and so the fruitful source of bitter contiroversies."

The BDawraki Band will, weather permitting, play the following prograiminiiei in> the Victoria 'Reserve tomorrow aJternoon commencing at sharp: 'Mulch, "Nkw Colonial":

gmamd seilieiation. "AJuber"; cpf jiet solo. "Gotod-bye," Biaakfemian A. Williamia; overture. '."Don .Juan".; vahe, "(Prayer amd 'Passion"; euphonium solo, "Abthoi-e. rt .Band Ser^. Tangye; selection. "The Toumg Recruit"; niiarch, ''Pile lAlrms"; Rod Save tha King.

Mr Leslie Eiohoirds, a student froni the Ufietihodist Training Institution, wiho some time ago supplied with suicih acoeptaniaei for Rev. J. Blight, will preacjh at Wesky Clhuirohi iumorrowi, miorniing andi evening', and at Klopu in the afternoon.

Oni Thursday the Key. Cole warned^ the people against getting fin overdose of 'social legislation. He referred to the faof that in Victoria, when a mian gets up in years, if he si to obtain work he has to ask to be allowed to work at a lower wage. He considered this was miakinig it iai sin tc be old, an 3 was ciarrying legislation itooi far., AlmonigKti his piotiwesi Mr Cole showted S' number of these men engagedi in. mat making; at 'an, institution in connection with his mission and said that this was Tmwv these were kept from, 'being a 3rag on the State and were enabled! to earn, their own.

Thiet Hon. J. B. Callam, M.L.C., at the meeting of the Nav>y League at Dbnedin, crea.ted some lauigthter by the recital of an illustration of whit wouild happen to Netw Zealand! if _the British, Navy was defeated? The Hon. gemitileinain siaid the Doniiinioni would be snapped up by somie nation—by China, Japan, or some other Power —and wtei would then be in the position of au hxxniie misaionairy wihose whereaibouta was inquired for from a Miami chief. "Did you know So-and-So, the home missionary?" was the "n----quiiy put to the Maori, and thie reply of the laitter was: "Know him. I shouilld say I didl Why, I hoive eatsn him)."

General orders issued by the New Zealand Cbuincil of IMenee notify that the seivfiirial companies of the >••:•-

giniient of New Zealand Gnrrison Artillery Volunteers in Auckland. Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago Bhajl be formed into divisions, and le. styled the A'ucikland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otaifjo Divisions of G-a,r----rison, Artillery Volumtee.rs. The several companies sjtall to numbered in ordier of seniority in the division to whicih they 'belong. This establishment provides for an, 1 eleotrio-liglit section, which will b& formied in each cioimipany of Garrison Artillery Volunteers where necessary, and wiill consist of one lieutenant, one sergeant, one corporad, two. bomibardiers, nn>l six gnimners, to be employed! as> electricians and engine drivers. Ib is noted that im no ease shall an offifior be promoted to the rank of major, until ho has at least seven years' commiissioned servioe.

Tenders are invited for tbo purohase of 'Mir W. B. R'enishaivv's plumbing business, Thames.

The following) wirei, sent from," Wellington to 'Waihi, was revived from !Mt H. Field, Chairman of the" GoldfieiMs' .Rugby' Union: "Affiliation .graoiited. Tlotorua, na,uran!g-a, a,nd, KLnig ■Caunllry were adeddL Very strong opposition from. Aiuiokland, but I Wellington saved us." From this it j will -be saenj that •G-oldfields are now! nffilinied wilh the New- Zealand-' Rugby Union.

iAj North Canterbury settler! and his wife who had been visiting the North 'Island, were expected to return oi few days ago by on© of the ferry steamers; feuit all trace of them was lost after tliey had gone on fttoard!. A cablegram, from Sydney has ' been reoeivedj, 'reportinig: tbear safe arrival in Australia. They went f>\\ board the wrong steamer at Wellington, and did not discover 1 the error till the vessel was fair out on the Pacift<6 OccaM, heading for Sydney instead of towards Lyttelton.

A, tributel to the Opposition was paid byi Sir Joseph Ward' during his speech, ait the social to {Mr W. W. Tanner at Christehui -Jii on Tuesday eveningl. "We hiarve to remember," he said, "that in a Parliament of^ a country where men are sient to cjairry on thtei work for the benefit of the people of the country, if they wera all ideal men, if they all thought the same or ibelieved in the same political doctrines, there would be no diversity of opinion, no spirit of ssri-thusia-smi, mo prtojgress."