NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10461, 11 September 1911, Page 2

NEWSY PARS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The market remains unresponsive to the wooing of the enamoured ones, but is expected to show more activity' after the end of the month, which is half yearly balance day. Junctions sold at 23s 3d, Waihi Extetideds at Is 6d, Saxons Is lOd and Golden Hills Is Id.

We learn that some splendid drives of logs have recently taken place in the Tairua district and that Messrs Faithful and McConnell are making 1 splendid progress with their large contract. They have a large number of men employed— some of them aro the bast bushmen that the district can produce—and a large number of logs nre being driven to tho "booms" at the lower landing and then conveyed to Great Barrier Island, whero the Kauri Timber Co's largo mill is situated.

A humorous story is in circulation at Thames in connection with a recent foot: ball match played not a hundred miles away. It is said that one of the players was very anxious that his side jshould' score ■» win and wilh that desirable end in view ho approached one .of ths "star" players of the opposing team and with a cash payment of 25s suggested! that the other should go "stiff" and allow his team to be defeated. The second player took the money, told' his comrades of tho joke, and swearing them to secrecy told them to - await developments. The match ensued and the ''star", performer, to the consternation of the other, excelled himself. He was here, there, and everywEere and eventually added ta the bitterness of •defeat—and incidentally the loss oi 25s— by scoring a splendid try from which he kicked a goal. There is a le.3son in this little incident that needs no explanation!

j Says a political correspondent: "They came to grips almost as soon, as the House met. An Imprest Supply Bill provided • | well-appointed ring, and almost an unlimited number of rounds. Mr Allen, acting a - leader during Mr Massey's temporary abseneo, criticised without any special rancor the Government's financial transactions in the matter of loans. Sir Joseph Ward attacked! Mr Allen with a vehemence that dispelled once and for all the air ol polite sedateness with which business was conducted up to the end of last week. After Mr Massey arrived, Mr Herries bobbed up with a short explanation, and received a nasty jab. The Prime Minister's motto seemed 1 to be: ."Wherever you see a head, hit it. tJ There is a doggerel adaptation of Shakespeare in this form: "Thrice armed is he that hath his quarrel just; but four times hethat gets his blow in fust." Sir Joseph Ward did not wait to be attacked. His speeches in Wellington prior to his reappearance in his place in the House indicated that he had arrived back full of fight, and he lost no time in confirming first impress sions."