NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14534, 28 May 1913, Page 4

NEWSY PARS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Webb and Rufcutaia, Auckland, unable to make trip to Sydney in Northern Union team. Places will be filled by Jaokaon (Auckland) and Shadbolt (Oanterbury).

The Annual General Meeting of the Thames Bowling Clubi has. .been conveined for Thursday June sth, at 7. 30: p.m.; in the County Council Cham hers. Details • are advertised.

The Revised district valuation rolls for the Thames Cbunty will, it..is notified, be open for puifalic inspection at the County Ciouneil Chambers, Thames, from May 28th to June 11th.

The superintendenti of the Tararu Homes, Mr Rl. Hi. {Jhapman, wishes to thank Mesdames Johnson and Lewis and the public library for kind donations of reading 1 matter, which are warmly appreciated.

'Solar Plexus' in thie Referee says that the defeat of Johnny St.ummers. tEbgland's ■ premier welter-weight,' is one of the greatest surprises of tn"e year in the Australian 'boxingi world Stone, .who is an American, has- Md 280 faattles, and has been "beaten only once.' Before Messrs McCullougih and Whiteihouse, J.Ps this afternoon: a woman named Mrs Anderson applied for a. prohibition order a°iainst her huslband Geo. Anderson. The latter agreed to the order being made, and accordingly one was taken out agiaiins him for 12 months. : : It is believed that in a few days the Gbvemmeintwill make several appoint ments to the Legislative Council. The question is asked-—will the Massey Government ciive the wagie—^earners a representative in the Upper 'House as Join Ballance and Ricihkrd Seddon aidi It is notified in special district orders that His Ehrcellency the Governor has signified his intention of being present at -the review Jto be held in honor, of the birthday of His Majesty the King at 9 a.m. on Tuesday next at Alexandra Park;, Auckland. Attendance at this review will count as a whole day parade.

Writesra Te Arohia^^ oorrrespondent— 'A! party of workmen are now engaged upon the work of removing the swin« span connected with the Te Aroha Railway Bridge. It is intended to re-erect the awing portion of the new traffic bridge oter the Waihou Rriyer, at Nbtiherton. This was purchased from the Railway Department by the Ohinemuri County Coun cil. .

In connection witE a report in yesterday's issue of t&e appearance of a drunk in the police court, we learn that the delinquent was not an inmate of the Tararu Homes, as was stated, but lived in a house by himself .on the Ooast road. The old fellow was

found drunk and much cut about on the T'araru bridge, near the homes, while he was returning; home to his shanty. The police were informed by telephone from the institution, and the drunk remoTJed to the cells. Hb was never an inmate of the Homes. On the contrary the conduct of the old men who .-ire at present at Tarsra is exemplary and the superintendent has no cause for complaint.

.Sam Langford has issued tihe followingl challenge:— tin America it has often happened that a champion Eas contracted to meet two men .in the j one ring, and it is my desire to meet two men in Australia, Bill Liang and Mat (P.©!.) Gun-en, preferred. In • the event of my not boating bolh\ I of course stall receive tihe loser's .end. twit should' I succeed in both batitileß on points or otherwise, the lion's share shall toe mine —'the conditions of the contest to provide that directly 1 have finished with one man, the other to immediately take his place.' The busy housewife is forever on tiho lookout for laJbour savingi deivices amd Eas received 'Birasso' the easy shine, ■ with wide open arms. She recognises tihat it is all it is cracked up to "bb. Like the little boy in a' replace advertisement in this issue, she and members of the family wonder where the shine comes Trona "

The cadets on tEe Union Company's training steamer Ajparmra. are seeing many parts of the world on the long voyage which the vessel is mafeing. Calls Lave been made at Barcelona, Naples and Cardiff, and the vessel is now en route to Colombia via Suez Waiting from Barcelona to a friend in lAkicikland, one of the cadets says: 'I went to a bull fight the other day just, to see what it was like. From, the Britisher's point of view there is no sport in it at all and although II am glad I have been I would not care to see such an exhibition again. From start to finish the bull has no chance and the only satisfaction that the an-1 imal gets at all is the chance to gfive vent to his rage by goring to" death I one or two of the gone-at-the-knees horses which are paraded round the arena. They wouldn't stand chat sort of thing in England, blut the arena built to. hold 22,000 was full.'