LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

, .-—-HM— :'' ' ■"'•'■'■ . . ■' Thought *for to-day:—lf you are alwa;^ worrying aibouit wtoa,t'•to-mor-row and the next;; day will bring forth, you will never bave -tame or -energy properly to- fulfil the need 2nd duties of to-day*. '• 'The usual monthly Red Cross collection will be taken up by the ladies to-morrow. ■ ' $ The visitors to tihe Haiuraki Plains yesterday observed a. big 1 fire on, the hills a* Kirikiiri, when retunun|g| in tho evening. The secretary Post and Telegraph Department advises that the acceptance oif deferred telegrams for -North America., via Eastern is suspended. The bull and dairy sale which the Farmers' Auctioneeringl Co. held at Hikutaia to-day, was very largely attended. Many local farmers, were present. There seems to bei a great scarcity of horse shoe nails. Blacksmiths in different parts of the'district find it very difficult 10 -gelt, supplies. It has beeni suggested that there musf. be a "corner" in these aa-ticles. Mrs Brien, of Tararu, has recfeired word that her son, Private Bert Brien, who left with the 3!7th Reinforcemiehts, is"" dangerously ill in Sling | Camp with pneumonia. v v. .'At the request of 'tine Minister of Education, the Auckland Education Board granted a holiday to school children throughout the Auckland j District to-day to mark recent successes of Great Britain and her Allies. The primary schools were to haive recommenced to-day after tihe Michaelmas holidays.