LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13846, 5 November 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Thames Borough Council k distributing disinfecting fluid to all who apply for it. We -regret to report that Mr. W. P.- McClair, a well-known Thames miner, died at Auckland on Satuxday. • The children, looking the very embodiment of joy, kept close to the fire reel in the procession last evening, their chief delight being the fireworks. , Tiie weather forecast is aa follows: The indications are for masterly ; winds moderate to strong freshening. The weather will probably (prove squally and ohangeaible, with, dnoreasing haze and cloudiness. The barometer has a Sailing- tendency soon. ' Seas are moderate and tides good. '♦■.-, i i, ■ ■ j The girls in the telephone exchange *we«re kept exceptionally busy yesterday immediately after the newa of 'Austria's surrender was made public. A. word of praise is due to them ' for their good %ork. The telegraph departmemt is also entitled to praise for the manner in which the work is being performed', in. face of the great „ ' shortage of operators in Auckland. The merits of ktsrosene a» a deodeo-aaiiti are not as fully racog- : nfised aa they deserve. White thew is.danger of infection duringl iiie in-

flueoza opid»mtio, kerosened water' sprinkled "about the dwelling is an * excellent method, nob only of killing goring, but of driving flies out of *tho house. The use of formalin is also rtooramwrided, a tablefJpoonful 1 to a quart of water, used iv* a Bpray. We understand the«tre patrons ax& now beijug spraijred witli thi^i n^*l^ ll*l^ ** they enter tlie buildingls.'