LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13847, 6 November 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■ ■"• Thought' for to-day: Eveayone : can see the advantage of being first, but very few see the beauty of being ' content to b© eeooindJ • , ;, "f I 'The County <R«guieer, Mr. R. H. Muir, is one of the victims of influenza. | ; The weather is now favourable for shearing, and operations are general throughout the district. "The Lure of a Woman" is continued on page 5. On, page 6 will be found a variety tof interesting matter. At the County Council to-day 23 ■ letters were received from County Councils in answer to the Thames pouncilV circular 1 protesting against the new regulations regarding tihe low rate of pay. provided for work sub-' sidired by the Government. I A native boy named Waitene, of' Uopai, wag badly bunit on the lace and hands, this morning, and admitted to the Thames hospital. He was playing -with, g-mipo^der to it is supposed, 'he put a match. 'r '< A meabini^^ of the. General Pur I poses Committee of the Boiougih ■ Council was held last night, when a i variety of matters* were ootnsidett'ed , Tlhe result will be reported to the 1 Council in, due ©ours©. ' i |" Tlhe managehie'nt of the popular , King's Theatre advertise in another \ column that the> tlieati-e'is fumiigated ■^ daily formaline, and sprayed by •'a scented disinfectant spray during 'the performance. This is wry refreshing to tihose in attendance at the theatre.-.-'. ■ >„ . ,- * The total npipibt*". of men df awnr linger. the Mliita^y; S^ryite -Act up W •'. and we, . \kisi-' ballot wa® 146,58>9. The 'mjaniber ■ who' failed'''tSS 1] parade was 10,'i60, of Avhoni 3352f- i; j are 'accounted foa'. Amd 2,325 were ] scoured without the aid of warrants. , Tlhe numbeii' of warrants issued toal ( 2599; tto Tiumber still unexeouted is • 1285. ' -■. ■■. 7'-'\., ■•■ .; Gapt. Hall Thiompson., Naval Adviser to the Government," reports that < «n the moiimittig of October '31, in . heavy weather, the Anchor Line steamer Wabanea, on tliei way from • Wan^aiiui rti6t Gnreyinoujth, lobserved* ' a floatinig mame off Gape Farewell, amd aifter coiTsidea'able trouble suoceed<>d in sinking 1 it. < A coipy of the County Council's q circular pt'otesting against tlie new J regulations regairding' the low rate of 1 pay provided' for work subsidised by i the Government, will be: sent to> the c memlber for the district, aslting''.hinn. to push the matiter on the Council's •,■: behalf. „-■'. } Austria proposed the foilllowing j- ■, towns as a north-;westeni fromtier for • .U'kraiittia: Wydoeoiwskyesee, Prush- ! any, KamieiMitowsk, ; Nyseklitowsk. 0 ; Meschiretficheti, Radzza, Pugaszsei, j Kirasnost'an, Sroezebei'szyn. "These naituwial fortifications!," comments an 1 English paper, "ougjhfc to ensure the I Ukraiiraians agiainst any attempt 6t. i foreigners. t<o interfere in their af- q fairs." . V Mr. D. Russell, master of Tararu (Thames Noi-th) School, has a S1 eligilit' attack of influenza., amd tihe Bohool has been haM-olosed for the « last two days, the. junior classes' at- ™ tending. - This led to a wild rumour "w that the school was closed owing to a^ most severe outbreak amongst the children, whiclh:, it will be seen, is not correct. The tendency to spread oi exaggeraited rumours concerning the t< ifrbuible should be rigidly suppressed. A Some persons take a. k«en delight '^ M retailing magnified accounts of simjple' 5 ; attacks. TihWe is at present nothing m of a serious cihjaraciter in Thames, sj amd every precaution is being taken a to- prevent a possible outbreak. \\