LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13968, 19 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A TOsd.dem!tl of Palmea-Stan North, has died of sleetping siicikness.. A further tikree. cargoes of coal, toiteiling"over 14,000 Uxs t ha ; v e been dAsehia'rgjed nib Auckland. • The will of the late Mrs Raithibonie, of Wadp<a.wa7, Hawke's Bay, has be^a sAvartt for '.probate atl under £260,----000. M* Baliouii- M. Irvdne, specdaldisib in siigh^ .fostdng,, wM bo at. bis rooms over Mr Bongßird'si, Polka S*., all day op.- Friday and. Sa.tnjirday,inext. Heitheaiingitons Ltd. rmak© at speciality of dainty furndsihmgs;. All are urged tk> seei their big window disiplay. Patterns and puuee^ ar© £&i*> ainryih,€(re( on application'"'l am piroud t« fitay thaib tjhei niest seissnomi of PairKameniti is going tot giiv© woimein/ the rigihib to sdt in Paairaimjenjfc."—Sir Josieipih Ward aft, OhiWßd'chuiroh. A aneiptonrlti upon! thY possibilities of aivdaMioin. dev-oloipanieailt, in New Zealand hlaia been, handed to tihe New ZaaJand Governimeinit by 'CblonieL A; V.: Be|t!tiingtooini, C-M.G., Royal Air Force. It was reposrted that a> Grea-main 1 mime had beep sigiiitcd floatiug in Wadtiamigii Bay, iiiear PaUii-ser Bay. A steamier hiafe beenl sent oiuib tt> seax'cih, foa' amd, if iposisiible, destroy tlhe mine. . Tu*» Rev. Jaanes .Milu^, M.A., ga<y<i aimi address aib Wadihi List'evendngi' oa tih© liquor questicmi. Tue address wa*? glivtm umder ih& aonstpdceK of .thel New Zealand Modeatajte Lea^ie, and dealt wditih. the quefiition of. b'-atto oivraersihii> amid ooauttwiil, "wihiicih is faivoured by* Mr Milne. The weather forecast is: Indiicatdons are for westerly windsi mod«rate to srong and backing by we^b to south. The weather will pirobably pax)iVe squally with iteavy ishowens. Th© barometer has a rising tendency. Seas rough; tides snodierate. •".• ■ Inl aoioltheir 1 ooiumlni Mi" J. E. Green, rettumniitag offiioeif for the Haurafci Draiiinagje Board, notiifieist tihat the r!a|tb-piayersi' 'list is opem foa^ in^ectiiora. He alfiO gi'vteis; instirucillioais "to those: wliisihaing! tia lod'gie objeotiioois. He nloitliffeg dUsia tih© date when tine magistliiaite will slit -.tjo» netair objectiibmW a* thet Coiutrthousia, Thsaniies. The on© and only ttt-ain from! Aueik : land scheduledj &» reaich Thameis aiboiuib 6.30 did .miiorb <pvuh vn, ami apjpeairainicie tjill cdose omi 10 p.'rt.. lbisiti night,' aiter sxn ■eixcieiedingly . j&^ralctiedi' voyage.''."'''No aicciideinit. of any -likud occurred, the delay, being dme, itlo-heaivy work 1 all along the lantei, \. tihifoaigih •the''odniveii*sicto' of tihie taialiini into wbait, aamoiunitis to ai tha^ugh-gooid^''tiraiiinj shuiiibinigi a!t ponaicttdciailiy ;eyery station. The flah iindtisfry' .is -steadily aitti^citing rcctt'tuitis^ this ht-adstibful oipeailadr niaitiUirte of the ectempaitdoax piroving) an k«iuceim)enib -to retiurned soidliiea's. Things haivt© beenl very qudeit for soniie tiknie, the fish 'eivtiidentiLy being! oiu|ti visiitiingt. In 1 oniei linßitianoei a drew 1 of three, eibaa-edi the (profits on. tihtfee fish, the tloital;result of a loingi dlay's oruiiisie. Howeveir', the tid<? has aipptair leniitly turned: amd c&ifcGhos! ■should^ be on the up-griade. One boait. haa estaiblushed ai good Record for, a winjtett' caltlchi, amting ye'sitieatlay with 500 dozen, good fi^h aboard. Fob 4 a tfiim© the fish meshed so freely tihat theiir weight miade itl difficult to liftl the netls- Im fac* ttie Weight otf the mieshed, fish made it iimpoisßaible "for. fooisr' nieitisi ■tia ha liifted amid tiheisiei had to be-leifti. Anot^if boiait fishaDig a&ar thei on© refeinr'ed to, pdclked: ; upi oniei hundred dozem fish,. , Biiitj whensoever it b©, we're sure To Welcome Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. x ' ; A Tliiamieia pfeyjar who was-, inijured in the footbaill maitichj in-Auckland'on Saitiurday was,the, moans of making a'i liEanUairkiaiblie isciienltdfio dascoreiiy, which may bo of dnesibimiaible beauefit to-'paoi-suffeining hmmainiiitly. The. plaiyer in questions was aiplpaireaMy soni'eiwhait' badly injured:;. someithin'g 1 seeaiaed to haivei gjonei wnpng wd,th, an ankle andl ooinisequenltly it waia ivmipossdble for the foolti tot be puib tia ithe gPaunid. A Tlhameis Undbm officiiail took the injured; nuam by car ;,.in{t» tb® teaan's headlqujairteaisi in tlhe 1 city md wenit! out to oibtadh sioimie linjimienti for the anikle. To hisi dlismay, hoiweiveir, he found tihiaifj the_ chiemaat'isi shope wei'e all olosied. He' ancsioMsly patrolled. Qumi Stlreet, "bfuib ©vary door was sihmt. Comiin^ back hie wals atmiazed "to see the orippde wialking .round' and perfedtly irtecovered. Whteini -asked haw the mniracile had been- warked the renoVaited cn'ipjple repffield 1 tihiaib hie had spied a bofcttile of hair-oil on. the chest, cf draweirs. alnd >aiß uoithiing elsei seemed forthcoming hlad ruibbed the oil in— wikh, lasibomisihiiingl results. The only worry iremaiwing is thflifc the ankle may grow whiiskers.