LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13969, 20 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The weather forecast is: The indications are for tsooitherly moderate to strong winds. Weather probably oocul and! changeable, with sc^tftered showers. The bairometeir has a rising tendency. Seas moderate, tides moderate.

We regpiet toi amnoiu'niciei tiie deiatOi of Mts J. Govajn, of lliohmood Street. The late Mrti Go^am ha® resided ait; Th'aaneis nietaniy all her life and hex kindly disposition- Tnade for Hea 4 a. large oircde of 'Mends who will moum their loss. Her husbandi pu'edeceaßed her fivei yearna ago-

Th© laiteisit store: quioitteufcionte &&.*&: Saieis: N.ZI. Insuramcei £A ,10s Gd, LoaiQ and Meroantule £>10€, W^son's Ceanenit 16s 2d!, TaMsiniatn 1 69 d. Buyera: Komaitei Reefe l^d;, Old Hauraikd 3^d, Rilsiinigi Sun Is 10' d, H&unaikii Reefs Id. Waolii £2 ss, Junotim 12s 3d.

The proffeHsioßial heavyweight cham piotniejhijp of New Zealand wiiH be decided tonnagihlfc at the Theatre Royal. Te Ardha-, between' Alberto Pooley (holder) and "Wally Evams" (challenger). The latter, who in private life is Walter-.Hogg 1, ■ da traiinjing 1 under tho sufperviaion of Dave Pretty, New*. ZoaJjanjd'a chiaimpioii axemaan. Both coßitositants imm ait the Olyirr pia, Sydney, some time "back, Pooley wisnmmg on that occasioni. The bouit "wiilOl douibtilaGß prova am interesting one. . ■ : ' . ..;'".■,

The breaikilng-up of the Thames Hauraki piuimipttngi "planiti, by meana of which the iUiniwaterdng! of the deep levels in; the Thames mines was carried out, is taking place. At last ©vemiingy- meetimg of the Auckland 1 Hospital Board <the purchase of three of -^he, boiilera belong'uig! to the plant Was agreed' upon. They ere to be utilised' for V ateam-heating purposes (a* the Hospital and' Ckwtley Home., Part of the pla-nt was offered 1 to the local Hosipitail Board, biiti turned do'tvm, as the present boilers were held to be more eoonomical.

A painful scene, or rather .a) series; of scenes, marked. the ipawoefcdimgs ami the Marlbottioiugih Council Chambers aecenitly, wheitt the Borough Oouinlciil, with a mumiber of members of xibe Blenheim Proigressiive League dial ottendmiw; discussed the waiter and eeiweragie proipoisiaJsi. The aoiitngomiLsau; of Cppmcdlllor Gamr 1 tk> itihei project, roe/olived oitiseilf into am aitititiude ..and forms of expression thait evoked from the Mayor a direcitdon. ' to the .Tbrom Clerfc 'ito rimg iirp -the Police Stiatt-ioin.. \Ehas wae done, amd in a few miniuites Sergeamt- O'Harai, iia imfornft^-^initier^ ed tjhe iiooimi, and,, ait, i ;reque^ti of tine ~Maiyotr -ttooftd a siead-;' he t>ccppdield for tlhle reimiaiinder of the rtwtetiiig, •niearly aan hicur. ;iCoiiinciilli»d Ca.rr ooin/tliiaued to make the pfftoceedinigisi vStirioJici % iiitlertyiais.