LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LIII, Issue 14023, 23 October 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Presbyterians da Hamilton ra/ised £300 for social, seirvice work in. Auckland 1.

The booking for the "Diggers' " final showing at the Kings Theatre to-night is vei-y heavy.

Two cargoes of coal, totalling about 6000 tons, are due a.t Auckland this week.

The R.M.s. New Zealand found thro© castaways who had lived ltf months on. Olirisftimias Island.

The A)ucikiland Hjaj-Boair Board :e considering telephonic commuinication between Axickland and Rangitoto.

A .proposal is befoa-e th.c Auckland Hospital Board to take ovea- the Epsum Hon-Jie. ag; a cooivalescemt homo for males.

The Go'veimment is sympathetic •vv'th the desire of- relatives to visit scdier's' wra.vee in France,. but nothinig caini be done.

The Auckland Hospital Board is opposed to the Chief Health Officer's suggestion that nurses be trained to

ad/mink'ster anaesthetics

All hotkey iplayers are requested to atiteitul a. meet ingl Jit the secretary's office, Sealey St. at 6.30 to

night,

I Noitacie is given that Mrs A*. M. Lennooc, of Aucikilaiiid, intends mlakj ing application for the Waiotahi No--2 specilail. quartz ciaiimi, on Nov. 12, ' at the Warden's Court.

Gifts for the' sale at| the Fir e BVi jrade. Caiindv-ai on Labour Day sihouW bo left at Mh Fen-gusoai/s residerac©, Quteo St., otr Mrs Pollocilc'is, Tarara. PeriAaible. goods will be reoeaved at the. Park <n£ Monday ap till 10 a. mi.

' Oik Saturday metst tli^ annual aaniveiPsiary excursion under the -ausi puoes of thei Miners' Union will be run finonai Thame®. The Uri,p gives Saibi u-i'day afternoon*, Sunday;' amd; Monday a'>aibowir Day)' in Auckland. Details yv^U bei foiuind omi pag© 1.

! A n extraordinary general .meeting ",.tf nwamibers <rt the R^turr.ed Soldiers' As&ocia,tfl<3n will bo held. in. the rest ■ rooms, Maa-y St., at T. 30 p.m. tev niarxow. As matters of imiportam-oe ' a.ye bo Lo discfti«asied all liiembor-s aiw requested to attend.

All <M residents of Thames .will be delighted to find Mi *F. J. Bnv-

gass is at present oai, a visiit tc . "*& .? «*m «* ail ctos'^ m** Wil ~ T^nity-

'<Diggers," as the closing m[ A one of Karno , g iamoUr Bketches and m intereßfced to knw lK{mm > s oharebter, , £Th Gentleman," otherwise <trPhe gy^ "„ lQharlie c^^ hie & izuspt S ialXm j r

i In a easel before the Petone Magistrate's Court recently -evidence showi cil tha.t a man, his wife, and six children,'whose ages v'aingad from 20 1 t,o 31 years, werei txvuipying 1 two ■moms Jimd a souH'eiry. It was also .alleged that the occupier was not sat- . isfied with the humiaini element, but ;ifeo kept birds and guimeai pig's in i^ofrms and a dog i#n the yard.

Tlie Wellingtioui. Foci's gftu'daning; coctribiuiboa 1, who has lately been, im j n, visit tc -Hawke's Bay, reports tJnaiti; ilia oi'ohard-j ia the prowiiice are iooili- ' ing bettea- thnint he cvea' saw thovrn l.ed'otre. Two^ many seasons have put ftreiiigtai aiiitiO" the trees., and they show great promise. Orohardiisits stait© j that-last yea.r- was the best they ha.ye j j over had, and" the .oomiinig; seiiisoiii, promises toi be quite asi giood, or bet- | icr. i

' Jcy-riding" is a burning question with, car owners at the present tiime, apd the' .Wellington. Afu'tomobile Cluib is -not satisfied that %c proposed legislation on the subject fixes the penalty for illegal borrowing of oars Julgh enough at £10. The Niew Zealand Automobile Union ifi to be unformed! of this opinion, witih a suiggestion that the maximum penalty should be £100. As instanicing the rarity of minist«n\s' visit'ia to the settlors im the l.acik-blociks of tlie North, the Rev 1. 1 A. Anstiicie, in thei oowrsei of aii adI dress at the' Baiptist Oonfea-encie m ! Obdisibchuirch, told 1 of otne such vis;t ■which h© paid. He fowmd thia-t the ■•vhole family, who were working! at the doAVshed, peea*ed at him with iwi air oif suapicioini which quitei mystified Mm until ho learned that, they he was the rate collector* or ' soanethins' of the kind, and that they were gu'eatly relieved to find that 'ie was only a tiravelTing pairson. ;

Says the Poverty Bay Herald ■ Tthe office ol -tliis ipaipcn', during 1 the ! iramy years of its existence, has ft I odid times been taken for am. hotel, 11 a, oheimnst's shop, and several other i things, but today was the fiirfcit; ocJ'oasncirt ibr.t it, has'been approached as ■' a k,bow bureau. ; This came about iiroiKrh a youth fi'om Hastings ask- : : i-io- foa* us to look out foir emiptoyinent for him. In hiis letter he stnites thai he has heard Gisbw-ne is a gocwl i paying: pJace, and says : "I can! tiacikl^ asiythinig —well, when. I say anything, ■ I meamranything thaib I cam do." He. i however does not say <vha.t h« caxr\ do. . '