LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17410, 6 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Accounts totalling £SOO/0/(5 were passed for payment at last evening’s meeting of the Borough Council. An empty cow which was donated by Mr. W. J. Hall at his disposal sale yesterday to the Matatoki Tennis Club fetched £O/10/-. The stock slaughtered at the Abattoirs for the month of June was:— Cattle 130. sheep, 230. lambs, 27, pigs 53.

Feed is very plentilul at ’present and a number of tanners have not yet started on their hay supplies. Even the birds have responded to the spring-like weather which has been prevailing in Nc'so.i d ring the present winter. At Stoke last week the nest of a thrush was found containing four eggs.

There was a very fine Shorthorn bullock carcase on view at the shop of C. Klaus, butcher, Waitoa, early this week. It was a five-year-old animal fattened on the Kercone Estate and killed by Mr. Klaus. The weight was 14091 b.

The Mayor said last evening that it was noticed that school children were smashing the white tiles placed to mark fire plugs in the streets almost as quickly as they were being put into position. It was decided to request school teachers to instruct their pupils to leave the tiles alone.

“Yes,” said the auctioneer, “the All Blacks' reputation is lost and there's only me and Heeney to uphold the New Zealand reputation, and if 1 sell that cow at a figure like that, I’ll lose mine, and then where will the country go to?” There was a great deal of business transacted"at the Warden’s Court at Thames to-dav, the volume of work dealt with being the largest for many months.

Mr. W. J. Hall lias just purchased a further addition to his pedigree Jersey herd in the shape of a bull by imported , parents.

Attendance of the public at the Thames Court is rarely very large, but this morning the audience consisted of one 'person, who sat out the first case and left immediately afterwards. At a brief sitting of the Children’s Court in Thames this morning a small hoy was admonished for damaging power line insulators, has parents having to make good the damage, which amounted to 4/6 In the junior competition this year Physical Training have so far not had a point scored against them and have scored 43 points themselves, They are now six points in tile lead for the Thames Rugby Union Cup. The junior “A” and “B” match on Saturday should be very fast and exciting, as both teams are fairly well matched, and as the junior representatives will be picked from this game it will be a case of the fittest man getting in. Like all Thames teams the juniors will be able to field a very .fast forward pack and the selector will have some difficulty in picking his team.

A Wanganui motorist states that there is far too much humbug in the new motor regulations regarding tail lights and reflectors. He contends that a white disc on the back oi the car would he far more effective for spotting a car ahead at night. White on the back mudguard of a cycle would also bo better than the little red reflectors now used, and is more readily picked up in the dark. Thames golf players should note that owing to recent attention the fairways and greens are in excellent order and ideal lor play. An informal meeting will he hefd at the Clubhouse after play to-morrow to discuss the holding of a golf chili ball and (fther matters of interest. The first round of tlie President’s Cup matches will be played during the afternoon.

Wheii u well-known man moved from Invercargill a short time ago he left a quantity of coal in the coal shed. The tenant who took possession ol the dwelling burnt the coal, and at the same time called down blessings on the good-natured generosity that had prompted the late owner to depart without the black diamonds. What was his horror and indignation a few days later, however, to receive a letter from the late owner, stating that he was aware of the coal that he had left behind and offering it to the tenant at a tydy figure! The new tenant considers it the prize example of meanness, and is busily engaged in, searching into the late owner’s ancestry to discover if the blood ol Scotia courses through his veins.