LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17973, 23 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pleading not guilty through his counsel, Mr. C. Snedden, to a charge of obtaining, with intent to defraud, £4/12/- from Otto J. Thedens by falsely representing that Bagnall Bros., Turua, had placed an order for goods, la.mounti'ii'g to £25/14/-, Augusiiis S. Hodgson was remanded till August 27 by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court at Auckland yesterday.

l>algety and Company's third Kopu sale will be held on Monday next. Entries are advertised in another column.

A head-on collision between two motor-cyclists, occurred on the Awaiti Road on Wednesday last. Both riders were injured, viz., Mr. Ronald Olsen, suffered from slight concussion, and Mr. Vivian Harold, from minor cuts and abrasions. Reports to-day indicate that both are making satisfactory progress. Heard at the Morrinsville Orphans' Club during a humorous item: "I offered to play for Britain in the last test in place of Bassett. Mr. Baxter said: 'Why, you are not a Bassett; you are only a Novis!' 'Well,' I said, 'I may be only a Prentice, but I am a pretty good Cooke." Two telephones in Hawera, one in business premises and the other in a private residence, have been cut off by the Post and Telegraph Department at 24 hours' notice, no reason being given for the action, says the Hawera Star.

Zane Grey has cancelled his proposed visit to Auckland in December next. He had intended to use Mercury Island as a. base camp during the swordfishing season, but has now decided not to come to New Zealand until his yacht, the Fisherman is ready to again cross the Pacific,' probably in the 1931 season.

Specially contributed Sunday reading appears on Pago 7 to-day. Something tinsua] is reported from a Kairara dairy farm. A cow which had calved six weeks ago and was lieing milked daily gave birth to another calf the other day. It was noticed that the cow did not come up in her milk as she should ha\ve done following the arrival of the first calf, but the owner was very surprised on mustering the herd on Sunday morning to find her with a newlyborn calf.

The hope that politicians, industrial and social leaders, would strive for unity, rather than seek for point of difference, was expressed by Lord Bledisloe in a speech in Wellington on Saturdaj T evening. "I don't refer to politics," he said. "I venture to hope, without being regarded as an idealist, that the time may come, and not long in coming, when in politics, industrial reform, and religion, there will be more accordance and close relationship than there has been in the past."

"I do not object to the width of the net, but I do object to the smallness of the mesh."—Mr. A. M. Samuel, on the Government's taxation proposals. For a fortnight (says a Taranaki paper) the manager of the Lowgarth Dairy Company carried out a fiuel test, firing the first week solely with coal and the second solely with wood. The careful check showed a saving in favour of coal of Is lid per ton of cheese manufactured.

The tour of inspection by the county councillors recently was not without its humorous phases (says the Grey River Argus). When the walk around Lake Brnnner was in progress, one of the members of the party began to show signs of strain. "How much further is it to Mitchell's," he inquired of one of the workmen. "A mile and .a-half," was the reply. Another half-mile was tramped, and he put the same question to another man. "Two miles," came the cheery return. "Uh, heavens," said the tired one bitterly, "it is gaining on us."

A double event was staged at the E.is,t Gore golfi tynks on a recent afternoon, when two players were unfortunate enough to hole out in one. Both "ones" were scored at the sixth hole (The Elbow) and the first player (to distinguish himself was Mr. James Allport, his feat being equalled withjn a few minuties by the club's president (Mr. R. Fisher).

A reminder to curtail his opening remarks, said Sir Harold Beauchamp, was an' incident in which the Rev. Charles Clark figured. He was to deliver a lecture on Charles Dickens, and the chairman was such an ardent admirer of the noveilst that he spoke for 25 minutes on Dickens and his works. When the lecturer rose he said that after so excellent a discourse, he proposed to deliver a lecture on Oliver Goldsmith.

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