LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5967, 7 August 1912, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Sundstrums next professional visit is on Thursday, when he may be consulted from 12 noon to 3 p.m. The trustees of the Home Rule Fund have contributed £SOO for relief of the distress at Belfast. Heat holidays have been established by law in the elementary schools oi Switzerland. Recognising the wellKnown fact that the beam cannot work properly when the heat is excessive, the children are dismissed from their tacks whenever the thermometer goes a bove a certain point. Mr A. E. J. Blakeley, dentist, visits Lawrence fortnightly, when hi' may be consulted in private rooms opposite Herbert and Co.'s Kext visit: Thursday, Bth August. Nearly £4OO has been collected in England for the fund with which a memorial is to Ire erected in vi.claiming, Surrwy, to Jack Phillips, the wireless operator who perished m the Titanic disaster. The memorial will take the form of a drinking fountain, which is to be placed on a site along the main road between London and Brighton.

Another of those tip-top programmes which have made the n*me of Stevenson's Pictures a household »vord throughout the district will be screened at the Town Hall to-night. The Programme will include .—"The Prosecuting Counsel," " The Senorita's Conquest," "A Sister's Love," all star dramas ; " A Question of seconds " (a splendid Edison railroad drama), " A Run on the Bank " (in which ai. circus lion plays a prominent part in saving a bank from downfall), ** Climbing the Rax" (beautiful scenio), " Oxford-Cam-bridge University Boat Race," " A Day With A Circus," " Pathc's Australian Gazette," an d oiher excellent pictures.

Our South Dunedin correspondent writing under dato August stl-. says the weather experienced iu Dunedin on Saturday (3rd) was real winter —sleet, snowV and', sharp hail yitonmsl ■being tie rule throughout the day. 'J'ho previous d>a|y was like a sprang day and everyone was prophesying that winter was past. On the Ist of August the barometer was 30.44 while on Saturday morning it had fallen to 29.66. On Julv 23 the barometer reached its highest point for the year, 30,91. For children's hacking cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Is 6d fcfld. ... ...

The King has contributed and the Quoen £IOO to the wcnwm ohildren fund in connection with the late London dock strike. The following are the names of the Lawrence iffigh School hookey team to play iff the match against Waitahuna ttis afternoon :—J. Gordon, F. Wocdhill, B. Wood, M. Craig, E. Bowe, 1\ Browne, M. McCaw, M. McCorkindale, M. Fuldsoth, E. Ferguson, W. Hay. Emergencies - C. Thompson, E. Potts, and|J. Browae. Arthur Bobbs (30), agent for ]>algety and Co, at Hawera, when riding a motor cycle on Friday night near Hawera collided with a horse and gig and was killed almost instantaneously. Neither the gig nor the motor cyclo carried lights. The horse had its leg broken, and nad to be destroyed. The erection of the new .science rooms in connection with the Lawrence District High School is progressing rapidly. The contractor has a large stall of men on the work and it is 'anticipated that the building will be roady for handing over to the Education Department at the beginning of September./

'lie popularity of the Orphans Club winch was established in Lawrence at the iKJginning of winter continues unabated. The Club meets weekly when an interesting programme of itoms I uuusical and elocutionary; is supplied by the members. J l)n Monday evening the programme was classed as "patriotic,'' i.e., all the items bad for their throw the subject of Patriotism, and it is pleasing to record that all the menJljers who were on the programme rose to the occasion, a very enjoyable and instructive evening being the result. The membership of the L'lub keeps up a nd though several valued members have been lost owing to removal from the district othurs have come forward to take their place. The weather since Sunday has been all that could be desired at this season of the year, slight frosts at night being succeeded by bright clear days. The roads and fields have dried up wonderfully and farmers are taking full advantage oi the change in conditions to yet their work forward, and the threshing-mill plants are now endeavouring to overtake the work which in ordinary seasons woulu have been finished long since. The Prime Minister (Hon. W. P. Maasey) is 50 years of age The oldest member of his cabinet is Hon. AV. Eraser (?2 years oi -age). The youngest member of the Cabinet is Hon.

" JJahn " Fisher (35 years oi age). Hon. \V. H. Harries is the same aye as the Prime Minister,, and Hon. J. Allen is a fow months older. Ik Poniai'e is oriy a few months .older than Mr Fisher. The combined ages of the Cabinet aggregate lt>7. years, and the average 52 yearly per Cabinet Minister, three being.'under -1" years and only two over fit) years of age.

Pig-farming carried out On methodical lines is ' undoubtedly a profitable industry. Several farmers in the Ashburton County have over 200 pigs each and as fat pigs are now worth over £3 per head they should secure handsome profits. Pigs that a'<> now worth £3 each could be purchased less than two months ago for 28s. In all cases peas have ibteen grown to provide fodder for the pigs. In Ashburton fresh pork is cfuotixl wholesale at from si<l to 6d per pound. Xhe following' Otago estates have boon certified for stamp duty : Charles Beach £D,6d2, Alexander firown £3,82<1, ißoxena 51. A. Dow £3,2117, Sarah Wyberv£2,sß7, Anthony Paterson C 2.447, Charles Perriam £2,11'7, Harriet E. pcarce £2,083, Mary Alison £1826, Ernest N, Collins £l/ CBl, Samuel lowsou £!,o(jji, Philip E. Roberts £1,31% Christopher Uuddleston -C1,15a, Ann 13. Hewitt Cl,OIS, William Warren £1,021, .lohn Power £1,01)7. " Onlooker " in the Daily Times says :—ln the cable report of the Ijoat race on Monday it is stated thait " Arnst stopped rowing at the brewery, dead beat." tlood old Arnst ! lie showed some judgment, anyhow. Jt is not everyone that can pull up at a brewery when they a'"" dead ■beat ■ One oi his Mastertoji supporters is of the opinion that Arnst was leading by so much that he had lost sight of Barry and pulled up for a drink and his opponent, tono.-e d ■<". came up ia the meantime and leal him. 1 would suggest that next tune Arnst row*! Barrv the contest takes plaeo in a No-License district.

As an evidence of the eflicacy of public sales by auction it is stated that the owner of two draught horses which ho was brirging bv train to be submitted at Wednesday's hors* sale by the National Mortgage and ■Agency Co., Ltd.. offered them as ll.rv stood in th« truck for £6O for the pair to a man with whom he -vis in conversation. The offer was refused, fortunately for the vendor, who obtained £lO5 for them at the sale. —Mataura Ensign. Tho Lady Roxburgh dre% , oilered at a uction bv Messrs Park, Reynolds, on .Friday morning at Duncdin was not sold, the highest bid (£300) not being accepted bv the liquidator. A Chicago 'banker is in search of a paragon in the way of a servant. She must wait at table idailly, and read from their eyes what the invited recjuire. She must never show ill-temper, nor wear an expression of levity. Further, she must lie a good cook, und make her own costumes. She must havo no acquaintances, no\er gossip, be correct in all her dealings, and keep her place. The lady possessing all these qualifications will have to remain with the banker during Kia life-time, aii'i at his death she will receive £20,000. Tho Appeal Court. Wellington, suspended \Vm. George Somerville for three years, ordered him to pay 35 •guineas costs, and gave' him a month to close his office. Sommerville, who is a barrister, was charged with converting to bis o'wn use £I7OO o,f a client's money. ]t was contended that he was covered by aa;reiimi3nt with the client, but the Court held that the agreement had not been proved.

BUYERS OF SPECTACLES CAUTIONED. If the Bight lias not Been tested scientifically, there can 'be no ac;i:s>%y about the glasses supplied, and the chances are that a seeming benefit may result in a ptrmanent injury. I test eyes scientifically, and supply glasses that may be relied on to suit your vision, whatever defect there may be.—Hugh Neill, D.8.0.A.. qualified optician, 249 Oorpe St., Dunedin. A woman in a Bucharest theatre, instead of complying with a revjtiest to remove her bat, Ibade her husband exchange places with the exacting spectator in the seat behind her. WHOLE FAMILY STRICKEN DOWN. " Influenza had my husband, self, I and children all stricken down," says I Mrs Minnie Titter, Soringvale, near Wanganui, N.Z. "We had tried seve' ral so-called cures but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was the means of putting us right again. I would never think of being without a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedv in the house now in case of emergency."— Sold by H. Bowie and J. G. Blackie, Lawrence; T. "Broderick, Waitahuna ; t and Cottoi and Co., Waipori.

The iEkecutive Oomlmitoee, of the Ulster LiberaliUniomßt 1 Association passed a resolution lassuraig Mr A, Bonar . Law of the determination oi the Ulster Unionists to ignore the authority of any Home Rule, (Parliament. lA| iGireyimouth (tejagtrajn states bhat a sudden death occurred there on Sunday. Several young men arranged a tournament. One of them (W. Fulness)-, 18 years of age, after >a preliminary spar, complained of being tired, and died in a few minutes. Jacob W. Guthrie, a college graduate, and Aliar Harry Brown, have been arrested in Chicago on suspicion of roUbjing houses of goods valued at over 150,0Q0d01. Brown's warehouse, when searohed, revealed the presence of stolen! goods worth 10,OOOdol. Guthrie's-ibtrotiber is a policeman. " Linseed Compound " for coughs and colds. Relieves asthma and difficult, breathing.