LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5972, 24 August 1912, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Suiidstrums next pn>.''ssional visit is on Thursday, wh- .. n. r-iay be consulted from 9 a.m. lo ;i p.m.

At Thursday's m ".uiiig oi •■'"<■ Kdncation Board the resignation oi Mr • lames U. t'owen, tea' li.-v at Waitnihuna Oully, was receive;'. Mr (.Wen has received an appointment in one oi the Oamaru schools.

On Friday night next auother oi the progressive euchre parties will bo held in St. (Patrick's schoolroom. .A dance will be held at the conclusion of the luchie party. There were seven patients—four male and three female—in the Tuapeka Hospital last evening. Three patients were admitted during the wnv and one discharged.

The date of Mr John Thompson's Tuapeka Stock salo and a'so the sale on account of Mr \i. llichards has oecir chauiik-t! back irom iho l'2th to tho sth September. The reason those sales were previously moved forward a week was to prevent them clashing with the clearing salt' oi Mr J. K. Brown at Johnston which was iixed for the sth September, The latter «ale ha.-, however, been altered to tho 2'Jth Augusl, hence the decision to revert to the original date. Tho institution oi a Daffodil Day ior Lawrence has been very iavourably received in Dunedin where a number of horticultural enthusiasts have taken the matter up. The proposal now is that tne senior pupils in all tho city schools will visit Lawrence on that day and as favourable Jtrain arrangements have been made by the committee at this end there should be 1 a very large inilux oi visitors to our town on the i)th October. Mr G. Swan, who has been sole teacher in the Tuapek a West school tor tho Past two years lias been appointed to a similar position at Taumata (.in the Clutha district) and leaves this district at tho end of the present month. During his st a y in the West Mr Swan has not only proved himself an ollicient teacher but has been very helpful in social matters, assisting in concerts, A:c. The ladies of the Beaumont Presbyterian Church are bcULing a sale of work in aid of the Manse Fund on Wednesday afternoon next. The promoters have been working assiduously in. preparation for the sale for some time aijd the event (the- first of its kind in the district) is being eager.y looked forward to.

With characteristic geniTu.-ily, ,Hr Mclvor iaf Stevenson's Pictures) bus assented to give half the proceeds oi an evening's entertainment towards tlii! fuul that ia being raised locally to test.the value of the lignite and clay deposits in and around Lawrence. The date has not yet been fixed for the entertainment; but timely notice will bo gi v en through the medium of our advertising columns. Mr Mclvor has our assurance that this act of generosity on his part will be thoroughly appreciated by the residents of Lawrence and neighbourhood. The ordinary biinionlhly meeting of the Athenaeum Committee which fell to be held on Thursday evening lapsed owing to the want of a quorum. On Wednesday evening next Miss Fowler, who is retiring on superannuation after a service of 37 years as mistress ,o£ the Lawrence District High School, will be entertained at a social in the Town Hall and made : the; recipient of presentations from, tho citizens and ex-pupils 0 f the school. Mr G. Poison (at once time clerk at the Lawrence railway station) has been promoted to the relieving staff of the Railway Department and prior to leaving Ashburton, where he h.vs recently ben stationed, was presented with a gold chain and sovereign case by tho staff- Mr Poison ji headquarters will in future be Chrlstchurch. Mr Isitt, who is noted for the fluency of his language, in criticising the Budget, went bo far as to sav that tho Government had been " begotten by slander, 'shapen in intrigue, and born in dishonour." He was promptly willed up (by Mr Speaker, and withdrew the objectionable terarj. In the Houso on Mondav the Prime Minister eulogised the work of thrjlatu i General Booth, and said he had ' cabled 'the condolence of the Government and peoplo of New Zicaland to tho General's relatives. Sir Joseph Ward also 1 paid a tribute to the S.A.'s work.