LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6785, 16 October 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i Mr Sundatrum, surgeon dentist, will visit Lawrence Thursday, Oct. 121, and may be consulted from 12 to 3. From our advertising columns it will bo soon (bill the I'rosbyteriuu Church Choir (assisted by friends) will givo a concert in (ho schoolroom on Wednesday next. The Choir have been practising assiduously for some time oust and patrons ure assured of very enjoyiifolo evening. Regular rehearsals arc being held by the "Rustics," and patrons are assured that next Friday evening's concert will 1)0 some good. The programme, which is a lengthy one, consists of good rollicking choruses und dances, intermingled with several humorous items, and it is anticipated that a full house will greet the local talent in their ople*' ing performance. T|^ The Canterbury Progress League lias announced that in the event of the interruption of the railway* or mails through any cauao it* services can go into operation in twenty-four hours, In view of the liability of interruption to the main south line in Otago from floods the Southland League might with advantage co-operate with tin Otago Expansion League in securing a similar stand-by organisation for use in time of need. There *liu t been ..uch a huge domaud for petrol of late that nobody has been get enough to start building up his stock, livery shipment is practically cleared out for immediate consumption as soon as it arrives. The- Government are therefore still enforcing the regulations as to attempted hoarding by consumors or doalers. Kerosene has been very scarce, but relief is in sight for Dunedin, as two shipments aro cxi petted to arrive this week, .

Mr A. E. J. Blakeley next professional visit to Lawrence will be on Thursday, October 28, when he may be consulted from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m. An Oxford farmer consigned nine fat pigs to Addington oil a recent Wednesday, and his cheque for the line was £<i7 0/6. A gentleman at Taihape, being unable to proceed to Wellington a fewdays ago because of the heavy rains, telegraphed to a friend. "Cannot come. Wash out on the line." In a few hours a reply came : "Never mind. Borrow a shirt."

A committee m eting of the Lawrence Literary and Social Club was held in the Tuapeka Times room on Wednesday evening. The secretary reported that the season had closed with a credit balance of £9 os. The gross takings of Mr Robertson's lecture was £1 lis, and the committee decided to make this up to £2 2s, to be donated to the Soldiers' Memorial Fund. Complimentary remarks were exchanged in reference to the president, secretary, committee and other members of the society who so ably assisted towards the success of the ■session. A vote of thanks was accorded to the Times Company for the use of room for meetings. At :i meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Association held on Wednesday Mr Kitchingham drew attention to the inadequate stakes given for trotting events at many racing clubs' meetings. He moved—"That in future no programme's be passed unless trotting events be of the same average value as galloping events." This was carried, and it was decided to circularise clubs in the direction indicated. A number of licenses as approved by the committee 4verc passed. In the case of A. Bryce, who had been called off twice at the August meeting, it was decided to notify him that another similar offence would result in a withdrawal of his license.

The Hospitals and Cnaritable Institutions Amendment Bill, providing for the constitution of a separate hospital district in South Otago, was set down for Thursday on the Order Paper of the Upper House for second reading. The motion for the second reading was, however, postponed till Friday upon the motion of Sir Francis Bell, who said that if members desired it he would agree to :i further adjournment. The executive of the Auckland Provincial Farmers' Union passed unanimuosly a resolution that the clause in the Mining Act preventing the use of free labour in coal mines should be repealed, with a view to overcoming the

(iresenl position in the industry. The enterprising agents of the Chautauqua have been very successful in extending their sphere of influence having obtained guarantees for three days in Quccnstown, Cromwell. Alexander and ltoxburgh.

Mr Watson Skennan, one of our pioneer pastoralists (with his brother Alexander he landed in Dunedin in Ocobcr, 1857), died at* his residence, High street, Dunedin, on Thursday morning in his eighty-sixth year. The fiTst stations taken up by the Sherman Bros, were in the Mauuherikia which they named Galloway aud Mouterc, the first-named being after their native county in Scotland, /n 1808 Mr Shen nan bought the f'uk"!ot run and in .1876 the Conical Hilb estate in the Tapanui district. With the view of improving the breed of sheep ip* the colony the Mcssi* Shennan imported high class merino sheep from Germany and long wool sheep from Scotland j„ the years JSoit and 1861, .and from then down to the tim,' of his retirement the deceased was noted throughout the Dornjnion for the high grade qualitv of his flocks.

The School tennis club is holding its opening on .Monday afternoon next. It is expected that Sir James Carroll will be called to till the vacancy in the Legislative Council. The appointment will certainly bi' a popular one. The Dominion reports that a fiveroomed dwelling, recently erected in Wellington to the order of the City Council, cost tlTi'ii. The I'ublie Work. Statement may lie expected next week, probably on the Friday, said the Minister (the Hon. J. G. Coatcsi. in reply to a question asked by the Leader of the Opposition tonight. The Ksiimates were closed alreadv.

At present immigrants are pouring into Canada at the rate of 18,000 per month ; 12,000 of these new settlers eonie from Great Britain, the balance from the United States. The famous Colonel Laurence, "uncrowned King of Arabia," was so disgusted with the treatment of the Arabs, by the Allies that he threw up his connections with the Government and retired into the seclusion of All Souls' College, Oxford, where he now is. "After leaving the Suez Canal."said sir Keith Smith, in a lecture on the Kngland-Australian flight, in Wellington recently. "we crossed the Sinai Desert. It is interesting to know that the children of Israel wandered over the desert for 40 years. We crossed the desert in 40 minutes."

The news of the death of Mrs X. McXamara, which reached Lawrence on Wednesday, cast quite a gloom over our community. The deceased who was the, youngest daughter of the late Mr Andrew and Mrs Mfiody, Irvine street, was a native of Lawrence and resided here till her marriage a few years ago. She was a young woman of a bright and kindly disposition, and while resident with us took her full share in the social life of our community. She leaves a family of three young children. Two storekeepers had shops opposite each other. One morning Moses noticed that his friend had a new blind in his shop window. He went over and said, "Vou have got a new blind Jacob." " Yes. "said Jacob, '' it was cheap—cost me nothing." "Was it a present. Jacob?" "I don't know," was the reply; "I got a little box, and put a slit in the top; then I put over the box 'Please remember the blind.' The people who passed by asked no questions, but put silver coins in the box. They remember the blind all right. See ?" ,

According to a return uf the Agricultural Department there arc ten thousand less horses in the Dominion than there were last year. Motor cars and motor tractors arc no doubt responsible for the decrease, says an exchange. A good thing has many imitations. Order "NAZOL" by name. Befuse substitutes. No cold is Nazol-proof .