Local and General.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1441, 2 May 1914, Page 4

Local and General.

The annual meeting of ratepayers to the Cambridge Road Board will be held on Thursday morning next, at the Farmers’ Club roopa, Cambridge. During the storm last night, the wind blew down a large shed, in which a Jersey cow was sheltering. Apparently the animal was lying down and ‘ one wall of the shed fell on her, pinning her to the ground. Guessing there would probably be trouble, the owner got out of bed and secured help in removing the cow to safer quarters. ' We are informed that owing to satisfactory arrangements being unable to be made for the attendance of territorials at the proposed military tournament of the 4th Waikato Mounted Rifles, 1 which was to have been held on the Cambridge Showgrounds op Saturday next, the affair has been abandoned.

A Student from the Auckland Methodist Training College will conduct services for the local Methodists tomorrow as follows: —Cambridge 11 a.m., Karapiro 230 p.m., Leamington 7 p.m.

Ratepayers in the Pukekura Road Board’s district should note that the annual meeting will be held at the Pukerimu Schoolroom on Wednesday next at 2.30 p.m. It may not be generally known that carpenter’s wages have now been raised Is per day all round, but we are assured such is the case,. the award coming into operation on Monday last.

Speaking at the No-license meeting in Hamilton on Wednesday night, Mr J. E. Tidd*“ said he personally would not vote for any man who would not give a square deal on the question. The no-license advocates should make their politics; their opnorents did. At present the people were in the position of having a distinctly liquor Parliament in power.

The shooting season opened yesterday morning, and fair sport was obtained in the Waikato generally. A couple of guns going up the river from Cambridge got seven brace, and another pair, shooting between Gwynnelands and The Narrows, bagged 25 ducks. Other tallies were smaller, but almost every sportsman who went out accounted for at least a couple of ducks.

The 78th Company (Cambridge) Senior Cadets paraded on Thursday last for the first time in their new pugarees of pale blue, with the Company number stamped in front. The colour is, of course, “Cambridge Blue,” which was selected for the local lads by the Officer Commanding the Auckland District, Colonel Logan, and many complementary references have been made locally as to the appropreateness of the new colours which certainly give the lads a smart appearance.

Reports that have trickled through to the Bluff regarding the muttonbirders are to the effect that this year gives promise of a reconjl yield. Thanks to .the dry weather, every mutton-bird burrow has an inhabitant, there having been no birds flooded out as in former years. As a matter of fact, during the early part of the season the mutton-birders were on short supply so far as water was concerned. The “ passage ” birds have now been dealt with, and the mid-passage” crop is being reaped. The season will last another month at least.

Trees were demolished in all directions, by the storm-last night, the telegraph lines from all parts being down. vVprd was received by the local postmaster that twenty telegraph poles were down between Taupiri and Ngaruawahia, and several more between Eureka and Motumaoho. The utmost expedition is being used to restore communication, but there is necessarily a heavy-glut of business held up at the various offices. '

It will be interesting to many of our readers to know that the fallow deer in the Auckland district are under protection, a fact which some sportsmen seem to be unaware of. The Minister for Internal Affairs has been asked to give permission for a season from May 1 to May 31 for the shooting of fallow deer, does and fawns excepted. A reply to this request has not as yet been repara districts fallpw deer have been shot indiscriminately in' the past but in future all offenders in this respect will be proceeded against.

An interesting observation was made at the No-license meeting in Hamilton on Wednesday evening, when Mr Mason said be thought politics six of one and half-a-dozen of the other There seemed to be no difference between the Reform and the Liberal parties--except in talk ! The Departmental officers seemed to run the country. Until the liquor question was settled there could not be any clean politics in New Zealand.

A local sportsman informs us that yesterday he was struck by the presence of a considerable number of hawks hovering over and around a spot on the river bank a couple of miles out of town. He and a companion counted them, and the tally was 27. Subsequent investigation disclosed ,a badly wounded duck, which the hawks were evidently harassing. The sportsman, however, gave the wounded bird the coup de grace, and “ peppered ” the closest hawks also. He strongly advocates a head tax ” being imposed on these ravagers by the Acclimatisation Society. BOUGHT A BOITLE. “Ihad pains in my legs which the doctor said was rheumatism,” writes Mr B jbert Cochrane, Builder, Waimihia N.Z. “His lotion did me no good and I suffered misery. I saw a friend using some liniment which he told me was 1 Chambarlain’s Pain Balm and offered me his bottle to try it. It did me so mucu good that I bought a bottle myself and was soon free of all pains

Another of the series of popular dances, run by a committee, will be held in the Town Hall on Friday evening next, May Bth.

The usual monthly united children’s service will be held in the Leamington Methodist Church tomorrow morning. Rev. T. Trestrail will be the preacher.

Miss M. M. Walker, a teacher with wide English and Colonial experience, has taken over the control of Rangiruru Private School from Miss Clark, and notifies parents of present and intending pupils that she will be in attend, ance at the school next week when she will be glad to interview parents. /

Dr Hugh Douglas, of Hamilton, has accepted an invitation to become a vice-president of the Waikato Nolicense Council. His acceptance was couched as follows; —"Yes, I shall be glad to have my name enrolled on the scroll of fame.” His neat phrase was received with applause at the annual meeting on Wednesday evening.

The Band of the 3rd (Auckland; Mounted Rifles are to play selections in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next in aid of the funds of the Cambridge Beautifying Society. A very attractive programme has been arranged by the Bandmaster (Lieut. Whalley Stewart) and the people of Cambridge will doubtless take advantage in large numbers of the opportunity of hearing Auckland’s crack ” musical combination. The prices of admission will be 3s, 2s, Is, and reserved seats can be booked at Mr Phil p’s. ' cl

Cambridge people, who are not slow to appreciate good music, will be interested in the published programme of Mr and Mrs Cyril To wsey’s concert, which takes place in the Town Hall on Wednesday 1 evening next. We are quite, sure that patrons will be afforded a rare musical treat, and trust there will be a large and appreciative audience. Mrs Martyn Williams, of Wellington, has delighted many audiehces with her elocutionary work, ’which is spoken of by critics as of the highest order. Her contributions to the programme should prove both entertaining and instructive. '

New Zealand contractors, are still experiencing difficulty in getting their orders for Australian hardwood promptly filled.- The demand for timber in the Commonwealth suits able for bridge, wharf, and railway! work has increased enormously during the past fe v. years, and is not confined to Australasia. Shipments of the hardwood have been made to Pacific and South African ports, and foreign orders continue to come to hand. New Zealand firms have also found it a difficult matter to get timber in long lengths brought across the Tasman Sea within a reasonable time after the mills have given de - livery.

Afc thevtlo-license meeting at Hamilton the chairman, Mr Warsley referred to the question of finance. He said that that afternoon they had been , guaranteed nine sums of £25 each, He wanted three similar guarantees from the meeting. In twenty minutes eight guarantees were forthcoming, representing £2OO, and making the total £425.

Householders interested in the education of their children and in the welfare of the public schools in the district should make a point of attending the public meetings on Monday evening when the election of school committees for the ensuing year will take place. Tlie meeting for Cambridge itself will be held in the schoolroom at 7.30 ,p,m., and the Cambridge West election takes place at the schoolhouse in that district. Every house, holder—that is, every adult male or female who has occupied a dwellinghouse for three months prior to the day of election—is entitled to vote, and, in the event of the householder being married, both husband arid wife are privileged, whether blessed with children or not. If not under the foregoing qualification, the father, the guardian, or any other person having actual custody of any child attending the school may vote. The rules as to nomination are also conveniently elastic, and while nominations should have been made by last Mouday evening, this will not debar householders from making further nominations at the meeting, Voting is by ballot at the meeting, but it is up to the lynx-eyed audience to detect any unqualified individual who may attend the meeting and attempt to vote.

My sister Jane had croup again, And so had Doris, too; But mother’s never anxious now Since she knows what to do. She tucks the darlings up in bed To make the treatment sure And keeps them right all through the night With Woods’ Great Peppermint , Cure.

Burners , are current about town this morning to the effect that a party of territorials damaged a motor car which was in camp last night, puncturing the tires, with bayonets. Enquiry at headquarters this morning, however, failed tc| substantiate the rumor.

Picture patrons will have theopportunity of witnessing tonight and on Monday night two of the beet selected programmes yet screened at the Town Hall. The subjects have been specially chosen for their varied and high-grade character, and they will be screened in the usual excellent manner. .

One of the most violent storms experienced in Cambridge for a long time swept over the district soon after midnight last night, and raged for a couple of hours. Trees were levelled, sheds were unroofed, telephone and telegraph lines disabled, and several houses were discovered to have loose roofing. One resident was desperately holding down a loose sheet of roofing iron when he discovered several more sheets preparing to take flight. He returned to bed in grim desperation, and was agreeably surprised to notice this morning that the storm had abated, and all the roofing was as he had left it ome hours before.