LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 3203, 25 February 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In to-day's issue Mr. E. J. Easter invites tenders for the sale and removal of his premises in Victoria Street.

A meeting'of the Farmers' Union will be held in the club-rooms on Friday next at 1.30 sharp. Mr N. Hill, .auctioneer, reminds district residents of the clearing sale to uo held at the residence, Hall Street, on behalf of Mr E. Veale, tomoirow (Wednesday). Particulars appeared in Saturday's issue.

The Leamington Domain still retains its splendour with its beautiful gardens and shrubs, and anyone who has not visited there recently will have a good opportunity on .Sunday afternoon, when the Cambridge Municipal Band will render a programme of suitable music.

The placing of the Aorangi in quarantine has caused the cancellation of the tour of New Zealand by the two famous golfers, Walter Hagcn and J Kirkwood, who are passengers. Word was received in Auckland yesterday that they would proceed direct to Australia on the Aorangi to-day.

The number of cars parked round the local Town Hall on Saturday night last must have constituted a record for any performance that has ever been held in Cambridge. An interested passerby counted no less than 140 cars in the vicinity of the theatre, and no doubt there were a number parked at various other parking areas. At the Domain on Sunday afternoon the local band, under Bandmaster J. Davis, provided a programme of appropriate music which was appreciated by the fairly large number of people present. The programme included the following selections: Lodestor March, Onkel Fichte, Intermezza, Crown Him With Many Crowns, a Fangcsa March, Melbourne by Night, Now Thank we all Our God, and Wait for the Waggon March.

Yesterday, while dismantling a derrick on the top of the power house at Arapuni Mr. Walter Richards a half caste Maori, aged 29, fell to the ground a distance of about 60 feet. He landed on his head and was killed instantaneously. Mr. Richards was a married man with two children, and lived at Arapuni.

Ovcrucard in the Street: —Smith: Come witli me to the circus, old chap? Brown: No thanks. My eldest daughter does the fox-trot, my .second daughter talks like a parrot, my son laughs like a hyenu, my wife watches me like a hawk, the baby is as cross as a hour, :iikl my mother-in-law says I am an old gorilla. No, when I go anywhere I want a change!