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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 6163, 10 March 1914, Page 2

The pictures will not be shown in Waipawa on Thursday night. Train arrangements in connection with the Napier Park raoss appear in another column.

Particulars concerning the Springhill estate, which is to be thrown open f >r selection, will be found in another oolumn.

At the ballot for the printing of the general election rolls fer the Waipawa electorate the Waipawa Mail was successful.

The Government offices throughout New Zealand will ba closed on St. Patrick’s Day (17th Maroh). The Easter holidays will be Friday 10th April; Saturday, 11th April, and Monday 13th April.

The diary of a surgeon of one of the vessels of the first fleet to visit Australia has been discovered It shows that the first Christian service was held in Australia on February 3rd, 126 years ego, not on January 27th, the previously recognised date. A motor car belonging to Mr Lloyd, of Waipukurau, went over the bank a little above the Union Brewery, last eveoing. There were four in the oar at the time but fortuuately they escape! without injury. The accident is attributed to a defect in the steering gear. As author of the “Conquest of the South Pole ” Dr. Mill, D.So L L D , had something interesting to say oonosrniDg the return of the Mawson expedition, which, he said, was one of the most re markable ever undertaken. It has settled the controversy about the nature ol Wilk’s Land which has not been allowed to rest for seventy five years It was a great achievement for Aust r alia to have managed the expedition as it had done “ I know butter than most people” addt d Dr Mill, “ how essential the 0 operation of New Zealand was to the earlier expeditions of the 20th oentury ”

The regulations made under the Sale of Foods and Drugs Act will come into operation on the first day of next month Generally they require that every pack age containing foodstuffs for human con sumption must bear a true and accurate description of the oontents, and maDy of the regulations are direct prohibitions against the use of injurious processes or ingredients in the composition of foods The regulations were gezUted on 6th March, 1913, but under the provisoes < f the Act their operation was suspended for a year to enable meroha its and dealers to dispore of stocVs which would not satisfy the requirements of the new Act.

It dcei Be3m increl.ble, but nevertheless it is stated to be a fact, that among the many hundreds who witnessed th« New Zealand championship svtimmiug •vents at. Blenheim, a few days ago, wab one individual who had not seen anyone swimming before. Ij a well-watered country like New Zealand this is truly remarkable.

At the Juvenile Court, Christchurch, a buxom fresh facad woman, neatly dressed, staggered the bench by announcing : “ I have had eighteen children !’’ “ What!” gasped Mr Bishop, BM. “Yes” declared the woman with immeare pride, “ and fourteen living This is the first time I have been in Court.” “ What is your husband ?” asked Mr Bishop, with obvious interest. “An engine-driver, and this is me and my husband,” she re plied, at the same time banding the Magistrate a photograph. “ A very nioe oouple,” was Mr Bishop’s reply, with a whimsioal smile

Recently in Beattie in a cigar-stand appeared the sign, “ We give 15dul for 1909 Linooln pennies.” No less a parson was attracted by this than Judge Watson He walked up to t6e counter, and, laying down a penny, triumphantly asked for 15do s. The olerk took the penny, ex amined it carefully, asked if it were genuine, and after several minutes sighed and said he guessed it was good. “ r*er fainly, it is,” answered the judge ‘ Where,” said the olerk, “ are the other 1908

A native girl, who baa be>u working iu Gisborne, in passing through a draper’s shop the other day, underwent a transformation equally as effective as did those who went down the well of Truth in ‘•The Arcadians.” Bbe entered the shop, priced some goods, and was allowed » room in the rear in which to have a try on. She divested h irsslf of most of hnr old garments with much celerity, aid made a surreptitious exit per medium of the back door, immsouLtely aliired iu the best of the season’s styles. The polios were sseo with regard to the affair, and the Maori lass will be oallsd on to ex plain her oouduot in Court.

In his lecture on Tuesday night, says the Ohristoburoh Press, Mr Estill, Com meroial Superintendent for the Fort of London Authority, said :—“ In re pack iDg the tea in the great warehouses afie inspection, man are employed to treid the tea iuto the packages. Canvas Bucks are placed over their boots so as to pre vent any dirt getting into the tea, and if the msn do not put on the tack they get it. Experiments havo been tried wi h machinery fitted with hammers which strike the side of the cheit so as to avoid the necessity of employing what ap‘pears to be a primitive method of repacking tea chests, but so far'nothing has been found which is so effective as the humau foot.”

“Wbei I was in Sydney,” esid Mr T. O’Byrne, president of the Sawmill Workers' Federation of New Zealand (who has just relumed from a trip to Australia), “ I was greatly struok with the orderliness of the Urge body of meat trade employees on strike. Between 7000 and 10,000 man wore affected, and there was not the slightest trouble. In fact, you would hardly have known there was a strike od, ax.ept for the crowd of men (he Trade 1 Hall. Of course, up to that time there had been no attempt to start free labour.” As indicating how profitable h«d been the strike to other tradesmen, Mr O’Byrne men tioned that when he was ia the New South Wale 9 oapital rabbits we e celling as high as la 6d each instead of 9d a pair, and thunders realised as high as 12s 6d a dozen, instead of 4s 6d. Pokura Marams, a half oasts Indian, appeared in tbo Wellington Magistrate’s Court, before Mr W. G. Kiddstl, 8 M , charged with the theft of a lady’s handbag, containing articles to the total value of 30s, the property of Mabel Beddingfield. Ohief-Deteotivß Broberg, who prosecuted, said that on February 18th last, Mrs Beddingfisld attended a performance of Wirth’s circus. She had a hand-bag, containing atnoDg other articles a watob, attaohod to her wrist, and this hung suspended by a strap. Accused, who was employad at the circus as a rouse about, got under the seat on which the lady was sitting, snatched the bag, and made off He subsequently sold the watoh to a groom at the circus for ss. The watch has sinoa bean recovered, The accused had appeared before the Court the previous day on two charges of theft, and was remanded to the Supreme Oourt for sentence. The Magistrate entered a conviction aDd sentenced Marama to one month’s imprisonment.