LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 200, 1 April 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is forty-nine years ago since the battle of Orakau was fought. This memorable event took place on March 29, 1864, and lasted foxthree days.

The first meeting of the Te Awamutu branch of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union will be held in the Sunday school to-day at 3 o’clock.*

Mr J. Lyons, Government Veterinarian, is advertised to give a demonsti-ation in Pirongia on Thursday, April 3rd, to which farmers are invited to attend.

Mr J. Boddie, ex-May or of Te Kuiti, has been presented with a numerously-signed requisition to again stand for. the Mayoi-alty at the coming election and has consented to nomination as requested.

Prices paid for butter-fat by various dairy companies for the month of February are as follow (says the Feilding Star): —Cheltenham H/4d, Bunnythorpe 1 id, Levin lld,Rongotea lid,Hawke’s Bay I id, Dairy Union I Id.

As showing the widespread interest in the half-holiday question it is interesting to note that at Iflawera, Stratford, Eltham, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Feilding. Dannevirke, and Palmerston the requisite number of signatures haveb;en secured for petitions asking for polls to decide the day. 3

The inspector of noxious weeds, Mr Morris, sued a Matamata resident at. the S.M. court for failing to destroy blackberries on her property. Mr Gilchrist said that defendant had tided hard to exterminate the blackberry from lands and would do everything possible in future in that direction. The S.M. inflicted a fine of 40s and costs.

The Public Works Department intend calling tenders shortly for the tunnel near the northern end of the Stratford-Main Trunk Railway. The tunnel will be the longest in the North Island —2% chain less than a mile —and will c )st anything in the vicinity of f 10,000 or £IOO,OOO. Once it is pierced the fertile Ohura Valley will be brought into touch with the railway.

The funeral of the late Mr James George Berry took place at 10.30 a.m. on Friday, 28th inst., in St. John’s cemetery and was very largely attended by fi iends and relatives of the deceased, upwards of seventy pers ms being present at the graveside. The Rev. F. W. Clarke

officiated, and at the conclusion oi : the Church of England service Mr Cook, of Otorohanga, read the Masonic service in which about a dozen Masons, members of Lodge Alexandra, E.C., and Lodge Waipa, 119, N Z.C., took part. The arrangements for the funeral were in the hands of Messrs MacMahon and Co., of Hamilton.

The annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce shows, says the Post, that the quantity of cheese exported during the year has increased by nearly 30 per cent. North Island increases in production are: Butter, 8% per cent; cheese, 34% per cent. South Island: Butter,

i8 J /z per cent; cheese, 18 per cent. “It is only necessary to remind ourselves that the high position of New Zealand cheese in the English market can only be assured provided a high standard of quality is maintained in the article exported,” says the report, which also adds that

London prices have not been up to expectations this year, and one noticeable feature is the wide

margin that has existed for the 1912-13 season between the official quotations for Danish and ! New Zealand butters.

Pressure upon our spac? coftw pels us to hold over Te Mawha? news and correspondence.

The Te Awamntu Minstrel Concert and Comedy Club will visit Oterohangn to-morrow night and give an entertainment that town.

The annual meeting of the Te Awamutu Hockey club is advertised to take place on Friday, April 4th, in the Cosmopolitan club room.

A detachment of the C ron from Te Awamutu, Kihikihi, Hairini, Tautari and Ohaupo left for Cambridge at mid-day yesterday for the annual territorial encampment. They will remain in camp until April I2th.

Immediately the results of the final match between theTe Awamutu and Mantfgaheia polo teams for the Sa vim Cup come to hand, an extra will be issued by the POST. The match will be played at Palmerston North at 2 pan. to-day. Our office will remain open until 8 o’clock to-night so telephone enquiries may be answered.

At the anniial meeting of the Waikato Hunt Club in Cambridge, the following officersr were elected : General committee,' the master, Messrs H. Wyatt, R. ■ J. Dodd, R. Hanan, M. Wells, H/ Crowther, A. N. Dingle, Jos. Graham, J. C. Potts, Innes-Taylor, W. I. Taylor, R. Alexander, T. Clarkin, W. D. Laxen, J. Taylor, J. Gaddes, F. Marshall, J. S. Fisher, R. D. Fisher, A. H. Waring, W. Horne, C. Payze, Guy Ring, A. J. Smith, N. Banks, Chas. Shaw, W. G. Pqrk, Frank Reynolds, F. Vosper, J. Martin. Executive committee : Messrs H. Crowther, Innes-Taylor, N. Banks, T. W. Brown, M. Wells, and W. R. Hunter, three to form a quorum.

As a result of the meeting convened by Mr A. J. Blythe to take steps for the prevention of the unsportsmanlike practice of shooting game before the season opens, several land owners ad- \ joining the Puniu and Manga- j piko rivers expressed their inter*- _ tion of taking drastic to bring about the observance the close season as is done-hi' ' other localities. Those sportsmen (?) who persist in broaching the sacred precincts of the wild duck before the season opens (May Ist), may therefore anticipate no small amount of trouble if the owner of the pioperty is i,n sympathy with the efforts put forward to put a stop to wholesale destruction of young\ birds. *

In addition to the concert ad- * vertised in our last issue to take place on Thursday, April 17th, notice appears to-day of another concert to be given on the previous evening, Wednesday, 7 16th. The proceeds of both f entertainments will be devoted to the funds for the erection fcf the Te Awamutu Catholic presbytery. Auckland and Hamilton f singers have been specially engaged for both occasions, and the programme promises to be T such as will provide most en- i joyable evenings’ entertainments. The Te Awamutu Minstrel, CorP' cert, and Comedy Club will as- flj sist on the Wednesday evening. Detailed programmes will be issued shortly.

“The Things a Woman Should Know.” This strikes one as an appropriate title to the March issue of Everylady’s Journal, which is now on sale, for the number seems to cover every department of woman’s life from babyhood to old age. Among the good things that come regularly with this excellent journal may be menu'med the five free patterns, fifty, selected fashion designs, lessons in Australian crochet and other fancy work, and departments devoted to literary gems, books, cooking, cleaning, dressmaking, and'* the hundred and one subjects'of interest to the housekeeper. It;

this connection it might be added*! that a sprightly discussion on the subject of domestic service is given, and a prize of £5 is awarded to the best paper con- „ tributed on the subject. To sum' up. the March issue of Everylady’s Journal is full value for the sixpence. Mr G. Gifford is the local agent.

We direct attention to an advertisement appearing in outadvertising columns to-day of'a minstrel entertainment to

given by members of the

Awamutu Minstrel, Concert, Comedy Club the proceeds which are to be handed to the Te Awamutu Volunteer Fire Brigade. The first part of thi# entertainment will be devoted tc a minstrel entertainment a .d the members of the club are now rehearsing the various songs and choruses. A trial by jury, in which the Town Board will take action against the Te Awamutu Volunteer Fire Brigade will follow and this should prove most interesting as it is understood the various witnesses will give such evidence as is calculated to puzzle even the most experienced judge and at the same time provoke much amusement .

for the looker-on. Altogether almost enjoyable evening’s enter%' tainment is promised, and this,

together with the fact that the funds are for a very commendable project should assure the promoters of a record attendance.