LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 345, 1 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government is to be asked to authorise the formation of a rifle club in Hamilton, and a committee was formed to carry out the proposal. Both the senior and junior football representatives of the Waipa Rugby Union failed to fulfil their fixtures with Maniapoto at Te Kuiti on Saturday.

After being connected with the Post and Telegraph Department for over forty years, Mr J. H. Owens, postmaster at Taihape, will retire oh superannuation this month. -

An election to fill five ordinary vacancies on the Kihikihi Town Board will be held on Wednesday, the 16th day of September. Nominations of candidates are received up till Tuesday, the Bth day of September. It is stated that Mr A. Scholes, chairman of the Waitomo County Council and a member of the Waikato Hospital Board, will be a probable candidate for the Waikato seat at the forthcoming election. Mr Scholes will represent the Liberal interest.

On Friday afternoon last the members of the WAIPA POST staff gathered round the stone to take farewell of Miss Ida Hinton, who has been a valued member of the composing-room staff for the past two and a half years. Plappy reference was made by several of those present to the diligence and aptitude always shown by the young’lady in her work, and Miss Hinton was then presented with a beautiful muff and fur as a small token of the warmth of friendship felt towards her by her fellowworkers.

The first green peas of the season from Nelson were sold in Wellington recently at 3s iod a peck, sevenpence advance on last year’s opening price. ’

The rifle team to represent the Te Awamutu boy scouts in the competition for the Morgan Cup is putting in some good practice, and the indications are that the local representatives will find their names to a high position on the score cards.

Mr W. F. Stewart has donated a gold medal to the Te Awamutu boy scouts for the best exhibition of Morse Signalling (sending and receiving). The probable date of the competition will be Labour Day (October 26th), when it will be held in conjunction with the Town Band picnic at Victoria Park.

To-morrow, at Mr H. Prescott’s homestead, Messrs Lawson, Swain, and Walker will hold a clearing sale of furniture, horses, and implements. A detailed list of furniture and implements appears in another column. The horses tp be sold are all in hard work and of a useful sort. The auctioneers will also sell on behalf of a client, horses, drays, harness, etc. Luncheon is to be provided, and the sale will start at I p.m. sharp. The New Zealand cargo steamer Kaipara, which was sunk by the German cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, was a four-masted twin-screw steamer of 7393 tons gross register. Her length was 460 feet and her depth 34 feet 3 inches. She was built at Glasgow in 1903, and has been engaged in the New Zealand trade ever since. The value of the vessel is stated to be between £75,000 and £IOO,OOO. The total value of the produce shipped from New Zealand would probably be between £200,000 and £250,000.

An interesting question of liability cropped up in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, when a woman plaintiff sued for the sum of £2O, the value of a trunk of clothes which were immersed in sea water whilst being transferred from a lighter to the steamer Victoria, then at Gisborne. The facts were admitted by the defence, but it was contended that one of the conditions upon the freight note was that the defendants were not responsible for the negligence of their agents. The court held, however, that this had not been made known to the plaintiff. Judgment was given for plaintiff for the full amount claimed, with costs £4 4s.

In concluding an-aTticle dealing with the peifititi.on of the Moderate League roir the postponement of the general elections the Wellington Post says : “Nothing but the greatest military miracle of the world’s history would bring success to Germany against the mighty nations whom the Kaiser and his War Lords have Challenged. With the factors so solidly in favour of a bright future for Britain and a further strengthening of the Empire, the people of New Zealand will have some thought and energy to spare for domestic affairs. By the time that December arrives the electors should be in a fit state of mind to select suitable representatives for Parliament. Perhaps the prospects will be better at such a time for the choice of worthy men than during an ordinary campaign. The people will be more thoughtful, more critical, more inclined to look through the political surface, and perceive the real man within.”

At the annual meeting of Lovell and Christmas Ltd, the chairman in the course of his address, notified a dividend of 8 percent. The following extracts are also given : There was only one particular thing that created a difficulty during the past year, and that was a very serious one. lam alluding to the strike in New Zealand. That was a very costly matter to everyone engaged in importing provisions from that part of the world, and I may say it cost your company at least between £5,000 to £6,000. Goods accumulated at the ports of shipment for weeks, and when they did arrive here in huge quantities of course .they produced a slump in the market, and very much lower prices were obtained than would otherwise have been the ■case if the goods had come forward in the ordinary course. In many instances the cost of the goods in New Zealand, and the advances made “ without* recourse ” were not covered by the prices realised here. We are always looking about in every direction for fresh sources of | supply, because there is gener j ally some source failing. During I the last season there was a slight j falling off from Canada and from France, but we have had large increases from the colonies and Siberia, and the Argentine 1 is coming along very well, producing good butter, and likely to produce in the future considerable quantities. We are well represented in all these places,

The local bakers have found it necessary, owing to the increased r*ice of flour, to raise the price of to this effect appears in another column.

Mr W. Jeffery advises us that

the rainfall at Te Awamutu for the last three months has been 7.32 inches. In June 2.46, in July 2.9 t, and in August 1.95 inches were recorded.

At St. John’s Church on Sundav evening next, the Rev. F. W. Clarke will preach the fourth of a special series of sermons, the subject being “ How and when Britains became Christians.”

A stamp-selling machine has been installed at the Te Awamutu post office, and will no doubt prove a great convenience to the public. The installation was the result of negotiations by the local Chamber of .Commerce.

The following players will represent the Te Awamutu ladies’ hockey team to play Kihikihi: Misses R. Dodd, Olphert, Teddv, O’Brien, Harris, Mclntosh, E. Hutt, Winch, R. Verner, H. Verner, M. Verner.

The following hockey team will represent Kihikihi against Te Awamutu at Mr Sutherland’s paddock at 3 p.m. to-morrow : Misses Henrickson (2), Walker (2), McCardle (2), Anderson, Corboy, Savage, Montifiore, and Mrs Graham. , The Canadian - Australasian mail steamer Niagara, which has been delayed at Honolulu while on the inward voyage from Vancouver to Auckland and Sydney, has on board 120 first,TOO second and 70 third-class passengers for New Zealand and Australia. She also carries 1000 tons of Canadian merchandise for New Zealand. The Kihikihi school children have proved their patriotism by subscribing £2 10s to the local Patriotic Fund, and by forwarding £2 to the Education Board as their contribution to the public school children’s fund for purchasing an ambulance equipment to be forwarded to the seat of war. This makes a total subscription of £4 ios.

Last Saturday the local basket ball team gave an exhibition of the game in the school paddock. The teams played well, the result being a win for the A’s by 12 points to 4. The goal-thrower for the A team, Violet Candy, did good work, while Hannah Verner, of the B’s, defended well. Dorothy Olphert was noteworthy for steady play, while Violet Bartlett-Miller and Rose Merryweather passed skilfully. Many ladies were present at the match, afterwards adjourning to the tennis pavilion for afternoon tea. The school girls were congratulated by the ladies for the pleasant afternoon afforded them.