TAIHAPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 266, 13 November 1935, Page 3

TAIHAPE

GENERAL NEWS. A dance organised by the Maori Women's Institute was held in the Winiata Hall on Saturday in aid ol the iunds of the Morehu Social Club. 1 The music was supplied by Carring ton’s Orchestra, extras being played ‘ by Miss Chase. A spot waltz was wun by Miss Royal ■ atij Mr. It. Chase, while Mrs. i\ Buckley and Mr. \V. Waldin were the winners of a waltzing competition. A secund sput waltz was wun by Mrs. . Taylor and Mr. G. Carrington. Mr, A. Smith won a competition in which the pnze was a Mauri mat. The committee responsible for the organisa- ' Don of the dance was as lulluws: — ' iMtsdames Stoney, Martin, Hunter Fine, Chase, Maniupotu and C'baiw, # unr. I I'lie wrcaller George Hopkins caused a stir on Monday evening when lie tied a rope to the bumper of a car load of passengers and, gripping the rupe with his teeth, pulled the cai through the mam street, much to- the amazement of the many unluokefs who had assembled specially fur the purpose of watching Hopkins perform this remarkable feat. During the afternoun Hopkins played goif o-n the Raukura links. Mr. J. D. C. Da\is has been elected secretary uf the Carnival Committee that has been formed for the purpose *of raising funds for the new rest room’. The monthly meeting of the Taihape Borough Council will be held on Fri day, November 15. The secretary of the RangiLkei Wrestling Association informed the “ Chr(»nic]e’ , on Tuesday that if the bout between Hupkius find Blum field was a financial success there was every prospect uf Earl*’McCrea*lv z up- I pearing at- Taihape in the near future, j MAJESTIC CINEMA. ■'TILL MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. ’’ The story of ‘ i Ihe Mystery of Edwin Drood.” which is being screened at the Majestic Cinema, is one of the finest examples of the inysterv type of play that has been secu here—plenty of thrills, little that is morbid and absorbing action from the rise to the fall of the curtain. The addition , </f ultra-modern thought and invest i- j gatior. to a story woven round the j quiet life of an early Victorian village, with its Norinan English rathe- . dral, its crypts and underground gal- f lories, its key-jangling, lantern-swing- . ing old caretaker, make for mystery ] drama of distinctive quality. The book t on which the picture is based was to- r have been in .12 monthly parts; six v only were published, and there the t mystery was left unsolved for the pen i of thp only man who knew the secret c was laid aside for ever. This was in n .lune 1870, and since that date the I literary world has had an intriguing c and at the same time a. baffling oc f cupation is essaying to supply the soln- v tion that the autby; had intended for the [dot which he had constructed. ’