LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5605, 30 April 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Corporal C. Jarvis and Private W. S Spicer are members of the draft returning by the Arawa, which arrives at Lyt telton on May 13.

The annual meeting of St. John’s Church parishioners will be held in the schoolroom on Tuesday, May 6th. and not to-morrow, as previously announced,

The members of the Pride of Wail.i Lodge are notified in another column that the meeting which was to be lit 1J to-night has been postponed until tomorrow.

While Mr David Goldie, a former Mayor of Auckland, was signalling with bis umbrella at Takapuna , for an approaching tram to stop, the engine struck the umbrela, the impact fracturing one of bis fingers.

A peculiar accident occurred on Monday at Cashmere Hills, Christchurch. Mary Mitchell, aged eight years, a pupil at the Cashmere Hills school, suffered severe injuries to the head owing to the school bell breaking away from its fastenings and falling on her.

At the Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, on Monday Florence Martha Lewis claimed £l6 from the Ashburton Hospital Board for services rendered as nurse at a temporary hospital. The magistrate, after reviewing the evidence, said that 13s 6d per day, considering the circumstances, would he a fair rate of pay, and gave judgment for plaintiff for £l2 3s.

Another fine double programme will be screened at the King’s Theatre tonight, headed by the Essanay picture entitled ‘’Pants" a beautiful story of childhood and the power of innocence. Nobody should miss seeing "Babbling Tongues.” Few pictures can compare with it for dramatic power, tragic intensity, and convincing artistry. Another feature will be the first of a senes ol Bairnsfather’s Cartoons.

The prisoner Charles Edward Bolton, formerly a miner at Waihi, who was undergoing a sentence of imprisonment at the Mount Eden Gaol, and who escaped from custody ou Easter Monday, was re captured at Ngalea, near Thames, on Sunday, morning by Warder. Brophy and Constable Taylor, of Tuakau. The prisoner was discovered hiding in a settler’s cowshed. He was in a very weak and exhausted condition and was suffering from want of food.

The liabilities of motor car proprietors who ply for hire was exemplified in a case tried at Wbakatane lately, where a passenger sued a proprietor for the value of a lost portmanteau and its contents. It was proved that the portmanteau was not tied on to the car. Mr Kenrick, the magistrate, held that it was negligent to carry luggage without securing it to the car, and ordered the defendant to pay the amount claimed, £l4 10s, with costs, £5 4s.

The. hearing of the claim for prize money in connection with the sinking of the German cruiser Breslau a year ago recalls a characteristic act by the Naval Censor. The Breslau was jlriven into our minefields by the plucky action of two destroyers, the Lizard and Tigress, and some comment was evoked by the suppression of the names of their commanding officers. It transpires that the Lizard was commanded by Lieutenant N. A. Gustave Ohlenschlager, whoso name so shocked the censor that he decided to suppress it, and this, of course, involved the suppression also of the Tigress’ C. 0., Lieutenant • Commander Nevill. Had the censor troubled to look through the Navy List he would have found many names quite as exotic as that of the captain of the Lizard borne by ofii--oers of unmistakably British origin and of the highest professional attainments.

William Lippin, the boatswain of the Union Company's cargo steamer IKaritane, had a sensational experience and narrowly escaped losing his life during a gale off the Tasmanian coast. The Kantane, which arrived in Sydney on April 14 from Devonport, ran into a terrific bar. The storm was accompanied by hurricane squalls and heavy seas, and whilst battling against the elements the steamer shipped a tremendous sea. It came without warning, and swept the boatswain, who was walking on deck, over the side. Fortunately, the man managed to catch hold of the ship's rail as the steamer lurched, and in this dangerous position he clung for bare life, and called for assistance. Tbe accident was witnessed trom the bridge, and, despite that the decks were constantly deluged by the seas, willing hands rushed to the side and succeeded iu hauling the boatswain on board again.

Airis Neumann, organiser of the Chautauqua Association of New Zealand, is at present ;in AVaihi for the purpose of sotting up a committee to arrange lor a visit ol tho Chautauqua to lliis town. The New Zealand association is a branch of the Chautauqua ot America., the aim of which is to weld together in a. spirit of harmony the I'Onglisli-spcaking races. The mission bus already visited sixteen towns of the North Island, and their entertainr.iouts, which are not onily novel and nti cacti ve, but highly educative, have been very largely attended. A huge lent, capable of seating over a Lliousrad people, is employed for the purpose, 'the association expects to open its mission in AVaihi during the summer. Meanwhile Miss Neumann is organising a committee*of ladies and gentlemen to conduct the local arrangements.

Iu a letter, Sir Thomas AJackenric, New Zealand’s High Commissioner rays;— “l may mention that i spent a most enjoyable evening at a largo Salvation Army Hall in Codlord. . • |'_ happened to he the Salvation Ann\ .night when I was at Codlord. Ik ball held about 800. U was tbe mo,-a social’ meeting I was ever at- f irst l.vmns wore sung ior about three-quar-ters of an hour, chon the new-i of the war was read. This was followed by an exhibition of pictures, beginning with a display ir the versos of that fine bvnm ‘Abide AVith Ale,' each verso illustrated bv a beautiful picture, appro , ,iate to. the lines. The soldiers come limes sing the verses, but occasionally I pc v are asked to ’vb'stV the tune, as tho” change gives variety. Thou follow cd a line representation ol classical scenes. Bator we bad a few words iron; Hu, padre, Captain AVinlon. He is a s> lendid man, and does numb good nor, only for the fit men, but for the tuck and wounded.” For Bronchial Cough* take 1 Woods’ Croat i‘o|iimrmmt Cure, 1

The annual meeting o{ the Waihi Golf Club will be held in the Borough Chambers on Friday at 7.45 p,m.

The French cruiser Zersaint, reported a few weeks ago to have gone on a reef near Papeete, was still fast when the Paloona passed the locality on April 14.

A fire at Parawera, Waikato, on Monday destroyed a farm residence owned by Mr F. Quin, also the whole of its contents, inuludiug £440 in notes

In our advertising columns Mr 8. Tanner draws attention to the purcha e of a draft of fine oi beet from Te Puke, and other lines in connection with his business.

A general meeting of the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries' Union will be held in the Picture Palace on Friday evening, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Federation conlcrenco and electing two committee men.

Lieutenant A. T. Leeds, a recently returned officer of the Tunnelling Company, is at present surveying at Zatikati for the Public Works Department. Lieutenant Leeds had a successful career in France. He wai well respected and did some fine surveying work in the early days of the first Arras offensive,

Captain G. W. Zing (Now Zealand Tunnelling Company), who had a varied career in France, first as an engineer officer with the Tunnellers, ;and afterwards with the Army Light Railways, of which he was an 6.C., has settled down to public works routine, and is carrying on the necessary railway construction work on the Tauranga-Waihi section. He looks fit and well, and the experience he gained in France and Belgium will be an asset to himself and theN.Z Government in their future railway construction.

A returned soldier who suffered from shell-shock fell into the water while walking along Bona Bay wharf, Wellington, the other evening. Two youths,Thomas Leslie, of Wellington, and William Wright, of Bona Bay, both 17 years of age, jumped into the water and swam towards the soldier, who was shouting tor assistance and drifting away with the tide. The two rescuers succeeded in bringing the soldier to the wharf, where a rope was thrown out to them. The people on the wharf then pulled them towards the steps, where they were lifted out exhausted, After a while the soldier was brought round sufficiently to allow him to proceed to his home.

“The New Zealanders are champion horsemen,” said Lieutenant-Colonel G, C. Powles, C.M.G., D. 8.0., speaking in the Wellington Town Hall. '* They said during the South African war that the colonial could ride, but that be was no horse master. I can tell you that the colonial is the finest horseman in the world. We had English yeomanry, French and Indian cavalry in the SinaiPalestine campaign, but none of them could last out the way the Australian and New Zealand boys did. There is no doubt that we did look after our horses bettor than any of them, and that is what carried us through. We were never out of the firing line.” Earlier in his address Colonel Powles said the Anzac Mounted Division was only enabled to do what it did in Palestine and across the Jordan Valley by what the men discovered in the deserts of Sinai. It was there they learned the secret of the desert how to look after their horses.

The staff engaged in the conduct of the borough elections to-day comprises only two of the original members, in the persons of Messrs W, H. Boss and W. M. Wallnutt. These two arc also the only remaining members of the old Waihi Improvement Committee which came into being 20 years ago, and which was instrumental in bringing about the formation of the Waihi borough nearly 19 years ago. Mr W. H. Boss was, along with his brother, late A. Y, Boss, one of the most prominent workers in the achievement of forming Waihi into a borough. Mr A. Y. Boss, who was m America, was induced by his brother to come out to New Zealand and settle in Waihi, and he at once became a very live member of the Waihi Improvement Committee, and by his individual efforts did much for the aims of the committee. The formation of Waihi into a borough having .been accomplished, the committee's operations ceased. The late Mr A. Y. Boss on the inception of the borough was appointed provisional Town Clerk, being succeeded by the late Mr H. D. Morpeth.