LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5881, 8 April 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The leading picture at the Academy Th'iitrp to-night will be "The Hay. seed*," which bristles with ths humour of a wayback lami'y'a visit to toivn. The local recorder, Mr P A. Clifford, repr.rts that during the 24 hours ending at G o'clock this morning the rainfall in Waihi was 4.36 inches, and that tho ttftal fall for 48 hours was 5 8 inches. Twenty-three native tribes wili bu present at tho Maori welcome to the Prince of Wales in Kotorua. A contract for supplying meat (hundreds of thecp and bullocks) to their camp has been let.

In a surgical operation at Hamilton a boy's appendix was found on tho right side of the body, and the heait was well over to the right side. In another case a man was found to have two complete sets ot organs excepting the heart. During January and February of (his year 22497 ounces of gold, valued at £92,593, were exported from New Zealand. ISo statistics relating to the production and export of gold were available

during the years 1917, 1918, and 1919, Mr Donald Mackie, Malaura Eoad, announces elsewhere that he has again taken over the agency for Messrs Gaudin. Marr, Ltd., cycle merchants, of Wellington. All orders, large or small, entrusted in tho hands of Mr Mackie will be promptly attended to,

A considerable number ot tho workers who left Waihi during the strike period arc still away, but several Jiave returned, and the mining companies report a steady increase in tho working staffs. The Waihi Company has everything in readiness underground for the contractors, and crushing at the Victoria Battery at Waikino was resumed last night.

The torrential rain which fell last evening prevented as full an attendance ac the Borough Council meeting as the importance- ot the matter to be discussed warranted. The matter for consideration was the position of,the borough employees, which had been affected by the strike. Judging from what was said by those present the outlook of re employing all the men when borough woik is resumed seems remote. That it behoves the men to look out tor other work is as plain as if the writing had beefi placed

on the|vrall. JBecently two persons of alleged "water divining proclivities" visued Hastings, and publicly announced their willingness to locate wetter, states the Hawke's Bay Tribune. In answer to their advertisement several local residents, who no doubt had their mind's oyo centred on the prospects of a drought, at once availed themselves of the offer and paid a tee of £3. Up to the present, however, there has been no appearance of the "water diviners," and their victims, it is reported, are now endeavouring to divine their whereabouts.

The new scale of Imperial Army pensions, remarks the Auckland Observer, is paid to officers, warraut officers, non.corns., and men, the depots ot whose tnits arc in the United Kingdom, the Channel Isles, and the Isle of Man, and there are very numerous ex-soldiers in Wew Zealand who ccme under the category, and who will know nothing about it unless they hoar from a source unconnected with the INew Zoaland Defence Department. The warrant issued by 11. M. increasing Imperial Army pensions ought to bo reprinted in the New Zealand Gazette, posted at headquarters, read to ejtery unit of territorials, placed in every hospital, and disseminated Widely, An Australian soldier, who according

to orders posted" while he was on duty in figypN was made a corporal, received increased pay accordingly, amounting to £1.23, but it transpired that he nas promoted through an error mado by a typist. The Minister ot Dotence sued for the recovery of £123, but the Chief Justice dismissed the plaintiff's claim. His Honor said that the onus of proving that the soldier had not been promoted rested on plaintiff, and plaintiff had failed to satisfy him that the promotion did not in

fact take plare. Plaintiff's claim was dismissed. Judgment was given lor defendant en that, with costs, and also on his counter-claim of £92 IBs 9d, for 25 |.er cent, balance of pay as corporal retained by the Minister, with costs. Mr Stephen Karl, who for over twenty years lived in the upper storey of the block known as Earl's Buildings, Seddon Street, and who a year or two bick left the goldfields town to reside in Tauianga, had receutly what he termed the experienee of his long life, as he is now approaching his ninetieth year. During the recent round trip of a, seaplane from the, Kohimarama works to Tauranga,

where a short stay was made, it was I stated to the pilot that Mr Earl, who is an old Maori War veteran, and the oldest man in Tauranga, bad expressed a ; desire to have a tfip in the 'plane. The pilot immediately fell in with the wishes of the veteran, and without further ado, accrmpanied by his ancient passenger, set off on an hour's run, covering at various altitudes somewhere about forty or fifty miles. The case of a relumed soldier who has done very well on the section of land winch he acquired from the Government on his return to New Zealand was referred to by tho Minister of Lands (Mr

Guthrie). This young man, said the (Minister, look up u section of land, not first-class in quality, and his £ross retirns from his oat crop, the whole of which he cut into chaff, were £2300, more than the capital value ot hii holding, lie was now in a position to relieve himself ot his indebtedness and to hold his land free, or, if he preferred, to improvo his farm and bo secure to himself comfortable conditions in future. |Mr Guthrie said that ho brought this case to public notice in the hope that other soldie; settlors might be encouraged to emulate this very tine achievement.

What might have been a good day's sport at .Wbangimata on Saturday was nipped in the bud. In response to the cad of Mr 11. Daveney, proprietor of the Whangamata Hotel, who hal organised a hack race meeting, a number of settlers in the district foregathered with their hacks at the appointed place on the beach eager to engage in the sport. The beach provided a straight run of a mile and a quarter over hard sand, •and everything premised well, The prize money I

for the various ofenls was subscribed by Most Daveney, and everything was in readiness for a ttart, fJnfortunutoly for the organiser and the Bpor'.ing members of the community, a member of the Wuihi police force, in the person of Constable Olsen, put in an appearance. As nothing in the shape of a permit to hold races could bo produced, the constable informed the officials that the meeting could not be held. Consequently the hack meeting was abandoned and footraces substituted. For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,