LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5882, 9 April 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A parcel of about 401 b of sugar was! sold by auction last week at Balelutha at over 7d per lb. Tho death occurred at Adelaide on March 18lb of the Rev. T. E. Trestrail, formerly pastor of the Methodist Church at Thames. Deceased’s wife died three days later. Mr and Mrs Thomas Dunn, of Thames, who arrived in New Zealand in 1860, celebrated I heir diamond weddinS at Thames yesterday. Mr Dunn is 84 years of age and his wife 80. Thc'y a e both well known old Thamesiles, hawng lived there since 1867, By a recent change in the incidence of taxation, says the Manawatu Times, land-owners must pay land tax irrespective of the amount of mortgages.' For instance, £SO deposit on a £IO,OOO land cieal compels the purchaser to pay the whole of the land tax involved. Mrs Mary Smith, wife of tho late William Smith of Papaknra and mother of Mrs If. Hartley, Waihi, died suddenly at the residence of Mr Close, Savage Road, Waihi, last night, the cause of death being due to heart lailurft The deceased hid only arrived a .few hours before by the express, having come from Papakura to visit some friends here.

Mr if. H. Wilson, for some time past Clerk of Court at Waihi, transferred to the Public Trust Department, and will take up his new duties shortly after the close of the present mouth. His position here is to be filled by Mr C. A. Montgomery—a returned soldier > now on leave—who, prior to going on active service was clerk of the Warden’s Court, at Ahaura, on the West Coast of the South Island. The business transacted at the Waihi Courthouse during ,lhe past quarter m oved unusually light. In the Warden’s Court there were only 87 applications dealt with, and the number of instruments registered in connection with raining privliges was 121. Forty-three criminal cases were listed, the lines collected totalling £93 The summonses taken out in connection with civil cases numbered but 17, the amount involved in the claims being £322, Owing to the strike, tho boxing classes conducted by Mr Monk Ford at the Commercial Hotel had to be temporarily suspended, but now that the industrial dispute has been settled the classes will be resumed as from to-morrow evening at the same time and place, and will continue on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, when old and intending pupils will be welcomed, Mr J. Walker, one of our local lightweight boxers, is now in active training nt Mr Ford’s rooms in preparation for his* meeting with J. Griffin, the well-known Hew Zealand light-weight, at Auckland on the 19th inst. It is understood that the Waihi Boxing Association intends to put on a goldfields tourney as soon as possible, a fixture which should meet with general approval by lovers of the noble art. Mr W, J, Brown, the Waihi representative on the Thames Harbour Board, speaking at the luncheon given to mark the opening of the new offices of the Board, said that mining at Waihi was merely beginning, and that the Waihi Plains settlement was going on fast. Ho referred to the gold duty having to meet all the silting expenditure in the river; land previously under water had been made dry by outs and dredging paid for by the gold revenue. Something should be done to relieve Waihi of this unfair drain. The farmers paid not a shilling for the millions of tons of debris that had come down tho drains. He advocated om body controlling the whole of th® rivep. The people rf Waihi 1 fovoured the harbour scheme. It would 1 help the farmers and the to wn, and they want to see it going. ; Tho latest epidemic to worry the Do- ’ minion is “ school opthalmia," which was ‘ reported in Wellington a little while ago and js now more or less prevalent in ' Christchurch. Tim scientific name of this painful eye disejssa js "epidemic 1 mueo - purulent cocjunctiyitis.’ It is caused by a microbe, and is highly in- ■ factious. The principal symptoms are severe inflammation, accompanied by a bloodshot conditjnii; and the eyesight is 1 aife.cted.’ As the popula? qame of the epidemic indicates, it is mostly caught by children at school, but it is easily transmitted to adults, and the greatest care should be used to .ensure that persons affected do not transmit contagion ’ through towels or otherwise. The common treatment is to bathe the affected eye or eyes with a solution of boraeic acid. The symptoms usually continue for a week or lea days. New importations of costume cloths have just hepn received by Hethenngtons Limited, prices £nd particulars of which appear on our firsj; page this evening. The function held at the Thames the other day to mark tho opening of the new offices of the Hauraki Dirtrict Harbour Scheme was largely attended, those present including representatives of 1 cal bodies from outside places. Amongst the visitors who spoke wnh enthusiasm of what the fulfilment of the important project would mean tfi ( the Thames and adjacent districts was Mr H. Jackson, Mayor of Te Aroha “ The people of the backblocks," ho said, “ were hungry for g, port. To Aroha was only 20 miles away, and pbe troubles {.iiey |hai experienced with the railway was a convincing proof that water carriage was the begt. Tho Hauraki Valley was the most fertile district in Hew Zealand, and with pososr from the Hprabora electric station, together with the deep sea harbour, would create a wonderful future.’’

Mr Hayward promises his patrons something above tlie average with his double programme to-morrow evening, when ho will screen three attractions, featuring such popular stars as Mary Pickford, “ Fatty ” Arbuckle, and Herbert llawlinson. Mary Pickford appears as a wee Scotch lassie in “ Captain Hicld, Juai" As the grand.daughter of Angus McTavish, keeper of a curio and book-shop, where the buried treasure, whiefr is the basic idea of the story, is first learned of,' M[ary is said to bo the most winsome, close-fisted, lovable, and at the same time irritating little peraop cue could hope tp meet' anywhere, She keeps Jji# {iloason, a npvelist, dangling till the very end, TJ=e Pickford picture will bo supported by “ Mr Dpi#n 0/ JM,cvr York," 3. sparring picture v/ufi a tenround tight in the finish, and last, hut by no means least, our old friend “Fatty" Arbuckle in “ troodmight, Nurse,” To say old Keyston? pictures were funny is to say his new Paramount comedies are an absolutely hysterical yell. The prices are 2s Id and J.s Id. All children occupying seats be paid tor. For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is Del- 2* 9d-