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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5962, 13 July 1920, Page 2

A special meeting of the Mataura Football Club is convened for to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 7.30 o’clock. . The official assignee in bankruptcy draws attention in our advertising columns to the fact that a meeting of creditors in the estate ot Leslie Cooper, of iKatikafi, contractor, will he held at the Courthouse, Waihi, on Friday next, 16th inst., at 2 p.m. How the Starving Children’s Fund received an unlooked for donation of £1 is told by the Mayor. Ho says he sent out a number of letters in the form of an appeal. One was addressed to a gentleman with a not uncommon name in the employ of the Waihi Gold Mining Company. By some means the letter found its way to Te Awamutu, where it struck a late cmployee of the Grand Junction with a similar name, and the recipient look it as quite correct, and duly remitted his donation as above.

Speaking at the farewell to the Rev J. Carlisle, at the Baptist Church (says the Gisborne Herald), the Rev. H, Packe remarked, amidst laughter, that the departing minister had been endjwed with a good voice, and sometimes he had found it necessary to have the doors of Holy Trinity Church closed, as he had found his congregation listening to the Rev. Mr Carlisle’s voice instead of his own. Touching on the point suqsequenlly, Mr Carlisle said God had given him a* strong votep, and if his message had reached the folks opposite he hoped it had done them good. (Renewed laughter.