LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annna| mcedag of tho congregation of St. James’ Church will be hold on Wednesday evening, when the congregation will be entertained by the managers, and the usual reports will be presented. A new alloy has been discovered that is almost identical in appearance with mna-canU gold, and shows all the same resisting powers against chemicals. It can ho wrougld, cast, rolled or drawn like gold, and is in most of its properties like the rare racial itself.

The Town Clerk of Wmhi (Mr J. J. IJiteliie) has received a communication from the chairman of the Ohinemuri and Waihou Eivcrs’ .Silting Commission, Mr U. J. H. Blow, stating that the sittings will be opened at Pacroa on Tuesday, 3 ugust 2nd. The president of the Thames Chamber of Commerce stated the other night that the 11 bands that would visit Thames tor the contest in October would bring fully 250 bandsmen to the town, Willi sup porters and friends, from 500 to 1000 visitors would came to Thames.

Inquiry at the Government Labour Bureau at Hamilton elicits the information that jnqutriea for work are very few a-fU invariably by strangers to Ihe town. The local inspector considers that Ifiimilton ha? fell the pinch less than any other place of its size in the Do minion.

j j 'The Waihi Boxing Association is hold- ' ing its first amateur tournament this seai son in the King’s Theatre on Saturday j corning to hand the tourney should j prove an unqualified success. The Pri-. “ | mary Schools’ championship promises to bring forth quite a number of youthful lovers of the real British game, and some exciting bouts are anticipated. Entries in all classes close with the secretary (MrC. W. Eitchie) on Tuesday next at I 1 p.m., and a final meeting of the comj mittee will bo held on - Wednesday even- ' jing to arrange the bouts, etc - , The Mayor and Borough Councillors , j are blamed for a great deal, but perhaps j tlie very latest “crime” takes the first j prize, Keccntly the borough has mj etcased (lie price of gas, and at about the 1 same lime the Hospital Board, through the generosity of certain public spirited j citizens, purchased an ambu'ance, winch, I by the way, did not cost the borough one j penny. During the week, when a mem- ,-, ■ her of the gas works stall was altering , e meters lo provide for ihe increased cost of gas. he was confronted by an irate housewife with the following :—“ Well, 1 suppose So-and-so and 180 and so must uiiso the price of gas lo buy their old ’■ ( ernbulance.” (Collapse of the gasman), '' “I am furprised a lady of you.- ago can see to write without glasses.” said a 1 ' Lyttelton woman to a Christchurch 11 dame who was signing a receipt last g' week for a contribution towards a charit- )•■ able institution in the city. " WcL, I i- ; could not have done so a fortnight ago,” v replied the writer with a smile, “ but,” ~ she continued, “I wrote lo Katana 'j soliciting Ids help for my rapidly failing sight, and I received a letter enclosing a 1 verso of Scripture and advising me to 1 have fifjth, Katana promising to pray fur P me in the meantime. From that day my a siwht begin (o Improve, and already uiy eyes have become so strong that I can n see sufficiently wKheut the aid of f glasses.’’--Christchurch Fun. ‘■The Invisible Divorce" will repre , sent the star attraction at the .Academy 1 The ai re tonight. It is one of the most • absorbing photoplays shown here for | months, departing as it decs from the { beaten pa lb and sounding scents that I men and women have kept strictly to j themselves for ages, instead of one ; “ tiiangle ” there are two, and the two triangles touch a wife and a husband leaving another husband and ! wife respectively surveying the blasted j wreck of their lives Each knew that j ihe one they had promised to luve land keep was unfaiilDul, yet neither was 1 willing to undergo the inevitable pub- ' lieily of divorce. So the two triangles j formed a parallelogram of unrest a;p.i sadness that required the sunshine of luve to pierce, 'The climax is magnificently handled, The romie element will 1 he r.buwn in “ .Schooldays,” punctuated by the spiendid apling of Larry demon. The Commercial Travellers’ Concert, 'which Lukes place in the Academy (I lieatre next Friday, particulars of which ! | appear m our advertising columns, 1 promises to lie a unique event, as far as ; j the musical Waihi public are concerned, j

; The >cerelary nt I,he Travellers' Associa- ( i lion, .\) r 8. 11 oldsvvortli, is leaving no j ’ r tone unt urneil to make the Wailii con t 'c. n the Test am! »>;<M attractive of any l J iliey liavo given. This is saying a gr K .'il t 'ileal for the furthcoming event in Wa'hi, | •1 1 will be noticed that .Miss .Kataliiia u McL'allura (soprano), whose name appears r on >1;? programme, is reputed to be the

Domini '.m’s lending bo prana, and Miss itiva (Sharp (contralto; has a reputation of being one of the lincst reca'ists that Auckland has produced fur many years, Mr (J. Burnett, the elocutionist of the party, is an artist with few peers.

Another eery able performer will he found in the percon cl U r T, Venables. (Other coiitnbuturs of great iaei;'. are ■ Miss Vida Wallace and Messrs ii u. Behvyll Jlanilin, Ji Wilson, Arthur Allen, T, M ilkinsoa and Allan Orossley. Heme of the performers, have already ap pearec! before a Wuihi audience, and the impression they crea'ed was of a most Haltering ciiaracln l .