LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXI, Issue 6914, 15 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

" Wellington streets are lighted by electricity, and it is the worst-lighted place that 1 know of." remarked Coun. cillor Kemp at the Masterton Borough Council meeting, The life of an English bank note is about two months. When the Bank of England receives a note back from circulation, it is automatically cancelled by baring ihe signature of tha cashier torn off. ' Under tin auspices of the Ladies" Hockey (Hovers) Club a dance will be held at the Miners' Union Halt on Thurs day evening next. The dance music will be furnished by Mrs Macwtlliams' orchestra.

There were 400 marriages between British soldiers of the Bbme and German women frum the date of the urmistico to 31st Dccembar la t, states LieutenantColonel Guinness, Urder-Secretary for War, in Parliamentary papers.

Details of the Second Auckland Bat talion were exercised in judging distance practice on Saturday under the supervision of Sergeant- Major Patterson. The remainder of the Company will be exercised in due course. Judging dis tanco forms an important part of the training of both Carets and Tcnifonals, running hand-in-hand with musketry practice. Owing to the out in wages at Muirs Gold fie«3fs mine at Te Puke, the shaft m p n, numbering twelve, finished up during the latter part of last week and returned to Waihi. It is reportfd that the reduction of wages, which aff. c!s all the men engaged in the mine, will be the grounds of another batch of man leaving the mine, a large percentage of whom were formerly engaged in mining in Waibi. A member of the 8.9. A. at Masterton asked the chairman at a meeting a question concerning business with the Government " Have you ever had ar.v dealing with the Government departments?" asked the chairman. 'Yes, only oncp," replied the member. " 1 went to the Repatriation Department to ask tor a loan and they greeted me with, ' It's like your cheek.'"

It is not often that the public hears of banknotes being used to stoke a 6re with. Such actually occurred at the Damevirke gasworks rfcently, when quite a big pile went up in Rmoke (states an exchange). They had out-lived usefulness, bad al been cancelled, and their destruction possibly accounted for million? of microbes which are popularly supposed to have their habitation in the grimy notes so omrnonly in peculation.

Overheard at the last silting of the Patea Magistrate's Court and reported tn the local press. Counsel (to witness) : " Now, Bir, did you or did you not oa the date in question, cr at any other ttni°, say to the defendant or anyone else, that the statement imputed to you and denied by the plaintiff was a matter of no moment rr otherwise—answer me, yesorn'P" Bewildored witness: " Yes or no, what P" Master at Arms Chas. Hutchings, Warrant Officer, Boyal Navy, who is visiting the various sub.-areas of No 2 group of the 6:h Hauraki Regiment, gave an interesting and insttuctrre address to the Waihi Cadets at tbe drill hall last evening. His dealt with the pay and conditions of the Roval New Zea■and Navy. Pe explained in detail the object of hi* mission and the advantages that were offered to boys joining the Roys} Sievf Zealand Navy, The Master at Arms gives a second address on the same subject to another ba'ch of Cadets at the drill shed to night, when it is expected he will be greeted by a full muster.

An American visitor now in Palmerston Worth speaks with enthusiasm of the climate and tup resources of our conrjtrj. He remarked inpidentally thai his visit to New Zealand would have been amply repaid by one thing a'one, the glowworm cave at Waitomo—a sight of winch not one in a million in America seemed to be aware and not even one in ten thousand ever spoke. We sadly needed an advertiser who knows his vi«it This enthusiast, who has travelled in most parts of the world, says th?re is nothing like this cave on the face of the earth. Jf in America it would be a nationa' fortuce. Here it is not even a village wonder.

Motion-p : eture enterprises go to great leng'hs nowadays, eyen to lh* ex'eat of photographing sections of a big production in different parjts nf the world, in making their films. The well,- knowp American cinema star, Douglas Fairbanks, is shortly to leave iho States for New Zealand, which has been selected for the staging of certain mcideuts in a stor? of the Sou'.hra Pacific. Hi 3 representative, Mr Sam Blair, arrived recently at Wellington by lbs Maunganui to choose suitable locaticni for some of the outdoor scenes, and it is understood Mr Fairbanks will sail for the JDomm on as soon as ih3 necessary arrangemen's have been made. The pic'ure will be based partly on the exploits cf Bull; if ayes, the notorious " bla kbirdor" ot the Pacific.

Wireless maids are the latest of lale things in Parjs. George Franclnlte, president of tbe French Society for the Study of WtreleEs, has replaced servants in his home bj—the iiffol Tower. At 6 a.m. a wireless wave from the Tower 33t8 off. an alarm clock beside Franchette's bed, opens the windows and pulls back the shutterc, and starts an ele trie stove noiting his morning cup of chocolate, which is automatically controlled so that it never boils over. Official time is given him by wireless-controlled clocks ia all rooms, doars are opened by but tons, tbe controlling torce of which is waves from tbe hiffel Tower, and everv evening Monsieur Franebetto gets the day's nows from a wireless receiver as he is seated at dinner. Next, winter, ho says, he is going to heat his hou<e by wireless. Turing the height of the gale, shortly befo/e 10 o'clock last nplr, a tall pine tree on the Waihi G M Go's propeny, jri tbe neighbourhood of No., 2 shaft, '' crashed to the earth ar,d smashed through ' a seed >nol a nine inch iron pipe convej- j ing compressed air po the underground wjrkings in the vicinity of this shaft. The air rushed out of the yent with a shrieking, roaring nq'SP, startling res - _- dents far Jand near. Tb,o es.ci.ping air, after exhausting itself, lefi many wondering what bad happened at ihe mine. The effect of the raii-hap cut off the supply of air tn a se ( n of the underground workings, and <■. p.i employed in tjie neighbourhood affec pi ceased work for the remainder if the shift. Prompt measures we e taken to effect repairs, which, were completed at an epply h:>ur this morning, and work has tinea been rosuraod in that quarter as usual. For Children's Hacking Goutjti, Woods' G»»at P»pperini«>t Cure.

Cn the Auckland Stock Exchange this morning there were buyers of Waihi shares at 24s 9*, sellers 25> 9d. Grand Junctions were wanted at 6s 10 i, holders asking 7s 41. Moanataians (Thame*) had buyers 2s lOd, sellers Si 2d. !Seiv Wniotahis (Thames) were sought at 101, sellers Is 21. The cost of car hire to the Paeroa Borough Council last year was prict ; cally nil, certainly uivr.er a pou'd. Jhe Mayor, who h»d a private car, placed his vehicle at the dispoful of ihe various committees during their tours the borough cn municipal bu in?ss, and no 'charge, directly or indirectly, was made. Cth r councillors who hid motor cars d:d I the same gra'uitous service to llio ■Uour.o i. - Amongst tbe visitois here Ip Jay was Mr P. llrenan, ex Mayor of Paena, who was relieved after four yea"rs ot office, Mr Brenan, referring to the recent] floodid condition of the Ohinemuri iiiver, ! remarked that Fomc bing would have to , be done in the way ot dredging the bed j ot the river, oherwis.', sooner or later, ' disaster would overtake the township and surrounding district. '• Fur the first time on record," said the' via; top, ''the Northern 8.8. Co. » goods shed was flooded to a depth of 14 inches ot water, du; to the erettijn of tries L-p buikß in the opposite sjde of life mor " |

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