LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13272, 30 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

War loan certificates sold through the Auckland Post Office on Monday totalled £IB,OOO.

A young man named Edwin Parker was killed by a fall of earth in Central Otago. Seven trucks and two carriages of a train on the Methven-Rakaia line were derailed yesterday. Xo casualties resulted.

The Board of Trade reports that careful inquiry failed to reveal the existence ol a combination in New Zealand to control the price of petrol.

The New. Zealanders on board the warship Pyranius have been granted leave to visit New Zealand, and should arrive in the last week of September. An error occurred in Messrs J E. Hamill and Co.'s advertisement as printed in yesterday's issue. In the paragraph re a 500-acre farm wanted for a client the deposit should have been £IOOO not £IOO.

The council of the New Zealand Sheepowners' Federation recommends payment of a war lvonus of 2s (5d per 100 for shearing. The secretary of the Shearers' I nion, however, says the men will not accept work for less than 25s per 100.

In the Divorce Court, Auckland, Adelaide Beatrice Wilson was granted a decree nisi, dissolving her marriage with William Wilson, a jockey, on the ground of misconduct. A pathetic incident in the case was that a girl, aged 19, gave evidence that respondent was the father of her child, for the maintenance of whiclfnc had paid nothing, and, further, had intimated that he would contest any proceedings which she might luing.

Up to the present, when a man changed his address his principal worry, as a rule, was the inconvenience or cost of shilting. The situation is very different to-day for men of military age, when they move from one

abode to another. Neglect or delay in sending this important information to tiie Government Statistician may n ;.ke a careless or thoughtless man liable to a charge oi desertion. The election of one member to represent the Lower Waikato district on the board of directors of the New Zealand Dairy Association resulted in the return of Mr Alfred Martin Barriball, who obtained 12,625 votes by -518 members. The other candidate was Mr .Joseph Henry, who polled (1556 votes by 2<-9 members. When the poll closed on Monday last. 852 voting papers bad been received, but 45 of these were discovered to be informal. Mr J. T. Young was returned unopposed for the Upper District.

A request was made to the Minister of Railways yesterday on behalf of tlie Hamilton Beautifying .Society by its president, Mr W. H. Worsley, lo have the signal-box in the Hamilton railway yard removed from its present site, across the line to a point onpositc. The object of the request, Mr Worsley pointed out, was to enable the society to do much needed beautifying work on the station grounds that could not. lie undertaken if the box remained where it was at present. Mr Hemes promised to investigate the question. Later on he had a walk along the river path, where he had the oportunity of inspecting some of the ■ operations undertaken by the whose sphere of marked usefulness won high terms of approval from the Minister.

The necessity for a slot telephone at the Frankton railway station was brought once more under the notice of of the Minister of Railways when he was in Hamilton yesterday. Mr Gruar, who re-introduced the subject, pointed out that the department had offered no objection if representations were made to the postal department to have the 'phone erected, but so far nothing had been done. Mr J. A. Young, M.P., said he had received a communication from the Minister in December, pointing out that the site would be granted on receipt of a request from the responsible quarter. There was a slot telephone at Hamilton, but there was greater need for one at Frankton. where train stops were longer and more trains would l)e served. He asked that the Minister forward the representations to the Postmaster-Gen-eral and intimate that the site was available. Mr Herries reolied that that was all he could do in the matter, hut he sunposed that the oostal department had the same difficulty in getting material as his department had encountered, through the war. For a dainty blouse or frock there is scarcely anything to equal a pretty crepe-de-chene, and the range of colours that Messrs Hooker and Kingston have opened in them are both smart and charming—saxe, sky, shell pink, vieux rose, ivory cream, champagne and black. Price 5s lid, 6s lid and 7s 6d.yard. A lovely range of crepe-de-chene blouses in almost any shade, are also showing—l6s 6d, 19s 6d to 32s 6d. Shop where your money goes farthest. Off their manufacturer-to-you prices Messrs Hooker and Kingston giv<» you a special war discount of 3d back in every 5s "spent for cash. Hannah's still' report the arrival of new goods from''America.' The latest shapes in men's'nigh grade boots just to hand; also a large shipment of ladies' smart I>ce and strap shoes, medium price. advise you to see these early, as they will not last long on our shelves.*

Sharland's Moa Brand Egg Preservative never fails to keep fresh eggs sweet and good.* WMtfcd ta Buy Separator Butter in any quantity, at TJf.B. provision department.—Best cash price given.* For Children's Hacking Cough—. Woods' Great Pepperßamt Cure.