LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14229, 2 December 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is a certain wonderful delight and sweetness in knowledge. The R.M.S. Niagara left Vancouver* for Auckland yesterday. The 40 guarantors required to bring Chautauqua back to Hamilton next year have been more than secured. At a meeting of shareholders of the Bank of Australasia, in London, it was resolved to increase the capital by £25,000 in further £4O shares.

An entertainment" consisting of musical and elocutionary items will be given in the i'rankton Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening at 7.30. Members of the Hamilton Beautifying Society expressed the hope, at a meeting last night, that residents would attend to the trees planted by the Society in the streets in which they reside. The American strikes have had an effect upon the benzine supplies for th.s country and there is likely to bo a shortage of this necessary commodity in New Zealand for the next three ur four months.

At a meeting of the Council of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce it was resolved to request the business people to observe December 25, 26 and 27 as Christmas holidays, and January I, 2 and 3 as New Year holidays, so as to give the employees a good holiday. Mr J. A, .Young has received the following reply from the District Traffic Manager of Railways at Ohakune to.a petition recently presented by the settlers of Rukuhia:—"l have to inform you that I am placing the question of connecting the Rukuhia station with the telephone service before the Head Office, and am recommending that the station be connected with the Ohaupo exchange."

It is stated that last week two shipments of fruit arrived at Auckland from the Islands- The Talune brought 10,000 eases of bananas and over liiOO cases of pineapples from Fiji. From the Eastern Pacific, the Flora brought 3600 cases of oranges and 1500 jcases of bananas, besides <2590 cases of tomatoes and 170, cases of pineapples. And yet fruit remains-.'at a price which makes it a' luxury which the average person can hardly afford. Why? The result of the ballot recently taken by the Huntly ; Miners' Union, to fix the rate of pay of men .doing Union work,, is certainly interesting, and at the same time rather suggestive. The three issues were: (1) That the man doing Union work should be paid £1 per day j (2) that he should be paid the average of his usual earnings; (3) that he should be paid lis 2d, plus 30 per cent, 14s Cd. More votes were cast lor the third issue than for the other two proposals together.

A cricket match was played at Bruntwood between the Cambridge Scouts (Leslie Woods, captain) and a team captained- by Cecil Thompson, including players from Hautapu, Fencourt, and Bruntwood, and resulted in a win for the Cambridge Scouts, the scores being: Cambridge 55, Hautapu, etc., 38. Ihe rival teams were entertained at luncheon by Sir and Mrs Thompson. Cricket has taken quite a hold in the Cambridge district this year. On Saturday next a match is to be played on the Cambridge grounds by teams representing Leamington an'-i Cam bridge. Judgment for claimants by default was given in the following cases before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., at Hamilton to-day: \V. Hobbs v. E. McCloughen £3 15s; Farmers' Auctioneering Co., v. P. Hamilton, £6 19s 7d; G. E. Clark and Sons v. F. L. B. Fee, £9 10s 7d; Farmers' Auctioneering Co. v. D'Arcy Jones, £65 ss. Orders oh judgment summonses were made in the following cases :—Farmers' Auctioneering Co- v. It. E. Morrison, £26 8s 4d, payment forthwith on 27 days imprisonment; T. B. Dillicar v. C. M. Thaw, £l4 15s, payment forthwith or 15 days.

One of the most fashionable and at the same time useful garments f or p re _ sent wear, is the Silk Sports Coat. We have now a very nice range of colours and prices in these goods. The shades are black', cream, putty, champagne, saxe, navy, and black and white. Prices run from 45s to 120 s. We are also showing the now jumper style, these are very smart, though now in such universal demand as the more useful coat.—Hall's Drapery Stores.* Great numbers attribute their escape from Influenza during the last Epidemic to the frequent and thorough use of "NAZOL."— (2) Sharland's Formalin Tablets (Mhit or Cinnamon Flavour) are recognise! by all Medical Authorities as a useful protection to the throat against infection hy obnoxious germs.—Sold everywhere, 1/G bottle.*

One of tho best ways of usinu; "NAZOL" is to saturate half a piec<> of loaf sugar with five or six drops of "NAZOL,'' and place between the cheek and the gums and allow to dissolve very slowly. Do not break or munch tho sugar. This will allow the "NAZOL" to volatilise and penetrate every part of the mouth, throat and nose. Th-3 sugar can be retained in the moivth for quite half ai> hour niien used in. *hh way.—(6).

A single diamond at a London auction realised £7300, which is under•stood to be a record.

Advice has been received that a number of German aeroplanes, nava: trophies, and sundries are being sent out to New Zealand as war trophies. Our Mamaku correspondent writes: Good weather has prevailed over the week-end and local sports have had some exceptional trout catches from the near-by streams- One man is reported as having secured 30 fish in three hours.

No fresh cases of inlluenza in Hamilton were reported yesterday, and previous sufferers arc all convalescing, the mildness of the attack being a noticeable feature. A case has been reported to the Health Officer of one family living outside the town, where the father, mother and two children are suffering from inlluenza of the mild type.

A boy eleven years old named Roy Gallagher, of Mamaku, was thrown from his horse and bad his arm badly broken. The accident occurred about a mile from the lad's home, and although in pain with the broken bone protruding from the flesh, the plucky voungster went home unaided and calmly reported his injury. The case was such that nothing could be done locallj before he was conveyed to the Rotorua hospital.

The Hamilton Fire Brigade got a call at about 10 o'clock last night to the servants' quarters in a detached building at the rear of the Commercial Hotel. One of the employees was reading in her bed by candle-light, and through some reason the bedclothes became ignited. Assistance was earlv on the spot, and the bedding was pulled out into the yard., where it was extinguished before the brigade arrived. r The oth Hamilton Company of. Cadets, who won the competition at Te Awamutu on Labour Day, and who have been selected to go to Auckland to represent the No. 4 Group m the contest for the Gunson Cup on the 12th inst., will leave ior Auckland on Saturday next, under Sergeant-Major Purdom. On Thursday evening they will give a final display in the Horse Bazaar, and parents and others interested are invited to lie present.