LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14601, 28 February 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

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Readers please note that Mr Wesley Richards, former Labour leader, is lo give an address to-night on "Daniel's Image" ;1 t the Baptist Church at 7.30.

On Mrs L. Allan's farm at Putaruru the return from oi cows for three months' milking totalled £C,2,s. This is said |o be a record for the district.

Two Main Trunk expresses ran between Auckland and Wellington last night, and both were crowded. The first comprised only first-class carriages, and included the Ooverr.orGcneral's car.

The river excursions by the s.s. Manuwai yesterday were well attended, and proved very enjoyable. At 10 a.m. the Hamilton excursionists were taken to Cambridge, returning at 7 p.m. In the afternoon a trip was made from Cambridge to the Narrows, and at night there was an excursion from Hamilton up the river.

A bunch of exceptionally heavy oathead gathered from a 25-acre Sparrowbili crop grown by Mr Harry Todd, of Otikerama, was brought Into the Mataura Ensign office on Monday. An industrious farmer,- who brought the bunch into the Ensign office, had counted five, heads taken at random from the small sheaf, and found the number of "pickles." or grains, on these to lie J 123, which, ho says, is a record. Mr Todd paid the top price of 6s for his seed, but evidently secured a good sample and has made the best use of it.

The person who would rob an ambulance equipment box lias surely readied pretty nearly the lowest depth In morals

(states the Timaru Herald). St. John Ambulance has for years past had such boxes located in different parts of the borough in readiness for use In the event of accident; but lately it has been found that this equipment is being stolen, and on this a-count the association has deeided to cease keeping it except at the wharf and the bay, and if there, be any further thefts these two equipment stations will also be closei.

A Batley (England/ resident, who is a member of the U.A.0.D., has a record which would take some beating. Ho began work when lie was six years ol I, in a brickyard, and although lie built up a successful business returned to work after he reached 70. At 74 he was at farm work, and at 78 was ervisng with the Royal Engineers. When the war' came he enlisted, giving his age as 50, ir stead of 70. and went, to Franco. where he served through the war. lb' was a veteran volunteer, having enlisted in 1859. Fotherg'll, now 80 years, is living at Selby, where he is still engaped in business. During the hearing of a divorce petition in the Supreme Court at Wellington, counsel for the petitioner had occasion to call as a witness a little girl aged nine years. Mr Justice HosklnS said ii was unfortunate that such children should be called in a case of the kind to give evidence against father or mother. "1 can't refuse to listen to tier evidence." he added, "if she will know enough to tell tin?, truth." During the same case his Honor referred lo the witnessbox as "out of dale," and a "barbarous institution," when he permitted a female witness to sit in a chair.

A new ruling was given by Mr Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, in a tencm< . ■ase in which a landlord applied for : ■-session on Ihe grounds that the tenaiu (Tad fallen in arrears for rent, for the past six months. Plaintiff held that ihe Act allowed the Magistrate no option but to make an order, but the defendant staled that the rent had fallen into arrear on account of his continued illness, and that he had live children, while plaintiff had one. The Magistrate held lint, he had discretion in such a case, and refused to mnk' 1 an order while Ihe currenl rent was paid, as well as a sum off the arrears.

A Palmrrston North solicitor lias shown the Manawatu liaily Times official correspondence in which llic misuse of the academic, though frequently used terms ultimo ar.d proximo, In reference to the date of repayment of a large sum of money, had caused his client a loss of about £123. This, sai I he, in a public department is Inexcusable; but, unfortunately, in this Instance without recourse against the, Crown. V-'hy people do not u.)o the name of the month intended instead of such foreign derivations as instant, ultimo, and proximo he does not understand. The ten'■ultimo" (last month as in (his innunee is quite frequently confused with the word ultimate, which is really represented by "proximo' 'next monthh Before the saic ends you would be wise in securing a few pairs of stockings at Hooker and Kingston's. Tins store has always hern famous for its splendid hosiery values, and to he able to fulfil your requirements at these present day savings is an opportunity worth taking advantage of. A beauti. ful all-black cashmere hose, usually 7s lid, is now Ss lid; tine quality, usually 4s Gd for 2s lid; and a heavy grey knitted all-wool stocking wortn 5s 6d is 3s fid. These are a sample nt our good values in hosiery.-—Hooker and Kingston's, where the best stockings are for ladies and children.* The address of .). P. Goodall, the Hamilton painter and paperhanger, is Avonhurst, Frankton Junction*

A mail will close at Hamilton foy Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Straits Settlements, South Africa and Egypt, on Wednesday, March 2, at 2.40 p.m.

The annual show of Ihe Walkato A, and P. Association will open at Cambridge to-morrow. Good entries have been received and everything points to a most successful exhibition. "People's Day" will be observed on Wednesday. / "Without exageratlon this househunting business is pretty well worrying her to the grave," said counsel for a client at the hearing of a tenement ease in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington. At the Police Court, Carterton, a man with several aliases,' was fined £5 for illegally wearing military ribbons. According to the police, Coughlan had never left the country, yet Im wore three important ribbons.

The Hamilton Press advertises in this issue that, they will undertake to meet all comers in a fancy dress cricket match in aid of the Fire Brigade Belief Fund. Members of "sporting" clubs arc especially requested to imte.

The statutory half-holiday, as fixed by the local authorities concerned, is notified by the Minister of Labour in the Gazette, as follows:—To Awamutu borough, Saturday; Kawhia town dis-t-'rt. Saturday; and Raglan County, Wednesday. The Minister makes the notice under Hie provisions of the Act of 1008, under which the chango of holiday takes effect from March 1. The success of the motor sports on Saturday may be gauged from the fact that between five and six thousand people passed through the turnstiles. £i32 being taken at the gates. This is highly satisfactory, especially as the club will have a profit on the meeting of nearly £IOO. A good deal of the success of the meeting may be attributed to the hard-working secretary, Mr P. J. Williams, who h;is the thanks of the club for his efforts.

An unusual case came before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, to-day, when Richard William Brown, who' did not appear, was charged with causing to be delivered to the publisher of the Wsikato Times, for publication in the journal, an untrue notice of the death of a woman. The Magistrate pointed out that the offence was a serious one, and the public, should be made aware of the gravity of causing false particulars of such a nature to be inserted In a newspaper. Defendant was liable to a fliv of £2O or line month's imprisonment. 'Taking, however, the peculiar circumstances of the case Into consideration, a nominal penalty of £2a"d costs £1 Is would be imposed. When a racegoer, without a. ticket, attempts to gain"entrance to the Wingatui station on the Dunedin-Mosgiel railway, he gets an unpleasant surprise. "Mr W. R. Davidson told the New Zealand Society of Engineers about it, to their, intense amusement. Showing a view of the station, he pointed to the entrances, and said, "When someone at a race meeting comes along without a ticket, and presents himself at one of these gates, Ihe porter says to him, 'This way, sir:' and shows him in. You can imagine how lie feels when he walks in and immediately finds himself out again." (Loud laughter.) Mr Davidson explained how the real entrance to the station was just alongside the false. — Sun.

"If you want samples of bad grammar and faulty construction, look at the papers Issued by the Education Department," said a member of the School Inspectors' Conference in Wellington recently. "I have never seen one set yet that did not contain mistakes and errors in grammar." The Minister of Education interjected that surely this cculd not Dc " 1C case with the Education Department's papers. "Yes," replied the speaker, amid laughter; "lam one of the people who assist in making them." llerr Simons, in a final speech before leaving for London, stated that experts i\\(\ not yet reached an agreement as tJ the counter proposals, but had submitted a plan for paying Germany's opponents while keeping within the bounds of practicability. He added that the French newspapers declare l.iat there will not be any question at London of altering the Paris decisions. ' In that case," he said, "we shall go ir vain." He concluded by appealing to the nation not to budge, and he said: "You may be assured that we sha'l stand firm."

11, is seldom that a person loses about £25 and is not aware of his loss until he notices an advertisement In a newspaper stating that a sum of money has been found; but such was the experience of a Gore resident who lost £26 (says the Mautaura Ensign). On noticing an advertisement in the newspaper stating that a sum of money had been found, the person in question put his hand in his hip pocket, and was surprised to find that his wallet was missing. Naturally he lost no time In interviewing the person who inserted the advertisement, and was gratified to learn of a lady who found it shortly after it was lost- His money was returned and the finder duly rewarded.

Some months ago a paragraph in the Otautau Standard recorded the finding of the remains of a saddle in the unsurveyed hush between the Lillbum Valley and Lake Hauroto. The saddle was believed to have been the property of Mr Launcelot Andrews, who many years ago got "bushed" In the locality. Mr Andrews found Ills way out, bul his horse never relume 1. Recently Mr Carnegie Gardiner, of "The Rocks," Clifden, found the skeleton of a horse laid against the boundary fence a mile '■!• so from where the srddle was foun I. The horse evidently found its way ro the fence which is i Iso well in '• i hush, and got hung up <n it an I perished. Included in some new electricity bylaws which were adopted by the Christchurob City Council (snys ajj exchange w.is a provision for the establishing of an examining hoard to conduct examinations for Hie licensing or contractors and of fitters of installations of electric lighting, heating and motors for low-pressure supply. This hoard is to consist of the general manager of the city's electricity department, or, In [lis absence, the electrical engineer, the president, or, in his absence, the vice-president of the Electrical Contractors' Association, and the chief electrical inspector for the council of the Fire l.'nderwriters' Association of \,.\v Zealand. Cr F. R. Cooke and other Labour members tried, bul without success. In indue.' the council to add to this hoard n representative of the workers In this particular indusIry It may h Ided thai hitherto these oxajuinations have been conducted entirely by the city's electrical engineer. . "Trifles often change us." —Thomas Bracken. A cheerful disposition Is sometimes changed Into a peevish one bv a cough or cohi. chest ami bronchial troubles often follow. All rice quickly relieved by Baxter's l.iuis- Preserver. "Baxter's" offers the surest and sliorlesl way to regain health and protection rroni fiiitlier Illness. Thousands gratefully testify to Its exceptional merits, insist on Baxter's I.ung Preserver. Oet a bl «■ 2/0 bottle or this sterling tonic and remedy to-day. All chemists and stores. 2 r-reo from cores! rroganrtra removes the most stubborn corn In six dressing*. Equally effective with iinnl or soft corn?. Try It- If Progandra does not remove your corns as staled, money will be refunded. 1 if, cvervwlierp. or post paid from Box 1347. Wellington 108