LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14766, 4 October 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

When one gets to love work bis life is a .happy one.—Ruskin. Representatives of the Auckland Education Board were concerned in a departmental inquiry at the Tuhikaramea school yesterday. A conference and examination of all Catholic priests of the Waikato will be conducted by the Very Rev. Dr. James Liston, Co-adjulor Catholic Bishop of Auckland, in Hamilton, to-morrow. About forty priests will attend. It is related that the Mayor of a Taranaki borough interrupted a somewhat lengthy discussion at a country meeting the other evening with the following delightful "bull": Well, a stop has got to be started somewhere I" The annual meeting of the Hamilton Cricket Club will be held in Mr R. H. Woods' office, Everybody's Buildings, on Thursday evening. All members and intending members are heartily invited to be present. The lad, Gordon Harp, who sustained a badly fractured skull as the result of a collision with a tram car on Dominion Road, Auckland, is still in the Auckland Hospital in a critical condition. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W. A. Harp, formerly of Prankton. The annual session of the Anglican Synod of Auckland Diocese will open on Friday, October l<i. Special services will be held at St. Mary's Cathedral, Parncll, on the previous day. This will be the second session of the 23rd Synod of Auckland Diocese. An unfortunate gentleman whose financial affairs had led to a Judge and jury ordering him a year's rest at the public expense, was being escorted from the dock when the policeman in charge tugged at his elbow: "Excuse me," he whispered, "you don't want to let your house, do you, sir?" Mr A. E. Renouf, of Napier, who was a passenger toy the Niagara, says the Prime Minister was very popular with the passengers. He participated largely in the deck games, and in tennis, for instance, was among the best players on board. In fact, said Mr Renouf, his speed and cleverness in tennis, in view of his age and weight, were remarkable-

The Girls' Auxiliary of the P.WJVf.U. and the local hive of Busy Bees, held a sale of work in aid of missions in St. Andrew's Mall, Hamilton, on Saturday last;. The members of the two societies had been working most assiduously for some time past, and the outcome of their labour~was a comprehensive display of wares for which there was a good demand, about £lB being netted by the afternoon's trading.

The accommodation for the legal profession at the Hamilton Courthouse is very inadequate for even those solicitors who attend at an ordinary weekly sitting. " The two tables set aside for their use are capable of seating, comfortably, six members of the profession, but there are seldom less than a dozen present, and to-day the number totalled 16, who were spread around the well of the Court in a semi-circle, some even finding seats on the Jury benches.

Sydney Onion, of Cambridge, had two toes amputated yesterday as the result of having his foot crushed in a motor cycle accident just before midday. It appears Onion was riding a motor cycle, with Albert Cowling, and when going along French Pass Road the cycle skidded, causing the riders to be thrown. Cowling escaped unhurt, but Onion got his foot caught and crushed by the chain and chainwheel. The injured lad was taken to his home, where medical aid was obtained for him.

A disastrous fire occurred at Morrinsvillc on Sunday night, when the milking shed and other buildings on Mr Duncan Brown's farm were completely destroyed. Mr Brown visited his shed about eight o'clock, carrying with him a covered in lantern, which h c hung on the wall while he proceeded to fill the engine tank with benzine. Losing his hold, the tin slipped and benzine splashed about, causing it to be ignited by the lamp. Mr Brown lost much of his plant, including severe damage to his milking machine. The buildings and plant were insured.' Judgment by default with costs was given for claimants in the following cases, before Mr 11. A. Young, S.M., at Hamilton, to-day:—Farmers' Auctioneering Co. v. Roy Hyde, £24 10s 2d; \V. C. Pickett v. F. Molesworth, £2 12s Gd; Shaw's Garage, Ltd., v. T. E. Keneally, £.l 6s 2d; same v. R. McGregor, £4 IDs fid; D. McL. Wallace, Ltd. v. King Hyde, i'o 9s; N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co. v. J. Andrews, £3O 9s Gd; Waikato Central Salcyards Co., Ltd., v. F. Cooper, £2O; Adams Butchering Co. v. Vincent Bros., £l7 is Kid; Central Salcyards Co. v. P. Graham. £9; Dalgety and Co. v. F. S. Reynolds, £"G -is 3d; Vickcry, Ltd. v. James Curry, £l3 10s. Orders on judgment summonses were made in tlie following cases:—J. Pomcroy v. li. A. Chaffey, £3 Bs, forthwith or 4 days; J. Pomcroy and Co. v. D. Ormshy, £l4 19s 9d, forthwith or iG days; W. A. Coulter v. G. Twidlc, £2 4s Gd, forthwith or 1 days' imprisonment.

The price of butter has been reduced lo 2s wholesale and 2s 3d retail, at Dunedin —a drop of 2d. Why not make your own rrocks and dresses this summer. Willi the aid of pictorial review paper patterns if. is easy. The details of the cutting is so fully explained and a construction guide furnished with every pattern that even a child can lay out successfully a pictorial review pattern. Hooker and Kingston are the sole agents for these patterns and carry over 10,000 of the latest and newest fashions in stock. Ask for our monthly fashion book, it is free. Patterns range from Is to Is 6d each; none higher.*

Scarlatina and diphtheria are prevalent throughout the Pahiatua district.

During August the value of building permits issued in Napier was £20,904, an unusually large amount, states the Telegraph. .

Severai visiting bandsmen were in Hamilton to-day, on their way to the Band Contest at Thames, which will commence to-morrow.

The "Telesraph" says that during the war years a large number of marriages were celebrated at Napier, but of late there has been a marked decrease. The decline is considered lo be partly due to the trade slump. A report is current in Dunedin that the Niagara will be taken over by the P. and 0. Company after her OctoberNovember voyage from Vancouver, and transferred to the Atlantic trade. A new master and crew are coming out to take her home.

Members and intending members of the Hamilton Rowing Club are re-; minded of the annual meeting to bo' held in the bath-house to-night, at 7.30. As the business, the election of officers, etc., is of great importance, a large attendance is expected. The sale of work will be held in St. Peters Hall on Thursday next, under the auspices of the St. Peter's Women's Guild, promises to be very successful. Many well-laden stalls will be sent out, and competitions ara being arranged by the members of tha G.F.S. A musical programme will bq presented at night. Marcel Mauvais sent to La Naturd (Pan's) an ordinary postcard on which he had written 23,154 words, with $ total of 125,000 letters. It is quita legible even to the naked eye. Tha average book has about 300 words to the page, so this postcard represents, about 77 pages.

An American company is building at La Lima, Honduras, the most up-to-date sugar mill in Central America. It will be run by electricity, its power being supplied by a 1000-kilowatt turbo generator set, with an auxiliary set of 200 kilowatts for lighting and general purposes. The most remarkable point about this mill is that all of the fuel required for making the electricity will be furnished by the waste of the sugar, plant—cane fodder and scraps.

Tickets for a dancing class will ini future be handed to worshippers leaving St. Catherine's Church, at Nottingham, on Sunday mornings (states a London cable message to tile Australian papers). The names of the acceptors will be registered, and their attendance at the Church will qualify them to attend the classes. The vicar, the Rev. J. M. Lester, says: "We ara not bribing people to go to Church. The object of the tickets is to provide dancing in wholesome surroundings, for which we are applying a strict test."

Goliath, the huge bullock which was imported from New Zealand, and which, has attracted so much interest in tha agricultural world, is to be exhibited in a marquee at the Royal Show (says the Melbourne Argus). At the Sydney Royal show over 60,000 people paid to see this immense beast, which boasts of the following gigantic proportions: Height 19 hands, girth 14ft, width, across back -i ft, weight 37001 b. Goliath, and another huge bullock, Sampson, areto be taken on a tour through Soutli Africa, America, and finally through England, where Goliath is to be handed over to the Imperial Government for; exhibition purposes at the London Zoo- t logical Gardens.

An unassuming young Digger work-* ing on the road-grader on the Burran-gong-Shire roads has turned out to ba Lieut. Maxwell, V.G., M.C and Bar, ami D.C.M. (says the Sydney Sun). It was stated at a meeting at the Shire Councilthat "Mr Maxwell" has been put on the road staff. Lieutenant Maxwell was not given his military title because he wished to be saved from tffa embarrassment of too much publicity, For two years after his return Lieut, Maxwell worked as a metropolitan pressman, but as his health continued bad he accepted an offer to go to Young for a spell in the open air. He is studying local government, and his pre-? sent job is giving him an insight intoj the practical side. It is the opinion of students of the! geology of New Zealand that part of Palmerston North and Te Matai was the site of a great lake hundreds of years ago. Colour is lent to this story by the discovery of a sclid totara log, 70ft below the surface of the earth, on Mr T. W. Stace's farm at Te Matai. While sinking an artesian well on tha property, Messrs Brown and Rasmusscn met this obstruction and bored through, it, securing a splendid How of water through a three-inch bore of 95 gallons per minute, with a rise of 35 feet above the surface, at a depth of 207 feet. How the totara tree came to"be at the depth: can only be surmised, but if the location was once a lake, as is thought, tha problem can be more readily solved, aa it is possibly with the drying up of thd waters and the growth of vegetation over the hollow basin the latter was, in the course of time, filled to the height of 70ft,

I see that much comment has fieea excited in sartoria circles by the fact that the King appeared at Goodwood with his trousers creased down the sides (writes the London correspondent of the Dimcdiii Star). It is sug> gested that His Majesty desires to set a new fashion. As a matter of fact, I doubt very much whether he was conscious of the change introduced by his tailor. Like most men who have spent a good many years at sea, King George pays very little attention to matters of dress. If his tailor and his< valet would only leave him alone, ha would probably be as hopelessly shabby as was the late Lord Shrewsbury, though he is wholly different from his father in this respect, even a King has to listen to his mandates and his tailor. And Savile Row has sent forth the word that trousers arc to be creased down the which, when you come to think of it, is rather a nuisance.

The partiality of judges for light sentences on criminals continues to cause surprise (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne Argus). A young man of the North Coast was inclined to a "flash kind of life, and imitated the screen cowboy. Presumably, he had some difference with nn acquaintance. He went to the other's residence, carrying a gun. When ho came away the other man was dead. A jury said it was manslaughter, though appearances were not that way. Mr Justice Ferguson seemed not to fully agree, but after some remarks sentenced the man to two years' imprisonment. In ordinary circumstances lie will be out in IS months. If ha has the special luck that seems to be enjoyed by some, he may be out much earlier. It would seem that hu- ••' man life is but lightly valued. New South Wales may come to be regarded as one of the safest places for a "gunman." .Everybody is talKinp about the wonderful cleansing- properties of "Fairy Wonder" Washing Powder, and not without pood reason, Tor no other washing compound on the market gives surd astonishing and satisfactory results. All this, too, with economy of time, labour and fuel, in u?o there is" no nasty scum, 3Dd whilst making clothes snow white., it is positively guaranteed not to injure the nnest fabrics." All grocers stork it. <r>3) Carbonate of Lime.—Early delivery. —Tc Kuiti Lime Co., Ltd., .10.') N.Z. Insurance Buildings, Auckland.* For Children's uiclng cougn, Woods' Great Eeapermuu Cure*