LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15152, 27 January 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Anglican Church services at Whatawhata and Te Rapa, have been unavoidably cancelled. Samuel Ernest Kemp, Hamilton, farmer, and A. Cook, settler, Forest Lake Road, have ‘been adjudicated bankrupts. 1 The Northern Company’s steamed Rimu, which stranded on a bank in the Manukau Harbour, near Gape Horn, when inward-bound from Raglan and Kawhia on Thursday morning, was refloated yesterday afternoon after an unsuccessful attempt earlier in thq day.

The position of Coroner in Londoni carries with it a salary of £ISOO per; annum, and the holder of the position has to be a fully qualified doctor and solicitor. His powers are considers able, one of which authorises and empowers him to inflict a fine on should they arrive late. Of the three freezing works operating in Taranaki, at Patea, New Plymouth and Waitara, only the Waitara . works are running on full staff. The f

Patea works are not killing up to capacity, while Smart road (New Plymouth) is totally inactive. Tlia result is a constant traffio of stock northward.

On going out to yard his dairy herd yesterday, Mr Ahbiss, of Whatawhata, Road, Plankton, discovered the herd sire, a young pedigree Jersey bull of some promise, lying dead in a paddock beside the stockyard. Evidently during the heavy thunderstorm the previous evening lightning struck the animal* possibly attracted by the copper bull ring ip his nose, as apparently he wps killed instantaneously. In connection with the Education Board election, in which Messrs F. A, Snell (Claudelands) and C. W< Wycherley (Hamilton) have secured an equal number of votes, the Education Act prescribes that in such a contingency the returning officer, (tha secretary, Mr. E. G. Purdie) shall complete the election by lot in such manner as the board directs. The method will be decided at the next meeting of the Board. The teaching- profession is apparently becoming more popular with young people, and particularly with young men. This was evidenced at the meeling of the Taranaki Education Board on Monday (says (lie News), when in response to applications to 1111 positions for 13 pupil teachers and 20 tioners, the board received application® from 22 boys and 40 girls, the numbed

of boys applying being in marked coni trast to previous years. An incident, amusing to spectators but rather annoying to tile principals, occurred at the Whakatane wharf recently (says the Press). A dinghy from the War Lord came to Ilia wharf for a tank of drinking water. The hose was turned into the tank, and the men in charge went away whjje the receptacle was filling. However, when they returned tile tank had overflowed and the boat hud capsized.

The rain in Auckland on Thursday afternoon was torrential, and in a few minutes Queen Street became a raging lorrenf, the water being several inches deep. Some amusing scenes were witnessed. One pedestrian in a burry to get along removed Ids bools and socks and forded the “stream.” Largo crowds congregated under Hie simp verandahs, and cheered those courageous people who splashed through, in some cases over I lie boot tops. The Big Summer Sale at Hooker and Kingsl oil's is drawing crowds of people daily, participating in Ihe wonderfiil bargains tliat are being offered.I** 1 ** lor instance, Strong While Calico,V linen Finish, 8/11 dozen yards; fullsize White Honeycomb Quilt, 11/0; Turkish Boiler Towelling, 7Jd vard; beautiful Net Blouses, 9/11, usually 49/ti; large Batli Towels, 3/6 pair. It will pa) jon to watch Hooker and Kingston’s prices every day while the Great Sale is in progress.-’

A burglary took place at the premises of Mr J. Postles, Darby Street, (Auckland, the other night. Mr Postles’ suspicions were not aroused till Thursday, when an examination showed that material to the value of £2O or £3O had disappeared, but the full extent of the loss cannot be ascertained until stock is taken. A jovial elderly man, Henry Donald Coutts, who, at Te Awamutu, had pleaded guilty to four other charges of a fpmilar nature, admitted at the Magistrate's Court, this morning, having obtained £3 10s and £0 respectively from John Newman Lyons, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Raglan. Defendant was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Auckland. A conference of managers of inde-

pendent picture theatres in the chief centre!:) of New Zealand was held at :■ Wellington this week. Mr A. M. Beebe, manager of the Greater Crystal Palace Theatre, Christchurch, says there are plenty of good films available, and the Independent theatres in the large centres will have no difficulty in securing satisfactory supplies. The sneak thief is still abroad. On the arrival of the Main Trunk express at Frankton on Thursday morning, two passengers got out to haye a cup of tea at the refreshment rooms, qne leaving a portmanteaux on his seat, and'the other an overcoat, so that the seats would not be taken by passengers getting in. On-their return to the ear T riage the passengers were surprised tq tlnd that the portmanteaux and overcoat had disappeared. Something approaching a cloudburst fell over Hamilton yesterday afternoon, and in a short time great, pools of water had formed in any low-lying portions of the streets. The water channels were filled to th,e utmost capacity, but considering tue

amount of rain, falling the water was carried away very' expeditiously. During the half hour that rain fell heaviest a fall, of .81 inches was registered, this being easily th e highest recorded‘in Hamilton for a considerable time.' ' ■' A motor oycle reliability test from Auckland to Rotorua is beifig held over the week-end. Nine machines left Auckland this morning, and eight of them made good time to Hamilton. The other, rjdden by a man named Scott, met with a mishap while crossing the Rangiriri hills, the machine being considerably damaged, and the rider injured. Good time was made 1 to Hamilton, the initial stopping place qn the journey. The first of the riders / was timed out from here at 11.30, and the las t at 11.50. The return journey will be made Oh Monday. The rain which has fallen so' constantly throughout the Auckland province for some weeks, appears to have . bjee’n general', as reports from various parts of the country indicate. A Hamilton resident who returned to-day V from a visit to the South Island informed. a Times representative ‘ that Canterbury, Otago and Southland provinces had also been subjected to wide measure of rain during January. Everywhere the country was looking Fresh f|nd green, and the stock were {$ iplendld. condition. There is little or no abatement) in the number of people who are travelling these times. Last night two expresses; passed' through Franktqn from Auckland, and both were crowded, it being almost impossible to secure seats, unless provision had been made ahead. The express from the south, When it reached Frankton this morning, comprised nearly twenty coaches, and all along the line the passenger traffic was extremely brisk. Now that the clpse of the holiday ■ season is being approached, a diminution in the railway returns) can he looked for in thjs con- “ All I can Say is, then, it is indicative of a very low standard of niqrals on the part of the residents of this district,” said Mr A- M. Mowlem, S.M., in the Magistrate’s' Court' at New Plymouth (reports the Herald), when counsel, in some Mokau liquor cases suggested that in the proclaimed area it was not looked upon as a tfTeft when residents helped themselves to whisky which came irjto the district, even though they had no claim to any part of it. They had, said counsel, a sort of mutual understanding qyer the • -v matter.

The Southland Acclimatisation Soolety received a telegram yesterday from itu ranger, Mr C. J. Evans, stating that -he had secured photographs of jnoose, of a #ird believed to be the ndtornis, a genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. It was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, and subsequently a few specimens were found in the' South Island. It was supposed to be quite extinct. It is not unlike a kiwi in configuration. “I am doing the only thing that is left for me. I have never known what

it ( is to be happy. lam tired of the life I have always had. I hope that , you will manage all right, and the rest of your life will be happy. My cross has been too heavy to bear, and I am going to my well-earned rest. Good-* bye. Do not fret, be good to the children. Comfort them in their sorrow, for I am going to my long'rest.” Such 1b the text cf a note written by Mrs R. Matson, of Heads Road, Wanganui, who is reported missing from her home. Mrs Matson suffered from ill-health, and was about to undergo an operation. On Wednesday night she went to bed as usual, but next morning she was missing, and the husband found the pitiful note that indi- . cated the worst. Search was immediately made, with police assistance. All that was found was the print of bare feet in the mud near the Imlay Wharf. Further search has so far been without result.