LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16834, 28 June 1926, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It pays to advcriisc! On Saturday a " Royal Bride " competition was announced in our columns. By the first mail this morning about 200 replies were received. AL mid-day the total iiad reached almost 400, and solutions are still pouring in. Because of the situation now ruling with wheat the Hour mills in Riccarton of Fleming and Company, Limited, will cease gristing for the lime being from Monday but will continue to do business in the present stocks of Hour. One other Christchureli mill is contemplating similar action in the near future.

Mr W. Avcs, formerly musical director with ,1. C. Williamson, was amongst those present at the performance of "A Runaway Girl," on Saturday night, and afterwards was very complimentary regarding the production, which, he said, was much belter lliun many professional shows. As Mr Aves has had considerable experience as a producer in London, his words of praise were much appreciated.

Every woinr.ii in the Waikato will want one of those charming reversible Floor liugs when she sees the price Of litem at Hooker and Kingston's Golossai Mid-Winter Sale now in progress. Six hundred of Ihese Bugs arrived on Wednesday, and today more than half are sold, and no wonder. Lovely designs for bedrooms or any other rooms, and Ihe colourings, well, they're simply exquisite, beautiful rich lawn grounds, willi Oriental colourings. No wonder lliey are. selling rapidly, ils just a shame to see lliem being Hred out at the price. Size 21 x 20. Sale price, lis ltd; worth JGs Od. Size 2G x Oil. Sale price, 12s lid; worth 21s. Size ;;,"> x 10. -mlc price, 19s lid; worth 20s 6d. Don't delay, if you wan! one of thesj beautiful rugs, for they are selling lilie ripe cherries at Hooker and Kingston's Sale.* Splendid enthusiasm mroughout New Zealand for "NO-BUBBING LAUNDfIY HELP." A i/- packet does 7 washln.es perfectly. 12*)

A young married man was to—day remanded on a charge of assaulting a girl of six at Hamilton East on Friday.

The benefit organised for Mr J. W. Ryan, the well-known member of the Auckland Lyric Four, who has been ill for some time, has resulted in £SOO being obtained.

During the annual conference of the Railway Officers' Institute at Wellington, the president (Mr V. 11. J. Shanley) stated that from a railway point of view times had changed very considerably, and a I present it might, be said that they were in a period of transtion, and had yet to find out exactly where they wore. A Wanganui man went for a cycle ride and came homo minus his watch and wallet. Leaving his bicycle on a country road while he visited a farmer, he divested himself of his coat, and left it hanging on his machine. There was no one in sight. When lie returned a few minutes later his coat was lying in the. centre of the road and his valuables were missing. The thief was a fast worker, and the victim states he must have had wings.

The recent efforts to raise money on behalf of the Y.W.G.A. by means of surprise packets were condemned by Rev. A. M. Murray, of the United Evangelical Church, Auckland, in an address on " Art Unions and the Y.W.G.A." last evening. " The Y.W.G.A. is endorsing a method of raising money which has been condemned by our Prime Minister and by at least one of our magistrates," he said. " Surely it is the bounden duty of all churches and Christian institutions to uphold and strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister in an endeavour to check what he sees to be a grave moral danger." Many young children now attending the schools of Kc" Zealand have never seen a sovereign, a fact which was clearly demonstrated by a well-known Gisborne citizen recently. The gentleman asked six boys, all between the ages of 10 and 12, whether they would give him threepence in return for the sovereign. Only one of the boys was shrewd enough to be willing to take on the deal, and even lie had some doubts about it. Several of them perfectly certain that the sovereign was not worth threepence, were most amused at the offer.

The unusual spectacle of the secretary of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society appearing in the Police Court charged witli a breach of the Arms Act was witnessed when Charles W. Hervey pleaded guilty to charges of procuring possession of a firearm without being in possession of a permit and of being in possession of a firearm for a longer period than seven days without being the registered owner of it. It was explained that the Acclimatisation Society bought a gun at the request of the Forestry Department for the purpose of killing Gcer. The gun was not used, but lay in the secretary's office, as it was unsuitable for the purpose for which it was secured. Defendant was fined 10s on cacti charge.