LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by 11. A. Coates, butcher of Cambridge. The Wellington Harbour Board has decided to contribute £SOOO to the National Art Gallery and Museum fund. The donation is subject to validation. The Railway Department draws attention to the issue of holiday excursion tickets, etc., in connection with the King's Birthday. Having eaten a golf ball, a valuable cow at Kai Iwi, near Wanganui, died of poison. The ball contained white lead in the core. A claim to the discovery of a method of laying a bitumen road surface cold, which will enable such work to be done all the year round, is advanced by Mr F. W. Saxton, of Christchurch. The Public Works Department lias offered a stretch of road upon which Mr Saxton may make a trial of his new process, and he has accepted the offer. .lust opened this morning for our great “Show Week” display a wonderful range of new tweed costumes. Made up in all the latest imported and colonial tweeds and the styles well—you’ll be pleased with them,, each one a snooky little garment, more or less plain, but just sufficient cut to make them really smart. Not expensive either, they commence at 60s 6d up to £5 15s and any figure can be fitted from the small maid to the extra large woman. Hooker and Kingston Ltd., where the biggest show of costumes is.*

Tim lioHjrflal lovy lias rlrawn a protest fnim I hr, Ilmlonm County Council, which linn nqmlved In send u remit to Him llnrnl Coiiiillch' Association on Die mntlor, Sklrllrtg were responsible fur Ibe Icmporsry suspension of Hie eoininlMee mealing at the Waikato Tnitllng Club lasi, evening. “Ay, moo, It's granrl," said a Scottish rnem|,er as Hie Calednnliin Pipe Hand drew nearer. \y'liereupon Hie inenibers slopped, looked, and listened for a few niiiinl.es. The appointment of the following asHuolate memlie.rs of i.he Children's Cmirl under the Cliiid Welfare Act is ainioiioeed in the (ia/.etl.e: Itlanetie Kleanor <;,iro',chan, Auckland; .lames di'lihe.rlson Knlrleiaii, Auckland; Percy (ihol.loile 11 11 K1 1 em , Tl iilJl.fl 1. The seeiadary of Ihe Post and Telegraph department advises that malls which left Wellington on the 24111. ul limn per M.M.S. " Tnliil.l," via San Francisco, arrived In Condon on 22nd. instant.

Miss Maude Hoyden, speaking at Auckland nil “Peace, and the Hellish empire," said: “It is now as impossible to think of the British Umpire being held together b.v force as it is In linagiite two cities In England sending mil armies to liglil against each other. We have produced something allogel.lier new in l.lie world, and it would he a tragic failure if we do not go further in embodying this ideal that was given to us. Is it not possible that Croat Britain •s-haJl lead the world In giving 11 p the practice of war even as it led in the abandonment of duelling? It would he to our eternal honour if we could lead the world away from war altogether. J am a patriot, and I feel jealous that my country should have this honour.” She added that war between nations to-day was suicide. It did not make for a better race, but wiped out the men best titled ’to survive. War was no longer a thing that the human race could tolerate.

A mad cow sought to take charge of the whole of Ararnoho on \ recent afternoon (states the Wanganui Herald). The animal broke away from a mob near Dublin street bridge, and when the business centre of Ararnoho was reached the cow thought that Hi ere was far too much traffic on'the road at one time, and some regulating was necessary. She charged all and sundry on her way to Roberts avenue, and there were some very narrow escapes. One railway employee, who was cycling, got Upped into the gutter, but reports only a few scratches. A telegraph boy was taking no risks with an infuriated cow, •and be took a llying leap clean over the river bank. Another Ararnoho resident who has had Jong experience of cattle, thought he would drive the cow into a vacant section, but tic soon learned that if there was any driving to he done the cow had made up tier mind to lie the driver, and lie was a very pleased man to find a telegraph pole in a handy position. Two drovers appeared on the scene on horseback, and the cow charged the nearest rider, just missing one of his legs with her horns by a fraction of an inch. In the meantime, Constable Willcts had been summoned, and he came on the-scene armed with a rifle and his first, shot at some 60 yards put an end to the afternoon s excitement at Ararnoho.