LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18349, 8 June 1931, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In a boxing match at the Melbourne Stadium on Saturday, Ambrose Palmer beat Herman Bundren on points. The scores in the billiards match at Sydney between Lindrum and Newman are:—Newman (receives 5500), 10,730; Lindrum, 9100. A message from Munich says he famous Crystal Palace has been gutted by lire. Only 30 out of hundreds of famous paintings at the annual exhibition were saved. The damage is estimated at several million marks. After qulesence for three years, a geyser near the mouth of the Pouranga Stream Rotorua played briskly on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. No activity has been noted since. A magnificent silver loving-cup, fully 12 inches in height, was presented to the Girl Guides of New Zealand yesterday afternoon by Her Excellency the Lady Bledisloe. The cup is to he a trophy for competition among companies of rangers or senior Guides throughout the Dominion in all-round Guidework.

Repairs to the coastal steamer, John, which put back into Port Waikato on Tuesday with engine trouble, were completed in time to enable the vessel to leave Port Waikato again for Wellington at mid-day on Saturday. As a young woman who *ves in Titoke ' Road, (Mount Wellington, Auckland was walking along the road about G p.m. yesterday, she was attacked by a man who she afterwards stated, attempting to rob her of her handbag. The man was able to make his escape when a motor-car approached the spot. The Dunedin Operatic Society’s performance of “ A Country Girl ” was broadcast on Saturday night, and was heard perfectly in Hamilton. It was tho last night of the production, and according to the speeches at the close of the season was the most successful the society has had. "That tho application of the Wellington Musioians’ Union for permission to show motion pictures on Sunday evenings for .the purpose of assisting unemployed musicians be not approved,” was a recommendation made to the Wellington City Council by the by-laws committee. The recommendation was adopted. "Standardisation is not all the trouble with our cheese," remarked a South Taranaki farmer to a News reporter recently. "There are other causes operating against the making of a good cheese. One of them is the quality of the water used on some farms.” He Instanced a case of a neighbour who could not understand why his milk got such a poor test. He tried out everything, and then thought of the water, with the result that about a mile up from his place he found a farmer’s milk shed and pig yard draining into the stream from which his stock drank and the water was taken for flushing the milking plant. This contamination ended, his milk again commanded a high test. Minor amendments to the Auckland Harbour Bridge Bill aro engaging the attention of the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, Minister of Health, who was in charge of the hill last season. The Minister stated yesterday that he hoped to call a meeting, to be held within the next few days, of Auckland members of Parliament and the bridge company, when matters concerning the bridge would be discussed. The legislation would be reintroduced at the earliest possible moment next season, said Mr Stallworthy, with a view to its early passage, and so that operations in connection with the building of the Bridge could ho started without delay. '

A llamillon resident who was present ,al the Levitzki recital at Auckland on Saturday night was impressed .<y the liberal manner in which the great pianist responded lo I ho demand for encore numbers. The Hamiltonian says: "It was delightful lo see such freedom front pose. Usually an artist wastes it tremendous amount of (into in bowing acknowledgments—fully determined to give extra items after he has fed his vanity in taking ‘calls’! Not so Levitski. 110 takes one how, then if the audlenco is siill applauding lie returns to Hie piano and plays again. On Saturday night he gave no fewer than nine extra items.”

The excursion train from Auckland to Hamilton was held up for- 20 minutes at Tua Ran last evening owing to a hitch in the signalling system.

The door takings at the Dunedin Winter Show on Thursday amounted to £177, compared with £199 for the corresponding day last year. The takings on Friday, the last day, were £124, compared wtih £l9O for the corresponding day last year.

At St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Te Aroha, yesterday, a largely-at-tended civic service was held. The Municipal and Pipe Band were i’J attendant, as well as members o’ {he fire brigade, Boy Scouts and Municipal bodies. The Rev. H. B. Hughes was the preacher. Special hymns were sung and an address was given to the children.

Auckland manufacturers announce a reduction of 2s 6d a ton in the price of phosphatic manures. Manufacturers’ special brands have been reduced by 2s a ton. The reductions are made retrospective to June 1. In a circular to users, the manufacturers explain that the new quotations are subject to costs of rock phosphate not advancing. Superphosphate, which was selling at £4 17s 6d, ex the Auckland works, will now cost £4 15s a ton.

A Hamiltonian who ,spent the weekend in Auckland speaks of having heard Hamilton referred to in the northern city as the best lighted town in New Zealand. He says: “Leaving Auckland on Sunday evening, with Queen Street badly lighted and gloomy, the contrast on arriving at Hamilton, with Victoria Street brilliantly lighted, was striking. The community lighting scheme is certainly a huge success.”

A 'total of 439,417 bales of wool was sold at New Zealand sales during the 11 months ended May 31, 1931, compared with 416,253 bales sold during the corresponding period of the previous season. Offerings over the period at 488,731 hales however, were 7G99 bales lower. A total of 55,090 hales was offered in Auckland during the 11 months, and 44,446 hales sold, compared with 55,229 and 44,029 respectively. Wool exports for the 11 months were 626,761 bales, compared with 536,106 bales for the corresponding period of 1929-30.

It was the unanimous opinion at a public meeting in the Wanganui City Council Chambers on Thursday that the Wanganui Agricultural Show should not he discontinued, and it was resolved that a committee of two members from, each of the following, Agricultural Association, Farmers’ Union, City Council, Chamber of Commerce, Jockey Club, Retailers, Wanganui County Council, Waltotara County Council, Employers’ Association, Kennel Club, Winter Show Committee, and Development League, be formed to find ways and means of making the show a success.