Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 23, 31 December 1912, Page 2

Local and General

| Our next issue will b t published on Jany. 10th. TJie mines and bit* in?-- p] i will he closed on Wednesday . ! and Thursday Tuesday beinp i observed as a late night witl ; ; the latter. j i Owing to the spoil of tlr\ ; wvather tho Huntly Tenni- _ j Club’s courts are not in the besi j order, a dusty, surface rendering play not quit? as enjoyable ai when tho - surface is dry ant j | hard. . ! Tiie household supplies o > ! water are beginning to run short ,I so tliyt several residents havv | bean obliged to draw upon the j fiver. In the trying weather o: I the past week, th? transport wa> I I easy or comfortable job. Quite an* innovation was th? r carol singing on Christina* evt , by the waits, whose vocal item , were greatly enjoyed by > t residents of Hakanoa straetT t ' j which part of the town they i ! appear t? have confined theii , j efforts. , | Personal. 1 I At tho last sitting of ths S.M , | Court hold on Doer. 20th., Mr F O’B. Lougbnan presiding, several motorists were fined 5s and 7s | costs for riding on the footpath 1 in Huntly South. A local ] motorist escaped the fine but ! was mulcted in costs. • i Chrtitmas passed vary quietly, i a larije exodus of ras'idsnts on ; holiday bant having laft the town for Auckland, liotorua, Te ; Aroha an i othar holiday resorts. O i Wednesday an 1 Til i, s - ! day the sa >ps ware closod, waile i the mines did not open Jrar ! the latter half of the week. On Christmas Day Mr Inmate Mahuta, the only mem - brr of the " royal ” family left in the Kainga (the otheU inrmg with the King ’ at Parewantii hospitably entertained a largo number of natives, the day being celebrated in a most I auspicious manner. On the 2Kt inst., the New Zealand Dairy Ass >c’jti , n Limited distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £65575 14s I id- This payment covered but-terfat supplied during tlie , month of November. The corresponding payment last year was £49844 2s 4d. Thus, the increase for the month as ■ impared wlfli last j £15731 12s. Who said New Zealand railway officials were not obliging? .! A number of Huntly residents paid a visit to Hamilton on Boxi n>g Day, and to their dismay found that there ‘was no train returning at about 5 p.m. as usual. However, after explaining the ; the position ti the stationmister at Frankton Junction, that official gat into comm inic.ation with Auckhml, and w.»successful ia obtaining permission to take the H intlyites home by special train; much to their I delight. The nickel-steel storage hatterv

o 1 air E lis >a has I, ■ -a at - c >mplet ■ i al laatrlt scribed a- a perfect invention, and the general belief is that it i- destine! to revolutionise certain phases of transportation. The battery, in the production of which tho famous inventor spent not less than £603,000, is now being operated successfully on special' trains running between Now York, and Long Beach. In tho trials, as far j; they have gone, everything *lai- w irkc 1 most smoothly. A most, interesting article in tic British Medical Journal deals with the relation of music to medicine. Experiment has hown that when a live! v. o- played on a harp a man - ed muscles almost instantly regained their full vigour. The mandolin had the same effect. ' 1 i the ot her band, i ’ vi iliucello was used tho man's arm bee ime almost powerless, aid his vitality decreased. In nervous and ‘impressionable subjects tlie Funeral March . of Chopin played- in the min >r Ley can led diminution of the pulse and irregularity' of respiration. - rho same ice jp ■he major key u lickly rest >rod full* the o aim regularity to the respiration. At the I i? sitting* of the S.M’ Court (Doer. 20th). Mr NewtonSolicitor, sjwke of the general regret experienced by members il the legal profession on learning that to-da’s was tilt; last sitting over which Mr F. >’B. Loughman, S.M. would j preside. Mr -N. \vfon in tendering tho best wishes of all mtjeerne I, spoke feelingly of die pbv -ant and liannonious •elatious t+in-l had subsisted jetween bench -and bar’, and | longratulatod We-tp t, whither Mr Lough nan goes, on -the ap- i ■ c as S.M. oi Mtirtesy was only equalled by ho care and discrimination thata m l characterised bis delibera-T ion-. Mr Loughriin who esponded in the most felicitous n inner, thanked the members *1 the bar tor tlieir assistance, md paid a high compliment to ho police whose aid and a--i ance had done so much for he efficient administration of ustice in the district.