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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 27 November 1914, Page 2

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land are nearing completion. The meeting of the school committee, which should have been held on Wednesday night, lapsed for lack of a quorum. A general meeting of Huntly Liberals is convened by Mr J. P. Bailey, for Nov. 30th, See advertisement in another column. There is every likelihood that the repairs so urgently required at the school will be effected during the Christmas holidays. The attention of candidates, electors, and others interested is directed to the electoral advertisements appearing in this issue. On and after December Ist, mail matter for the Railway Travelling Post Office south, will close at 1125 a.m., and, north, at 1.55 p.m. Two interesting cases will he heard by Mr E. Rawson, S.M., j to-day when a special sitting of i the Magistrate’s Court will be held. The Registrar of Electors for Raglan has completed the compilation of the electoral roll which contains a good many more names than the roll of 1911. The cases of the Taupiri Coal Miners’ Union v. Stewart Dixon, and the Crown v. James Fletcher have been adjourned until Wednesday and Thursday respectively of next week. The embargo placed on the reference by newspapers to the restoration of the Pacific cable is now removed. The Pacific route is now working through, and accepting ordinary deferred and week end cable messages under the restriction now in j force for such messages. j Receipt of Nos. 3 and 4of j. Life’s War Guide are hereby acknowledged. They are excellent productions ; well written, i well illustrated, and contain | that information so eagerly ..welcomed hv readers who are not j thoroughly ciu fait 'with :rili- | tary or naval technical terms. The candidates for political honours are steadily working j through the electorate, and, as far as can he gathered, the three are meeting with cordial recepi tions at each centre. The abI sence of personalities and bitterness is as marked as it is pleas- ! ing. Mr. Semple, during the course iof his speech in Oamaru, said j that Mr. T. M. Wilford, solicitor, j of Wellington, had been instruct!ed to issue a writ against the | Huntly, mine owners, in whose | mine the recent disaster occurred, : claiming £ISOO compensation for j each man whose life hi d been j lost through the disaster. ! The public of Huntlv can rely j upon getting a treat on Wednesday December 9th, at the Miners’ j Hall. A splendid programme | lias been selected, tickets are ! selling freely and a bumper ! house is anticipated. The object, needless to say, is deserving of the whole hearted suppart of the community, and it rests with the public of Huntly to stand by their traditions. ‘'Punch’s” tribute ,to the work of the late Earl Roberts is as follows: BOBS’ WAY. Me knew, none better, how’ fcwould be, And spoke bis warning far and wide He worked ti save us ceaselessly, Setting his well-e’arnt ease aside. We smiled and shrugged and went our j Blind to the swift-approaching blow : His every word proves true to-day, But no man beard. *‘ I told you sj ! ” The wool sales in Auckland wore exp v-fcod t > open yesterday with a total 1 2,220 hales as compared with 6,696 offering at the corresponding sale last season. As every hale is worth, on the average, £l4 the total value approaches £175.000. Had buyers from enemies’ and neutral countries been allowed to bid, a higher average per bail might have been anticipated. As it is, the farmers will benefit to a considerable amount in excess of last year’s prices. The Railway Department is reinstating daily express trains between Auckland and Thanes !on and after Tuesday, December J. The time of departure from Auckland will he 9.15 a.m., and I stops will be made at Newmarket, Penrose, Otahuhu, Drury, Pukekolie, Tualcau, Mercer, Huntly. Ngaruawahia, Frankton, Hamilton, Ruakura, Morrinsville, and, if required, at all stations between Morrinsville and Thames. The train will arrive at Thames at 4.45 p.m. The up express will leave Th .ies at 9.18 a.m., and arrive Auckland at 458 p.m.,

making same stops as the down express. From the same date the Auckland-Rotorua express train will bo altered as follows: Auckland depart, 10.0 a.m., Rotorua a rrive, 5.22 p.m.; Rotorua depart, 9.0 a.m., Auckland arrive L 0 p.m. To enable these trains to maintain the accelerated schedule a number of the present stops are being cut out. Stops will he made at Newmarket, Pukekohe. Mercer, Frankton, Hamilton, Morrinsville, Matamata, Okoroire, Tirau, Putaruru, Ngatira (on down journey only), Mamaku, Tarukenga and Ngongotaha. Under this arrangement passengers for and from the Cambridge branch will require to travel by the Thames expresses, while passengers for and from i those stations between Newmarket and Frankton present served by the Rotorua expresses will require to use the Thames expresses. \