LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4361, 4 January 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Waikato Trotting Club’s annual meeting takes place at Hamilton on Saturday; there is a special train from Paerpa.

I A notice of intention to sell a Buick Lnotor car, under a distress warran., in this issue by Constable J. McClinchy. The date announced is the 10th inst., Tuesday next, at 12 noon, and the location Messrs Brenan and Co.’s garage.

The joyful events are not going to be over with the passing of the Christmas-New Year holidays. The great local sports fixture of the year, the Hikutaia Athletic Sports Cliib’c annual meeting takes place on Monday, January 30, 1922. Eighteen events are advertised, and the handicaps will appear in the “Gazette shortly.

The first picture show to be held in Patetonga was given in the new Public Hall last Tuesday, by Messrs Woods and Jennings, of Paeroa. Mr Jennings took the plant over and screened a very acceptable programme to a house that was well patronised, vdespite the unfavourable weather. 1

While on holiday in a Waikato town where the Waikiki Hawaiians had recently visited, a representative of the “Gazette” was informed by discriminating persons that the company was astonishingly good. Many people did not attend, thinking that the Hawaiians might not be very enter-, taining, but the absent ones regretted their lack of faith when they heard the glowing accounts given by those who attended the performance.. The Waikiki Hawaiians will appear in the Central Theatre, Paeroa, tomorrow highit.

rumours have been in circulation of late to the effect that toe Mormons are purchasing, or have purchased, a block of land in Southern Hawke's Bay for the purpose of forming a settlement of Latter Day Saints, says the Dannevirke “News.” In con" versation with a prominent Mormon leader of this district, we learn that there is an intention on the part of that b.ody to acquire an area of some thousands of acres, but whether in Hawke’s Bay or elsewhere is not yet decided. Our informant stated that several places are under offer in different parts of the North Island, and an option has been secured over some, but no decision will be arrived at until March. We understand that the land will be used for farming purposes, probably being cut up into suitable areas for the young students.

A violent explosion at a recent picture show in Sumner (Christchurch) resulted in a' stampede for the doors of the hall (states the “Press”). Chairs were overturned, and in the scramble quite a number of the audii ence were bruised, while many suffered from shock. To those inside the building it appeared, from the smoke issuing through the operator’s window, that the explosion had occurred amongst, the films. Thanks to. the operator, who soon . continued the screening of the picture, and to someone inside who coolly requested the audience not to be alarmed, the panic was checked, and many returned to their seats. It was afterwards found that a large basket bomb had been thrown into the hall entrance, where it had exploded below the box containing the films and machinery.