LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 October 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The S. M. Court was sittinp to«day. A report will appear next week.

A clearance sale of the whole of Mr 0 Hoist's live and dead stock and household furniture will be held at his farm Woodhill on the 17th inst.

Mr K. M. Cameron has been laid up for the past fortnight with pneumonia, but we are pleased to state he is on the way to recovery.

Mr Alex Hammond, of Helensville, advertises that he has pure bred white Leghorn eggs, also Indian runners duck eggs for saie at 3s a setting.

New was received this morning that M r J. Adlington had accidently shot himself at Waikoukou. Adlington went out shooting last evening, but not returning a. seg^^was made, and he was disco" ■*:'-a dead this morning.

At the Bullot for the Awakino Sections held in Dargaville on Thursday there were 609 application for seven sections offered. The following were the successful applicants*—Section 15, Theresa M. Powell; Sec. 18. J, Ba» bich ; Sec. 18, J, Cranston ; Sec." 4, E, Warmington ; Sec. 13, S. H. Mitchell; Sec. 17, Ivo Clark; Sec. 3, Lon Le Noel.

"We draw attention to a replace from Mr Cullene, bootmaker, who announces that be has for sale Ladies' and Gents' Tennis shoes, Tennis Racquets, and Tennis balls, in readiness for the coming season. He also has received a fresh stock of womeus check slippers at Is 6d ; children's glace Tan shoes at 4s ; and is prepared to put rubber heels on ladies boots and shoes at 6d a pair.

Tenders are called by the Town Board, to close at noon on Saturday, Oct 19, for the building of a suitable dray Hi the Drainage works. Par* ticulars can be obtainod from the clerk,

The drainage work now in opera' tion in Commercial Road is causing a good deal of trouble on account of the cuttings falling in necessitating a considerable amount of shoring up especially where the pipes are to go under the footpath towards the railway in Commercial road. The tunnel up in Fourth Avenue has been a bigger undertaking than was anticipated owing to the looseness of the ground to be gone through.

Barry and Durnan have signed articles to row for the championships of the world and of EDgland and £500 a-side.

Setting of Bard Plymouth Bock eggs are advertised for. Eeasonable price given for good breed.

No actual date has yet been fixed for the presentation of the address to ths Prime Minister (Hon W. F, Massey) on his next visit to Auckland. The presentation will be made after the close of the present Parliamentary session, and it is not yet clear when the session will end.

The Schedulo and list of prizes for the indoor exhibits at the Helensville Agriculture and Pastoral Association's Annual Show to be held on January 29th, 1913, are now printed and being circulated. Anyone not having received a copy can obtain the same on applying to the Secretary or the " Advertiser *' Office.

The Kaipara Dairy Factory's output for September of this year shows a phenominal increase as compared with their output of last year. For Sept 1911 10,590 lbs of butter, equal to 188 boxes was manufactured ; for the same month 1912, 47,034 lbs of butter, equal to 840 boxes were turned out.

Messrs Sumner and Screaton hare a notice in another column contradicting a rumour current that they are connected with another firm. They state they are free agents, and are open to reward anyone who can inform them who is the originator of such. This is not the first instance of this kind which has been going round and we hope the person responsible for puch lumours will be brought to book.

We remind acquatic enthusiasts that the Annual Meeting of the Heleusville Regatta Club will be held in the Kaipara Hotel, on Friday, ltth inst, at 8 o'clock. This annual was a success last year, and it is the intention to so enlarge the programme both in land aud waters sports to make it one of t Tie biggest affairs of its kind north of Auckland, and therefore it behoves all public spirited persons to attend the meeting and assist in bringing the function to first place amongst such outings. The place, Shelly Beach, is undoutedly one, if not the best, picnic places in the Dominion.

A statement regarding the success of the New Zealand cadets now visiting Canada was made by tho Minister for Defence (Hon. James Allen) in the House of Representatives on Friday. Mr Allen said that he had received a cable from the New Zealand agent at Vancouver, stating that the New Zealand troops had won six championship cups out of seven, and so far as the code message could be understood, some other cups. They had also secured forth place in shooting. "It will be very gratifying to the House and to New Zealand generally, to know that our budding manhood has been able to compete with the budding manhood of other parts of the world and come out successfully. It justifies us in sending, the cadets and in sending the extra number."

At last a move is to be made pre* paratory to the opening of the bowling and tennis courts nearing completion at the Hot Springs, and the public meeting to be held in the Town Board Office on Saturday next, Oct. 12, to form clubs, etc., should be well attended. The meeting is to be commenced at 8 p.m., sharp and pre~ sided over by the . chairman of the Board, and it is anticipated strong club 8 will be formed from the outset. The Board will be able to .supply catalogues of bowls and tennis requisites, and the Chairman and Mr Stewart who have a " challenge bowling match for the opening day, and have, so rumour has it, teen gettingin a lot o^'practice privately,so will be able to give those taking up bowls as a pastime a deal of information, no doubt. Visitors to the Springs during the last few months have made anxious inquiries as to when these greens would be open, intimating that a large section of outhusiasts from the city would be more inclined to spend the week end here if a good game of bowls or tennis was assured, and after the courts are opened wo expect to be able to chronicle much larger takings than heretofore. Another game arranged for the opening day was between Mr Coates M.P., and Mr Mackenzie, late Prime Minister. Mr Mackenzie having left the Dominion we hope Mr Coates will be able to induce Mr Massey, Prime Minister, to fill the breach,

A Woodhill subscriber informs us that owing' to the telephone office being closed last Wednesday he was unable to communicate with. Helensville on an urgent case of sickness. It appears Wednesday is the halfhoiiday at Woodhill and on the day in question the telephone bureau there was closed before il o'clock, about which time a young lady resident took seriously ill with pneumonia, and the parents being unable to get into communication with Dr. Meinhold by telephone, a messenger had to wait for the train to go for the Doctors assistance, keeping the parents in suspence, and practically endanger* ing life, which would have been minimised to some extent if the telephone j message could have been sent, as it delayed the doctors arrival for a number of hours. We think that even on the half holiday in the country dis tricts the telephone should be left so as it can be used in cases of immergency, when the officials in charge are absent. As the telephone room .is generally partitioned off from the main office in country post offices. It would not incur any liak to l«ave the door leading! thereto unlocked when no official is not in attendance.

'*; Auckland city is richer in endowments than any city of its size in Australasia," said Mr JO, J. Parr at a meeting at Remuera last evening. " Our endowments are put down at a value of £600,000, but I regard them as being worth nearer a million.

A very funny act was performed during the land Jballot. at Dargaville last Thursday saysthe■•• Bell," One anxious applicant, who was in for several sections, was a spectator through the window, when the Board determined to eliminate his name from the list of applicants for one of the sections, on the ground that he was in*for too much. This roused the Ire of the man at the window, who com-^M menced a raking fire at the Boards '• That's not a square deal, gentlemen,' " that'? Maseey's rotten Govern-' ment!" The police were just about to restore silence, when the patient officers of the Board, wording impartially as a machine, and proceeding with the ballot for the next section, called out " No. 20." By th6*trang« irony of fate, this was the man reviling at the window. His cursing was turned to blessing in the twinkling of an eye, and he was round like a flash from the window to the table to pay the necessary deposit