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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 January 1914, Page 2

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Bank holiday on Thursday. Anniversary Day, tomorrow (Thursday.) Fifteenth Annual Show. Large attendance anticipated. H. Allen, teacher of dancing has an announcement notice in our advertising columns. - Dargaville is agitating for a Bacon Factory (company), and like the little boy, Helensville says—"me too." Warkworth is tal Icing about getting a Bank-not a mud-bank bnt a real live commercial, bank. Milkers' cramp can cured by bathing the .-hands in methylated spirits, Why, Mack! Another new suit again? No it is my old one, done up at Harry* Allen's cleaning and pressing shop, Commercial Road.— Advt. . Anuiveisary Day special Railway Time Talle is published in another column. Excursion tickets issued on 29 inst will be available Feb. 13 inst The Dargaville regatta on the 31st January, will be followed by the Northern Wairoa regatta on February 7th, at Tatarariki; Lady Scott has placed her late bus band's journals, relative to the ill-fated South Polo expedition, in the British Museum. Harold (on a visit): "Do your specs magnify, grandma?" Grandma: '%Yes, Tommy." Harold: "'Do you mind taking them off while you cut my cake?" Notice is given by the .Railway Department of alteration in Express trains Helensville-Kaiwaka from Tuesdays and Thursdays to Mondays and Fridays. Our Vicar, Jiev C. L Morton, is at present enjoying the green fields of Kaitaia, the future County Town of Mangonui, and tho cream of lhe Far North. The sawdust fire at Aiatipu is still smouldering, aud liable to become dangerous at any rise, of the wind. Heavy rains are wanted for this summer dre.ad to the residents of the township. The danger of turning cows on a crop of turnips was clearly demonstrated on a South Taranaki farm recently when a. farmer lost four valuable cows through indiscriminate feeding. Maungaturoto's Jubilee celebration takes place on Tuesday next, Feb. a. for which an express train will leave Auckland on Monday, 2nd, arriving 12,40 p.m, and a, special train will return on Wednesday, 4th, leaving Kaiwaka at 8.25 a m. Wo wish our numerous readers would get a move on by sending us country correspondence, letters to the editor. o(:c. There is always something going. Bin! writing- or spelling need be no excii.se; our editor will fix you up. Fellow prifsi.ingvr : i^ardon me your necktie has boon ont for so'lie time. I lotrained from telling you sooner because those young ladies sfemod so much amused. Farnior : Thankee, aY the oil from that Jamu I has been droppin' en that light over j coat o' your-i for tho last ten minutes, I but everyone, honied su tickled tint I | hafc.-t! to .spoil the fun. ;

The "Exhibition Drive" at Titirangi was opened by the Mayor on Saturday. • Hons. J.Barr and J. T. Paul have been re-appointed to the Legislative Council. Dargaville is very short of water, winch is being retailed at a penny a gallon, and baths are votoed. Women'o courts are being established in St, Louis, for the hearing of cases affecting their own sex. The^team of Australian bowlers who are to tour the Dominion arrived from gydney this week The gold nugget gamble in connection with the Auckland Exhibition has fizzled out, and rightly so. People are now lookiug for their two-bobs' return. "Under which King?" the inquisitive editor of the Hokianga "Timps," wants to know what the Bay of Islands Member (Verrnon Heed), "is going to declare himself at next election. Smart as he is. we do not believe Reed knows himself just yet, feut leave him alone for trimming. It is reported that oil has been struck at a depth of 1000 feet at the bore recently sunk at Huiroa near Stratford. Some years ago it was predicted by experts that oil would be found iv the Huiroa district many declaring tiint this locality was the centre of the oil bearing portion of Taranaki. The ''Opotiki Herald" is convinced that the grapes are sour; it prints this: —'-Sickening: We are informed tftat a firm—enterpi-ising, of course— of Auckland Merchants intend shortly to open a cheap cash stoic in Opotiki. Some people appear 10 think that Opotiki is a veritable gold mine. Well, we have had a quarter oi; a century's experience and we could put the surplus ol our banking account into a pewter and still leave room for a decent thirst.quencher !