FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 February 1914, Page 2

FLASHES

Tenders wanted for additions to Helensville school.

Mr A. G. Eobinson wishes to notify that he has raised the price of milk to 4d per quart."

To prevent lamp chimmeys from cracking put them into a pan of cold water, gradually heat until it. boils, and then let it as gradually cool.

A chemist advises that preserved fruit be opened an hour or two before it is used. It becomes richer after the oxygen of the air has been restored to it.

Mr J. H. Harvey, head teacher of the Te Pua school, leaves tomorrow for Waihi, where he will take up a similar position there.

It is said that Mr Smedley, o: Henderson-Hobsonville, has re cently sold 300 acres at Hender son at £40 an acre.

Councillor Trounsen has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Hobson County Council, Cr Slade having resigned the position owing to ill health.

The sedition case against Young is concluded. The juryretired for four hours and failed to agree. A re-trial is ordered to take place next May.

Mr J. Woods, goods clerk at the Helensville railway statien, has been laid up for the past fortnight. When he is able to again resume duty, he will be transferred to the manager's office, Auckland.

Spurious coins are now in circulation at the Thames. A halfsovereign received by a business firm in payment was found to be of white metal only, although perfectly gilded, stamped, and milled at the edges.

The man who quietly slips a button into the church collection on Sunday is as nothing compared to a member of the audience of the Theatre Royal (says the Timaru Post), who, in the rush into the circle after the first interval, presented the doorkeeper with a tctalisator ticket. He got in with it, too. You couldn't do this with Becroft.

Rumour hath it that a syndicate from Nelson has purchased the block of land in Otamatea known as " Committee's Block." It is the intention of the new owners to cut it up in small holdings of 15 acres and upwards for the purpose of fruit-growing. The syndicate proposes to place 100 families on the block and to foster fruit-growing industry in the locality, which they consider is eminently suited for the purpose.

It is stated Queen Mary has been having a quiet little flutter in consols. About a fortnight ago she bought a large block of consols just in time to reap the benefit of rise in prices, and as a result she netted a nice little sum of £7, 000. Nobody will henceforth be able to say that one, at least, of the reigning family is not able to earn her own living, and it is not always an easy thing to do in these strenuous days.