THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1914 FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 March 1914, Page 2

THE Kaipara Advertiser, AND WAITEMATA CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1914 FLASHES

General wanted, good wages to suitable person, E. Bauman has a special notice on page 4. Harry Allen has another small advt in our columns. House and section of land for sale, near Helensville School. Auckland Exhibition to close down March 28th, then the slump. The Exhibition executive has made a profit of £1,549 on the recent tour to the Royal Artillery Band. It is stated that the recent fatality on Mount Cook is the first since the Southern Alps were first climbed. Stewart Bros have an advt. elsewhere calling it''half-price day." commencing Friday 6th inst at i "o:clock. This is an opportunity th.it should not be missed.

Hon. W. H. Herries says that the' decrease in railway earnings is due to the strike, the Maori epidemic, and recent increases in wages.

There were over 200 motor cars on the Masterton show ground on People's Day, last week, Their value was estimated at fully £60,000.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning, charged with a breach of the regulations governing the Fishing Industry, George Constable was fined £3 and costs. The roll of the Ulster Volunteers having passed the 100,000 limit, is to be closed. A force of 27,000 men is being drilled in Ulster alone. A large list of cases was down for hearing at the Court to-day before Mr E. Page, S.M. Upwards of 60 appeared on the Civil list, and various other matters were also down to come before the Court. Mr J, Young, who has retired from the management of the Farmers' Dairy Union, at a farewell function, said he could well remember the time when suppliers were very pleasee to get &/% per lb for their butter-fat.

Settlers about to sow grass seed, etc, should take careful .note of Messrs O'Leary Bros' and Downs' advertisement now appearing in anothei column. This firm's good name for Al seeds of all description is now so well known that further remarks on our part would be quite superfluous. Take advice prompt,

One of the members of the firm of the go-ahead seed merchants, Messrs O'Leary, Bros and Downs, has just returned from his first Far North visit as far as Broad wood, Hokianga, and is quite satisfied that things are going to boom up that way. Even recent shows opened the eyes of Mr Downs.

The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Bonar Law), speaking at a luncheori given by the Nonconformist Unionist Association, said the Government which ordered soldiers to shoot down the men of Ulster would be absolutely snowed under, and the Minister who gave the order would be in greater risk of his life in London than Sir Edward Carson would be in Belfast.

It was reported to Constable Thornell on Monday morning that a passenger by the Tuirangi, which berthed at the wharf on Sunday night, had been releived of a sum of money to the amount of £30. It seems that he slept aboard the vessel on Sunday night and discovered his loss in the morning. The Police are making an investigation into the matter.

In connection with the alledged case of theft of £30, gohi b.ml notes, aho;ird the Tuirangi on Monday morning, from a passenger when asleep, a native named Herewiui Mihnka was arrested in Auckland and charged with the offence. As the result of his investigations Constable ThorneU became suspicious of this map, and after he had left for Auckland, advised the Auckland police fo secure him when the train had arrived On doing so they found the money in his boot 'lhe notes he had passed on to his son. ;.o .cording to the admissions made, who destroyed them when ho found that r.Jm police was investigating the affair,

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