FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 March 1914, Page 2

FLASHES

In future Friday will be our publication day. Letter to the Editor unavoidably held over from last issue, now appears. Programme of the Helensville Easter Monday Sports appears in this issue. Entries close next Saturday, April 28th inst. Helensville Musical Society announces elsewhere first concert of the season, to be held Thursday, April 2. The Library has just benefitted to the extent of £9 17s lid by way of Government subsidy, which sum has to be spent on the purchase of books. A Kairanga settler reports an unusual case of a wild duck bringing out two broods in a season, one of twelve and another of nine ducklings. The first brood was hatched in July and the second in January. A prohibition order for twelve months was issued against a local resident yesterday on the wife's application. Messrs Laßoche and Jas. Hand, Js.P., were on the bench. Mr V. H. Reed, M. P. for Bay of Islands, paid our convalescent editor a friendly visit this forenoon. He is looking well and fit for his Parliamentary duties. Churchmen in the Auckland Diocese will be glad to learn that both Bishop Neligan and Bishop Crossley who were seriously ill, are now practically restored to complete health. , Among recent business, Mr W. H* Hutchinson, land and estate agent, notifies the sale of residential property for Mr A. Hoist, house for Mrs Nicol, and two sections for Mrs Milner. The town water supply is a boon, but the sooner houses are connected with the service the better. It is not according to Cocker to have uncleaned tanks containing filth and mud with beautiful Spring water. The Helensville tennis players are to play a match at Naumai, Northern Wairoa, on Good Friday. They are to leave Helensville on Thursday, April 9, by the Naumai, and, together with a number of their friends, are hoping for an enjoyable outing.

"Those who make the most noise get the most out of any Government. Agitation amounts to a very great deal, at least that is my experience," stated Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., at a Chamber of Commerce meeting at Wanganui.

At Saturday's Domain Board meeting it was decided tc have the western drive formed and graded. Sevsral matters for effecting improvements about the grounds were mentioned, the Chairman having power to deal with same.

Jim Burdett (the popular),of the Settler's Hotel, Whangarei, and late of Kawakawa and Tangiteroria, can now boast of running the largest and most commodious brick hotel North of Auckland. We wish Mr and Mrs Burdett a long and successful run.

Great bargains are in store for our readers on Friday and Saturday next. Stewart Bros.' cash sale of crockery and glassware is on for those two days, consisting of plates, vegetable dishes, etc., also a large stock of oddments too numerous to mention.

At the Courthouse the other day, before Messrs C. Laßoche and Becroft, Js.P., on a charge of using threatening behaviour in a public place, .Nicholas Pavich and R. Davidson were ordered to pay the costs. A charge of negligently driving a motor cycle on the Parkhurst road was preferred against E. J. Pratt, and was dismissed with a caution.

Thirty-one head of Holstein dairy cattle reached Auckland on Monday from Toronto, All are pedigree stock, their value approaching £3,000. Special permission had to be obtained to import the cattle from America, Messrs Gunn and Sinclair, of Raetihi, near Taihape being the importers.

A young women who was charged at the Magistrate's Court with being drunk, denied the soft impeachment, and so, the beak said to the young smooth-faced John 'op, in charge of the case, " What made you think she was drunk ?" The copper's cheeks colored into a rosy blush, as he said, " She tried to kiss me, yer honor." The woman : " I did? Then I must have been drunk ! "

When a proposal was made at the meeting of the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce the other night to support the Kaipara Chamber of Commerce in an endeavour to get the Government to secure Lake Tauanui, near Kaikohe, as the scenic reserve, Mr S. J. McCormick remarked, "We cannot have too manyreserves in the North, and as far as Whangarei is concerned it has been badly left behind in that respect."

A few days ago Constable Driscoll and Doctor Meinhold were summoned to Parkhurst road by the report that a man had fallen out of a cart when in an intoxicated state, and was either dead or seriously hurt. On reaching the locality the man had disappeared. A summons for drunkenness resulted in a plea of not guilty, and the charge was dismissed by the Bench (Messrs Laßoche and Becroft, Js.P.) on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

For about the twentieth and last time, the "Northern Advocate" of Whangarei, has changed nands, the "Mail" Company having taken the same over. Both papers have been running a up-hill game for some time past; no wonder, the fact being patent that Whangarei is not large enough or populous enough to run two daily newspapers, but it is not supposed for a moment in these times of pending general election and prohibition, the "Advocate" is going to be the only pebble on the mud flats. We understand a bi-week-ly will soon be in existence, and that some of the splendid plant now lying idle wijl shortly find a home in a certain centre of the Bay of Islands, where politics and the most vital questtions of the day are practically, well, "Mum's the word."