FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 May 1914, Page 5

FLASHES

Piano for sale. Public Library notice re calling in of books is advertised elsewhere. Messrs Hopmeir and Hansen, nurserymen, gardeners, fruiterers, etc., announce their dissolution of partnership. The Dargaville Borough Council finds itself with less than £500 available for the year's work. The annual Balance Sheet of the Helensville Town Board will be found on page three of this issue> Euchre and dance at the Parakai Hall on Thursday, 28th inst. 'Bus leaves Helensville at 7.30 p.m. A branch of the Bank of New Zealand is now open in Helensville, as notified by advertisement elsewhere. An election to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the Helensville Town Board is announced to take place on June 9th. Nominations for: same close on Tuesday, June 2. f Mr P. H. Kelly, a candidate for the Napier seat at the .general election, died with tragic suddenness last Monday from blood poisoning. A petition is being prepared to ask Government to give Helensville - a Central Railway Station, and so do away with the South and Town Stations absurdities. Mr W. H. Hutchinson, of Helensville, hss been appointed Editor-manager of the ■» Waiuku "Advocate," a newly established newspaper in the Franklin County district. Some thirty hands have been discharged from the Wilson cement works at Mahurangi, owing to lack of orders. As most of these men are leaving the district the storekeepers and boardinghousekeepers of Warkworth will find business rather " dull until the trade revives again. A cablegram from London states that electricians have examined the model of a new type of railway at Saffron Hill. This is capable of a- speed of 300 miles an hour. All have been greatly impressed with the possibilities of the invention. Will wonders never cease ? A public meeting was called at Ruawai for Tuesday night, to protest against the licensing of a liquor bar for that locality. In the meantime the application for a license was wisely withdrawn, but it was decided to go on with the meeting, in view of the coming general poll. Mr Edward McAdam, of Newton Butler, County Farmanagh, who celebrated his hundredth birthday last month and was famous in his younger days as a step-dancer, states that he is in the best of health and has issued a challenge to any other Irish centenarian to a dancing contest. As an earnest that the WhangareiMain Trunk link railway is to be put in hand as early as possible the Public Works Department invites tenders, closing at noon on June 22, for construe tion work (formation and bridges) covering approximately four miles from Kioreroa southwards. Specifications, conditions, etc., can be seen at the Public Works Offices in Whangarei, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Several local bodies in the King Country are taking action with a view to regulating the storage of explosives on business premises. The Taumarunui Borough foreman recently reported to his Council that^the stocks of explosives kept in the town were enough to blow the whole place up. He recommended the restriction of stocks carried to one case of benzine, 25 cases of kerosene, one keg of blasting powder, 51bs of gelignite or dynamite, and one packet of detonators. Any extras td be kept in a magazine 50 feet from the road. The Council suggested co-operation by the storekeepers to erect a magazine. The report was adopted.