FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 May 1914, Page 4

FLASHES

Wednesday, June 3, King's Birthday.

One drunk this week; 5s and costs,

Parliament meets on June 25th, and after that the Deluge (ot Talk).

Mr V. McLeod successfully passed his examination for a River Master's certificate.

Constable Thomill is spending his holiday in Helensville. We wish this popular officer a pleasant vacation.

Persons desiring to have their names placed on the District Electors' Roll should apply to the Town Clerk at once.

Colonel Boscawen, A. D. C. to His Excellency the Governor, passed through Helensville on Monday last from the Wairoa en route to Auckland.

Election to fill an Extraordinary Vacancy on the Helensville Town Board, is postponed. Due notice will be given in a later issue.

Public schools here as elsewhere kept high holiday on Monday, enjoying themselves immensely, in commemoration of Empire Day.

The Krupp family is paying £430,000 war levy, of which Madame Bertha Krupp and her husband contibute £245,000.

Miss Hafford, who severed her connection with Messrs Stewart Bros, some three weeks ago, has accepted a position in one of the leading drapery establishments in Hawera.

John Rhodes, a Bradford warehouseman earning thirty shillings weekly, has inherited £170,000 from his uncle, a Pontefract colliery owner. The Hon. J. D. Ormond has lately purchased the Okahukura Estate, and is having his launch fitted with a 25 hp motor engine by Messrs Anderson, Ltd., of Christchurch. The Rev. L. L. Cubitt and Mrs Cubitt arrived by the express on the 27th inst., on a short visit to their son, Mr F. Cubitt, leaving again by the afternoon express for Auckland. A considerable increase in the telephone communication of the town has been made lately, Messrs Morris, D. Ross, Langdon, Hunter Bros., Stewart Bros' Butchery, Robinson, and the Bank of New Zealand being the new connections. 0 The mass of detail to be dealt with by the Prime Minister and other Ministers of the Crown may be gathered from the fact that during last financial year it was calculated that Mr Massey must have signed his name at least 34,000 times. The large and extensive play-ground around the Helensville public and technical schools having been ploughed prepatory to grassing and rolling, is now being fenced. In a few months hence these broad acres will bo a picture and a splendid breathing place in the heart of the town. A capital concrete water-trough was put into position opposite the Kaipara Hotel on Wednesday, quite a crowd of persons being in attendance looking on at the proceedings. "Let thy cattle drink and drink ye also," but the horses were quite shy, and refused to libate when we left. At a largely attended meeting of settlers, held at Ohaeawai last week, it was unanimously decided that Bay of Islands should form a freezing company for the district, as Whangarei was quite unsuitable and inconvenient for the Bay, Hokianga, etc. A strong committee was appointed to report progress later

Sir T. Lipton's challenging Shamrock will be launched on May 26, and will have a trial on the Solvent on June 1. She is described as being the most wonderful boat of her kind ever built, is of original design, and will have several novel features.

The annual Masonic ball, under the auspices of Lodge Star of the North, 1647, E.C., will be held on June Bth, in the Town Hall. A strong committee of Masons has been appointed to carry out details. The Masonic ball this year promises to be one of the most successful functions of the season, as it always is in Whangarei.

A correspondent of a Manawatu paper writes as follows: "'Tour tale about the strange way a fish was caught—hanging on a horse's lip after the horse had been drinking from a creek —is not as queer as the catch made at an Eketahuna creamery. It was a cockerbully, 'all alive oh,' swimming in the big milk' vat!"

Mr Gordon Coates, M.P., has just returned from a trip through the backblocks of the Mangakahia district, where he met many electors of both his own constituency and of the Bay of Islands. In some of the places he reached, the settlers declared that he was the first Member of Parliament who had ever visited their neighbourhood.— Dargaville " Times."

Says a Southern exchange : "It is urged against Cabinet Ministers that when they get into office they take much work upon themselves. ■ A similar thing was urged against .the Hon. 8,. J. Seddon when he took on the Premiership, that he worked too much into the details of his offices which had much to do with wearing him out as early in life that it did."

A presentation of a silver-mounted pipe and tobacco pouqji was made to Mr H. V 7. Stringer on Saturday last, by the Helensville Regatta Club. The presentation was made by Mr F. Tucker, 071 behalf of the Club, who stated that it was a slight recognition of Mr Stringer's services as honorary auditor, and wished the recipient a successful smoke. Mr Stringer replied that what little he had done was a labour of love, and that if he could do anything in the future for the welfare of the Club 113 would le pleased to do it,