FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 3 July 1914, Page 4

FLASHES

All public schools have closed down for mid-winter vacation. A tower is being erected for a clock on the new Post Office. Dargaville. " Thanks, thanks," says Captain G. H. Sellars. If you have a grievance send it to the Echo.* The toilers and farmers of Kaipara intend to off Coats and Hoe in.—Our punster. The report of the Helensville A. and P Associations's annual meeting is held over for a week. Mr C. Newman's clearing-out sale on Thursday was a great success, satisfactory prices being realised all round,] We hear that Mr S. Frost is building a house on his property at Pipi Te Wai for his son, who has been recently married. The Liberal candidate for the Kaipara seat, Mr Robert Hoe, is now out and about in the back-blocks, prosecuting his mission. Our local chemist, Mr C. Sandin, is excavating out his adjoining allotment with a view of erecting substantial business premises. Quite a number of natives have been in the town for the last few days, their business being in connection with the sale of the Komiti Block, Will Kaipara change its Coates? Perhaps the Bay of Islands a n teach it how. Re who runs may Reed.— "Bulletin." Absence makee the heart grow fonder, hence the parson in the pulpit often gets ill on looking round at the paucity of attendance. — Moral : Attend Church more regularly and the parson will be always cheerful and well. Dr Montaine, of Maungaturoto, passed through Helensville on the 29th ultThe do ctor has been in bad health for some time, and was returning home after having been in a private hospital in Auckland and also at Rotorua. Sergt.-Major Fletcher returned to Helensville on the 30th ult. from Whangarei. We understand that all parades which have been notified are cancelled, pending certain alterations consequent on Sir lan Hamilton's report. During the J|alf-time of the match, Waimauku v Suburbs, a goal-kicking competition took place between R. Williams (Helensville) and C. Fletcher (Waimauku). The kicking was not of a very high class, and no goals were found by either side. Welcome improvements to the travelling public and other frequenters of Mrs McEewn's Kaipara Hotel, Helensville, are shortly to be effected, the contract having been let to a town contractor for the sum of £161, to instal hot and cold water baths, patent w.c's., etc. The month of June now just passed away was a record one for mining disasters, railway smashes, shipping casualties, floods and fires, and to finish up with, the fiends of Austria assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand (heir to the throne of Austria) and his wife, the Princess Hohenburg. " The kinematograph stands [out to-day as the greatest educator of the age." Amongst^other things hitherto unattainable it bnngs the Great Antarctic to your doors. The British Antarctic Expedition, under Captain Scot,:, was the greatest scientific exped:tion ever sent out of England, and this magnificent kinegram is worthy of its object. At the W.W.P., next Wednesday. • The biter bit.—Show me a large landholder and I will show you a Masseyite, said Mt T. M. Wilford, M. P., in his speech at Christchurch. Strangely enough he had one on his platform at that very moment, in the person of Mr G. W.Russell, M.R., a prominent Liberal who owns 64,000 acres. In another column will be found a statement on the subject of " Bible in Schools," by Mr D. M. Yeats, who within the last couple of months resingned his position as head teacher of the Hutt District High School, after 35 years' association with the Education Department. All agriculturalists are agreed on the efficacy of Guano as a top-dresser. Seychelle Guano, which is a true alluvial guano and highly solvable, is a powerful help to crops. Messrs Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., who manufacture the famous Westfield Manures, advertise a very high grade of Guano in this issue.