FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 October 1914, Page 4

FLASHES

| A rosy time in prospective for the '• wool-grower. ; A total area of 47,016 acres of Crown lands is being- opened this month. Of this only :2,99 1 acres are in the Auckland district. i The Admiralty announces that the . West Atlantic is free of German cruisers and that regular sailing can safely be ! resumed. The applications in London for i £15,000,000 Treasury Bills, at sixnionths. I totalled £:30,0:i0,000, and averaged ; £3 9s 4j.^d per cent. ! Mr Henare Pehi Parata associate of ; Judge Jackson Palmer, of the Native Land Court, fell dead in Customs Street the other evening. | General Godley, in a farewell letter to I the Auckland Chamber of Commerce expresses his thanks for the assistance I given by the business community of the : Dominion when the universal training , scheme was being initiated. I The Germans have got into Antwerp , by a sneak process and now have the effrontry to "fine the city a cool two i million." We should smile, and will, | later on. : Public attention is drawn to Messrs Stewart Bros. Special Spring Sale of Drapery Goods, etc., which commences : on Tuesday next, and closes on Saturday 1 following. | Fireworks! Fireworks! Now in every ' shop. They should be saved for the joy- ; event—Peace ! And not squandered on ; a rubbishing heap of Guy Fawks, unless '; you make the Kaiser "He." | Every other man (almost) you meet in | Helensville, to-day, is a howler. Some | men can bowl, others cannot, hence | they get bowled-out, while the Germans | are getting boled-out. — How's that, | umpire? Leave Kitty alone. I One of the "Observer's"—Tourist to I Maori (cannibal) chief: "Oh, I say, | by the way, Henare, what would you like for lunch ?" Henare :" Py corry, I j tink I like to eat te Kai-sir!" | The Postal Department advise that . the transmission of mails from ibe i Dominion to Austria, Austrian agencies, i Germany, German agencies and colonies, i Hungary and Luxembourg is suspended. : The Whangarei County Council have ! been in communication with the Govern- : ment, urging the lifting of the reservai ("ion from the Otaikarangi kauri gum reserve, an area claimed to be suitable ; for close settlement. The Prenrier has j advised the County Council that the ; application is being favourably con- . sick-red. Bandmaster Hunter came up from • Town on Thursday evening, upon his usual professional visit, but unfortunately ■ a number of our bandsmen were absent ' from practice. This often occurs; but it is to be hoped, if Helensville is to be in the front at all, more attention will he paid to music. Our band will be~in queer street and go to the wall unless something better prevails, and a public meeting for the purpose of putting it upon a .sound footing, is much desired.

Good progress is being made with the Wairua Falls electrical power scheme, Whangarei borough will be served by

power wtih a wire connecting near Tikorangi. The route will be from that point to the foreshore near Otaika thence in a straight line to the abattoirs, and proceeding to the proposed station in lower Walton Street by crossing the railway line at a point just below the Wliangarei railway station. The route has been so arranged that the main south road is entirely avoided.— " Advocate."