FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 13 November 1914, Page 2

FLASHES

Two houses to let. What a wonder. Tenders are required for building a six-roomed house in Helensville. According to the weather-cock, this part of the district has every prospect of a big drought. Mass will be held in St. Joseph's Church, Helensville, on Sunday next at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. To-morrow (Saturday) is Belgian Day in Helensville. Get your shilling ready for the collectors —as many as you can spare. Candidates for Kaipara Parliamentary honours are rather lax in announcing their intentions and views in the columns of the ECHO. Why so ? The Bazaar in aid of the Presbyterian Church funds is in full swing this afternoon, evening, and to-morrow, in the Star Theatre. The new Volunteer Fire Brigade held their first practice on Monday last, when they shaped exceedingly well, especially for beginners. The Parakai Tennis Club opened their season on the Springs' beautiful lawns on Thursday last, when great interest was evinced by the players. The ECHO is willing to devote space to all kinds of sports, if secretaries of the various clubs will kindly supply results of matches. Cr. Kerr-Taylor has again been returned as member for the Waimauku Riding, this time by over. 90 majority' Cr. Dye was returned unopposed for the Kaukapakapa Riding. Mr Gordon Coates, M.P., is now prosecuting his candidateship all he knows on behalf of the Reform Party, and is conducting two meetings daily at the Dargaville end of the constituency. The members of the Helensville Tennis Club were conspicuously absent Irom the opening of the Hot Springs courts, etc., Why are things thus ? The, boot was on the other foot at the Helensville opening, everyone joining in. Johnson' Bros., well-borers, have been successful in finding water on Mr W. Smith's property at Ohirangi. It is estimated that the output is about 7000 gallons per day, which is highly satisfactory. The depth of the bore isbut 76ft. Mr D. Russell (water diviner) located the place. Mr A. E. Harding arrived in from Home by the Riverina from Sydney on Sunday. A meeting is being held in Auckland in reference to Mr Harding's candidature for Parliamentary honours, and an announcement may be expected regarding his intentions and the electorate which he intends to contest. The old member (Mr Jas. McL3od) for the Maretai Riding in the Waitemata County Council, has been returned unopposed. It is a positive shame that this journal has been so ignored by the said County authorities, regarding elections in tbe various ridings around Helensville. The hole-and-corner system is abominable and should be smashed up. Mr Hanley, a New Zealander, who has arrived by the Ceramic, reports that after leaving Liverpool one of the saloon passengers aroused suspicion. He was arrested and identified as a German spy, resident in German South-west Africa, who participated in inciting the rebellion in the Union. He was handed over to the authorities at Capetown. A sad accident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Maungaturoto. Tea was being prepared at the tennis grounds, and a bucket of boiling water was placed on the ground. The three-year-old son of Mr Fred Hemphill stepped backwards into it, scalding himself terribly on the legs and back. Dr Mercer was in attendance in a few minutes, but the child died from shock next day, King George is the first of a long line of English sovereigns to speak the German language imperfectly. He hated it as a boy, although his father was very fond of the Teuton tongue, and his grandmother, Queen Victoria, insisted on using it " about the house." King George has now divorced the Kaiser's tongue from the Court. Mr R. McNab, Opposition candidate for Hawke's Bay, received a cable from England on Monday stating that his brother, Dr Angus McNab, was killed in action on the French frontier on Friday week. Dr Angus McNab had served in the Boer \yar: He was pphthalmic surgeon in the Charing Gross GJphthalmic Hospital, aqd ppactioed in Harley Street, London. He had been educated hi Berlin and Vienna, and was an accomplished French and German scholar. He published a work upon the eye, and translated into English a celebrated G-ennan vyorlr on. the sanie subject. He leaves a wife and two little chijdren. The freedom which Germans in England enjoyed after the outbreak qf war with Germany was commented upon by Mr A. E. Harding, of Mangawhare, who has just returned to Auckland after a seven months' trip to Great Britain. " One thing which struck me was the foolish way Germans were allowed to be at large," said Mr Harding. "This does not apply to Britain alone, however, as the Overseas Dominions have been ajmost equally culpable. But in Britain the'people Were cool and calm, and that was evidenced by the way they let the Germans move about. Just before :I left there was a move to displace Germans from their positions as waiters, as people felt they were eavesdropping. I do not think there are many Germans, at large now."