FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 November 1914, Page 2

FLASHES

Fountain pen lost. Prohibition addresses at Star Theatre Monday. Horse, cart, and harness advertised for sale. Special Bank holiday, Thursday, 26th inst. —Auckland Show. Meeting of the Helensville Racing Club members at Public Library to-night at 8 o'clock. The total cost of this war works out at about twelve million pounds a day.— History will give the cost in lives later on. Out of 2500 barristers in the Paris Law Courts 2000 have been mobilised.. Yet no one is mourning -the loss of the " devil's " own. Several letters to the Editor were threatened during' the week, but none came to hand up to time of going to press. We do wish would-be contributors would keep their engagements. Householders who are using the town water main are cautioned against wasting indiscriminately, or they will be cut off with short supplies. Waste not,want not, should be always borne in mind. We have been asked the pert question —" Will Payne get in again for Grey Lynn?" Most emphatically. ''No!" This is where Massey scores a seat to make up for Bay oi Islands. The Rev Gordon-Kirgan, who is leaving Helensville at the beginning of the new year, is, we hear, to give a farewell entertainment shortly, for which some fifty children are being trained. We are now allowed to publish certain matters in connection-with the departure of "our boys" for the front. Thanks, Mr Heaton Rhodes, Postmaster-General, but it's all too stale for our colums. Tenders are called in the ECHO for the erection of new premises for the Union Bank of Australia at Dargaville. We feel rather disappointed that they are not for a new Bank at Helensville. However, let us hope on. At the Church of Christ, Helensville, on Sunday, 22nd inst., special collections in aid of the Belgian Funds will be made at both morning and evening services, and at Sunday school in the afternoon. Mr A. J. Skelton preaches in the evening. The Ideal Drapery Stores of Auckland announce a big sale at the Auction Mart, Helensville, of a very large stock of general drapery, clothing, boots, etc., at a great sacrifice. For further particulars, see advt. In some towns the once noted German sausage is now labelled " Bavarian sausage." You may still eat the other sausage so largely purveyed by the local butchers, so long as it is " naturalised," and devoid of hoch. There are 4,500 Belgian Boy Scouts. — If the war lasts long enongh some of these lads will be noted for bravery, ,and avenge the cruelties perpetrated by a savage race calling themselves Christians.