FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 December 1914, Page 2

FLASHES

Roll your Job printing in at once, so as to get it done before the ECHO closes doAvn for a week. Holiday excursion tickets for Christmas and New Year are now announced. Don't you think the present style in women's skirts is rather humorous ? Simply side-splitting. Fat fowls and ducks for sale.—lf anyone wishes to make the Editor a Xmas present, he is now convalescent. Important changes in the Railway time-table in connection with the Kaipara branch, are now announced, and particular attention to same is needed. The Town Board notifies a 10 per cent penalty on all rates not paid by the end of the year. Come, come ! And don't forget the ECHO, while you are at it. The much-welcomed and long-threat-ened rain set in early during the week, and settlers are now quite pleased with continued prospects. Rev, Merton, vicar of St. Matthews, Helensville, returned to his sphere of duty on Tuesday, after an absence of three months, much improved in health, 0 Mr R. J. Walters, of the Helensville I BazSar; announces in a replace advertisement, all sorts of Christmas novelties suitable for young and old. This establishment is well worth a visit. Stewart's capacious Opera House is really getting a move on of late, the whole having been recently covered in. Carpenters ara now busy on the flooring windows, etc., and great things may soon be expected to happen. Hot Springs Bowling Tournament is billed for December 30th and 31st and January lsf It is expected that a big gathering from Auckland will be in attendance. Mr Rimmer will receive local entries, which close on 26th inst. The result of the General Election for Kaipara, between Messrs Coates and Hoe, was a foregone conclusion, though there was not much between the parties at Helensville. Coates, 283 ; HO3, 254 ; total polled, 537. Tucker's new billiard saloon, which has been in course of construction for some time past, at the rear ofhis hair-dressing department, was opened just a while back, and is doing excellent business. A first-crass table and a good marker can always draw the cueist. The petition asking that Saturday afternoon be declared the statutory halfholiday (instead of Thursdays) and signed by 18 out of 22 business people in the place, was presented to the Helensville Town Board at last meeting, and held over until first meeting next year for consideration. * The Czar of Russia is the only European monarch whose life is not insured in a British life insurance office. The Kaiser is insured in London to the tune of a cool million, but it is doubtful if anything were to happen to the crank any would get the money, though it would be a cheap good-riddance. To-night at the Star Pictures the leading feature will be " A Prisoner in the Harem," a story of love and peril in India, with a powerful plot. On Saturday night a great dramatic novelty in two acts, a magnificent story told amid novel surroundings, " The Airman's Bride," will be screened ; also a number of others. Unlike the Germans, who put in concrete foundations all over their friendly countries, so as to be ready to plant big guns thereon and massacre tha "uncivilised millions," according to Hun-ish ideas, our enterprising butcher, Mr Jas. Hand, who >fraTS}ut recently ' filled in a block a/ Helensville South with brick and is now installed with all the up-to-date appliances appertaining thereto, together with engine for freezer, etc), has just,discovered a solid foundation at tb.e rear of the new premises permission) and intends to X' dct a steam boiler and plant thereon, rwherewith to enable him to boil-down i land to manufacture every class of Ismail goods. We say—" that is right; [ let us keep all the money we can in the [place."