FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 January 1915, Page 3

FLASHES

It is said that the great I AM of Germany, is WILL-I-AM. Trains from all directions to Helensville—excursion rates to cfur Show. Show catalogues for Friday are now available at Echo Office.—Price Is. Miss Maud Rimmer announces that she will resume music lessons on Feb. 2. Splendid weather guaranteed by the ECHO for the Show : . Thousands of people from Auckland .to-morrow, Anniversary Day. The newly stationmaster, Mr Mirams, has now settled down in his new home, next Post Office. TTons of hot and cold mineral waters ~Ssat-,the Helensville Springs Baths on <*Frsjiay. Fishermen's Wharf to be erected at last; also additions to the Hot Springs Bath 3. Mr J. C. Rimmer has a first-class M assey-Harris reaper and binder- for sale cheap. Westfield Manures are now revised as to prices, grass manure (A and B) being' £7 per ton. Halensville Town Board give property owners notice that they must clear off all noxious weeds forthwith. The biggest and best show ever held in Helensville, which should be second to none out of Auckland, comes off to-morrow, Friday. " Germany fights for the spread of culture and art." When that bombshell exploded -in the ancient cathedral at at Louvain, art was spread all over the landscape. The ECHO requires about a dozen boys to sell Show ' Catalogues to-morrow (Friday). Call at 9 a.m. sharp. • Good pocket money to be made. Is it possible that one could correctly . mention the children of the Czar as Czardines ? Especially when they are fighting for all the Turkey and German sausage they can get. We are now in the happy position to state that Mr Secretary W. W. Bailey has everything in full swing for the successful carrying out of every department in connection with the A. and P. Association's Show to-morrow, Friday. The Auckland City Council intend to remove the Grey statue from its present site to close to the triangle site at the Town Hall, at a cost of £63. Poor old Sir George. Wonder where he will turn up next. Several letters to the Editor in, re management of the Hot Springs Baths, have come . to hand since last one appearing, but they are superfluous as we learn that improvements in the ma nagement are to be ordered. i Kaiser Bill! You were crowing the other day because you killed a few babies and women on the English coast, but how do you like the Lion sending your Blucher to Davy Jones ? The farm of Mr C. Newman, containing 198 acres, \\i mles from Helensville township, is to be sold by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons on Wednesday, February 10. This property is said to be an excellent one to acquire by energetic man or family. At the Auckland Farmers' Union sale on Tuesday last at Helensville, a large number of cattle were yarded. A good class of calves brought up to 35s ; steers, 3 and 4 years old, £9 15s. Sheep changed hands at good prices. The next sale will take place on Tuesday, February 16, when it is expected a large number of buyers will be present. There are a " few " mean spirits who are not in business and consequently have no accounts with us> yet edge in a paltry 2s or 3s advertisement on " tick," promising to " call again " for payment. Accounts have been continuously rendered during the past year, but it's like knocking at the workhouse door.—Poo r mean spirits; they evidently think we are running the ECHO for fun, so let it go at that. to Member Russell's " Spectator" of Christchurch, ex-Minister Fisher has decided to postpone his little trip to England on account of the unsettled state of the political pot, and, in the meantime " Dahn" is enjoying tjjWcjg game of " looker-on."—And why ■Km^'adn't he ? This is a free country. ♦ The Waitemata County Council has been inviting appplication during the past few weeks (closing to-day) for an J overseer expert in ferro-concrete work i to superintend the erection of Helensvillg!s. big^ bridge. Are there none capable of doing this job in pur district that the ECHO should be denied a paltry fjyeTbob, advertisement ? It would appear like it, anyhow. Parsimony in this respect does nqt pay in th.c end. Many times five bob are squandered in other respects by that local body in 12 m°jiths, Three bundles of note 3, totalling a considerable amount and the proceeds of a property sale, were left by a lady _©ir-a chair at the Dargaville Theatre after a picture performance. The fact that they were missing was not noticed until the lady arrived horns. Early on Sunday morning the caretaker was interviewed, but he announced that he had seen nothing of the missing treasure. As an afterthought; however, the carefaffer walked down the body b£ the hall |.6:the chairs indicatea, and there, sure enough, Were t^e rolls, just" as ttjey had been left. ghguld you have anything nice to sayabout yeurself, yeur friends, qr gener-: aHties, send it tq the ECHO ; *