FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 September 1915, Page 2

FLASHES

Five-roomed house to let,

Parliament closes down in the middle of next week—Sooner the better.

Hot-Member, Kerr, the Scotch Socialist and Labour agitator, is dead.

Fire Brigade long night social this evening, in the Star Theatre.

Early tomatoes at Stewart Bros, are a luxury, and it is almost a puzzle where they were grown.

Eggs and farmers' butter were down to the tenpenny scale in Auckland during the week.

The, excursion to Dargaville Queen Carniyal last Monday morning, per s.s Wairua, did not eventuate, the weather being too dismal and wet.

Usual monthly Euchre Party and Dance, in aid of the Church of England Ladies' Guild, in Star Theatre on Monday next.

Notice is given by the Government Department of the coming examination by the Plumbers' Board of New Zealand. Applicants should read the advertisement.

Member Wilford (Hutt) was suspended till end of session on Tuesday, for using unparliamentary language to the Minister for Defence, and " sticking to it."

The preacher at the Helensville Presbyterian Church next Sunday evening is to be the Rev. Inglis, M.A., of Knox Church, Parnell.

The moonlight excursion by s.s Wairua which was to have eventuated on Saturday last, and had to be postponed on account of the bad weather, will, take place on Thursday, 21st October at 8 p.m.

A slight improvement has been made to the Court House grounds in the way of a shell footpath, which was greatly needed. A couple of coats of paint on the outside of the building would be a great improvement. >.

We have already been fined for deficiency of postage on letters received. Correspondents will please take note that the postage on letters is now lj^d and NOT Id. The ECHO is going to fall in pretty bad over, what Sir Joseph Ward calls the war tax.'

The Kamo Springs Hotel, which the Whangarei Hospital Board pr oposed to purchase as a convalescent home for soldiers, was completely destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. Mr Montgomery, the proprietor, is a heavy loser.

The Rev. A. Murray, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Auckland, and Moderatoi of the Charge, is visiting the people of this district as follows:— Woodhill, Monday and Tuesday, October 4th and sth ; Parakai, Wednesday, 6th October; Kaukapakapa, Thursday, 7th October ; Helensville, Friday and Saturday, October Bth and 9th; and will preach at each place the following

Sunday.

The murder of a dairy farmer, John Thomas Perry, aged 45, occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning last at Ramarama, three miles from Drury. On Sunday the deceased man's widow, Amelia Perry, aged 31, mother of nine young children, was arrested on a charge ot having committed the crime. She was brought up at Auckland S'.M Court on Monday, and remanded for eight days.

The new rates for telegrams are:— For ordinary telegrams on week days 12 words or less, including address and signature : ordinary Bd, urgent 1/2, extra word Id and J^d respectively. On Snndays—urgent 2/2, ordinary 1/2, extra words 2d, aud Id each respectively.

Mrs and Mrs Cucksey of the Helensville Hotel (where they will both be missed, after to-day)/ have decided on taking to a rural life in the vicinity of Parakai. They have turned this wellknown hostelry business over to an old ex-resident in the person of Mr John Watt, who, some thirteen years ago, was Constable-in-charge at Helensville. Mr Watt, who is unfortunately afflicted with rheumatism, comes last from tho Matata Hotel, near Whakatane. He ought to get better here. There were no Springs in the old days, or at least they were not known.