FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 October 1915, Page 2

FLASHES

Moonlight excursion to Shelly Beach to-night. Labour Day on Monday. Any amount of sport on.. Masonic installation and banquet, Tuesday night next. ' Acetylene gas plant for sale. Support the Queen of the North, and attend Saturday night's meeting. For bowlers' boots and shoes, Graham says something elsewhere. Queen Carnival picture shows on Wednesday, at both local Theatres, wee crowded. , Labour Day celebrations in Auckland on Monday, bring forth railway excursions from almost anywhere. Town Board waking up --want a light at railway gate. EJCHO'S suggestion for more light. ' The Town Board has set up a committhe to manage send-off arrangements, socials, etc., for our boys,going to the front.—ECHO at it again. Gala Day next Saturday, when the ECHO will fraternise with the 'Spectator' jof Christchurch (Hon. G. ,W. Russell, I owner). A grand sale of work in aid of Church of England Vicarage Fund, will be held in the Star Theatre on Saturday, 20th November, commencing at 12 noon. Owing to Mr Webb not being able to spare much time in Helensville on his last visit, he again notifies the public by advertisement in this issue of another visit later in the month. Call in and inspec| specimens of over £100 worth of Christmas and New Year greeting cards. — Name and address printed thereon free gratis. Social and dance for the Helensville Tennis Club, in Stewart's Theatre on Monday evening next (Labour Day).-^-We shall all be there. Offers wanted for sale of a site for ' a recreation ground in Helensville. Where are our liberal landed proprietors now ? Taniwha soap, and there's nothing to beat it in the Dominion, is now advertised on our fourth page.—All stores keep it, or should do so.

The offerings at St Matthew's Church, Helensville, on Sunday next will be in aid of a fund for erection and maintainance of Church Institute buildings for use of soldiers at the military camps.

As the Church, of England Vicarage Fund Concert is to be held in the Star Theatre on Wednesday evening next, the usual picture programme for that night will be shown on Tuesday, and' includes "Kronstadt" (a drama written and directed by Max Pemberton).

At the Methodist Church, Helensville, on Monday evening last, a lecture was given by the Salvation Army. There was a good attendance, and the subject was the late General Booth's life story, 'illustrated with beautiful magic lantern pictures.

Town Board Commissioner J". A. Wilson rather than see time and money frittered away on a Fire Brigade station deal, has liberally turned round and given a site free gratis, on his estate near top of Garfield Road.

News has been received by his parents at Woodhill, that Corpl. Fulton, who was recently wounded at the Dardanelles is expected to arrive at Dunedin by the s.s. Willochara, about the 30th inst. Corpl. Fulton is returning invalided, and his many friends wiil be sorry to hear that he has lost his right eye. He was wounded twice in action.

An inquest was held on Saturday, 18th inst., by Mr W. Ryall Fosbroke, J.P., and a jury of six on the body of Claude Robert Hughes, an infant of two months old. After hearing the evidence the jury brought in a verdict of death from bronchial pneumonia and heart failure. Dr. Phippen conducted the post mortem and gave evidence as to cause of death.