FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 December 1915, Page 2

FLASHES

Good servant wanted at Springside,

Lady's bicycle (second hand) for sale

The Helensville Lawn Tennis Club are opening new courts on Saturday afternoon.

R. Screaton's goods are destined to " make you merry," says the purveyor.

Special and statutory holidays are announced by the Union Bank of Australia.

Things commercially are looking up fairly since all the late Carnival Queens' undertakings.

The ECHO Office will be closed from Friday, December 24th, till Monday January 3rd, for the annual holidays for the staff.*

The corrected railway time-table' for the Christmas holidays on the Auckl and Kaipara line is now published. *

A meeting of the Rabbit Poisoning Board is to be held in the Helensville Public Library on Thursday morning next at 10.30.

The " Ideal" drapery firm of Auckland, is again with-us, and announces a large stock of new summer goods, which must be sold quick and lively.

There will not be any issue of the ECHO on December 30th. Send your advertisements in early for last issue this year, December 23rd.*

C. Ketterer has a heap of troopers' wrist-watches just to hand, from 35s up. They are splendid value, as is also his large stock of jewellery, clocks, fancy goods, etc. ■

As a number of books have not been returned the drawing of . the Art Union in connection with the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, has been postponed to the first week in January.

A public send-off function to Messrs Harris, Russell, and Geldard and a welcome-home to Trooper Bennett, is booked for to-night at the Star Theatre. All invited ; light refreshments provided.

Christmas is just upon us, and all the Helensville shop windows show it, being as they are, loaded up with toys, fancy goods, presents, and Christmas fare generally. . . . ; •

The wife of J. J. Powelka, the man who gained notoriety by escaping from goal some three or four years ago, has been granted a divorce.

Dr. McNab, speaking of the results of his recruiting campaign in the South, declares that the feeling in Otago is universally in favour of conscription.

The " Fertiliser Problem " as published in another column, leads one on to take shares in the New Zealand Farmers' Fertiliser Company, Ltd., which, it is considered, will be one of the "surest" things going.

In recognition of his services whilst employed as caretaker at the Helensville Domain, the members of the Domain Board, at their own expense, presented Mr W. Harris with a wristlet watch, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr H. W. Stringer making the presentation.

The Earl of Derby's recruiting campaign closed auspiciously. There was an unprecedented rush of men to attest, and and though the result of the experiment will not be known officially for a few days, it is assumed that the voluntary system will be saved.

"We shall be able to confront any danger while the Empire sticks together, for the valour of the overseas troops at the Dardanelles will never be forgotten," said Lord Roseberry, speaking at Edinburgh.

The Presbyterian Sunday School treat will be held on Wednesday evening next (22nd inst.) in the Helensville Picture Theatre (by kind permission of Mr Jas. Stewart). The leading feature will be Father Christmas and his tree of presents for the scholars.

A grand concert, for which a liberal programme is provided, is to be given in the Star Theatre on Monday next, 20th inst., by the Te Pua School children, who made such a good name for themselves at a recent entertainment in the same hall. The proceeds are in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Fund.

As wo have heard complaints from subscribers to the " send-off," promoted by the fishermen, to Messrs Morris and Turner the other night, as to the method of disposing of the same, we have made inquiries, and are assured that the money collected (not a great deal), was devoted to the purses of sovereigns presented, and NOT to the -supper indulged in, as

some people surmise