FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 January 1916, Page 2

FLASHES

Good general wanted. Black and tan collie dog found. Grazing to- let at the Hot Springs Domain. A dog-tax collector is wanted by the Town Board. A new and excellent fruit and vegetable shop has been started by Miss Giles, next to Sandin, chemist. We understand that Lance-Corpl Harris, of Helensville, is returning from camp on sick leave. A. and P. Association Working Bee Monday morning. Members are requested to roll-up ! The coming Show excursion and railway time-table is now published by the Department. Miss Elson, who has Royal Academy of Music ,London, certificates, inserts a notice re music pupils in this issue. On Friday, 21st inst., the steamer which usually leaves Helensville at 10.15 a.m. for Dargaville and up-River will be postponed until 7.30 p.m., and that day mails close at 5 p.m. Members of the 10th Reinforcement are now here on farewell leave. A Smoke Concert will be tendered them next Thursday evening, 27th inst., in the Star Theatre. A large attendance is expected. Such a large number of people in Auckland have promised the ECHO to run down and see Helensville's great Show on 29th inst. The more the merrier. A record number of entries (1,320) has been received by the secretary, Mr L. L. Bailey, for the coming Show, for which everything is being knocked into shape ; new cattle and sheep pens, agricultural hall, etc. "The Little Grey Lady," by the Famous Players Company, is a play that winds itself round one's heart. It is big in all its dramatic moments. When the two women struggle for evidence that will clear the convict, the situation is tense, and the audience feels all the fierceness of love, passion and despair. It is showing at the Star Theatre on Wednesday evening next. Does Helensville sleep all the time, or just some of the tinre ? A man dropped a letter one day last week jus^ outside the Union Bank, and no less than six people passed over that letter within ten minutes, the seventh pedestrian picking it up. But that's nothing. A storekeeper lost a five-pound note recently, and enquired who swept out the shop. " I did, sir," said one of a number. "What did you do with the sweepings ?" "In the waste-box, sir." "Go and turn it all out then." The fiver was there, all right.