FLASHES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 July 1916, Page 2

FLASHES

It is all over the flat for a fortnight now! — Water. A grand concert, given by the school children, will be held in the Star Theatre next Thursday evening. Manager-gardner required for the Ho t Springs Domain, A poor widow woman has lost two One Pound notes. The Spoilers is coming. Helensville is being.particularly well looked after for moisture of late. Not had such a wet season for some years. The employees of Mr JWoolsey Allen, sawmiller, Dargaville, with their wives and children, paid the Hot Springs a visit on Saturday and Sunday last, staying at the Hinemoa House, The announcement has been made that the recently adopted basis of union between Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in Canada wile not take effect until the end of the war. Irate landlady (pounding on tne door of her' slothful lodger's room) : "Is it dead "or alive ye are, Mister Maloney ?" Maloney (from within) : ". Nayther ; I'm slapin'." The many friends, here and elsewhere will regret to learn of the death of Mr C. Ketterer, watchmaker and jeweller, at the age of 70, which took place at the Auckland Hospital, on Thursday last, 29th ult., after a long and painful illness. The afternoon Red Cross Tea, held in the Star Theatre, yesterday afternoon, was not so well patronised as it should have been, considering the laudable object aimed at, viz., for League work and benefitting our soldier boys.

Resolutions were carried at a recent public meeting at Dargaville expressing regret and indignation at the failure of the Government to make provision for the closing of liquor bars at six o'clock, and demanding that Parliament, if unwilling to introduce six o'clock closing by direct enactment, should submit the issue to a referendum. The meeting also expressed the opinion by resolution that liquor bars should be brought under the Shops and Offices Act.

A.t the Star Theatre (to-morrow) Friday night, an exceptionally powerful Nordisk drama, " The Usurer's Son," will be a big feature of an attractive' programme of dramatic, humorous, and topical items— up-to-date, entertaining. For Saturday the management has secured that huge dramatic masterpiece, "In the Bishop's Carriage," showing Mary Pickford at her best in a brilliant role, and with all the irresistible charm that has made her world-famous. In addition is a full and varied programme, the chief attraction of which is a Vitagraph star drama "Enemies," the most intense and gripping sea story ever filmed. Another good programme will be shown on Wednesday and will include a two-act side-splitting comedy " Who Goes There ?" compelling intense merriment throughout; also a film of special value and importance (just arrived in N.Z.), fully describing " The Arrival of Russian Forces in Marseilles."

" As regards our men being better than ! the British, it is to a slight extent correct," writes a Canterbury soldier at present serviug with a British regiment I in France. " The Australians and New Zealanders are, on the average, more seasoned and better developed, and have more go about them, whereas a great many men in the British regiments have never left the vicinity of their homes before, and have had a more or less easy life of it. But 'if you could see the Highlanders lying out in front of the line, where, the advance in the attack last September finished, every man firing in the right direction, rifle in hand as he fell, you would say there was nothing in it alonside the British troops, I can tell you I am proud to say that I have good Scottish blood in my veins." For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.