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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 November 1916, Page 2

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Young lady requires situation. Railway excursions to Waikato Show November 21 and 22. A memorial service will bs held at Makarau on Sunday, 19th inst., to the late Private Thomas Mansell. Military men are requested to attend in uniform. At the blood stock sale at Christchurch last week, a filly wa3 bought by Mr Jas. Hand, of Helensville, for 260 guineas. After much postponement and wet weather the Melbourne Cup was pulled off on Saturday last, Mr W. G. Stead's Southern gelding Sasanoff winning the £7,000 easily. The New Zealand jumper Master Regal, won the Cup hurdle race. Regarding the election for the American Presidency, the cables last week were a bit too previous, as Woodrow Wilson has knocked Hughes kite high, and gone in flying for another term of four years. Captures by the Australasians at Pozieres included a windmill and a cemetery. Later on they took a flour mill and a brewery. Looks as if some of the boys are thinking of. starting a new settlement on the site of the old town. Professor Clement L. Wragge, the founder of the Wragge Institute and Waiata Botanical Gardens, Birkenhead, Auckland, for which an admission fee of 1/- is charged, contributes an interesting article in another column, on the beautifying of Helensville, which, we trust, may have due effect in backing up our own efforts in the same direction. "The Criminal," which is to be shown at the Star Theatre on Saturday night, is a powerful drama, Norma Talmadge and Maurice Costello taking leading parts. It is a story of Nell Wells, who becomes adopted by a band of society criminals; they are caught in a daring act; and Nell's real father (a lawyer and prosecutor in the case) unknowingly and unmercifully prosecutes his own daughter —the end is a revelation. Hinemoa House has just been enlarged by another twenty bed-rooms, and the swimming bath is now in full swing. In another portion of the spacious grounds, which are fast being improved upon, a billiard room is being erected, and when finished, and furnished with a flrst-olas s table, a further attraction to thiß muchfavoured private hotel will be assured. Mrs Nield leaves nothing to be desired by her numerous visitors. The Rev. A. A. Murray, of St. Andrews Church, Auckland, will be the preacher at our local Presbyterian Church on Sunday next—morning at 11 a.m., and evening at 7 p.m.; baptisms after morning service, and cqmnmniqn after evening service. Mission to . fqllow—see Echo handbills. The Rev. Murray is. acknowledged to be qr\e qf Auckland's, leading Bible students. •'The Shulamite," to be showi* at the . Star Theatre on Wednesday night, is adapted from the book by A.lioe and Claude Askew, and the drama is a powerful and intense one. Many beautiful and striking effects are introduced, both in the prologue, where the wise King pays homage to the original " Shulamite," and on the South African farm, where the modern " Shulamite," the desirable and beloved woman, unwittingly arouses great love in three men, and jealousy and tragedy ensue. J?or the first time singe they were issued (August 1, 1§16), a Bank qf New geglancj ton shilling notq has come our way, and a disgusting niece qf naper— : once pink—it is, The only good feature about the paper is its worth, 10s. Otherwise it is a dirty, unapproachable with a pair of tongs piece of paper, and must be full of microbes, and the person or persons in whose pockets it has found an occasional resting-place, must have needed the services of a washer-woman. Anyway, it is no credit to anyone consßJ?n&d and as for the printing and designing, 'well, oi^r printer's devil.could do" twice-'better-. -■ . - -