FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 June 1919, Page 2

FLASHES.

To-night, Star Theatre, returned soldiers' social and welcome home.

The Allies intend to deliver the r^ply to the German counter proposals on Friday next, and to give the Germans five days to sign.

All members of the Helensville Football Club are requested to attend a practice match at the Show grounds on Saturday afternoon next.

Cabinet has approved the appointment of nine dental officers to treaty school children. Dentel motor ambulances are to be provided for coun&y districts.

Attention is drawn to the Public Works notice in this issue calling tenders for work in connection with the Tokatoka swamp stopbanks.

The repairing of Commercial Road was without a doubt a necessary work, and when com pleted will be most satisfactory, but at present motor traffic is suffering somewhat.

Conference between representatives of the locomotive employees and the Minister of Railways was resumed yesterday. Prospects of settlement are regarded as good.

The Right Rev. W. Gray Dixon, M.A., of Dunedin, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, will visit Helensville on Thursday, June 19th. He will deliver an illustrated lecture on Japan and the Japanese.

" Let me inject a little ginger into this concern or it's me for the street I'm named after."—Geo. Cohan as "Broadway Jones " in his first Artcraft, showing on Saturday at Agricultural Hall.

It is intimated- by the Acting Prime Minister that the battle-cruiser New Zealand, with Admiral Jellico* on board is only going to mak« one visit to the Dominion. It will b« in August.

It is reported that the owner of a large area of Land near Taihapo intends to subdivide 16,000 acres and place eight returned soldiers on 2000 acres each, and will hand over the areas fully stocked.

The Minister of Mines states that the Government has decided to open a coal mine in the VV aikato, but, owing to the need for a branch railway, no coal will be produced for 18 months or two years. We'll be fairly cold by then.

France has selected 140 battlesites, which will be preserved in their present state as monuments to the great war, including some of the Verdun forts, the Butte de Warlencourt, Bapume, Thiepval and Poziers.

" Windsor Knight," the King's champion Shorthorn bull, which carried off all the honours at the Birmingham Show, has been sold for £4440, and will go to South America.

It is rumoured that the working ttst of the Westinghouse brake taken from the engine derailed on the Main Trunk line recently was not so satisfactory as was anticipated. A Gazette notico has been issued bj the Attorney-General (Sir Francis Bell) prohibiting the publication, as injurious in the Hpublic interest, of " Novi Svijet'.' (New World), which has been issued at Auckland by the Jugo-Slav Publishing Company. "The soldier comes back and you pat him on the back and make a hero of him, which he undoubtedly is. .But a hero in Now Zealand without work is not much use to himself or the country. You want to get him work as soon as you can." —Lieut.-Colonel Herbert, speaking at Palmerston North.

A Hokowhitu resident is the possessor of a horse which is 49 years of age, and which, though practically toothless, still has every appearance of good health (says the Manawatu Daily Times). The proud owner thought until he visited England recently that his horsa was the oldest ever, but he discovered one in the Old Country 62 years of age. Strangely enough, this animal was born in Waverly, New Zealand.

The profit to be made by poultry farming in these days when such high prices are being paid for eggs was revealed in a statement made by Mr Nixon, of Auckland, who acted as judge at the Onehunga Poultry Club's annual show. Mr Nixon cited the case of a duck fanner at Avondale, whose sales of duck eggs wore averaging £3 par day. From this £1 had to be deducted for food, the net profit being £2. He found that where one-third of the feed given to ducks comprised " green " feed that very satisfactory laying results were obtained. Duck eggs have been selling as high as 3d each.

There is a constant seesaw qf officials bttween London and Paris, in connection with the Peace Conference. §ome come by the slow sea and land way, occupying about eleven hours, but the more adventurous come by aeroplane, taking about four hours. Mr Bonar Law travels by aeroplane, fairly comfoatably, for he is in a closed cab and can spent the time reading. I dined with a man last night who had flown over in a plane carrying quite a ton of mail. The chief thing he had to say was that the journey was monotonous and that he became exceedingly hungry.

When children come home from pictures

Through the damp of a winter's night, All parents who care and of colds beware

Take measures to keep them right. They tuck them warm and snug in bed,

For of croupy colds they've needful dread At signs of such to make things sure,

They give them Woods' Peppermint Cure