THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 26 February 1919, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. Published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Bay County Council has decided to spend £SOOO on dwellings for their roadmen.

Mails will close at Otaki on Saturday, March Ist, at 9 a.m., for Australia. Expeditionary Forces, Egypt, and the East, per Oxfordshire.

For stealing a bicycle, the property of Edward Coley, a man named Boyle was fined £lO and costs at the last sitting of llie Foxton S.M, Court.

Thursday was the hottest day recorded in Wairarapa this year. The thermometer registered BS.4deg. in the shads at 1.30 p.m.

Mr A. E. Anderson is now malting his first exhibit of autumn millinery, and customers should lose no time in making an inspection. Mr W.-Allway, of Levin, narrowly missed being struck by a bullet yesterday, which passed through a window close to where he was reclining. Mr E. Irvine invites the public to«inspect his stock of boots and shoes, and compare prices with other establishments. For fit, style aud quality Mr Irvine is certainly hard, to beat. A man named James Perry was charged at the last, sitting of the Foxton S.M. Court with wilfully torturing a dog by pinning it to the ground with a hay-fork.' Accused was lined fi.Tand

eo'sts 17s. Canterbury retained the Blunket Shield, defeating Auckland by 192 runs. In the second innings Canterbury knocked up 2SS. Requiring 437 to win, Auckland put together 245 in their second essay. . ■ - A. fire at Foston on Saturday destroyed a building owned by the estate of' the late Andrew Johnson, and occupied by Mrs Sullivan and family. The outbreak is thought to Vie due to a smoker, who had thrown away a lighted cigarette end. 'Die Otaki Druids intend to give a grand welcome to all Druids who served in the great war, when all have returned. None of the Otaki Druids have lost their lives in war, and all are expected to be in New Zealand about the end of Mty.

The Chautauqua is a great elevating force free from religious prejudice or party politics. Hear this fine American combination of musical talent and oratory. Stiles and Matheson are offering 10s seasoa ticket for 12 performances absolutely free. Head all about, it in their advertisement in this paper.

An idea of the cost of advertising in seme of the big papers of the world: — •'The "London Daily Mail" announces that "owing to the increased supply of paper all trade advertisements will be executed at reduced rates —viz.. for specified positions 70s per inch, and position at paper's option 60s per

"Lo Journal," Paris, strongly protests against the proposal lo sink the German fleet in view of the scarcity of metals for machinery, especially in France. The paper says the French Minister of Marine is absolutely opposed to the idea. France will insist on receiving a considerable part of the Meet.

The fund established in Palmerston North to establish a memorial to the Into Dr. A. A. Martin, who was killed in France, has been closed. After paying accounts amounting to about £52. there is £2lOl 10s lOd available for the erection of a memorial building in Palmerston North, which is to be used as an X-rav and bacteriological depart-

Watehes to the value of about £2O were stolen from the window of Mr H. Mortensen's jeweller's simp in Palmerston North in the early hours of Sunday morning. The thief extracted the booty by means of the simple expedient of cither cutting or punching a hole in the window—the glass was not very thick —about six inches in diameter. The matter is now the subject of investigation by the police. Three children, named Dennis Fisher and Noel and Mildred Crawford, were plaving on the river bank at 'Wanganui on Monday, when the boy Crawford fell in. Dennis Fisher attempted to recover hint, and the girl also went to his assistance, but were unsuccessful. The two Crawford children were drowned, but Fisher managed to clutch a willow branch, whence he was rescued by another child. The bodies have not been recovered. The eldest child was ten rears old.

What promise? to establish a record in land sales in the famed Manawatu .district has now been arranged by Mr Robeic Hannah, of TVeilington. The whole of his fine properties adjacent to PaiuicTston North, comprising upwards of 4050 acres, are to be cut up into suitable sized dairying and sheep farms, Hud offered pit ea»y terms by public auction by J Ltd.. at Palmerston North. ear.. r: May. •""'!

A meeting on the question of-rating I on unimproved value will be held in ! the Druid?-' Hall on Monday night next at S o'cloak, when Mr P. J. O-'Hcgan, an authority on such matter;, —ill giro an address. Mr Byron Brown —ill be chairman. As the question Is of rital importance to Otaki it is hoped the attendance of ratepayers will be large.

The Acting-Prime Minister has received a cable message from the High Commissioner, dated 15th February. stating on the authority of the Local Government Beard that the indications of the recrudescence of influenza in Great Britain arc'not suriick-nf, so far, to justify alarming reports. The aggregate' .cumber of-deaths - in .y 6 great towns daring rhe week ended ISth February was tj'i4. and the total ia the preceding TJreek was 272. In. the height ox the annum: epidemic the total of' deaths west to 75G0 s. week.

The,next sitting of ,the S.M. Court ul Otaki will be ou March 7th. Tho Pahiatua Racing Club made a profit of £6OO on its recent meeting. Cabinet has decided to prohibit the export of skills and hides, except by consent of the Minister for Customs. The case, in which Mrs. Frank Walker of Otaki, claims for insurance on account of the death of her husband, will be heard at the Arbitration Court, sitting at Wellington, on Friday next. At the Dunedin Police Court on Monday Margaret Parker was sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of selling liquor without a license. Defendant was previously fined and sentenced to three months' gaol on a similar charge. Mr Wilborfoss, secretary of the Porirua Trust, was among the visitors to Otaki on Monday, and inspected the drains, over which there is trouble, on the Mission property. We understand the matter is to be referred to tuc Town Hoard for necessary action. At the-meeting of business people in Otaki last night Mr Byron Brown, chairman, made mention of the Chautauqua, to be lielii in Levin next week. He urged all who could to attend, and pointed out that the company was composed of some of the finest artists and speakers of America.

' i Mr B. Maddock inserts a notice to ' tlie cffeePthat ho has secured a-seven-seatcr Overland ear, and is prepared to j do trips to all parts of the district, and ; elsewhere. On Sundays special trips will be made to the beach. As Mr Maddock's clftirges arc reasonable no doubt he will command a fair share of

patronage. The greater part of the cocksfoot crop on Bank's Peninsula is now safely harvested, though there is still a fair amofmt of seed yet to be threshed in shady positions in some valleys. For the greater part the seed is of excellent quality, and of good weight. Those who have harvested on shares have clone very well indeed, some making big cheques.

On Tuesday evening Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., accompanied by Mr E. H. Crabb, president of the Hydro-electric Vigilance Committee, went to Shannon in connection with the arrangements for the Ministerial visit which takes place on Friday next. They met tho Mayor and councillors of .Shannon, and completed all the preliminary 'arrangements. The Druids' Hall has been engaged for the evening, and a toast list drawn up. Arrangements have been made for horses for the use of those desiring to go over the hill to the site of the proposed head works of the Mnngahao scheme.

At the annual conference of newspaper proprietors at Wellington o* .Monday, it was resolved unanimously: That this Association in general meeting assembled, having under its consideration the public utterances of Mr Robert Hemple, M.P.. on the anarchist principles of the Bolshevists and similar organisations, as reported in the Christchurch papers, considers it to be its duty to record iis emphatic protest against the support .by public, men of Xew Zealand and to the welfare of the Empire. II is especially Jo be deplored that men who Arc representatives of the people in Parliament should so far forget the duty they owe to the saner section of their constituents, and by thoii unpatriotic utterances endeavour to create a spirit of disloyalty in a community which has shown its patriotism in a marked degree, and whose members must resent the dissemination of tho unworthy and dangerous doctrines referred to.

tn conversation with a representative of this journal, one of the soldiers' wives just arrived from Home by the Ruapehu, a bright little Devonshire lass, who had never previously been away from her native country, expressed herself delighted with the warm greeting extended to them, at Wellington last week. Judging by the young woman's remarks the women passengers by the Ruapehu—espeeially those with babies, and there were some SO of these—had rather a trying time, owing to the lack of conveniences. They were somewhat concerned as to the reception they might meet with in Xcw Zealand, having heard some exaggerated reports of harsh treatment accorded previous lots of soldiers' wives a: Australia. They were specially relieved and pleased with the kindly way in which the Wellington people received them, and state that they have met with noshing but kindness and sympathetic assistance since their arrival in this fair land.