LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 3 December 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Napier on Saturday! Arthur J. Yco, tobacconist, was'.fined £IOO for bookmaking. A single diamond at a London auction realised-£7300. The price is understood to be a record.

Next year is leap year. For tlie first time in 200 years the 29tb of February will fall on a Sunday. The monthly meeting of the Otaki Town Board takes place to-morrow night. Snow is at present on the low-lying hills, and in consequence the atmosphere has a decidedly wintry touch.

The auuual concert in connection with the To Horo school will be held on Friday, 'loth inst. Particulars will be advertised later.

“Your wife is a foreigner, too, is she not?” asked counsel of a witness in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, last week. The witness replied: “Yes, I think she is; her parents are Irish, and she was born in Nelson.’’

It was decided at a meeting of the Manawatn Sub-provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union on Saturday to forego, the holding of a- meeting in December, and that the next meeting should t>e held in January at Levin. , With the advent of warmpr weather, sea-bathing is becoming more popular, and quite a number of people are. daily indulging in a “dip in the briny” at the Otaki beach, where unsurpassed facilities arc offered for surf-bathing. The local beach promises to be more popular than ever this coming season.

As the Christmas season approaches it. recalls to the minds of many men the need for new suits. We would remind those men that Howard Andrew, ifanakau and Ohau, is well stocked with a big range of ready-to-wears quite, as good to look at and of the same quality as the best tailored suits. Customers should look in early before the Christmas rush commences.

The Otaki Auction Mart is now well stocked with a large assortment of furniture, croekeryware, ironmongery, saddlery, etc., particulars of which are advertised elsewhere. The mart is open daily from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m;, while auctions sales are held weekly, OB Saturdays, at 11-30.

The public can keep dpwn the cost of living by buying thfeir footwear from me. A niee line of ladies’ glace court shoes only 22s 6d, glace 3aee shoe, patent cap, oniy 2ls; gents’ Derby boots, sewn soles, from 245; gents’ working boots, nails and plates, from 23,,. Try a pair. Irvine’s Shoe StorOj Otaki.—Advfc.

Z'r A; W. Smith, the well-known cycle agent of Levin, has sold his busion account of ill-health, and daring the month of December will hold a' cit-ranee sale of motor cycles, ordinary ey-!as, and accessories. All machines are of Reading makes, thoroughly reliable, yet low in price, and anyone •wishing a cycle should make an early call. A notice to this effect appears elsewhere.

Commencing nest Saturday, the charges for admission at the Otaki Picture Theatre for all ordinary - picture displays will be 3s 6d for dress eirele _ and Xs irt the body of the hall, children half-price. Xb extra charge will be made for tar, which will be borne by the proprietor of the hall fhlr McMillan). This will not only mean a saving to pie tare-goers, but a convenience also, as the providing of change has in the past been somewhat of an annoyance. What nan is there who- has - not whilst in.a desperate haste to keep an appointment experienced 'the' annoyance of having to wrestje with a tie that is difficult to adjust. It wiO not slide, in fact it absolutely refuses to budge. Such a situation. is a strong incentive to indulge in. impolite expresAn effective I',way. at t '-ehvis&ißg" all this has been -found- ’by GEO. TOtote, Jf-Tlk,'' of Manners'. Street ■WeHiagfon, whoie iatest thigtoeet 'in* ’flsiffi* ; a choice selection ‘Of MitcEeiE •b i ****K^

The monthly sitting of the S.M. Court takes place at Otaki on Friday.

For'summer wear 'men will find nothing smarter than the two-piece sports suits advertised by Stiles and Matheson, Ltd., at 105 s. , A plain and fancy dress dance will bo Feld at To Horo on Friday night, when two prizes will be given. Admission to the dance will be 2s (id for gents and Is 6d for ladies, and all who attend arc.promised an enjoyable time. An alleged assault is stated to have occurred at Te Horo. on Sunday, and in consequence a local resident will be called upon to answer-to charges of assault, obscene language, and wilful darnago—six in all—at Friday’s sitting of the Otaki S.M. Court.

A Belgian soldier and three Allied prisoners have arrived at Brussels in a pitiable plight from a German prison in the Hartz Mountains, in Southern Hanover. They declare that there are still a number of Allied war prisoners there who are utterly ignorant that tho war is over.

The price Of new boots is prohibitive in many families, and in consequence it is ndvisablo to have old boots repaired. Take them to F. Barratt, who makes them as now with tho best of leather and workmanship. Don’t delay, send your boots and shoes at once—F. Barratt, Dunstan Street, Otaki Bail-way.-7-Advt. . Tlio following gentlemen have been elected a committee in connection with - tlie'proposed sports to bo held at Otaki next month:—Messrs J. D. Howell, H. Nicolson, M. H. Ayre, A. R. Rudkin, A. Adsett, W. P. A. Kershaw, Duncan Wilson, T. B. Bax, W, G. Taylor, Geo. Noble, Geo. Gordon, A. Anderson, ff. It. ’Bills, Harold Cockrell, Byron Brown, . and W. Wills. They will meet to-night to arrange details.

An outbreak of lire nearly resulted iu tho destruction of Mr P. Chalk's ■ milking sheds in Kawiu road on Saturday night. It appears that two Native escapees from the Training Farm took ,up their quarters for tho night in the .inner portion of the shed, and after ? helping themselves to some milk prof cecded to make themselves comfortable by lighting a fire in a bucket, which they, placed on the floor and went to sleep on some rashes in a curuer of the shed. The heat from the bucket evidently set fire to the floor, and the escapees wore awakened to find the place afiro and their exit by the only door in tbo shed cut off. However, they succeeded in putting the fire out, and then pulled the remaining burning material outside. The owner sustained some loss as a result of the fire, but under the circumstances the sheds had a narrow escape from being destroyed. —“Chronicle.”