THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, 14 July 1922, Page 2

THE OTAKI MAIL. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j Mis# "Wethey, who has already made j several donations to the Otaki Brass | Band, has civet! a further gift of ss. j which is appreciated, j At the last U.A.O.D. euchre tournament Mr.- 11. Clark won fii.-t prize, Alrs ■ U'arnu'-k the consolation, while -Mr A. Bills secured tiie gents ’ prize and Mi Koiiinson the bvony. j Mr M'. Baker has been appointed i temporarily in charge of Messrs Abraj ham and William#' business at Otaki. I and any enquiries or entries for sales I may be left with him. - j The Otaki Literary and Debating Club will hold its meeting's on alternate Mondays, and on the 17th Mr By--1 ron Brown will give a Shakespearian f evening. Recitations and songs from j Shakespeareworks will bo rendered by members of the Club. Proceedings . will commence at 7.45 pmu. j Member? of the Blue Triangle Club met last night and indulged in a social evening. A competition for prizes ; given by Mrs Pol.- was held, and after i :t keen contest the first was won by Miss Nielsen, Mis- Pereivul being second after a draw. Miss Doris Champion won ! the consolation. A satisfactory settlement has been i arrived at between members of the Rahui Dairy Co. and the Wellington City Council, and cheque# have been paid ; out on the basis of 2s per gallon which : hold- good for May. June, and July. • and 25 per cent. inerea=c- on butter-fat . rates for August. The last, pay out i totalled over £4‘Ob. a meeting of delegates of the Rifle i Club# oi this coast was held in Levin ! on Saturday last to consider, a pro- 1 posai from the Hau'ere Rifle Club that a West Coast Rifle Clubs' Association be loaned. A committee was set up. with Mr A. Thomson, of Hau'ere Rifle Club, as secretary, to report at a meeting to-be held a: O'aki in three weeks’ time. In the total eclipse of the sun. due on September 21 uev. C~ pans •'( the sun's surface wili be obscured in the I North Island, but as the phenomena i will lake place a few minutes before j sunset in New Zealand, it is doubtful j whether observer# will see much. The j track of Totality pa«se# over the In- i dian Ocean, through the centre o! j Australia and 200 miles north of New ; Zealand. L . For Children’s H'-king Cough. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.—Ativt,

Two frost fish were found on tin; 1 Otaki beucli a IVtv clays ago. A man named Curl Shaw, of Waikanae, met with an aeoident south of the Te Horo railway >statJon last night. I t is surmised that he attempted to hoard i the train while it was passing with the 1 result that he was strut;s; on the head. ! lie was brought to Otuki where Br. | (Sharp inserted several stitches. and af- ! ter words removed tw the hospital "here he is now doing well. Speaking tit the civic reception to Miss Kosina Hackman, at Dunedin, Mr , Victor Galway said: “From the point ( of view of the musical profession the ! visits of such artists are an absolute ! necessity for us here. We tire a long 1 way front the centre of musical life, ! and it is weii-niglt impossible to mniu- ] tain the standard unless wo are favor- | ed with the visits of competent artists j to show us what is being done at home | and what is possible, (such visits also help us to face the work we have to do. ’ • Refuting the slander that Scotsmen -are a thin-skinned nice, Chief Wat sou told a story to the hit. Andrew’s (society at Invercargill. A wild red-hair-ed Highlander, bootless and bonnet less from birth, called at the blacksmith's to have his horse shed. During the process the blacksmith declared that there was “an unusual smell o’ burnin’." The Highlander could not explain and told the workman to go on with his job. Five minutes later it was discovered that the barefooted one litrel been standing on a red hot bar of iron, Atlantic City. America’s most popular seaside resort, boasts among its citizens a woman of -Id. who is mother of 2-1 children. She is an Indian, but Mr Henry S, Cull. the chief boor Law officer, who reports the case, refuses to divulge her name, lie states that she was married when she was 15, her husband being selected for her according to the custom of the Mohawk Indians. She tied from him and later contracted a second marriage, which resulted in the birth of six sets of twins and of seven more children. The husband then died. A short time afterwards the woman married a widower who already had four children. She boro j him two sots of twins and another child. The present husband has an illj collie of £3 a week. I We have more lines which must be cleared at our boot sale, which is now lon. Children’s shoes, sizes 4 to G, from 2s Gd pair; ladies’ or maids’ I strap or lace shoes from 13s to 20s a j pair; girls’ goloshes, size 1 and 2, at cost price; gents’ light lace boots 20s, | 22s Gd; odd sizes in slippers at 3s Gd la pair. Lubbers and polish 6d. —At j Irvine’s Shoe Sale, Otaki. —Advt. I A thanks notice appears elsewhere* j H. Cockrell is at present selling 1 ladies hats at half-price, J Time and wages books may be sccurj c-d at the “Otaki Mail" office. An auction sale of meat will be held | at the auction mart to-morrow. Mr 11. B. Wise. Te Horo, advertises : several snips in Knglish crockery, j Particulars of the proposed loan of | £2Gti,OOti in count c> ion with the Horo- ! v.benua tllectric Lower Board are adi vertised. j Mr T. V. Garth, who has taken over j the Railway Hotel, Otaki. runs this well-known hostelry on up-to-date lines, I and besides the best of accommodation j stocks only the leading brands of ' wines, ales and spirits. Visitors cannot do bettei than make the place a ! port of call.* . Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails. —