WAIUKU.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 198, 26 May 1914, Page 2

WAIUKU.

A COAT MISSING. Much sympathy will bo felt for Mr ai;d Mrs A. Nicholson and family, of the i?:ir.tlhili9, in the artxium thus thev are having owing to the supposed los:i of their son William ami hij ur.cl?, ia:.i<dl Howe The turn young men left Auckland (or Kuatcll in the opan fbhirg boat "Andrew" o:i Thursday, Nth inst. Tl:ey were eeen on the Sunday evening about 8 o'clock slidterirg id the vicLity of Caps Href, when a fierce gale was blowing from the {.oulh, which increased in force towards midnight. During t! is the boat disappeared, and it is feared that it foundered wilh the two m;n or else was blown out to sea. William Nicholson wa3 aged abnut 22 and Russell Howe 2G. i CYCLE ROAD RACE.

The cycle road race which took phce at Waiuku on Saturday last made great exciteaunt for tho public, being the only race of its kind previously hell in the district. A larga numbrr of people witnessed the start and the finish, but owing U the conditions of the road the time was not as fast as it might have been. There was a clobe finish between the two scratch men, J. Porter winning by about two seconds. The places were as follows:-J. Port:r, scr, 1; Jas. Cain, ser, 2; H. Eisenhut. grain, IJ; L. Honey, 4min, 4. Also started—Clar McNamara 9min, John Cain 6mi.!, J. Whattam 3mm, A. Caraway 2min. 'THE ADVOCATE."

Mr W. 11. Hutchinson, uf the ''Vv iukii Advocate, '■ win has taken up liii rrside.ice heiv mid is busy with the preliminary work in connection with the newspaper shortly to b a publishej at Waiuku, is A present absent for a few days in carrying out the r,ece9saiy ornaniaing dutie?. With the htarty cooperation of the businesi people and residents now bnng generally rendered he hopes soon to be able to announce when tho first issue will be ready. .STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

During the thunderstorm on Thursday af 0.n0.i a ra'.a tree on Mr C. T. Barrihall'a fain whj ret on lire by the light in;( unfj was found burring next thy.