LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 5, 19 January 1915, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs J. T. Stembridge and Co. are to op9n their auctioi Mart in Pukekohe on Friday next, when the first of their regular weekly auctions will be held. A large entry has been secured in all departments.

The bakers and storekeepers of Pukekohe and the surrounding districts give notice in our advertising columns that as from to-morrow (Wednesday) the prices of bread had b:ea advanced to 5d for the 21b lnaf and lOd for the 41b loaf.

The Dairy Produce Committee has fixed the wholesale price for butter and eggs for the week ending January 23rd, as follows:—Factory butter, Is l£d; farmers', separator and dairy butter, 8d; eggs, Is per dozen.

Captain and Mrs Baldwin, who have been in charge of the Pukekohe district of the Salvation Army, have been transferred to Patea, and will be succeeded in Pukekohe by Captain Christofftryon, from Tasmania, and Lieutenant Heyward, from Dargaville. The Lyceum management announce the sere ning of Shakesp are's immortal classic "Antony and Cleopatra" for Tuesday and Wedneday next week. The picture was produced by the Cines Company, the makers of Quo Vadis, and is a whole evening's entertainment.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Son* held one of their bi-mouthly horse sales in the Pukekohe horse bazaar yesterday. The attendance was good but bidding was slack, and many lots were passed in. Medium horses sold up to £34 and hicks to £25, but inferior sorts failed to find purchasers.

A special attraction for to-morrow (Wednesday) night's picture programme at the Premier Hall will take the form of a fine film of the Auckland Cup recently decided at Ellerslie. The race will be shown from start to finish together with a general view of the public, in which can be recognised several wellknown local " sports."

The residences o4 Messrs R. Bilkey, Wm. Goldsworthy, James Pot ; er, John Russell, Andre 1 ? Berriman, D. Goodwin, B. Foy, James Pollock, Thomas Pollock, H. A. Stuart, J. P. Moffitt, J. and A. Douglas and the business premises of Mr S. W. Mills, draper, King street, are rew additions to the Pukekohe telephone list. Mr K. W. Fisher, assistant engineer to the Frarklin County Council, has had notification from the Defence Department that he has been appointed to the Auckland Garrison Artillery Division with the rank of Captain. Mr Fisher has had considerable military experience, having served with the Ist Devon (England) Volunteer Rifle Co-ps and subsequently having held a commission as Captain in the Bombay (India) Volunteer Artillery. Police Sergt. Willcocks is not to. be allowed to leave, Pukekohe without some tangible recognition of the able and tactful manner in which he has discharged his duties whilst stationed in the district. He is to be entertained at " a smoker " to be held in the Pukekohe Hotel on Thursday evening next and an illuminated address, ac'.-ompanied by another form of presentation, will testify to public appreciation of the services Sergt, Willcocks has rendered to the local community. A meeting of the Pukekohe Town Band was held in Mr M. Wright's office last night, Mr H, Curd, secretary, presiding. The secretary was instructed to notify members and exmembers of the band that a pracMce would be held in the Masonic Hall, if procurable, on the 21st inst.—The Silver Band wrote asking if arrangements could be made fcr tie bard to pay a returo visit to Pukekohe at Easter time and give a concert. The letter was held over for further consideration. —Strong efforts are being made by members to re-organi e the band and promises to join have been received from a number of ex-Bandsmen. It is anticipated thatr thf. band will be brought up to its former strength of 25 instrumentalists.

The dry season has had its effect on the output of the Pukekohe Butter Factory, as although suppliers are more numerous than last season the laruest weekly making of butter, viz., 12 tons and 1 cwt. for the week ending November 14th last, fell short by 6 cwt. of the biggest quantity manufactured the previous year for the week ending November BtK The creameries supplying the Pukekohe factory are:—Alfriston, Aka Aka, Ardmore, Ararimu, South Bombay, Buckland, Brookby, Drury, Glenbrook, Manurews, Maramarua, Maungatawhiri Valley, Mauku, Onewhero, Otaua, Papakura, Papatoetce, Pokeno, Patumahoe, Pukekawa, Pukeoware, Puni, Rama Kama, Razirback, Tuakau, Turangaruru, Waiau Pa, Waipipi and Waiuku.

Mr Wily, of Mauku, writes to say that a strong appeal has teen to hira by a lady long resident in the district, but now living in England, for assistance in providing extra clothing for her brother's regiment, the Second Leinsters (the old 109 th). The regiment arrived in England about six weeks ago from India, and went almost immediately to the trenches. Coming from such a hot cilraate the men were most inadequately provided with clothing suitable for the rigours of a European winter. Subscriptions will be received at the office of this paper, or may be sent direct to Mr Wily, and will in due course be acknowledged thiough our columns. Mr Wily has already to thank a number of gentlemen for half-a-sovereign apiece, and h list of these donations will appear in an early issue.

The BEST bacon and ham in New Zealand. Dimock's Swan brand. Obtainable from F. PERKINS & Co. Pukekohe.

Rubber Stamps of all descriptions may be ordered at the Office of the "Pukekohe Times." Call and select from our illustrated catalogue.

"If any man has any conceit in himself," declared a speaker at a public meeting recently, " let liim stand for Parliament, and ho will find out what a blackguard and a rotter he is." v Laughter) Here is a story from a Londun paper about a War Office clerk.— An olficer was reported missing, and then killed. He got back to England by a round-about route, went to Whitehall and personally assured the War Office that he was alive. The official gravely informed him that his stitement would be enquired into ! If you would like to know why it is that the British people make such excellent soldier?, we shall let Carlyle tell you. E£o says there is in tiie race " the requisite unconscious substratum of tatiturn inexpungability with depths of unquenchable rage almost auquenchable." If you don't know now you never will. But, seriously, in these amazing words there is more than a substratum of truth.

The method of bone-grafting discovered by Dr. Alexis Carrel, of New York, and Dr. Yoron-)if, of Nice, at the Rockfeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, is being taught to French army surgeons by Dr. Voronoff at the Russian Hospital in Bordeaux. Several wounded soldiers, who lost pieces of bones from their limbs already have been treated successfully by this method, and prevented from being cripples for life, states a recent report from Paris. " When the sun is gone from east to west, the flying creatures of the night come out, and by their prattle and fun command attention. The flying fox, a cat head creature with a bat-like wing, for ever and anon attacks the mango fruit. He chatters, and he eats, and through the night his revelry runs riot, until the light of dawn takes him away into his leafy bed, where, upside down, he hangs throughout the day."—" The Pull Thro', " issued by the Expeditionary Force at Apia. "What do you want with all those hammocks and phonograph records and fancy groceries," asked the storekeeper. "Going to have summer boarders ?" " No," replied farmer Oontoasel, " I wouldn't waste all them on summer boarders. I'm trying to make the place attractive enough to persuade a few farm hands to linger around an' help me out with the wheat crop."— Kansas City Journal.

A touching story is told of the deathbed at one of the hospitals in England of "a Tommy " injured in the war. The soldier was past all human aid, and, heedless of his weakness and his pain, he called out, " Three cheers for Sir John French." (That showed who and what in his last moments, he was thinking of—duty and devotion to his commander-in-chief). After a long silence he said to the nurse, " Why don't the men cheer?" and he was told the other soldiers were trying to get to sleep. She herself, however, gave three little cheers for Sir John French, the man's face shone with the light afid gleamed from end to end with a i ontented self-satisfied smile, and so he entered into rest. The story is told (says a Southland paper) of a well-known Warepa angler who made a sensational catch on the Waiwera (Clifton). Leaving his mates, he was rather anxious to have the honour of securing the catch of the day and the largest fish. Near 01 if ton Homestead the banks of the stream are well covered with flax. He cast well down stream, and his expectation lan high when nearly all his line ran out. He began to realise that something exceptionally good was in store for him, but when he got on clear ground he found that he had hooked a crossbred sheep. Travelling down the side of the stream, and doing the 100 yards in about lOsec, he managed to save his rod, minus the cast.

Writes " Petrograd " to a Melbourne paper A naturalised German who works with me got a letter from his mother in Saxony last week, and he allowed me to read several passages in it. . In one his dear old mother said: " Paul and Heinrich are at the front, and wo have had no word from them for weeks, though we have expected they would wire from Paris or London. The dear God knows what the end will be with all the world against us, and every factory in this district is closed. Your father and I have. no hope, no means, and are facing starvation. Those who get one meal a day are well off, and what we are going through I cannot tell you. God curse tlie day our Kaiser joined hands with the Hapsburg race and went to war with the Englishes."