THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 65, 4 August 1915, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" lIV iwlhmu c.rlcnmtf, nor ml down auvlU in malice."

Members at the i'ukckohc Kod and Gun Club are notified that the championship medal, presented by Mr F. liraham, is to be competed for on Saturday next.

The best and cheapest footballs are procurable only at the Bcokery.— Advt.

Messrs Alex Harvey and Sons, Ltd., of Albeit street, Auckland, have an advt. in this issue respecting their manufacture of dairying implements and milk cans in particular.

The Auckland Dairy Fiojuce Committee has lixed the wholesale price for butter and egga for the week ending August 7th as follows Factory butter, Is 5d ptr lb; farmers, separator, and dairy butter, Is Id per lb; eggs, Is per dozon.

Knitting Needles at THE BOOKERY. Get them now.—Advt. A cablegram received by Mrs Wilkinson yesterday morning gave information that Captain A. E. Wilkinson, who is with the Fifth Reinforcement Draft of the New Zealand Expeditionary E'orc?, had arrive:! at Cairo. The communication stated "All well."

Messrs A lire! Auckland and b'un3 announce the charge of date from Lhursday, August 12th, as previously announced, to Tuesday next, August 10th, for the clearing sale to be held at Mercer on behalt of Mr S. Carter. Particulars will be found in an auction advt. in this issue.

A reminder is given that a patriotic meeting is to ba held in the I'ukekohe Hor.se Bazaar ihis (Wednesday) evening at 7.15 o'clock, for ihc purpose of signifying, by resolution, determination to carrv through the war to a victorious conclusion, to-day being the anniversary of the declaration of war.

Mescra J. T. Steiubndge and Co., report: "At our weekly salo on Friday last we had a good attendance and bidding was britk throughout. I'iga and pou I try came forward very much short of demand. Vegetables were in large (|uanities and all sold, fowls made from is to iis. potatoes 7s, carrots Is tj 23 dozen bin d I e, cabbage lid each or by the sack ils till. Caulitluwers k!d to fsd each, pumpkins 5?, melons Os cwt, o.uo.is l}d per lb. Sundries realised usual prices.

An Auckland business man, who has just completed a trip to all parts of the Lower Waikato, writes in congratulatory terms as to the large anil widespread circulation of this paper. Visiting farms right on the outskirts of Waiuku, in the Unewhero district, at Clevedon, at Ararimu, acd in fact all around, he says he everywhere came across the "I'ukekohe and Waiuku Times',' and it was evident that the various households all eagerly looked for its arrival.

A comrade of Private H. I*. Hopkins, of the Otago Battalion, who was killed at Uallipoli on May Bth, writing to Mr W. P. Hopkins, of Pukekohe, supplies particulars of the coble manner in wnich his brother (Private Hopkins) nut his death. He states: "Perhaps when 1 have told you how he died your grief will be lessened and you will be proud in the knowledge that he did honour to the country that gave him birth. It happened during some of the fiercest lighting that our men have been in. The bullets were Hying ail round the trench he and some others occupied, yet he was doing his b?st to chesr up those around him. He was one of the most popular fellows in his Company. His sunny nature won all hearts. Nothing daunted him. Then cane the order ta charge and it was in that charge that he received his death wound, not far from the trench. When tl.osc that were lett returned, they found him dying, lie died like a hero and a gentleman. What better epitaph could a man have? He died as any man should be willing to do--in the service of his country."

Wmtei Games—an endless variety at the Bookery.-Advt.