LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 January 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New War Cards and presents a l . The lioukery.' 1 ' Ihe i'ukckohc boruuyh Council invite tenders tur the supply of dust bius. I'ui particular'.' eee advt. Mr VV Haul-1 jii i- prior to = tuck tailing ottering nil summer dress materials at specially tor particulars

You want a lJiary for I'JIG. Full stock at The Boukerv."' The Kev J 1* Cowie is to be instituted to the charge ot the Fukekobe parish tc-morrow (Thursday) evening at Jst Andrew s (Church by the Ven Archdeaeuu McMurray. Police Sergeant Cowan is t,way from t'uktkoha on Li? annual leave, which extends up tu the :jlst inst. Ia his absence the station duties ate being shared by Constables Watson and 'ihorncll.

The New Year was ushered in at l'ukekohc with a vigorous beating ot gongs by vaiious residents in King street. Ihis was the only auatble sign ol the passing awav of the year l'J 15.

L'ukekihi sportsmen were strongly represented at the summer meeting oi the Au.kland Kacing Club, which cjticiuded 0:1 Monday. lnvesinienta on the "tote" are said to have proved remunerative in a p,ood many instances.

T'ukekohe ratepayers are reminded that the loan proposals of the LJorough Council are t> be ex plained in detail at a public meet ing to be hi Id id the Oddfellows' Hall cn Monday evening next, the poll taking place on Thursday ot next week.

Mr Charles Clarke, the popular proprietor cf the T'ukekohe Hotel, whose health for the past few weeks has been ui satisfactory, is now an in-patient at a private hospital in Aucklind. His many friends will be glad to , know thit the latest advice is that he is making good progress towards convalescence.

Consistent good behaviour on the part of the local public again characteiiied the New Year holiday?, but a first offender, whose morning libations yesterday had been excessive, appeared at the Police Court liter in the day on a charge of drunkenness and wai convicted and dis:harged.

The Fukekohe Ccurt elites for ttie current month and for February have been fixed by Mr Page, SM.., as tolhws Tuesday, January 18tb, Friday, .January 28th. Thursday, February )th, and Thursday, February 24tb. A Court will be held at Waiuku on Wednesday, the 19th inst.

At the Waiuku salayards on Saturday next Messrs Alfred Huckland and Sons will offer some 400 head of cattl?, also the Clydesdale stallion Royal Marcellaro and two five-acie sections situated close to Waiuku. Particulars are advertised in this issue.

The Railway Department announce the issue as on Saturday next and every succeeding Saturday until March 25th of toliday excursion tickets to fe Aroha and Kotorua, the same being available for return up to the Thursday fallowing tfcc issue.

There arc many things that are sacred to a Scotsman. Sandy and Donald were spending a merry evening over a dram, "Seeing that a bumble bee has more than two legs," sajs Lonald, "would yo say it was a bi' rd or a quadruped'."' "Man, D.inalu," sail Sandy reproachfully, 'why will ve begin a theological dK'J-.'i'n over a dram'."'

The proutUd amalgamation of the dairy companies operatirg in the Auckland Frvovincs ir not likely to be realised. Instead of jmning in one large concern the Te Aroha Company arc likely to cooperate with the Thames Valley Company and th 3 consequent withdrawal of thos3 two orgacnatioiiß from the main scheme renders the idea of complete amalgamation futile.

Alter staying at a bearding hou;c last week in Waiuku a named Robert Kelly departed on Thurs day, leaving behiad his old pair of boots which he coolly exchanged for a better [iair belonging to another inmate of the house, The police were communicated with aid the purloiner of the fcot gear was arrested in Fukekohe, where on friday he was sent3:ic:d by Messrs J T Stembridge ar.d 0 Roadlev, J.P.'s, to seven days' imprisonment for thett.

The shortage of paper for journalistic purposes is fast leaching an acute stage in New Zealand, the boats from Canada having tailed to tiring anticipated supplies, Prior to leaving Sydney just before Christmas Mr William Koulsto;\ however, kindly interested himself on behalt of the requirements of the "Pukeftohe Time?,'" and as a result nt his efforts a .of '': was brought over from the Australian capital this week by the s,s. Kiveiina lor this journal.

Local potato growers arc hardly likely to secure any substantia rewards for their labours thia season. Not only have the crops been on the light side but values have ruled law and expenses in moit cases will as a result fail to give a return ol any profit. There are icdications, however, that the March or "seed" crop may provide a compensting feature. Climatic conditions have so far been favourable tor a good yield two months hence, which should develop into a supply for "table' purposes as well as for seed requirements, and if the southern crops arc late, as it seems likely owing lo dry weather experienced i:i Otago, Fukekohe growers may yet partially recover present shortcomings. The att ntion of the police was called on Monday afternoon to an elderly stranger who was wandering round the streets ol I'ukekohc on hd apparently aimless quest, and for his own protection he was temporarily detained at the police station, where he supplied the information that he was just luvng a look round Duncdn in search ol his wife. In the meantime some e.xciUuKtii had been caused on the main funk express bound irom Wellington to Auckland by the disappearance therefrom ol Ihe individual in quest ion. He, it appeared, hid erne trom Dutiedm actl had been travelling on the train in ioin|nny vvnli In- witc, who happcicd to be t.tkng ' a nap when the train drew up at I'uKc kc-he for the south bound express to cross there. ihc old gentleman talmlv alighted and proceeded t) leave the station, with the result tha', as already stated, his eccentric actions became noticed. When the train reached Auckland aoxiou? telegrams were despatched along the line tor the miseing one bv the man's wife, and finally the pereonI lity of the stranger in Pukekohe was ki' ati.il. Yesterday morning Mtovas c'uly restored to hi:- hlh-