LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 262, 27 March 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr John Beatty, on behalf of Messrs W. and R. Fletcher (N.Z.) Ltd., announces in our advertising columns, that he will be buying pigs at Runcimaa on Monday next and at Pukekohe on the following day (Tuesday) instead of on dates as previously announced. The change has been made by reason of the Works closing down for the Easter holidays. " Cabiria " is coming.—Read every word about Cabiria! The motion marvel of the age, a mighty screen play that has astounded live Continents. In New York, London, Paris and in Australia this picture ran for months. Cabiria is the most wonderful vision the mind of man has revealed. In Cabiria there are employed 18,500 people, 3000 scenes. 2000 horses, .50 elephants, and 30 camols. Cost over £ 100,000 and took two years to produce. Approximately 10,000 ft long shows the burning of a Roman Fleet of-100 vessels. Cabiria is not only the most gorgeous and spectacular motion play the world has ever seen, • but is ulso the greatest love-story in history. Tlip picture will be shown < at the Premier Hall on Saturday , next, March 31st, the usual prices < only are being charged.—Advt.

Particulars of visits to be paid next week in the Waiuku district of an officer to inoculate calves against Mackleg are ad/ertis-ed in this issue With the close of the summer season the evening attendance from 7 to 8 p.m. of the Telegraph Office at Pukekohe will be discontinued from 31st March.

The shooting of a horse had to be performed in King Street, Pukekohe, on Saturday evening by reason of the animal having broken one of its hind legs. The horse in question belonged to Mr Charles Tonge, of Pukeoware, who was just starting for home after an afternoon spent on the Pukekohe Bowling Green Apparently as the result of mis-stepping the fracture occurred. It retained its feet, however, but its suffering was put an end to by a couple of discharges from a shot-gun. A correspondent sends us a story which goes to prove that not all Irish bulls originate in Hibernia. He recently came across a Maori acquaintance who had taken up farming and was shown over the place by the proud owner. He noticed the pigs all ba<l their tails cut off and enquired the reason. " Oh, you know," said Hone. " No, I don't," was the reply. " Oh, go on,—l tink you know all right," insisted the Maori. Upon being assured that ho did no; a broad smile at the ignorant simplicity of the white man o'er-spread Hone's honest face, and ho exclaimed, " Why, dat my ear-mark."

The law of libel ia New Zealand is so unduly severe and presses eo bard upon newspapers in particular that things have often to be passed over in silence whi' h in the public interest ought to be most freely ventilated. This etate of affairs is pretty generally believed to be due to the fact that the acts of some of our law-makers will not always stand the glara of publicity. Under these circumstances it is pleasant to find a jury not only giving a verdict against a plaintiff who is a member of Parliament, but casting him in ccsts as well. This time the action was not against a newspaper but against the chairman of a local body, who had occasion to speak pretty plainly about the member's conduct with regard to a local bill. During the excavation process last week in connection with the relaying of the water-mains in King Street, Pukekohe, a careless act committed some years ago was revealed, namely that the all-important Government survey trig, which serves as the land-mark for measurements in the Pukebohe district, had been disturbed from its original position. The trig in question is a massive boulder of stone and it was discovered lying sideways in the ground immediately adjacent to the Seddon Lamp. It is understood that at the time of the erection of the latter structure the interference with the trig was made. A good deal of survey work will now be necessary to put it back on its proper site and the discovery explains a discrepancy in survey rep>rt9d at a recent meeting of the borough Council whereby the erroneous suggestion was made that Mr H Dell's property partially encroached on the roadline.