LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 347, 22 January 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pukekohe Borough Council advertise in this issue details as to dog registration fees for the current year. Applications are invited by the Waikato River Board, per advt. in this issue, for the position of Clerk to the Board at a salary of £3 per week. Preference will be given to returned soldiers. Particulars of entries for Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons' sheep and ram fair to be held at Tuakau on Monday, February 4 th, are advertised in this issue and additional entries are invited. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons are to carry out a clearing sale at Pokeno on Thursday next on behalf of Mr. G. Fraser, who is going to the front. Particulars of the sale are advertised in this issue. By reason of Monday next being observed as Anniversary Day Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons' monthly stock sale at Pukekohe will be held on Tuesday instead of on the previous day as originally intended. A record house for any picture entertainment in Pukekohe was secured for the screening at the Premier Hall last Friday evening of I " Intolerance " and the crowded audience were delighted with the production. The privileges for the publican's and light refreshment booths and for the sale of cordials at the forthcoming Franklin A. and P. Society's show were submitted to auction by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons at the Pukekohe Horse Bazaar yesterday but in the absence of bids no business resulted. Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., is to sit at the Pukekohe Courthouse tomorrow [Wednesday) to adjudicate on the petition presented against the r.cent election of Mr J. S. Montgomerie as the representative of the Mauku riding on the Franklin County Council. The petition alleges that certain votes on behalf of absentees were cast at the election. Police court business in all departments is noticeably slack just now in the Lower Waikato. For the Pukekoho Magistrate's Court next Thursday one or two minor civil cases will be the extent of the " cause list," a similar state of things having prevailed at the Mercer Court last week. The list for Papakuia Court next Friday is also of a brief nature. The Pahiatua Herald relates the following incident The story is told of an Auckland gentleman, a Britisher whose business occasionally brings him to Pahiatua. He had booked a reserved seat by the' Main Trunk at Auckland, only to subsequently discover it had been commandeered, by order, he was told, of an otficer The traveller, perforce, had to stand for most of the journey, and great was his surprise and indignation on learning that his''reserved" seat was occupied by the notorious Count von Luckner ! Mr Henry Rogers, of I'ukekohe Hill, has just purchased from the well-known breeder, Mr E. 8. Lincaster, of Levin, the pure-bred Jersey bull llillcrest's Tramp, which was calved on August 2nd, I'J 1 ■">. Hillerest's Tramp is by Peter Pan - Flillt rest's Hope and the latter has the distinction of having given a record of I'.Hi olbs of butter-fat in .506 days, her age at starting tin tost in li» I.') being 2 years and 214 days and her yield for the period j having been 107.'53.f1bs ot milk. IMr Rogers' enterprise in thus ; strengthening his herd by sucli a valuable addition is to be commended.

Mrs. Graham, of Victoria Street, Pukekohe, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital yesterday suffering from a fiacture of the right leg through a fall sustained on Sunday evening. Two other accident cases were also admitted to the Ho.-pital l ist evening. A single man, Mr N Ken' whose parents reside in Summer Street, Stanley Pay, was suffering from in'erual injuries. Ho was woiking at Papakura, and while mounting a lr>rsn his foot slippel and the horse kicked him in the ah domen. A married man, Mr. Aithur Pitcher, a slaughterman, living in Princes Street, O'ahuhu, was suffering from an injured knee, the result of a kick from a bullock. A well-known former in attendance at the Pukekohe horse sale yesterday remarked to a " Times " representative yesterday that go >d heavy bone horses weie lailv wanted in the countrs and that such class of animal was threaten- d with extinction unless farmers pan! more regard to breeding. At jmsant. lie said, the general practice wis to mate any mare with any kind of ; entire and " weeds " were thus j becoming alarmingly numerous • instead of good stock l'"ing s 'cured ; and being avail i• • i