LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 358, 8 March 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons are to hold their next horse sale at Pukekohe next Monday. Entries are invited.

Tenders are invited by the Tuakau Town Board for the construction of a concrete arch culvert at Tuakau. For particulars see advt. In a replace advt. in this issue Mr W. S. Kussell directs the attention of farmers to the Eed Star separa'or for which he is the local agent. A clearing sale is to be held on Wednesday next by Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons on Mi G. M. Greenway's farm at Buckland. Particulars are advertised in this iisue.

Eatepaytra of Franklin County are notified tnat rates are now p lyable and that legal proceedings will be instituted in the casa of all rutes not paid by the 23rd iust.

The N.Z. Farmers' Co-on, Ba ;on and Meatpacking C>., Ltd., will be buying pigs next week as follows: - At Pukekohe on Tuesday, at Papakura and Eunciman on Wednesday, and at Buckland on Tnurtday.

Harvest festival services are to be held next Sunday at the Presbyterian church at Waiau Pa at 11 a.m. and at Mauku at 2.45 p.m. and 7 ."0 p.m., when the preacher will be the Rev Geo. Budd, of Devonport. Gifts of produce, fruit, etc, will be forwarded to the Rev F. R. Jeffrey's Home.

At the Waikato Central A. and P. Society's show held at Cambridge on Tuesday and Wednesday last Mr A. J. Kidd's (Waiuku) Jewell II of Brundee won the championship in the Pedigree Friesian cow clafs Tho same animal secured similar honours at the recent Pukekohe show as well as the championship for the best dairy cow.

Included in a batch of invalided soldiers who arrived back in New Zealand on Wednesday were the following: G. W. Bycroft (Runciman); A. S. Carpenter (Papakura); C. 11. Crighton (Waiuku); Frank Gladding (Otahuhu); W. J. Glynn (OtahuhiO ; John Graham (Otahuhu); Jas. 1. Kelly (Otahuhu); and A. C. Luptou (Manurewa). The Waikato River Board have decided to refuse to comply with i tstructions received from the DepaTtineut of Lands to remove certain groynes placed in the river on the plea that thev (the Board) are endowed with Parliimentary powers to carry out such works as they think (it. If tho Department attempts itself to undertake the removal of the groynes the Board intends to apply to th« Supreme Court for an injurs ;- tion.

We understand tlu.t the decision of the Pukekohe Borough Council to enforce the by-law by which frontage owners are called on to pav half t le cost of kerhing and channelling roads is to be contacted in the case of certain works now in course of ex) cution in tho borough. Payment for the same will be refused and if the Council institute proceedings the defence will be that the by-hws as a whole are invalid inasmuch as sit the time of their adoption their publication was defective or as an alternative that tho by-law in question i* unreasonable since other roads have been constructed without c >st to frontage owners and also that, the making-up of any road is for the ; public good and u-e and not for the J imc.ediate personal benefit of owners, j

The Franklin County Council require the services of four experienced quarrymen for work at the Mercer quarry. For particulars see advt A further list of dates and places for the attendance of a Government officer to inoculate calves against blackleg jvijl be found in our advertising columns.'

A meeting of poultry, bird, and dog fanciers is to be held in the Pukekohe Borough Council Chambers next Friday evening with a view of promoting a show Interested parties are requested to attend Mr Wyvern Wilson, BM, who has for sime little time past been attached to the Auckland magisterial bench and has carried out the country circuit, is shortly to be transferred to Wanganui. His successor in Auckland will be one of the new Magistrates to be appointed. The big picture of the year, "The Manxman," the summit of achievement in the art of the screen, with Henry Ainley, Elizabeth Eisden, and Fred Groves in the leading roles is booked for screening at the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, on Monday, March 18th. By arrangement with the Picture Supplies, Ltd, this picture is to be shown at the ordinary local prices of admission.

Whilst a julgment debtor was undergoing examination at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon he admitted, although he professed to be without me ins, that he had partaken of lunch at the Pukekohe Hotel and had paid 2s for the meal. Counsel for the judgment creditor suggested that under the circumstances lunch at the hotel was an act of extravagance seeing that a cheaper meal could have been obtain ed elsewhere. The debtor, however, promptly retorted that he had come all the way from the King Country and having started off without breakfast he considered he was justified in having a good feed at midday In the end the Magistrate declined to make any order, expressing the opinion that it had not been disclosed that the debtor was in a position to pay the judgment creditor. How thoroughly warranted our leading article on Tuesday last advocating the internment of our Germans and their descendants was may he gauged by the following cable report, which was published by the daily papers the day after our article appeared; It reveals a state of things and a danger not only to our soldiers and sailors which will in the future damn the reputation of our politicians beyond redemption, viz. : " Commander Nicholls, speaking at Newport, said he was prepared to say that the submarine which sank the hospital ship Glenart Castle knew when she left Newport He demanded that aliens should not be allowed about the docks and declared there were spies in every port on the Bristol Channel. No vessel left Bristol unknown to the submarines. As examining officer for the Bristol Channel, he knew what he was talking about." Leaving Ellershe yesterday on the 7.15 a.m. train from Auckland and travelling in a horse box conveying some steeds destined to run at the Te Aroha races to morrow a party of stable-boys or jockeys, it is said, amu ed themselves by throwing stones at random out of the train between Papatoetoe and Wiri with the result that a railway employee, named William Weatherspod, was struck and hurt. On the arrival of. the train at Pukekohe one of "the boys " named Charles Hogg, was as the result of cpmplaint made taken into custody for a charge of assault. Brought up at the Pukekohe Police Court later in the day before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., the accu«ed ; who stated he was in the employ of Mr J. Williamson, the well known trainer, was remanded on his own recognisances to appear in Auckland next Thursday, Sergt Cowan stating that the police hoped to trace the identity of the other members of the party.

Mr Wily, of Mauku, who for a good many years past has taken a very considerable interest in the subject of the improvement of the Waikato River for navigation, ha? been invited by the Wukato Navi gation League to accompany the Hon. T. M. Wilford, Minister for Marine, on his vi*if of inspection of the river next week. The Aki Aki and Otaua ratepayers have al*n askttd Mr Wily to act as their repro sentative on this occasion. The Minister aad party will Jeiva Cambridge early in the morning pn Thursday, March lkh, by motor launch, and will call at Hamilton, Ngaruawahia, Taup'ri. Huntly and Rangiriri, arriving at Mercer in the evening. The following morning the journey will b* resumed at an early hour, and the works of the River Board and Port Waikato will ba inspected Enough should be seen to give the Minister forna idei of the immense potentialities the Waikato river holds as a highway for produce and passengers