NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10346, 20 April 1911, Page 2

NEWSY PARS.

To-day's fore'clast: Strong to a gale easterly winds ; unsettled and cloudy weather may still be expected,; ■expect very heavy rain with flooded rivers ; glass fall; tides! high, sea. considerable.

The weather has broken and heavy rain continues.

For cloaning and clearing the WJiarepoa. North di'ain for a distance of 65 chains the Clounty Ciounoil have accepted tha tender of A. L. lilaclkweil at £20. For breaking and delivering 15 cubic yards of n:etal, Kauueranga Valley lload!, tho tender of J. W. Riclut at £2-2 10,y was accepted.

Thuib Mr S. Lia.uglilin as represc-n----tativo of the Ohineniuri County on the Thames Harbour Boiaid lias done extc'lleut work was testified to yesterday when lie was electe! unopposed- as the representative of tlio district named. Mr Laughlin is a

capable ajidl conscientious) member and gives a good deal of attention to pulblio matters.

Ornstein's fine perfomiance "at Pai'awai on Monday when he reduced the Australasian five mile record from 2tmin 43 7-10se:os to 27min 19 3-s&ieci3, brings tioi mind some fine tinrasl put up for the distan'cie. In 1890 Granti, of America, established tha present v.orld's professional record! 'by cove ring tlie distance in 25 mm 22si3cls, wiiile iShrubb running as an amaitemr at S^anfr.rd Bridge, London, in 190 i, did the di^itance iii 2-lmin 33 2-s&ccs.

In his monthly repoirl to the (''■■■■•• oil yesterday, tho Director of tlie Thames School of Mines (Mr W. H. B'afcor) in referring to the resignation of Mir D'odson, said that Mr Dwl«m Was a. thortiniah and capable insitructor a-nd carried out his dulties with great zeal and albility and that his depa.rturo is a diistinob loss to the .suliool. Tha memibai's vr&re of the opinion that it would to difficult to get an mstruidtc-r of Mr Dotlson'.s albility.

In the original military training notice, issued sorao time aero, there Was some amibigiiiitv in rc<>*aVd to the agio oif those who must, rejji&iteir under tlie new sschcmie 1. In. the amtudi'd regulations which Major-General Godley is now preparingl it will 1 ■ made clear that all yoitths who i>n Murdi 1, 1911, had passed tlieir fourteenth birthdlay, but had notreached their tweaitr-first. birthday, must register. Keg'istration mustt I.e. niiado by Jumo 3rd.

The Thames Defence. Cladt^s paraded at, tl,.- Haurttki Hall hist nijrhit. and received! their first, in-strucition-—which Was most capably imparted—a.i> the hands nf Staff ft.-r----goant-Instruietor Ti.ngw. Owing- to thy reconstitutum of the cadets tutdei' tlio Dofonoo Act it has been d.Icided .to flommencia with the elementary drill without a .mis. and as it is necessary that, ihc youths, shouldi reoeivo this ti gainin'_r if they are to Jiewime physica-llr well developed. efficient and soldier-like, it is Input] that the next parade, vrliieh will 1 ? held in a fortnight's time will he larcrcily a.ttended. The mdets decided to »rant their pa,troua,ire. U\ the Scowts Pi.itm-r. entertainment, (a. bjicfit. oivc-n ■hv Mi' Rohorts;) next WcrlSievday.