LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13933, 11 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A scarcity of fish of all (kinds is reported in the Auckland market. Catches are very small at Thames. •'»■. The Onehunga. Borough Council proposes raising a. .loan of .£3500 for drainage 'purposes. Three 'business, premises at Ta.umaruuuii were entered by burglars 5 on; Tuesday night. L There is a great deal of 'unemployment among unskilled workers mi Auokland at present^ according i * to the »Auckland officials of the La- j bour Department. - | A sharp shook of earthquake oc-' , curred in Te Kuiti on Tuesday after- ' noon. The direction was northeast to south-west, and it lasted for quite twenty seconds. . Houses creaked, but the shock was too light to do any damage. ' About 1700 tons of iron rails, of '■ which IGOO tons are for Auckland, and the balance 'for Wellington, arrived a.t Auckland by the Port Pirie from London. Railway construc- [ tioni should 'benefit considerably by the arrival. . • , The meeting of the Auckland ■ Diocesan Synod, which was to have . commenced oni July 18, has been , postponed until July 25 in order to >l permit counitiry members to take . part in the peace celebration arrangements in their own districts. Brigad'iler-G-eneiral <7. W ; . Melvill and .Brigadier-General. R. .Yoiung,■ at present im England, Eavei, been called sipon by cableigi-aimi to return to New Zealand and take command of tihe, Wellington and .Canterbury ; niijitary distrifctlsi retepeotivtetty. i The Hon. J. A. Haaian, Minister , of Education, in going into the re- ) quTementiS for building! purposes, 5 estimated tlia.t the sum would prob--5 ably be something like £3,000,000. 1 A requiisiitiion 'from the) i university . senate had recently been/ sent to s him for a very large sum of money, . and this was not included in the ? foregoing estimate. Ther-' is no "just tw good."-—i^vt , "Necesisaty make© inches of miles L —mole hills of mountains."—Stanus s 'Way over in Sydney a lady tried . '" to getj Baslttet's Lung 1 Preserver— but, failing, wrote as follows: *I y enclosing £2 for some Baxter's Lung Preserver. One bottle did me such a " lot of good in N.Z. that I want 3 more.'* And it will do you good too. Just i now when the barometer is so rest- •: f less, you should have a large 2s 6d *' b'ttlfl handy/Chemists amd Stores.— 1 Ad»t.