LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 20, 23 June 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. Egerton Ward, of Taumaranui, who has been pioneer missionary among the Maoris in the King Country, will conduct the service in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening.

It is now some seven months since the above company commenced business in the Waikato, add it can safely be said that by putting on programmes that compare favourably with the best produced in the large centres, and by giving such excellent exhibitions as that, for instance, given at Te Awamutu on Tuesday evening last, it has gained a most enviable reputation. Patrons can always rely on getting value for their money when they attend any of this company's entertainments. On Tuesday evening next another fine programme will be put on, and should attract a large audience.

An effective advertisement to New Zealand was given on the Lusitania while crossing the Atlantic on the trip on which Sir Joseph Ward was a passenger. Five hundred of the passengers assembled in the largest saloon one evening to hear an address by Sir Joseph on New Zealand. The picturesque narative of Hinemoa and Tutanekai, and phenomena of fauua and flora, were touched on in a light and interesting vein, and in that cosmopolitan audience there were many who avowed their intention of seeing for themselves some of the interests that New Zealand has to offer. A leading American financer expressed his desire to go down at an early date to look for investments.

Full particulars of the district Coronation celebrations appear in another column. We have a few extra copies of this issue, and subscribers desirous of obtaining more than their regular supply will do well to apply early to the publishers.

A somewhat extraordinary case of assault took place at Gisborne last Wednesday. Two men named Henry Larsen and George Smith, alias Saville, were locked up for drunkenness during the evening. As Constable Dandy was passing the cell later he heard thuds and on entering found Smith, the younger man, punching Larsen, who was bailed up in a corner. No words were being passed by the two men, but Smith was beating his fellow prisoner with a good deal of energy. " Medical aid had to be obtained for the injuries received by Larsen, who appeared in Court with his head in bandages. When asked by the magistrate if he had anything to say regarding his extraordinary behaviour, Smith said he did not remember anything about it. Upon a charge of assaulting Larsen, Smith was fined £3 and costs in default 14 days' imprisonment, and he was also ordered to pay I2s 6d medical expenses.