LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 53, 17 October 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Philharmonic practices are advertised in this issue.

A local "wag" casually dropped into the Waipa Post Office yesterday, and informed us that Powelka had stolen the plans of the Post Office tower. If this report is true, it would seem that the Departmental officials are , not altogether responsible for the costly delay.

It is hardly necessary to remind readers of the entertainment to be given at the Te Awamutu Town Hall to-night by the Empire Picture Company. The programme to be shown has drawn record houses at Hamilton during its run there, and is most highly spoken of by the local papers. The ranch pictures are said to be among the best cowboy series seen in the Waikato, and nightly provoke unbounded enthusiasm.

The Rev. R. B. D. Hammond, a prominent Anglican minister of Sydney, who is touring the Dominion in the interests of NoLicense, will deliver an address in the Town Hall Te Awamutu to-morrow, Wednesday evening, as advertised.. Mr Hammond is a very fine speaker, and is posted on all the varied aspects of the No-License question. He has been having exceptionally good meetings all through the North, and to-morrow night's meeting is expected to be of great interest. Mr Hammond will answer questions bearing upon the subject at the close of his address.

As illustrating the tendency of some people to leave everything to Providence, the Rev. R. S. B. Hammond told rather a good story at a meeting at Gisborne. He stated that on a certain very rainy morning a small boy was driving a milk cart to a New - ' South Wales dairy factory. The cart contained several cans of milk, each of which had the lid off. Passing an old Scotchman who was likewise taking his milk to the factory, with the lids on all his cans,the boy called out, " Why don't you take the lids off your cans, you old fool, and take what Providence is sending us ?" '' Hoots away, laddie ! answered the old farmer; "I dinna leave things like that to Providence ; I attended to that .before 1 , left home."

The Waipa County Council call a meeting of ratepayers to consider the stopping of a road. See advertisement.

The last of the series of bridge tournaments for the season is advertised to take place on Friday evening.