The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, April 10, 1906. Local and General.

Waipukurau Press, Volume I, 10 April 1906, Page 2

The Waipukurau Press. Tuesday, April 10, 1906. Local and General.

:O: The Press will not be published on Good Friday. Should anything of unusual interest happen, intimation will be by means of “ extras.’ Full particulars of the Easter train arrangements are- published in another columu, including details of running to and from Waipukurati’races., • Committee meeting ball Club this evening.< Mackay & Co’s sale at the inart on Saturday afternoon was well attended. . A vehicle and two horses were passed in, highest bids not reaching vendors’ reserves, which appeared to be much in’their favor. An 8-yr-old spring cart bay horse was sold for <£l4 15s. Produce and poultry sold under the hammer; some good potatoes went for 17s per sack. Nearly all lines were quitted at auction ; the balance after the sale. Mr Mackay wielded the hammer for the first time in Waipukurau, and received congratulations for the able manner in which he conducted the sale. Next sale on 21st inst.

M.r Chambers has completed the erection of Mr O’Donoghue’s shop, near the Tavistock Hotel. 1 The Martinborough Star records that “ while Pahaoa settlers were coming into town they were considerably discomforted by swarms of, black ants all along the road, one settler having swarms in bis hair, and on his bod} .” Smne of the whiskies dispensed in the Lower Valley have an evil reputation. An Evangilistic meeting, conducted by Mr Robertson, was held in thq Town Hall on Sunday evening. Meetings will be conducted during the week in a tent erected near the school. All are invited. The American mail brings news of a lady who is a grandmother at the ajre of 29. The lady in question is a Mrs James Null,of Wellsboro, who became a wife at 13, a mother at 14, and a grandmother at 29. Mrs Null’s oldest daughter, who is the mother of the baby, was born December 25th, 1890. Bhe was married December 16th, 1904, at the age of 13, to Frank Vittoe, 20 vears old. On November 28th last a daughter was born. ■' The ground whereon Mr J- Skidmore’s boarding-house is to be erected has been levelled,and building operations will be commenced at once.

A ’Frisco mail closes at the local office at 5 to-morrow afternoon.

Very successful sales of Patutahi, Buckley, and Motu sections were held at-.Qisborne yesterday by the Lands Department. We understand the Town Hall will be illuminated by the Kitson light on Monday night, when the cricket social takes place, thus giving the public another opportunity of judging its merits. Mr P. W. Sampson is the local representative.

Oswald Elbey, aged 16, was drowned yesterday at Lyttelton by falling off the cattle wharf,

The Premier’s recent remarks at Timaru regarding the existence of meat and fish rings and the possibility of interference by a scheme of State shops or depots seems to have attracted much attention throughout the colony.

■ The handsome silver and oak cricket shield presented by Mr G. Hunter is on view in the hall of the Tavistock Hotel. It is a fine piece of work. The A team will be photographed with the shield on Friday-

The Hon A. Pitt, Attorney-Gen-eral,opened the new post-office at Parnell (Auckland) yesterday. A fine three-ton spring waggon has just been built at Air W. H. Booth's factory io the order of Air D, Kemp. It has been discovered that shopkeepers in Lancashire are cutting up American bleached beef into single pounds and retailing it as Australian tinned mutton, tHereby practically stopping the sale of the latter.

Forty vessels have been wrecked at the Chatham Islands since 1837 to the present time. In a few instances there was loss of life and valuable cargoes. Erratic currents around the islands are mainly responsible.

Mackay & Co. report having held their fortnightly sale at Waipukurau on Saturday, and the following prices were realised :Medium draught horses, £3O ; buggy horse, £l4 15s; turkeys, hens 5/- each, gobblers 6/- each ; ducks, 4/- pair ; fowls, 2/6 pair; potatoes, 17/- per sack ; second-hand sacks, 4|d and 6d each.

The Kaffir rebel chief Bambaata and his followers are making things hum in Natal. Further reinforcements are to be sent to quell the rising and shell the chief’s position. The daughter of Bret Hart, with the aid of a number of her father’s friends, has opened a typewriting office in London. She is a proficient typewriter. Te Aute College defeated Waipawa at football on Saturday by 8 points to nil. Glasgow played for Waipawa, but otherwise the team was not a representative one. It understood Mr Glasgow is being transferred to the Wairarapa. Air W. H. Booth draws attention to the fact that he has just opened up a large and varied stock of cartridges for the shooting season. Intending purchasers should make a point of booking their wants for the opening of the season, to avoid disappointment. Mr Seddon left for the South this evening. He delivers a political speech at Rangiora on Wednesday, He will probably be back in Wellington on Thursday morning. A man has been sentenced to death at Sydney for outraging a girl.