Local and General

Waipukurau Press, Issue 311, 22 September 1908, Page 5

Local and General

Mrs Houseman's condition showed slight improvement this morning. She was in less pain and was able to get a little sleep. Thoroughgood has signed articles to row W belch, the Akaroa sculler, for the cnampionship of Australia. Mr Swinburne, Victorian Minister for Water Supply, has issued a writ claiming £5OOO damages from the Melbourne “ Age ” for alleged libel contained' in an article dealing, with the Water Supply Department.A meeting of the Alpha Lodge of Good Templars will be held in St. Andrew's Schoolroom to-mor-row evening, at 7.30. The .juvenile Temple will meet at 6.00. Messrs Horace Baker and Son report the sale of Messrs Dampney Bros’ property at Mohaka, of 6584 acres, at a satisfactory priceband the stock at valuation, to Mr J. E. Reid, of Waipukurau. Messrs J. Chilwell and Sons announce that they have just opened up new goods in drapery and clothing for the spring season, and invite inspection. In connection with the Dominion'Day celebration, the Railway Department announces that holiday excursion tickets will be obtainable on Friday and Saturday next. Resolution Island, the bird sanctuary at Dusky Sound, has been placed under the charge of Lieutenant ; Goldfinch, an ex-naval officer, who succeeds Mr Henry as caretaker at that romantic spot. Lieutenant Goldfinch is a passenger by the Hinemoa this trip, and will be landed on the island this week. —“ Otago Daily Times.” The local Post and '.Telegraph Office will only open from 9 to. 10 a.m. on Saturday next, Dominion Day. For the delivery of correspondence only the office will reopen from 7 to 8 on Friday evening. The mails for Saturday will be made up at 9 a.m. y The footbaths on the main street badly require attention. Trenches have been cut through them in places for the laying of gas-pipes, and the top of the filling has been kicked off, leav-ing-treacherous hollows. We understand that two ladies have lately suffered sprained ankles through tripping at these holes. The bazaar to be held at Waipawa in aid of the County Hospital and other worthy objects will be opened by his Worship the Mayor on Wednesday, September 30th, at 2.30 p.m., and will be continued for three days. A great many attractions have been arranged for, including nail-driving competitions, shooting gallery and motor-car rides. On the evening of Friday, the last day of the bazaar, a concert will be given by Te Aute College students.

When Autumn comes with golden ripening sheaf, With glow’ring skies, and days becoming brief, If from asthmatic pains you’d find relief Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. When Winter’s chills are at our very door. And daily falls of rain give mud galore If consequential ailments you’d ignore Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure

The mission being held in the local Catholic Church by Father Lowham, C.S.S.R., is attended by large congregations. Three .services are held daily, at 7 a.m., 9 a.m., and 7 p.m. The clerk to the Town Board, by advertisement in this issue, invites business people to close their premises on Saturday (Dominion Day) this week instead of Wednesday.

The hockey matches between the Waipawa Sub-Association and Dannevirke, which were postponed last Wednesday on account of the rain, are to be played to-morrow.

The steamer Ziona struck a huge sunfish weighing two tons off Bird Island. The fish became entangled with one of the propellers, and, as the steamer was unable to free herself, she proceeded to Sydney, partiailly disabled.

A tragedy occurred at Ballarat, Victoria. After a quarrel, while her husband was drunk, Mrs Cartledge received a fatal shot from a revolver which he was holding. Cartledge said the revolver accidentally exploded while his wife was trying to wrench it from him.

The Hinemoa is to visit the Snares, the Traps, Solander and other islands in search of the Union Company’s missing barque Loch Lomond. The vessel arrived at the Bluff on Saturday morning, and after coaling was to sail for the islands mentioned. The search should occupy about a couple of davs. »

The Green Island lignite industry is likely to receive a great impetus by a scheme formulated by the local collieries to erect a powerful electrical plant on the coalfield, which will supply the mining companies and kindred industries around Dunedin with power (says the Taieri “ Advocate.”) It is proposed to utilise the slack hitherto buried as waste to generate the power.

At the criminal sessions of the Napier Supreme Court, which opened yesterday, the Grand Jury found a true bill in each of the cases brought before them. J. Brough, charged with assaulting Michael Wallace at Mohaka and with escaping from legal custody, was found not guilty on the first charge and guilty on the second. The passing of sentence was deferred. The hearing of the charge against Charles Tipping of assaulting Johanna Smith, at Hastings, was commenced.