LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 5 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The coming of age of Stratford Primitive Methodism will bo celebrated in the Broadway church on Sunday next. There will be special singing by a large choir, assisted by an orchestra. John Mattson, who on Saturday was fined five shillings for dm a Icm - ness, appeared before Mr. C. D. k at the Magistrate’s Court this morning on a similar charge, and was ur-ad live shillings, and ordered to leave ilu town. u(i

“You will find no legislation such as that outside Utopia,” remarked, Mr. Justice Denuiston at the Court oi Appeal the other day, when counsel urged that an Act should bo strictly interpreted. No Legislature, his Honour continued, ever contemplated the full effect of an Act. All legislation was tentative.

The joys of town life are frequentlydearly bought. A man arrested foi drunkenness on Friday last was found >y the police to have five pounds odd in his pockets, but when he was arrested again last night on a charge of drunkenness his ‘‘cash in hand’’ had dwindled down to under half a sovereign.

Professor Mills, of Milwaukee University 7 , who has been lecturing in New Zealand for some time on economic questions, will deliver an address at the Town Hall next Wednesday, in titled 1 The Federation of Labour.” His services have been very much in request, and Stratford is the qniv centre in Taranaki in which he will be able to speak, as he is urgently wanted mi Auckland. Requests for addresses from Hawera and New Plymouth had to lie refused owing tc lack of time. In the case of Mollison v. the City Corporation and others, which was continued in the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court on Saturday last, some amusement was caused when the first wit ness, a well-known engineering expert, was called. Instead of geint into the witness-box, he mad' straight for the dock (says the “Otagf Daily Times”).! Various solution, ■vers propounded by learned counsel, one suggesting that it was the foie.' of habit, and another that it was due to an instinctive knowledge of when in expert witness ought to be. Hi; Worship was understood to say that the witness was probably 7 following the misdirection of counsel. The Jersey cow may ho something nore than a mere milk producer if the experience of a farmer in tins disinci is any guide, says the Palmcrstoi “Standard.” In November, 190!), h< bought a purebred cow of this brocc for 27* guineas, and in the two y r eart that have elapsed since, the value of tis investment has been returned several times over. The milk returns from the cow for that period totalled 220. In the month following her purchase she gave birth to a heifer calf, which now lias a heifer calf in turn. Bull calves wore horn to the cow, one in October, 1910, and another last month, and the former was sold for 15 guineas. The returns lor the tuo years, therefore, wore £35 15s incasn. a heifer and two calves, and the original com' is still in the farmer's possession. In the taco of tills it car scarcely he''said that the climate is lot suited to the constitution of the lorsev.

It is common knowledge that a lifebuoy is a good gift to throw to a drowning man, that lie will dutch at a straw if nothing better is it hand, says the Dunedin “Star. '

But there appears to he ignorance in some minds still, free education notwithstanding. Of recent times some silly person seems to have found i.'leasure in taking a lifebuoy from a hock : n a wall of the Harbour Hoard’s ofice at the wharves, and throwing the iroservor into the sea. One was reported as having been seen oyer near \mlerson Bay. Others, unlike the prodigal, have not come hack at all, me probably are ready for service dsewhere, the letters “0.H.8. having been painted over. As it would, he absurd to secure the lifebuoy to the wall, it seems a fair thing to oxur-ft wen an ignoramus to restrain his love if throwing things into the sea. Jl the habit be too strong upon him, tie night do the nation a signal service if he leaves the buoy on its hook and mows himself into the water of the ..arbour.

Mr. W. Milne, of Orlando Street, ,vho some nine weeks ago seriously inured his foot, and ims been an innate of tae Hospital for some time, received a pleasant surprise yesterday in the shape of a purse of sovereigns, subscribed as a sign of sympathy by his fellow-workers on the Way and Works Staff of the Railway Department.

w uranch of the Church of England

Temperance Society in connection with Holy Trinity Church has been formed, also a Band of 'Hope for the church children. The Itcv. \>. A. Butier was unanimously elected presi-

-mt. and Mr. C. fJ. Sole secretary. The first entertainment for the Band of Hope children will be held in the Parish Piall in a month’s time. Children willing to contribute items arc requested to fet the S icar or Secretary iCItOW.