LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 13 January 1912, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

Mr Newton King not'lies tlio public that section No. 494, Hamlet Street, which was to have been offered for sale to-morrow, has been withdrawn. Fifty thousand well-grown rainbow trout fry are being released to-day by the Acclimatisation Society in the Patea and the smaller streams. The Midhirst School Committee has been informed by the Railway Department that on February Bth it will be impossible to stop the morning train at To Henni bridge to enable the school children to hold their picnic on tlie Henni beach. The committee met recently and decided, in view of this, to hold the picnic at the Breakwater on February loth, the children being taken down by the morning train, returning by the last train from New Plymouth. The fact that the shares in the Hnddart-Parkor Company have been largely over-subscribed is of two-fold significance, remarks the Newcastle (N.S.W.) “Herald” of recent date. It is, in the first place, evidence of the public belief of the perfect soundness of this maritime enterprise, which, with the other companies carrying on Australia’s growing coastal trade, has developed materially in recent years. But in the next place, and this is oven more satisfactory from the public point of view, it is at once striking proof of the prosperity of Australia, and of the fact that recent legislation has not, as has often been asserted, proved a bar to the extension of business enterprise. The wisdom of this legislation will have to be left to time for proof. The fact that all the Australian shipping companies are from time to time increasing the size of the coastal vessels, to say nothing of those which travel outside Australian waters, practically and emphatically testifies to their conviction, based on a knowledge of the past, that the Australian marine trade is on the upward grade.