LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 73, 22 March 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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At the Magistrate’s Court three old-age pensions were renewed today. One 1 application for a widow’s pension was granted to tiie amount of £24. The proximity of the football season was evidenced yesterday when seveu-a-side tournament under Noiuierii Union rules was played at the -Viangatoki sports. The New Plymouth team won, after some good

games. i . , At tne Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr. -VV. G. Iv. Keurick, 0.M., judgment by default was l • given for plaintiffs with costs: —R. ■ 11. Jbr.glit (.Mr. hcokes) v. if. Adamson, claim £l 12s, costs ss; S. H. James and Co. (Mr. Tookes) v. W. ftyles, claim £1 Us 9d. costs os; R. flannaii and Co. (Mr. Thomson) v. A. A. Cuthbertson, claim £2 10s Gd, costs 10s. Mr. Christiansen reports that the track to the Mountain House is dryining up quickly, and that if the present weather- continues over the week-end an endeavour will be made to smooths over such holes as there may be. Mr. Murray, District Roads Engineer, is to visit the House at an early date, and if he can find'a good deposit of stone it is confidently expected that the metalling of the track will bo proceeded with before Jong. The addition to the house was completed yesterday afternoon, so that she ensuing week-end offers a splendid opportunity for citizens to view the premises and decide on what bedrooms to book for the Easter holidays. There'is now attached to a big gun on 11.M.5. Challenger a little brass plate, of which the whole ship’s company is extremely proud’. It represents a tiny target showing how the Challenger’s gunners won the distinction of putting up ji record for the British Navy at gun-firing. Here is what surrounds it: “Six hits in 25 seconds; British record; Norfolk Bay, 25. h November, 1911. L. S. Bennett, gnn.-hner; A. B. Greaves train, A. I'-, biawley; A. B. Bambury, Ord. Brown, Ord. Baker, A.B. Andrews, A. 11. Collins, A.B. Ell wood, A.B. Mowitsin.” To the ordinary landsman, )‘s:x hits in 25 seconds” may .moan nut .little, until it is told just how it becomes a British record—aye, and a world’s record, too. The Challenger, v. liiea is attached to the Australian squadron, is manned by Australians, with a complement of Imperial 3evv.ee men acting as instructors, and of fne ten men who manned the gun waie’.i secured the record, eight a 1” The previous British record was six hits in 28 seconds, se that the Challenger’s blue-jackets vi i'e up against a stiff problem when I tT-v tried to beat that, as the best j of Biit ; a galiners were always tryingi lo do better every day in some part . ot t ie world. 4 lie target was a square monied one, about f ft x 9ft in measurement, but the warship was steaming at id knots, at a distance of 1700 yards away from it—that is, approximately, a mile off.

The usual monthly meeting of the Toko Fanners’ X nion will bo hold in the Coronation Hall, Toko, on Monday evening. The list for to-day’s sitting of the Magistrate's Court looked somewhat farnvdable. However, by the time the Magistrate took his seat on tho bench there was little “doing.” All the defended actions were either struck out or adjourned, and the Borough Inspector was conspicuous by his absence, the by-laws having apparently been strictly observed. F. Plnm.tree applied for an order on a judgment summons against J. Cbristensen, but after Mr Wright, of Wake and Wright, examined judgmentdebtor on behalf of the judgment creditor, an order was refused. W. Bowman was ordered to pay Thomas Waite (Mr. Wright) £2 per month, the first payment to be made on March 30th. A Parisian diner-out tells how to ascertain ladies’ ages at dinner parties. If the girl you took in begins dining at desert and gets no having made a large meal solely of ices, chocolate creams, preserved ginger, and sugared fruits, with perhaps one cheese straw thrown in, you know for certain she is still under 20. If you are not sure whether she is a girl or a young married woman, you watch whether, on the contrary, she starts dinner at the outset, and having gorged on hors d’oeuvres, shrimps, caviare, pickled salmon, and anchovies, eats nothing afterwards. If «o, she is undoubtedly between 20 and 30, and married. Should she dine olf a wing of a fowl or a slice of the breast she has passed the fateful year of 30, but has not reached the worse date of 3-5. After 35 she will dine off game, venison, etc., and like it rather well. Finally, if the lady you took in to dinner helps herself to cheese, and. still more significant, appreciates the well-flavoured Gamenbert or the finely-matured Stilton, you know exactly where you .are. She 1 is a woman “without age,” as thei French language politely says. Tho following remits will be considered at the Prohibition Convention to be held at Palmerston North on Good Friday.—(l) That in the opinion _of this convention the proposal to appoint separate days for the taking of tiie political and licensing polls should be strongly opposed by the party; (2) that the time is now arrived when political action is necessary for the repeal ,of the threefifths majority ; (3) that as the Dominion prohibition is now an issue in the poll further organisation on a provincial basis is required; (4) that a permanent organisation to take charge of future Convention arrangements and resolutions, if any be set up; (5) that this Convention urge tho Executive to bring before Parliament the just claims of the party for a reduction in the three-fifths majority ; (6) that the No-License Leagues be requested to consider the advisability of .securing at least 1000 voters in each electorate to pledgq themselves, regardless of party, not to veto for any , Parliamentary candidate who will not pledge himself to do his utmost, to .repeal the law which, requires a tnree-fifths vote to abol- > ish licenses-r-which is really a fifty per cent handicap;, (7) that’ steps be at once taken .to organise on a provincial: basis. -