LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 92, 18 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlu> next N.Z. S. Co. stoniiur loading at Waiter i will bo tlio V, akamii. ifiho is duo to arrive on or about Aprd ■iut'li.

On April 20th the Mangorei Co-oper-ative Dairv Factory Company will pay out £2-s()‘ I,Bs 9d for milk, as against £2312 17s 9cl for March last year.

Tuesday next, the 23rd nmt. being St. George’s Day, will be observed as a bank holiday. The Hiverdale Company is paying out a bonus which will make payments up to about Is 2d for the season’s but-ter-fat.

The following are the amounts to bo paid this mouth by the various dairv factories, paid from Stratford:— Ngaire £2560, Lowgarth £1913, Cardiff £1423, Stratford £5982 ■ Delegates from all fire in Southern Taranaki, reaching from New Plymouth, meet in Stratford to-day to arrange the details and time airi place of meeting of the first biennia 1 I 1 ire Brigade Demonstration to be held in Southern Taranaki. Ihe demonstiatiou wTI lie run on similar lines to the one recently held at Danncvirkc. The meeting of delegates will probably ho held at"the If ire Station at 8 p.m.

A dozen years ago under the Southland Education Board there was an equal number of male and female teachers. Now there are nearly twice as many female as male teachers. The annual' report, commenting .on the matter, remarks: “Entry into the profession should in some way ho made oven more attractive than it now is to young men of the right stamp.” The letters patent granted for the dignity of a baron cost ,£l5O, and foi that of a baronet £IOO, payable to the Blrnrd of Inland Eevenne. Other expenses to be incurred by the newlyhonoured include new crests or eoats-of-arms, while some wish to have their “genealogical trees” properly made out. Consequently, the Herald’s Collego is busy after the issue ot a list of honours, and the total expenses of a baron are not far short of £IOO, and those of a baronet exceed £2OO. Whether the hunger sense has its seat in the stomach and thirst in the throat has been a subject of much scientific controversy. The Italian physician, Valenti, now puts the seat oi Doth these emotions in the gullet; he found that a cocaine injection in the oesophagus (the channel from the month to the stomach) resulted in immediate suppression of the feeling oi both hunger and thirst. Savages have long known that the chewing or cocoa leaves renders the gullet insensitive, and destroys any desire for food or drink.

The Chinese revolution is likely to have one curious effect —namely, to cheapen the price of silk. The reform movement is spreading quite as much among the well-to-do Chinese as among the lower classes, and,'in addition to dispensing with their pigtails, the Chinese are abandoning their former dress in favour of Western clothes and for the silk garments which they used to wear are being substituted clothes made from Yorkshire woollens, and cut in European style. On this account large quantities of Chinese silk will ■ find its way into the world s market and cause a drop in prices.. The place where the great steamer Titanic lies is on the Grand Bunks., of Newfoundland, the greatest fishing ground in tne world, especially toi cod, from a vast submarine elevation over 600 miles in length and 200 miles in breadth, with a depth of water varying from 10 to 100 lathoms. I h e y\ intei lasts from December to April, and dense fogs and innumerable icebergs render navigation always a matter of great peril. Many brave ships have o-one to the bottom in the neighbourhood of Cape Race, the muth-easteni extremity of Newfoundland, iheie is a lighthouse on the Cape, the tower of which is 100 ft high, and the light is visible nineteen miles. Attached to tho station is a powerful wireless installation.

Paderewski lias just left his Swiss estate at Merges to pack up for a five months’ tour in South Africa. Then, after a short rest, he hopes to go to America. The huge sums earned in America have vanished, and though tired out, the great pianist must set to work again instead of quietly composing at home. Generosity and rash speculation have dispersed Ins fortune. He keeps quite a court at Merges, where no appeal for help is disregarded. Though fifty-one years old, Paderewski still enjoys the adoration of crowds of women, whom his wife wards off as best she can. He is a most devoted husabnd, and never receives a fair visitor without consulting her. She generally is present at the interview, to the discomfort of the admirers. r

Lord Glamis, the prospective Unionist candidate for the Barnard Castle Division, is the eldest son of the Karl of Strathmore. Whether at “question time” any of his future constituents will ask him to tell them the secret of Glamis Castle remains to be seen. The curious point is that for nearly two centuries the secret hips been'kept from the outer world, hut kept it has been in spite of the fact that on more than one occasion an heir, before he knew it, has announced his intention to disclose it when the knowledge came to him. Queen Victoria let it be known through a mutual friend that she would like to he told it, hut the answer the mutual' friend got was brief and to the point.

Jt is now almost impossible for anyone to get into Buckingham Palace, where the King resides when in London, unless he goes on some legitimate errand and knows enough to be able to proceed to the right gate and door and explain to the guardians the exact object for which lie comes. Homeover, if lie is not known to the guardians, he will be kept under disc supervision until someone in authority is able to vouch for him. .In Queen Victoria’s early days, however, the Palace seems to have been ope i to

any impertinent intruder. A boy named Jones seems to have had a n ania for going into the Palace. On several occasions he was found hiding n the private apartments. Of him, Lady Sandwich wittily said that he must be a descendant of the original ln-1 go Jones, the architect.

Lord Lamington, a former Governor of Queensland, who has just left England for a caravan expedition through Persia, is the chairman of the Persian Committee. Ho has had a distinguished colonial career. As Hr. Charles Coehrane-Baillio, ho acted as secretary to the late Lord Salisbury,

and then went into Parliament; and, after succeeding to the title, was Governor first of Queensland and then of Bombay. He enjoys the simple life, shoots and fishes, is keen on botany, and lias shown himself distinctly averse from the pomp and vanities which surround a colonial Governor. Lord Lamington is the socnml ho! lor of : 'b ■

title, his father, Hr. Cochrano-Baillie, having been made a peer by Disraeli in ISSO. The story goes that whei* the two lads were at school together young Disraeli, who already indulged in dreams of greatness, said to young Cochrane: “When Pm Prime .Minister of England, Cocky, J’ll make yon a

A practice ef “H.iVf.S. Pinafore” takes place tin's evening. The Sunday-school teachers of Holy Triirty are busy preparing their scholars for the annual concert which it is hoped to get off early in May. Mr. W. P. Kirkwood invites ladies and gentlemen favourable to his candidature' for the Mayoralty, and willing to act on his committee, to meet at Messrs. C. and E. Jackson’s office at 7.30 o’clock on Friday evening. The Eltharn Argus) often well informed on political matters, publishes the following paragraph : Mr. W. T. Jennings, ex-member for Taumarunui, is spoken of in political circle- as the Liberal cancliate for the Stratford seat at the next elections. A meeting of Boy Scouts will be held on Tuesday in the Parish Hall, when a lecture will he given on processes connected with the tanning and curing of hides. It will be followed in the course of a week by a lecture on the care of saddles and harness. Scouts attending those two lectures will have a good opportunity of preparing for the test for the leather workers’ badge. A contemporary remarks: “Mucli interest is centred in a young man (nineteen years of age) by the sporting fraternity of Wanganui. Caldwell, the man in question, has proved himself to be of great promise; strong as a lion, and the heart of one. As an oarsman he is making great strides under a trainer, and it is confidently expected that within a short time Caldwell will ho fit enough to enter a challenge for the world’s rowing championship.” When Mr. C. S. Lauclui came to New Zealand in September last as Consul-General for Cnina, he brought with him three female domestics, one of whom, on arrival in the Dominion, was assigned the duties of housekeeper. On March 21 she die, and Mr. Lanchu, who is re-visiting China, is taking her embalmed remains with him, so that the deceased’s husband, who resides in Canton, may h 1 satisfied that his wife is dead. When the

ship roaches China the outer lid will he unscrewed, and the husband will be afforded an opportunity of looking through a glass inset in the inner lid to assure him of the fact that he has lost his “better half.”