LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I allow mg the lend of the Clifton County Council, the Ohura County Council lias rejected a proposal by the Me ha ii Coal and Estates Company that the County should undertake the reading ol the Mokau Estate.

, A\o understand that Messrs. C. and P. Jackson, land agents, Stratford, have disposed of Mr. Edward Row’s highly improved dairy farm Containing 1,10 acres, to a cash purchaser, at a s;it:;; 1 actory ffgnre.

. unkind people are! This morning m Broadway a motorist standing on the Jootpatii was aching with laughter at the spectacle oi a follow motorist seated in a hig,_ expensive car, being towed by a insignificant little maemne of half a “toot” power. Jlie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received tiie Billowing cablegram from their London house under date, Ifftli instant“ Frozen Meat.—There is a good demand lor lamb. The market is imciianged lor mutton, but is firmer for beef.”

At. the Magistrate’s Court this morning before a bench of Justices, Mr; G. .1) bole presiding, Alfred Craw--o.ul, and Arthur Burns, were oonvictod and discharged for drunkenness, i he former, on a second count, of indecent exposure, elected to be dealt with summarily and pleaded guilty. In view of the special enreumstances of tiie case, accused was let off lightly, .being fined £.3, in default one month’s imprisonment.

In reply to a telegram asking if the Government intended to give effect to what appeared m the Budget last year relative to the setting up of a Royal commission to enquire into the cost of iivimr in the Dominion, Mr. Glover, ~ ” rocc:vcd telegrams from the f rime Munster and other Ministers stating that the whole matter wilL be fully discussed at a meeting of Cabinet to be held next A\ CGJv,

•In the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting held last week, Mr J. Fitzgerald n I, g Tirana, ridden by J. But--17 Particularly successful. In Lie Stewards Handicap, of 100 Sovs, Ai aaa. lan third, and in the Hobson Handicap, m harness, of 50 sovs • W miles, won on the first day. On ■ie second clay Tirana succeeded in landing the April Handicap, of 100 nf'ino mi ks, and the Burn Handicap, or JOOsovs, 1-} miles.

A sador who deserted from the lufrquo binus wnen she was recently in ~ "® t | ,oi : t > a Pl>earcd in public after the , sailed, as deserters fred °‘wi s l at . (xl (says the Weatpoi i lines) that he, spent three or four clays m the scrub at the south , of tllG river, opposite the wharf, where he had a good view of the ship! Has. sustenance was a loaf of bread and a smaH quantity of other food, suppac'd to mm by a hoy whose acquaintance he had made.

A contemporary points- out that there are only two districts in the dominion ni which there are more spinsters than bachelors—namely, Canteroonn i tJle numbers being 229.) and 2, bo respectively. This is equal to an excess of over 11 per cent, in Canterbury, arid over 16 per cent, in Otago. In the Auckland distnct there is an opposite state of affairs, there being 7263 more bacheors than spinsters, which means that the excess is equal to 25 per cent. Bachelors are defined as persons of . W :: rs of age arid upwards, and spinsters as persons of 15 years of age and upwards.

Speaking at Dunedin, Sir Joseph said it ivas a pleasure to him to be clear of responsibility. He was now going to Australia on a pleasure visit, and if ne did not have a good time it would n °rc i e - n f To devmtees of go t lie wished to say he was taking his golt sticks with him, and; on the other Side lie hoped to encounter some prominent man on the Opposition side end give him a good licking. In Australia he would he clear of telegraph wires an d of people who thought t.iat it they wanted anything they had o:il> to appeal to him for it. When it was proposed at the meet■'iig of the Moa Road Board on Saturday that Mr Harold Trimble’s name soon Id lie placed on the Manganui Bridge, the chairman remarked that this kind of tiring had always reminded him of a verse which he had once seen which commemorated that some country chairman had, “out of his marvellous bounty, built tin’s bridge out of the funds of the county.” modestly made little of Ins services to the Board, hut was ultimately prevailed upon to allow his name to he handed down to posterity on the county bridge.

At the meeting of the Moa Road Board on Saturday a considerable amount of time was taken up with a discussion as to whether a culvert under a roadway with a depth of 10ft to '-ft. nf soil between the road and the, top of the culvert would stand up if the woodwork of the culvert had rotted away. The engineer was of the opinion that the road would not be in any great danger of collapsing, for lie said i rat numerous culverts in the country v ere completely rotten and not holding un any weight of earth. His opinion was not shared by some of the amateur engineers on the hoard, and a resolu-, tion was passed that the culvert should he filled in.

Wellington “Post” .asks:—Does a jockeys’ “ring” exist, and does it control and “fix” races? Basing his remarks on this question, a correspondent, under the nom de plume cf “Humbug,” suggests that now • a racing meeting is being held in Wellington the matter should be carefully considered. The correspondent, in very farcin] 1 language, states that the publa* knows what is going on, and unb'ss the officials take action, "general indignation will follow. “The public,” lie says, “finds the money and must be protected.” Our correspondent’s remarks do not refer to any particular meeting. His remarks apply to racing generally throughout New Zealand.

Last night at Waitara Mr. W. T. Jennings, ex-member for Tanmarunnl, was banqueted by bis late constituents. There were present besides the honoured guest the Hon. Geo. Laurenson and the Tlon. To Rangihiroa. The proceedings throughout were most enthusiastic, the Clifton Hall being taxed to its full capacity. During the evening a presentation of a purse of sovereigns was made to Mr. Jennings by the Mayor of Waitara, Mr. W. E» Jenkins, who referred in eulogistic terms to Mr Jennings’ valiant services to the district. In the course of his speech, .Mr. Lanrenson said the Taumanmni’s late member was absolutely w ittoe-t exeootion the hardest worker on behalf of his constituency of any member in the North Island. His specal hobby was fighting for the backhlocks’ settlers, and there was no man •* 1 had been more surprised to see defeated. He* Mt snr a . however, knowing Air Jennings as he did, that d a fresh elrelimi were to take place to-morrow, Mr W. T. Jennings would fir returned at the top of the poll. ■ (Applause.)