LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough balance-sheet has been received from the Government And t Department,’ duly certified as correct.

Mr. Poison; sborthahd reporter on the Opuuake Railway Commission, it; an old stfatlWd hoy. 1

Thi Dunedin Firp Board is import-, in*, a gbfdjiil 'first-aid motqr engine, costing £IOOO,, from Brothers,, Guildford. Two inmates of the Costley Home (Auckland), the man 80 years and the woman 10, have asked permission cl the Hospital Board to marry. Mr. J. Hunter, of Hawera, with his dog Wobbler, won a twenty guinea cup at the Moahanga Dog Trials, near TailiapL on Friday lastli < ■ Sportsmen' are reminded of the fact that thy'annual meeting of 'the Aec'lima tisatiOn Society is to he held''this evening. A 'Manaia syndicate of three chased ‘Mr. Dick’s farm at Otakcm last wopk at £45 an acre. Twenty-four hours afterwards they were offered £BSO on their bargain. John Manaia, a native, charged with forging and uttering, was further remanded this morning, to appear at the Magistrate’s .Court on Friday next. Mr - J. Leydon, 4.P., was on the bench.

The manager' of tlie Woodvillc Cheese Factory is confident lie will torn out over 80 tons more cheese this year than ho was able to.do last year. This represents over £SOOO in cash. He considers the suppliers have had a wonderfully successful season, and the milk has tested well.right through.

The second of the Parish Hall socials was held last evening, and proved to he an even greater success than its predecessor. Songs were sung by Miss Ken way, Miss Butler, and Mr. Twohill. The dance music was played by Miss o’L‘eary, Miss MacDonald. Miss King, Miss Black, and Mrs. and Mr. Penn. My. A. P. Staples made an efficient M.C. The floor was in splendid order, and dancing was maintained till midnight.

A correspondent writes, stating that steps were being taken against a (fruiterer whose unsatisfactory storage of goods was reported by the Health Officer, on April 9th, but up to 1 be present lias not heard anything in the matter. From what- we can learn, the offence was a piece of celestial ignorance, and that there is no case for prosecution in this instance. The has been strongly cautioned and informed that such practices are not permitted in New Zealand, at any rate.

At the parade of H Company to he held on Friday evening matters in connection with the Garrison Sports and Pastimes League will he gone into. There has recently been formed in connection with the Territorials a Taranaki Group Garrison Sports aTfcl Pastimes .League, with local branches in all garrison centres, Col.-Sorgt. Rabone being secretary pro tern, of the Stratford body. It is hoped by next season to have senior and junior football and cricket teams in the field. Field sports will be held at- a big picnic for the group, to be held early, in March each year. Much has already been done, but it is hoped to get everything in going order at Friday’s parade.

An ex-millionaire, formerly wellknown in club circles and the financal market, has been sent to gaol for ten days for bogging in the streets of New York. The nnpi, the “Daily Chronicle” says, is Colonel W. iV. Belvin, ex-president of the San Francisco and

Fastern Railway. Colonel Beilin, who is fifty-five years of age, filteen years ago was one of the financial and social leaders of New York. At rhe age of nineteen he inherited £250,000, and rapidly added to his fortune by his operations in Wall street. ile became identified with various railways and big business concerns. His fortune when lie was about thirty .vas so

great that he began to “plunge” in Wall street, and afterwards started a banking venture in London. His downfall began with the collapse of : Lis venture, and, Iris speculations in America turning out badly, lie lost all bo bad. He lias been lost sight of for quite a while, but this week r as arrested on Broadway as a vagrant and a beggar.

The usual fortnightly euchre party and dance will ho held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Midhirst, to-morrow evening. Messrs. Spence and Stanford, counsel for d< fondant in the Matakana Island ease, Robison v. Sanson, received word this morning that his Honour Air. Justice Sim had delivered judgment decreeing specific performance of the sale. Wo hope to he able to publish the full text of the decision in a future issue. The Mayor of Christchurch told an interviewer that the electric current from the Lake Coleridge supply should be available by the end of 1913, and an unlimited supply would bo available. The first installation would proi ide 10,000 horse-power and that could be increased as the demand increased. ICven at the comparatively high rate oi (kl per unit electricity was cheaper than gas at os 9d a thousand feet, and file effect of the coming into operation of the Lake Coleridge scheme would lie, he thought, to reduce the price of gas. The tunnel continuing the Jungfrau railway from the Klsmeer station to the Jungfrau Jodi (saddle), which is 11,400 feet above sea level, has been pierced. The tunnel emerges at the Jungfrau Jocii amid glaciers, about 2000 feet below the summit cf the mountain (13,659 feet). The building of the railway was begun sixteen years ago, and it is expected to reach the summit of the Jungfrau in about three years. The Jungfrau railway is the third highest in the world ,and the tunnel which lias just been finished is six and a half miles long. We owe to a German professor the momentous discovery that the or Hilary human being has a commercial value. It lias been supposed that if there is anything on earth entirely valueless it is the ordinary human 1 1ing, but popular belief is ance rat re shown to be wrong. The profcohoi

says that the average man contains fat worth 10s 6d, enough iron to make a nail, phosphorous enough for the heads of 2200 matches (the wood could be cut from bis head), enough magnesium for some respectable fireworks, albumen equal to a hundred eggs, a teaspoonful of sugar, and a pinch of salt. Altogether, the average man or \yoman is worth, about £1 12s at current prices, and, with advancing i ates, there is no knowing what he migl t not go to. Obviously this undeveloped wealth should attract the investor and the speculator, and some way should ■ be found to make available for pn; pc use all this phosphorous, fat, magnesium, eggs, sugar, and' salt. It has been too long true that “the g< od is oft interred with our bones.” Toko must have been very much impressed with the recent Leap Year ball, for yet another correspondent sends his version of what happened. He says; On Friday evening the ladies of Toko gave their long-lonked-for Leap Year” ball. ‘ It was easily the ’ event of the season, the arrangements being splend'd and everything going off luce Clockwork. When the M.C. , in her sweet voice, announced’ for the ' i first dance the stereotyped “Take your •partners for a .'waltz,” it was exhilarating to see chaining members of the fail -sox each rushing ■ foi* her desired partner, 1 ami When Mrs.' Biahchi i struck up the’ 'music''there was presented siidh a ‘galaxy 1 of youth 'and 1 beauty ad ha : S before been sfcen" ini Toko. And t'hbfr by-and-bye W^'had 1 : supper. Snppe'r! Y T e Gods, wh.lt a meal, and all prepared by the maidens of Toko. Who shall dare to say after this That cooking is a lost art, and with' Dickens, I would say. “Here’s to the founders of the feast.” I am told that Cupid (.God bless him!) had a very busy night on Friday, a considerable number of engagements being since reported, but 'whether 1 they be as “Ships th ! at ! pass in the night,”"or : P'Sbrong'his iron bands,”! remains to rr be seen. But it was a glorious gathering,! &nd■••we all * enjoyed ourselves mightily.”