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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 27, 29 May 1912, Page 6

Very heavy rain fell last night and early this morning, a total fall of about two inches being recorded for the twenty-four hours to 9 a.m. to-day. Referring to the New Zealand and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. a.m. Reduced, advertisement, re springing heifer sale on Friday, the company request us to state that only heifers specially- advertised are being offered at this sale.

The belt subscribed for by local supporters of wrestling is to be presented to Louis Robertson about June 20th. Mr. P. Skoglund has received telegraphic advice from .Toe Prcschner, who now resides in Auckland, that he is willing to meet Rob inson in an exhibition bout on the evening of the presentation. A despatch from St. John's, Newfoundland, by wireless to Montreal, states that the sailing fleet off the east coast of Newfoundland reports the, worst season in the history of the sealing industry. The total catch is only 507000 seal's, which, is less than one boat secured in 1910. The fleet sailed on March 14, and comprised 2000 men and many vessels. On March 20 they struck an ice "pan," with 30,000 seals, which they speedily slaughtered. Then followed a bunt by the steamers. ploughing through the ice for the main herd, which usually floats down on the ice from the Polar regions. This search was kept up for hundreds of miles through the ice in every direction, but the steamers wvrv out for more th.an a week without success._ it is believed that owing to a succession of gales tiie herd went south earlier than usual. The average catch is .'IOO.OOO skins, representing a million dollars. With the best luck it is not expected to exceed one-third this year. This means a staggering blow to the general trade of the colony, which depends largely on the sealing industry for its supply of money for the spring business.

"The wreck of the Titanic," said Miss Hilda Spong tp a Christchureh pressman, "lias robbed the American stage of ou<- of its best men. Mr Henry B. Harris was the kindest and most'beloved of the Sew York theatrical managers, and his place in theatrical life will be v/ery hard to fill. He established the "Sfw York FoliesBergerc , in what was a veritable fairyland. The auditorium .vas tilled with small tables of glass, arranged in tiers. Patrons sat at these tables and were provide with a- dainty meal during which a vaudeville entertainment.was given on the stage. In the circles there were boxes where dinner parties could be accommodated. With myriads of electric lights glowing, and with the tables filled with bril-liantly-dressed society, the Folies-Ber-gero was entrancing. Unhappily it failed, for two reasons. ..One because the prices af first were too high, and afterwards too few. sailing the cxclusiveness of TV place,' ami the second because the entertainment was ro better than could be obtained in the hndi-elass vaudeville theatres of New York."

Tbo advent of the motor-car has proved a great boon to settlers in outlying districts. A farmer who lives finite fifty miles from Master ton stated the other day that since lie purchased a ear, he is able to make in two hours or so a journey which previously took him more than a day. One of the chief advantages derived from having a ear is that he is able to keep in touch with the stock markets, the fluctuations of which are so very important to the average settler.

In an interview with a reporter at Christchurch the manager of a large drapery firm said: "A number of the professional shoplifters are well known to us and to our staff, and are carefully watched from the moment they enter the premises till they leave. 1 think that the amount of shop-lifting which used to exist was clue to the offenders being treated too leniently, and we now have an inflexible rule that in every case in future proceedings must follow. We ourselves don't display any goods, outside, because we think it a bad system, and one conducive to theft. Shop-lifting, as far as we are concerned, is almost entirely confined to women, and very little is done, by men."