LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9, 4 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Borough Council will he hold on Monday evening next. Our readers will hardly need a Anal reminder of the visit of “The Dandies” to Stratford this evening. The entertainment is most highly spoken of by all our contemporaries. An mforrmtion has been laid against Mr. Cecil 11. Thornton, editor of the “Inaggahua Herald,” for using threatening and abusive language to Mr. R. Semple, organiser of the Federation of Labour. Mr. Thornton is well known in Stratford district, where ho was engaged in journalistic pursuits for some time. If you have a cold, take Tonking’sj Linseed Emulsion, and you’ll soon find that you haven’t a cold at all. '= 'x!. 2s Gd. 4 s 6d.

Mr. Philip Hereford lectures in the Town Hall, Stratford, to-morrow evening, on "The Relationship of Man to the Ape." Mr. E. W .Mason, a farmer near Feilding, was attacked by a bull on his farm last Saturday, and sustained several fractured ribs. The butter in cool store in New Zealand at August 31st last was:— Auckland 2500 boxes. New Plymouth 911, Patea 2132, Wellington 2U38, Lyt. telton 297, Dunedin 634; total 8512 boxes. The total at August 31st, 1911 was 652 boxes. At the Hawera Court yesterday several defaulting territorials and one junior cadet were fined various amounts ranging from 5s to 20s, for failing to attend the annual eamMr neglecting to put in the required nißLbe'r of parades. The new Mount Egmout House is now nearly furnished and ready for occupation, and the road is in fine condition for motoring right up to the house, which will be formally opened by the Governor on October 4.

The health of the pupils cf Bird Road school is very unsatisfactory >at present, and the attendance has suffered through the epidemic of mumps reaching the locality. Included in the large number, of passengers coming out. by the Athenic, which is due from London in a few days, are seventy-three assisted immi-grants—fifty-one adults and twentytwo children under the age cf twelve. Nearly all the adults are women, among whom are thirty-six domestics and ten wives coming out to rejoin their husbands, says the "Times." An unusual case was heard at the Magistrate's Court at Feilding recently, when W. J. Honore, of ltan.gataua, sued C. G. Campbell for the • sum of £5 Is 6d, value of goods purchased. The particulars of the case as disclosed were that while the defendant was at the Palmerston Hospital his wife died. Two ladies, who were in charge cf the defendant's bouse and children, purchased mourning material for the seven children on the death of the mother. The defendin t repudiated the debt, because, he ••.aid, he had given no authority for such a purchase. The Magistrate held that the ladies were agents of necessity, and he did not think there was any excess in providing the material. . Judgment was given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, with £2 8s costs. Quite a number of applications for certain concessions have recently been lodged with the'Chief Secretary of New South Wales by companies anxious to commence whaling operations, these being generally fdr grants of land on the State's coastline which may be used for the very necessary l ■shore operations. So far as the actual capture of whales is concerned—

even within the three-mile, limit—the State is not seriously troubled, and Mr Flowers, the Chief Secretary, _ said last week that they would .look kindly upon any new venture l either of that nr any other ' description. But the difficulty in the way of most applications is in the fact that those making them do not stipulate exactly what they want, and it was suggested that if the whaling companies’ would put forward' some concrete propositions, they would probably ho dealt * With straight away. •• 1: •' '■

The Maunganul ildft 'Bluff on; the evening of August 26tlji ' (says. .the “Southland Times”) on what will probably .bo -her record trip to Melbourne. She carries the “Ben Hur ?; Company, and the management has arranged with the TJ.S.S. Co. for no effort to be spared in order to enable the company to open in Melbourne on(Saturday night. The saving of a dew hours in the length of the passage means consuming over 100 tons of coal additional, and the company’s cheque to secure this “speeding'up” amounted to a tidy sum. Even then everything depends on the weather, conditions were promising ,at Jthe time of sailing the record, trip should bo accomplished, and, the Manngnnni should land the company in ; Melbourne in time for a rehearsal .'op Friday night.' ..

A curous anomaly in the law is the position which gives erring boys who are employed-by private persons or, institutions, an advantage over hoys who arc employed by the Government. “For instance,” remarked a Timaru resident, “if a privately employed hoy commits some misdemeanour and has to he dismissed, he is put off quietly, and no one getting to know why his services were dispensed with, he has a chance to retrieve his position ; hut with hoys employed by the State the position is different. Whenever one of these is dismissed the fact is published in the “Gazette,” where all the world can see it, and the boy is under a great hardship thereby.” He thought the law -should be amended, and that the State should set a better example than to injure a boy who is thrown out of work.

A resident of Auckland who has just returned from a visit to Queensland expresses his opinion of the backward sanitary condition of Brisbane. With

a population of oyer 140.000 people, and an almost tropical heat in summer, the city is still without a drain-

age system. The present position is that the undertaking ifimild now require to be carried out on such a big scale, considering the requirements of the large population, that no move is being made in the desired .direction. The visitor says that Brisbane could he made a beautiful city, hut he has no hesitation in saying" that it is without parallel in the Commonwealth as regards total disregard of gfipitatmn and its proverbially dirty streets. “If ever an epidemic breaks’ ouk” he says, “it will claim a terrible toll in human life.”

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Agricultural Society, held in New Plvmouth last night, was well attended. • balance-sheet for the period ending March 31st, 1912, set down the cPioo-’Tr 611 for I tl ‘ e s Pi'ing show as rilioo f ai l < J tlie , expenditure as i4s 2d. lor the winter show tlie receipts were £514 7s, and the expenditure £440 11s lid. The total receipts wore £lßl2 2s 6d, and the expenditure £1623 6s Id. The annual report referred to the fact that during Mr. Cliff’s term of office no fewer than i ll new members had joined, bringing the total up to 839, which, with the 36 additional members elected at the last meeting, was further increased to S7o. The number of entries (2174) a t the winter show constituted a record for New Zealand, being nearly., 400 more than Palmerston Noyth, antbAver 900 more than Hawcra. the ensuing year were elected fB&J. lows President, Mr. J. S. CoiHfct: vice-presidents, Messrs G. W. Browne F. Watson, A. IV. Woods, L. A. Nolan, F. Orhell. W. Stanley, J. R. Hill; committee. Messrs. W.' Anihury, l! Taclvson. F. Elliott. A. Morton, A. Lister, Street (3). S. Brooks, A T Moo-e, B. -Toll. H. Gilbert, J.’ G. Smith, J. Mitchell, G. Giddy, ,T. H. Bagley; auditor, Mr. C. T. Mills; hou. veterinary surgeon, Major Young. Mr W. Amhurv was elected a life member of the Society.

How is a person to become the sis-ter-in-law of her grandmother and the aunt of her own mother? (asks the Paris correspondent of the ''‘Daily Telegraph”). This puzzle has been successfully solved by a young lady, Mdlle. Antoinette Graulliere, at Lunis,,in the Dordogne. She married M. Stelling-Laumont, of Pleurae, and as he happened to be her grand-uncle, and the brother of her grandmother, she therefore became her grandmother’s sister-in-law. At the same time she became, according to law, tne aunt of her own mother.

How a woman was mistaken for dead is reported from West Bromwich. She had a seizure in her home in lieform street and became unconscious. Efforts to revive her were ineffective, §d the neighbours coming to the collision that she was dead reported .'er death at the police station, ihc coroner’s officer was sent, and while he was in the house recording the required particulars the woman, who had been lying on a bed,- suddenly sat up, and said, ‘ ‘What’s the mat terr" ’ ihe officer called in a doctor, and the woman soon recovered. ' A Wellington detective, in giving evidence the other day, deposed that the accused was a man who habitually associated himself, to their disadvantage, with “flats.” Counsel for accused demanded that what a “flat was should be explained. Despite satisfactory explanations._ho persisted in demanding a story which would illustrate the current meaning of the word. “Well, sir,” said the new Cliiot Detective, “suppose a man with a little money got into trouble, and got you to defend hjm, we’d call him a ‘Hat.’ ” The solicitor sat down, the witness stood down, the Court laughed, and the accused “went up.”