LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 81, 28 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The southern howlers. who have just completed a tour of the North Island, wore so nleased with the liesnatality extended to them in Auckland, that they have forwarded £5 5s to he devoted to some charitable institution. .

'■ ■ ... I Two first offending inebriates ap- | pea red at the local urt before Mr. 8. 15. Hunter, .Llk, this morning, one being lined 2s (id and the other ss, the default in both cases was fixed at 21 hours. i

The gross takings at “The Geisha” at the Town Hall last, nighjt- were £76 12s 6d, and alter paying expenses of the special train, etc., it is expected that the sum of £25 will be netted.

All day yesterday, and np to half through this morning, the .Borough inspector failed to secure a case of bylaw breaking during the extra traffic in connection with the Show. Cautions were given in several instances. The Raiigiwahia Senior Cadets are not going to allow any of their members to become defaulters through faults not entirely their own. Tne boys arc subscribing among themselves to purchase a horse lor a comrade who cannot afford one and who has a long way to go to and from drill. This action following on numerous convictions in other centres for shirking drill is refreshing.

On the result of the United States election a number of freak bets were made. A fat man, attired in kneebreeches, rode a boy’s velocipede to the White House, shouting, “I’ni glad Wilson won.” He had wagered that lie would perform this feat if the Democratic candidate was successful. Another man was stopped by a policeman while attempting to roll a peanut up the main avenue of White House with the aid of a crowbar. A new craze has been provided in Paris for very sipart people. The idea is that instead o'f using morphia, cocaine, or cefeine, they should employ as a stimulant hypodermic injections of otto of roses, violet, and cherry, blossom perfumes. The fragrances remain. An actress, who was the first to use it, declared that forty-eight hours after an injection of one of these perfumes her skin was saturated with the 1 aroma. ' The experiment is proving attractive. Cabinet has authorised the expenditure of the following amounts:— Foundations of Parliament Buildings, £3000; South Island Main drunk, £1000; Auckland Grammar School. £6OOO, and £6OOO in 1914; Midland Railway, £4000; Coal Creek Railway extension £4017 ; Otago Central Irr.gation, £1000; Lawrence-Rox burgh, £2OOO ; Lake Coleridge Works, £17.8 ; railway rolling stock, £6000; twenty miles aerial cahlesa £3Bll. It has also agreed that the Onehunga wharf be sold to the Auckland Harbour Board.

Two prisoners at the Invercargill reformatory prison attempted to escapt on Tuesday afternoon.. They were working in a concrete shod, and walked out when the warder was engaged supervising the loading of a truck. They were seen by another warder who was posted on an elevated bridge. Hf called on them to stop or he would firo. One prisoner threw tip his hands and stopped, and the other ran. The warder fired, and the prisoner threw himself down in a ditch and gave up the attempt. They will he charged with attempting to escape from custody.

The following are the results of tintechnical examinations which were con. ducted in Wellington in June last In the Education Department on behail of the City and Guilds.of London Institute ;—Ha-wera: Aileen M. Anderson, Darcy E. Morse, First-class pass-; Flora J. Scott, second-class pass. Wangarfui; Mechanical; engineering : Francis W. Blundel, 'William G. Coop or, Leonard 0. Cripps, grade 1 pass. Mine Surveying: Kenneth L. Bruce. William G. Cooper, Esmond J. Kine. grade I pass. Plumbers’ work; "William B. Beaumont, 1 Charles Tt -Lflteid. Harold M. Wysocki, grade 2 pass. Principles of Lead Work: Charles C. Aitken, Ernest Mooseman, grade 11. pass. ' Plumbers’ Work (practical): David R. Paul, grade 11. pass. The catch of whitebait in the Duller river has been the best for the past ten years, the factory in Westport receiving the bait every day, with tht exception of two days, since it opened on October Ist, and being keptjfor r considerable part of that time working night and day. On Labour Day 146 cases, equivalent to about 200 kerosene tins full, were put through thefactory, the catch for that and the following day being almost equal to that taken for' the whole of the preceding season. For a few days the factory ran completely out of tins (says the Westport News). The factory h.as,s' far paid out in actual cash £llOO tr whitebaiters, and probably there haf been another £SOO paid by others wire have been accepting fish for shipment to Wellington. For two days during the busy part of the season, a female fisher’s takings were thirteen tins and twelve tins respectively, yielding tr her the. handsome sum of £ls. There was a good house at Bernard’s Pictures last night, and everyone present was delighted with the programme screened. To-night, a special highclass double programme will he sub mitted for the first time, and patrons can rely on witnessing one of the ’best and most varied programmes yet submitted to a Stratford audience. The star film is entitled “The Siege ol Petersburg,” the greatest- war picture ever imported into New Zealand Also, there will he the “Collapse ol a burning bridge,” “Fate’s Warning (feature drama), and “The Narrow Road (a Bio. masterpiece). The comics are real laughter raisers. The programme also includes some ol the greatest scientific pictures, such as “Agriculture by motor,” “Cattle Fair in the Argentine,”- (a very fine picture), “Walk through a poultrj farm,” and the “Smallest pony in tinworld.” Mr Edwards (cello), and Mr Sid. Bernard, will also contribute sole items in conjunction with the huge programme to be submitted. An extra lengthy programme will he gone through, and the prices will he, as ritual, circle Is Gd, stalls Is. The foolishness of girls in marrying while too young was remarked upon by Mr Justice Cooper during the hearing of a recent divorce case at Auckland (says the Auckland Star). T petitioner was a- young woman still under 50 years of age, and yet 14 vears had elapsed since her marriage. Further, her husband had deserted her after violent treatment within a year of their marriage. “It is not the first time I have had occasion to refer to this matter,” said his Honor. “1 am certainly surprised in this case,” ho added, “that the parents should have allowed a girl who was barely 15 to marry this man. His desertion was of a * destructive nature, and lie threatened to shoot ht-r_ and forced her to leave, home. ’J iierc is no doubt that the wife was deliberately abandoned.” The Judge added that the provisions of the law in this respect were somewhat contradictory. While unmarried girls under the age of 16 were fully protected in the direction he had indicated, no provision was made to say that a girl under that age should not he married, the only requirement being that the parents should consent.

The deadlock in connection with the Reofton mines lasted practically six months, during which period it. is estimated that £-15,000 was lost in wages.

The African Standard was published at Nairobi under unusual circumstances, the Central News Agency reports. Owing to the breakdown of tlie electric supply, tiie printing machinery was stopped. The 'proprietor harnessed a motor car to the printing press and ran off the edition at the expense of a considerable quantity of - petrol, the paper appearing at the usual time without a hitch.

A dispute between two ladies whose pupils were taking part in the Wellington competitions was refesjksl to the secretary (Mr Jtis. Dykes) and drew from him the following diplomatic reply: “Under the circumstances, Madam was perfectly justified in protesting, and Mrs , in tailing up the stand she did. However, there it is—l am to blame. Let it go at that —don’t argue. I’ve sacked the office boy.—Yours in sack-cloth and ashes.” The premises at Dumfries known as Burns’s House, and numerous relics of the immortal bard, are to be sold shortly. The fact was referred to by Mr Jas Watt at the annual conference of the Burns Federation, held at Carlisle on September 7th, and attended by delegates from every part, of the British Isles. Mr Watt suggested that the federation should give a lead towards securing these Burns treasures, and thought that the Dumfries Town Council might purchase the house. The next conference of the federation is to be. held at Galashiels.

During the recent drily weather, says the New York Herald, Mrs Forrest Ferrill, of Waukegan, was confronted with the problem of caring for 200 little chickens which had arrived at that stage when their feathers were few and far between. She bought many yards of baby flannel, and designed suits for the shivering chicks. Stye made dresses for those she figured were of the variety needing dresses, and for the others smart trousers a'nd cut-away coatfe. Tho clothing was sewed firmly upon the chickens, and no more oh them died. When the hot wave struck the country Mrs Ferrill undressed her big brood, hut saved the garments for emergencies. The aftermath of the strike (says tire Auckland Star’s Waihi correspondent) is now commencing to be felt. Some of the women are experiencing a return to sanity and express regret at what has occurred. They state that they were urged on to yell out “scab” and boo the workers under an assurance that victory was certain. They and some of the men also now admit that the Federation leaders never at any time had anything tangihle_ to support their statement that victory was assured. “The whole thing is a had mistake,” said one striker’s wife, “and I admit that we are getting a little of our own back now.”

The fight in the United States against rats, as protection from-the invasion of bubonic plague, is the subject of warning and advice from the public health service in a report just circulated. The report gives methods of filing and quarantining against rats, and draws attention to the fact that the plague is “primarily a disease of rodents, apd secondarily and accidentally a disease of men.” This is emphasised -by the following jingle:—“First, plague in rats, and then in fleas; then in man, and quick disease ; -no rats, no fleas, no plague disease.” The Waihi exiles have been making much ado at street corner meetings .of thpiiv wrongs and, pllegecl sufferings. Recently (says the’ Auckland Star) one Was hording forth at length and practically no sentence was free from tire terra “scab.” “Say,” at last interjected a listener in the crowd, “that term ‘scab’ is objectionable; Auckland people don’t regard'the Waihi workers as ‘scabs.’ Suppose you call them ‘lilies of the valley’ for a change?” Tire crowd heartily approved the suggested change, and thereafter the use of the short and ugly word was less frequent, and, even so, was the occasion for warm protest whenever ft was used.

A discovery of considerable importance tQ naturalists has been made by Captain John Bollons, of the Government steamer Hipemoa, which arrived at Auckland on Monday says the. correspondent of the Christchurch Press). Upon the arrival of the steamer at PoretUa (East Cape) there was on the beach a curious looking whale, 25ft in length. Upon making an examination of the prammal, Captain Bollons was much surprised to discover that it was a particularly fine “bottle-nose” (hyperdon restrains) whale,- a species limited in Northern. Europe for spermaceti, hut which has not been known in southern waters previously. Captain Bollons secured the fore portion of the jaw and also a quantity of the flat, ivory-like hone from the pan of the jaw. From this bone Captain Bollons fashioned a Maori comb, which' in measurement and appearance is a reproduction of one taken from New Zealand by Captain Cook, and which is included m the few relics of that navigator’s voyage. Your best companion on your weekend trip is a packet of Regent Cigarettes. Smoke them and share in the Great Free Gift Scheme. x