LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 22 January 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Otago Daily Times states that it is likely that the residents of Balclutha will invite the North Island members of Parliament, after their visit to Central Otago, to spend a day or two in the Clutha district, going over the route of the proposed Tuapeka Mouth railway by motor car.

On his recent visit to Tc Awamutu and Cambridge, the Prime Minister received no fewer than forty-five deputations in one day.

Mr Bardsley, of Main street, Terrace End, Palmerston, has dug up a potato which has grown through the neck of a glass bottle. It is as though there were a large potato at each end with a narrow neck adjoining them, says the Times.

It is stated that the Frimley Company intend closing down their fruit canning works owing to the increasing wages (Till. Labour is too fruit canning, but the vegetable preservation works are to be continued, as the work is nearly all done by machinery.

How severe was the storm winch passed away southward of the dominion is indicated by the barometrical pressure at Macquarie Islands on Tuesday—2B.3o, the lowest recorded at the islands since the taking of observations was commenced by the Mawson expedition. The record was transmitted by wireless telegraphy from the islands.

Ai very serious disease is attacking cattle in many districts, writes the Taihape corrsepondent of the Auckland Star. It is one which can be easily remedied if veterinary advice is sought at once. With that casualness characteristic of farmers many do not seek advice at once as they should. One farmer in Mangaweka has had 28 cons out of 30 put out of commission for this season, and probably for the next. There have also been severe losses in and around Palmerston.

The Voice of Labour, a weekly jouiv nal published at Auckland, says : Plans for the launching of a big general strike, embracing seamen, waterside workers, drivers, and miners, is being projected by’ the Red Feds, at the present time, and systematic attempts to agitate the workers in these industries are to be made during the coming month. There is a certain section of the workers—a small section, but a noisy section—who are just spoiling for a strike, and any tuppenny affair that can be seized on as a pretext to foment a general “down tools” will be at once availed of.

The people down Hokitika way are pretty cute, says the Westport News. They lost no time in forming a Political Reform League in the town and branches in the outlying districts, and now they are preparing lists of. requirements to submit to the Prime Minister on the occasion of his forthcoming visit to the coast. Westport should profit by past experience. For y r ears it turned a cold shoulder to Mr Seddon, and got nothing. In the latter years of his administration it became more sympathetic and found Ministers more responsive' to their requests. Westport should begin with Mr Massey where it -ended with. Mr Seddon.

' The Taranaki Herald says: Messrs A. Thompson and William C. Burrows had a rather exciting experience while bathing at Te Henui on Monday morning. They were swimming about in four or five feet of water when Mr Burrows noticed a shark close at hand and immediately issued a warning to his companion. The shark-'was at this time within a few feet of Mr Thompson, and both bathers estimate that it was at least eight or ten feet in length. They at. once made for the 'beach, splashing about as much as possible as they did so, and got out of the water in safety. The shark cruised around, and actually followed the swimmers into shallow water, then turned, and apparently ■ swam- out to sea. ■ . .. I

“I am the farmer of the Ministry, and in future I want to be known as the Minister for Settlement,” remarked the Premier in replying to a toast at EuaWai. Mr Massey mentioned, as he has several times done during his present tour north of Auckland, that he intended to provide for every applicant with land for settlement as fast as he could, believing that the future prosperity of New Zealand hinged upon placing its unproductive land under settlement. “Who would have thought a few years ago,” said Mr Massey, “that the districts of Taranaki, then regarded as the dairy farm, would have been outdone by Auckland, and yet such is the case.” The Premier said that the o fit put from Auckland was already greater, and, with its superior climate, it must have a wonderful future as a dairying district.

For some time one or two of the Mauriceville Territorials have, for no apparent reason, been making things unpleasant for the local noncommissioned officer. Matters reached a climax at Monday night’s parade (says the Manawatu Herald) when a Territorial hailing from Kopuaranga, who used insulting language to the non-com., was invited to take his coat off after parade. The youth accepted the challenge, and a ring was quickly formed outside the hall. After a few willing bouts, in which ho got decidedly the worst of the encounter, the Kopuaranga lad threw up the sponge, crying out that he had had enough. The non-com. quickly stepped forward and shook hands with the vanquished one, stating that if he was treated with ordinary civility the matter would be forgotten as far as he was concerned. This settled the matter, and the crowd quietly dispersed.

Edgar Lansing Huston, the man who has already gained considerable notoriety by twice slipping away from custody while under arrest for breaking and entering, conies again under public notice in a similar capacity. After his final recapture, he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and lodged in Mount Eden gaol. There the practice is to search each prisoner after the day’s work, prior to their return to the cells, and on Tuesday evening Huston, when subjected to the usual search, was found to have secreted about his person several tools, including a screw bolt and a long punch of the kind used by stonemasons. It is believed that another

prisoner named John Paul, who wrtfcs in the plumbers’ shop attached to wle gaol, forged the screw bolt for Huston. Both Huston and Paul have consequently been placed under close restraint, and will appear before Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., at the gaol, on the charge of procuring tools with a view to escaping. Nino out of ten Gouty and Rheumatic subjects do not know that their health has been seriously undermined bv an excess of Uric Acid in the blood. There is but one certain cure, and that is RHEUMO—it removes the Uric Acid from the blood and seldom fails even in stubborn cases of Rheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, and Sciatica. Sold by all chemists and stores, 2s 6d ( and 4; 6d a bottle. 44x

•“Restitution—enclosed please find £lO » written in small characters in the’centre of a large sheet of foolscap, and enclosed in a large official envelope formed part of the mass of correspondence which the Deputy PostmasterGeneral dealt with on reaching his bffice, in Melbourne, on January 3id.

Much interest lis evinced by visitors to Rotorua in the tree-planting at Waiotapu by long-sentence prisoners (says a northern paper), and theie i abundant evidence of the success of the operations. Already the trees are making an imposing display on the m-eviously fern-clad hills, and a few, should see again magnificent forS occupying the mountain slopes.

A Waipukurau native had a dear da,', sport at the recent Porangahau meeting, as he lost £IOO theie. i ns was not the result of betting The money— five twenties— escaped from his pocket where it was deposited and has not been seen since.

The Stratford School Committee met as usual last night, and there was a full attendance of members. Mi 1 dip Skoglund being m the chair. Thei was B little business to transact, and the meeting was soon brought to a conclusion.

A youth behaved himself in a most * erratic manner in the mam thoroughfare of Masterton on Saturday night, says the Age. He purchased a Jew s harp, owl for two hours graded the street ploying one tune-the Notion al Anthem.

The Timaru Post has the following: A youth whose home is at Wawti had a curious experience, at an early houi on Thursday morning. He was i idin cuietly to work when what he ties cribes as a whirlwind, came along, lifted him off his bicycle three or four feet in the air, and landed him on his back—very much surprised, but luckily Unhurt.

Henry Johnson, the patient who escaped from the Avondale Mental Hospital has now been over a fortnight at large. It is suggested by one So ‘Storing the last few days has seen S conversed with Johnson, and who is convinced of the man s sanity, that the fugitive should now give himself up with a view to obtaining a further independent medical examination, which the public and press are certain to demand. Johnson will m this way le afforded justice, and the, qu« j™ of his sanity can be definitely settieu to the satisfaction of public opinion.

The striking of an eightpenny piece by a business man ir the Daily Mail is welcomed everywhere bv large employers of laboui as tne solution of the difficulty experienced in paying wages since the inti oductim of the English merlv a man receiving 30s a weeK wa. given a sovereign and a half-sovereign ' Khe i s paid 29s 8d The great m cXse in the demand for copper ha. caused almost a famme. An officxa, of the Mint suggested the lsa " f e J . a coin with a lower percentage of sil ver than the ordinary silver cpm.Thm thev could obtain a piece of money no. too" closely resembling either the sin ; ling or the sixpence. Authority for the U issue of such a com could easily be ; obtained by an Order-m-Council.

- Matters m connection with thi Stratford school picnic to be held a the Fitzroy Beach on the 30th ot tm. month are well in hand, ancl at tin School Committee meeting last nign the chairman reported that everyth in; augured well for a successful day. Stratford Co-operative Dairy Compan, has kindly consented to again suppl free of charge all milk required an at Fitzroy. everything is being ddn by the local authorities to assist tin committee in making complete arrangements for the large crowd are sure to join the excursion. 1 hi, year' the Rowan School will join u the picnic, permission having bee, granted by the committee some tun ago.

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