LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Government Insurance Depart-

meat is opening an agency of its life and accident branches at the post office, Midhirst, as from February 24th. The monthly cheques for suppliers of local factories are;—Stratford Co operative Dairy Company, £8,827: Xgaire, £3588; Lowgarth, £2619; Cardiff, £2122.

There was a touch of winter in the air last night particularly, and to-day the south wind blows fresh and cutting to the body. Indeed, the Polar regions have breathed upon us rather cruelly this week.

The manufacture of tobacco, says the “Waikato Argus,” is attaining the dimensions of an important indus try in Hamilton. The industry has been carried on successfully for some time, and the demand for the tobacco has grown to such an extent that a new company is being floated to extend the business.

The Stratford Domain Board commences the year with a credit balance of £ls 7s 7d. The annual meeting was held yesterday afternoon, when there was an attendance of three members of the Board. A report of the meeting appears on another page.

We again draw the attention to the farmers and fanciers generally to the most important matter of to-day, and that is the closing of entries in all sections for the forthcoming Taranaki Agricultural Society’s Show, which is to bo held at New Plymouth on February 26th and 27th.

Out of 201,000 children examined ih the schools .by the London County Council doctors during last year core than half showed physical defects. One-third suffered from enlarged ton sils and adenoids, and- four-fifths from bad teeth. \

A Melbourne cablegram states that the Chief Justice, sitting in divorce and commenting on a man brutally ill-treating and deserting his wife, said it was not very difficult to conceive such treatment if the man was orangoutang, in which case he would be shot, and power should bo given to award imprisonment and the lash in such cases.

Already £10,750 has been subscribed to the Australian General William, Booth memorial fund, and another £I2OO is needed to put 'the proposed schemes into operation. The schemes include a home for working and rieedh men in Sydney, a. home for young girls in Camberwell (Vic.), ,a central memorial hall in Melbourne, and ten smalL er Victorian halls. Premises for the first two have been purchased, and the additional sum is required to carry out the others. The sura, says Commissioner Hay, will not allow the acquisition of the buildings free of debt, but will enable him to finance the schemes on a sound business basis. Victoria’s contribution was £5850, and New South Wales £4900.

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr W. G. Kenrick, SAL, judgment by default was entered in the following cases :—Stratford Electrical Supply Company (ATr Drift) v. Ed. Joblin, claim 9s 9a and costs os; Jos. McCluggage (Mr Duff) v. John B. Murray, claim £l4 8s bd, and cosis £1 10s 6d; Cash Boot Arcade (Mr Thomson) v. G. H. Thomas, diim 12s and costs 13s; D. Steven (Mr Thomson) v. A. C. Wilmshurst, claim £4 13s and costs 10s; same v. Mark Cronin, claim £2 2s and costs -os ■ P. W. Menzies (Mr Stanford) v. H. A. Prehble, claim £2 and costs 10s; N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., (Mr Duff) v. A. McPhail, claim £43 7s 3d and costs £2 11s ; Mcßain and Childs (Mr Wright) v F. Gooch, claim £39 17s 9d and cost.* £2 14s. In the defended case, Scott and Jackson (Mr Thomson) y. Jos. and W. Sharrock (Mr Duff) claim £1 16s, for gravel taken from pit, judgment was for the plaintiff for £1 18s, court costs 13s, and witnesses’ expenses £2 Bs.

For some time past owners of motor cars in Southland have suffered considerable annoyance in consequence of the loss of accessories 'belonging to their cars. Motor garages have been the object of clandestine visits and petrol and other articles have mysteriously disappeared. The perpetrator of these thefts has not been brought to book. On Monday two detectives from Invercargill visited the rctsidence of a avcll known farmer named Colin Gerrard, at Morton Mains, and it is understood they found there a motor car tyre which is claimed to be the property of another man. When informed that he was about to be arrested the man concerned sought safety in flight, and though diligent search was made for him by the police his whereabouts could not he discovered. Afterwards he gave himself up at the police station in Invercargill, and was then charged with the theft of a motor car tyre. The accused, who is a married man with a family 7, was remanded for a week.

During the holidays the children are bright and happy and no better time could lie chosen for having them photo-, graphed. At the McAllister studio special attention and extra trouble are taken to secure pleasing pictures and faithful portraits of the little ones, j The charges compare favourably with any in the Dominion, and you are invited to compare the results with those obtained elsewhere. No effort will he spared to add you to our long list of satisfied customers. Your patronage is solicited lor the McAllister 'tudia. Uroaawai- Strati ora. 5

TliG Willesden Council (Eng.) has decided to buy for £1350 three . viorcars for conveying between school and their homes children who are physically and mentally unfit.

A service in memory of those who perished iu the Polar Expedition will be conducted by the Rev. Mr Butler in Holy Trinity Church to-movow afternoon at a quarter to four. All Scouts are particularly requested to attend.

“I regard a flock of sheep (says a South Australian farmer) as the cheapest, best, and most efficient agricultural implement a man have on his farm. It works itself and pays the farmer for allowing it to work. 11 cleans up the fallow and weeds and fertilises the land at the rate of about 31b of liquid and solid manure per day adding to these essential humus to the soil, and, in combination with a proper system of crop rotation, " ill bring so-called worked-out lands to a. high state of fertility.”

The Arctic exploring ship Fram was not a teetotal ship. “Without exception,” all on board took and enjoyed “an occasional glass of wind or a tot of spirits.” On the sledge journeys alcohol was taboed, “not because a drink of spirits can do any harm, but on account of the weight and space.” In Amundsen’s opinion coffee can be just as injurious as alcohol, and he wisely emphasises the importance of the part played “by a glass of wine or toddy in social gatherings on such a voyage.”

The contractors for the work of repairing the s.s. Hawera are making excellent progress (says the Patea Press), though the work is far heavier than was at first anticipated. The damage to the hull in particular is very extensive and will take a good many weeks yet to repair. At the present time work on the hull is proceeding as rapidly as possible, the engineers in the meantime taking the opportunity of overhauling the engines and refrigerating machinery in a complete manner. When the repairs are completed the vessel will be repainted and made spick and span in readiness for the re-launching j

The functions of a jury were thus outlined by his Honor Mr Justice Denuiston at the Supreme Court at Christchurch. “No barrister should make an address to a jury,” he said, “which he would not make to the Judge. Anything that is addressed to a jury that would not he addressed to a Judge is iuferentially an insult to the jury. A jury is a body of judges sitting to try the facts of a case just as, in the absence of a 'jury, a Judge sitting alone,is a, judge of the facts of the. case. A jury, just in the same way as a Judge, Should be open to no appeal to other than judicial feelings, and counsel has no business to make such an appeal.”

In accordance with, .established, custom, the London Royal Choral .Society sang Handel’s “Messiah” on New Year’s Day—its hundredth performance of the work since the society was established 42 years ago. Madame Agnes Nicholls, who visited Australia with the Quinlan Opera Company, was to have been the soprano solist; hut indisposition prevented her from ap- W pCaring, and her place was filled—and, ■ according to the Daily Telegraph, very ably filled—ty another artist well known in Australia, Miss Esta d’Argo, who, it is said, has rarely sung better. Madame Ada Crossley is also highly praised for her interpretation of the contralto music'. In the society’s first performance of this work, in 1873, the soloists were Mesdames Edith Wynne, Patey, Mr Edward Lloyd (now the only survivor of the quartet), and Signor Foli.

Mr Bernard Shaw’s latest objective is to induce audiences to refrain from interrupting by applause or laughter, | except at the end of the play. He says they will thus get but of the theatre half an hour earlier, that the interruptions are disconcerting to the artists on the stage, that people look much nicer when they smile than when they roar with laughter, or shout excitedly, or sol)—and other things, in the customary manner of “G. 8.5.” The writer of theatrical notes in the Daily Telegraph says he seems to forget that audiences very often applaud, or laugh, or cry, to .relieve their feelings. They do not-always have the chance of retort offered to the denizens of the gallery who, when the Shakespearean actor declaimed the familiar line of Clarence’s dream, “Oh, I have had a miserable night!” shouted in reply, “What price us?”

Some time ago (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) coroners and medical men pointed out that cases of poisoning by lysol, self-administered, was becoming too frequent altogether, and that something ought to he done to make it a bit more difficult for would-be suicides to obtain the poison. But only temporary attention was' paid to such representations, and the dcadl ylysol, whose legitimate function is that of a disinfectant, can be obtained with the greatest ease anywhere. At the Melbourne Hospital alone the average of lysol victims admitted to the institution has been nearly three a week for a long while past. Seventy-five per cent of the victims succumb. * The fact that excruciating pain instantly follows the swallowing of . the smalWgt quantity 7 of lysol does not seem to be a deterrent. It can be assumed that the ease with which this .corrosive poison can be procured, added to the imitative propensities of mankind, helps to make the. number of successful attempts at self-destruction greater than would be the case it an impulse tv, end life could not be carried into effect so quickly. At first lysol was taken mostly by women, but now men prefer it to other means of ending their lives. Suicide by drowning is now ceaiparuvu eiy unfashionable.

» TH6 luxury of motor car rides wil shortly be within the reach of the “poor wurkin’ mahn.” Some loca garages are running at ninepence pci mile now, but mere is every reason to believe that before long the fare will be reduced to sixpence, at least that is likely to be so in the case ol one proprietor. jw;v ' V : A teaspoonful of Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion three times a day. and the worst cold is beaten off. Is 6d, 2s 6d 4s 6d. Loew© and Co.’s celebrated Pipes, from 5s 6d up a large range to from. Charles E James. 1