LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 67, 27 March 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The 100th anniversity of the War of Liberation was celebrated in Germany last week. At the principal ceremony the Kaiser read an order of the day declaring that Germany would protect her honor against any assailant. “To that end,” continued the order, “everybody in his place must take care that the army bears its devise not only externally, but above all in its heart.”

Tho Stratford School Committee recently forwarded a resolution to the Education Board recommending that a hot-water heating service be installed in place of the stoves, which had proved unsatisfactory. At the Board’s meeting yesterday the effectiveness of the system was not questioned by members, but some objection was raised on the score of cost, which was roughly estimated at about £l6O, and ultimately the overseer was asked to report on the whole question.

Constable Hooligan was on night duty, and so preoccupied with thoughts of a wedding he was invited to next day that he nearly trod on a man stretched on the footway. “Amah, he’s spacheless, an’ if 1 lock him up it’s at the coort I’ll be instead o’ tho wedding.” Ho knelt down, ' and then muttered: “By the powers, ’tis dead he is; bad luck to him!” Hooligan saw visions of an inquest instead of tho wedding, got tho cadaver on his shoulder, carried it a quarter of a mile, and dropped it on Doyle’s beat. But a few minutes before the rounds were changed Hooligan nearly fainted at kicking up against the same old corpse in much the same place. Doyle was going to the wedding too.

Monday, March 31st, has been appointed a special bank holiday in the offices of banks doing business throughout the Taranaki Provincial district.

A j-mile bicycle race for ladies has been added to the already attractive programme of the Toko Sports, which appears in another column. Before Mr Dyer, S.M., at Whakatane last week, G. Gregory, for supplying liquor to natives, was fined £75 and £2 costs, P. Atkinson £35 and £2 costs, Tutua (a native) £2O and £3 costs, Ratene (another native) £IOO and £3 costs, and G. Stace £SO and £1 costs, for similar offences. The weird ways in which a man may be at once careful and careless are well shown by a little bundle that a constable found on the banks of the Avon (says the Press). A man had taken out his false teeth, ivrapped them carefully in Iris handkerchief, and tied them carefully to the silver handle of his walking cane. All this ho did for safety presumably, and then left the lot on the river bank.

This morning members of the Stratford Borough Council and County Council and the Chamber of Commerce met at the County Hotel and a committee was set up to make arrangements for the banquet to the Premier to be held in the Tow r n Hall on Wednesday next. Tickets at half a guinea can be had from the secretary (Mr J. B. Richards). The matter is being taken up with enthusiasm, ’ and the banquet promises to bo a most successful one.

A rich gold mine has been discovered under very remarkable circumstances in Bombay. As a matter of fact, its existence has been known for years to an old woman who, instead of revealing her find to anyone, quietly set about working the mine herself. She carried on her secret operations for many years, and won enough gold to keep herself provided throughout that time with all the necessaries of life. Recently, how<ever, she was induced, by the gift of a beautiful silk shawl, to disclose the whereabouts of her mine. A trial shaft was sunk, and the stuff that was brought up was found to yield 130 ounces to the ton.

A reaction in favour of large families will, in all probability, set in sooner or later, but it is questionable whether it will even be hastened by any artificial stimulus, says the Melbourne Argus, which proceeds: “The change will be brought about, unconsciously, by its own desirableness. At present a wave of selfishness and cowardice combined has swept the civilised world before it. To save themselves the hardship of economising, and to save their childreri, as they believe, the pain of poverty, men and women resolve that their families shall be small; and, reaping their reward in present ease, they believe that they are justified in their choice. The lapse of a little time is all that is needed to show them the error of their ways. A lonely old age, the stamina of their children’s character weakened by luxury, and the absence of need for struggling —these are the price which they will ultimately have to pay for their present materialistic conception of a good life.”

A good instance of the appositeness of Scripture for all times and places was given in the Auckland saddlers’ dispute, which was settled on Friday before the Commission of Conciliation, Mr Haile Giles. After two days of bargaining, what was practically a dead lock had been arrived at; the employers had offered to give Is l|d per hour as their limit, while the union representative, Mr Rosser, would not agree to accept anything less than Is 2d. Being challenged to adduce argument in favour of his contention, the union advocate quickly quoted the text of which the following is the full rendering: “Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the ways with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver, thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto you, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou has paid the uttermost farthing.”—Matt., V. chap., verse 25. The argument was evidently quite sufficient, the ‘uttermost farthing” was agreed to, and the wage settled at Is 2d. ,

The Stratford Municipal Band has decided to give a performance on Saturday evening in aid of the General William Booth Memorial Fund. Cabling to the British “War Cry,” Brigadier Walker states the Toronto citizens’ effort to raise a hundred thousand dollars (£20,000) towards the Booth Memorial was unique in character and brilliantly successful. The amount was easily reached, as the city was united in its desire to honour the late General’s memory. The campaign was inaugurated on Monday (January 27th) by the Lieutenant-Go-vernor of the Province of Ontario. Commissioner Rees described the scheme and the purposes of the Memorial Training College with good effect, and messages were afterwards received from his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, the Hon. Sir James Whitney, Premier of Ontario, and Mayor Hocken, of Toronto, eulogising the cause and wishing prosperity to the undertaking. On the Tuesday, Wednesday,'and Thursday, 150 leading gentlemen of Toronto attacked the city with splendid devotion, while a huge clock announced hourly the progress they made. Indescribable scenes of enthusiasm took place when the announcement was made that the 100,000 dollars had been raised. Crowds cheered in the streets, and the whole city manifested delight. Warner’s Rust-proof Corsets. Every pair guaranteed not to rust, break, or tear. Your draper stocks “Warner's”, S

The first practice of Pirates of Penzance by the Stratford Operatic Society is to take place next Monday evening. A full attendance of members and intending members is requested.

The question of school children’s visits to the battleship New Zealand when she visits our waters was brought before the Education Board meeting yesterday by Mr W. S. Kennedy, and the Board decided to facilitate school on the occasion. Ihe Railway Department has arranged to run < trainc for schools to port stations on the occasion, and excursionists to be confined to scholars, teachers, and members of school committees. It is not definitely known at which parts the vessel will call, but the excursion will I be to the nearest port visited.

In connection with the classes about to be opened in the Stratford Technical School, that in Dairy Chemistry is worth special notice. The course of work provides for ten practical lessons each of which should he ""yaf great value to those engaged in ' dairy factories and in the dairy industry. The course will include lessons on the manipulation of apparatus; estimation of fat by gravimetric methods and by the Gerber method; acidity of milk; adulterations; preI servatives and their detection; the soI lution of analytical problems, water pij supply, impurities; analysis of butter (water, solids not fat, fat and salt; and approximate composition ol cheese. The course of work is practically the same as that taken at the well-known dairy college at Hawkesbury, N.S.W. '