LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 20 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tim Borough Council last night received an application from the Hockey Cluh asking for the use of the Council’s steam roller in levelling the Cluh’s grounds in King Edward Park. Tire Council deemed that the use of the roller on the ground would he inadvisable, and the application was the roller when available if tho application was pressed.

It is stated that the whole of the i Territorial forces in the Wellington military district will be mobilised next year 'at one large camp; The question of purchasing a tarsprinkling machine was brought up at; last night’s meeting of the Borough 1 Council, but was deferred until a further meeting. in a licensing case at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court last week, it was stated that many hotels kept “black-lists,” and that when a man was “black-listed” he was not served whether he was drunk or sober.

At the Foxton Borough Council it was reported that for the eleventh year in succession Mr A. Fraser, Town Clerk, had succeeded in collecting the whole of the rates, there not being one penny outstanding . The Mayor said he believed this constituted a record for the Dominion.

In his speech at the Garrison Hall,' Dunedin, on Friday night, Bishop Cleary mentioned that the Roman Catholics of the dominion in their light for religious education had supported their demands by an expenditure of some £2,000,000. In Auckland city alone in the last two years the sum of £42,000 had been spent by them on religious education.

A\ lien tiie Maheno was rolling in a mountainous sea, on the voyage from Sydney to Auckland on Thursday, she received a wireless message from the Wimmera, bound for Sydney. It contained an inquiry for a medical man, and Dr. Scott, of Tasmania, had the novel experience of prescribing for Captain Entwisle, of the Wimmera, which was speeding through the gale miles distant.

Probably not many of our readers have heard how “the stevedores beat Bill Massey,” (says the Waitara Mail.) It happened on Saturday. The marine visitors were waiting to get out of the ship, and finding time hanging a little heavily on their hands, they decided to “open the bridge.” A barrel was obtained to deliver the oration from, and three bottles of beer accompanied the party for the christening—and other purposes. A length of white ribbon was purchased,' and this was stretched across the structure. After the opening speech, which was “thick, but not long,” it was announced that “Bill Massey had been beat,” and the bridge was opened.

Judge Gavegan, of the New York Supreme Court, caused a sensation during the hearing of a matrimonial suit recently by his comments on fashions. There was a lady in court gowned smartly in a walking costume. Her skirt cleared the floor by 2in, and she was sitting with her legs crossed, and was showing grey dancing shoes and grey silk stockings. The Judge stopped the proceedings of the court, and, addressing the lady, accused her of making an improper exposure of her limbs in a public place. “Your lower limbs are insufficiently clad,” he said. The lady burst into tears, and frantically pulled down her dress.

Somebody lias sent to Mr W. Belcher (Dunedin) a specimen ballot paper for the eleventh election district of the fifth ward in the city of Pittsburg, The Star states that it is a wonderful ballot paper, over two feet square, filled with columns in small type. There are 345 names on the paper, under 11 party headings. To a Britisher the thing is a gigantic puzzle. The elector votes, apparently, not only for his Presidential deputy, but for State Treasurer, Auditor-Gen-eral, Senator, and representatives in Congress, also on the question of local borrowing. The Americans must be thp first people in the world in intelligence as well as in other matters if the ballot-boxes are not filled with informal voting papers. The ordinary mortal, confronted-with such a paper, would probably get a headache and score out the lot in despair.

The system of cow-testing advocate! and in many cases adopted in regarc to our dairy herds by the Agricul tural Department’s officers was rathei unfavorably commented on bv s>. well known Otago dairy farmer

thorough believer in the value of teeing if scientifically applied, he has one fault to find with general practice in Xew Zealand, and so convinced of its gravity is he that this year he has discontinued the testing of his herd. He points out (says the Dunedin Star) that usually there is an interval of some 1G hours between evening and morning milking, and of but eight hours between morning and evening. When this is the case it is almost always found that a cow which yields say, two and a-half gallons at the

morning milking only gives about

gallon in the evening. But in quality the evening milk is found to be far the richer; yet for the purposes of testing, samples of equal pnality are taken from the pail morning and

evening. The result of such a test, I therefore, gives an entirely false and flattering idea of the cow’s “doings” in the all-important matter of butterfat. The point seems so obvious, that some explanation is needed, as it appears that veterinary science, or its practice here, does not square with the principles of arithmetic. “The great thing, so far ns my experiencegoes,” added this gentleman, “is to get a herd of ‘stayers’—cows which will milk steadily and give a fair average quantity for 10 months out of every twelve. This is the cow that will come out on top every time. In this respect 1 have found the Ayrshire cross to he the host.’

Ladies 1 Warner’s Corsets are com fortable—guaranteed so—they shape fashionably. The bones cannot rus' or can tho fabric tear. Order r~ Local drapers,

I ho next meet of the Taranaki Hunt C hib will take place on Thursday next, at 1 p.m., at Mr Sam Death’s, Inglewood. Mr A. ,). Davey, DeputyMaster, states that members are ridmg out from Stratford and if they will communicate with him, times for starting, etc., will bo arranged.

•lohn Dunderson, who is in the hospital suffering from a fractured skull as a result of an accident on Saturday morning at the York Road Creamery, has regained consciousness, and is showing some slight improvement. In giving his version of the accident, lie stated that, seeing the belting of the machinery had slipped, he shut off the water and went down to the water wheel to put it on again. The wheel was not quite stationary when he got there, but he attributes the accident to the fact that he was wearing new boots without sprigs, which caused him to slip and become entangled in the wheel.

The 20th anniversary meetings held in connection with the local corps of the Salvation Army were a decided success. Adjutant and Mrs Brown, from Eltham, were in command of the meetings, and the addresses given in the four meetings held on Sunday by the visitors were inspiring and interesting to all. Adjutant Brown lectured last night on “Early Day Battles,” to a fairly large crowd, who attended despite the very wet and boisterous night. The financial takings were good, and the officers of the local corps wish to thank all for their liberal and practical support.

A little known story is told of the Prince of Battenberg in connection with the visit of the H.M.S! New Zealand to Auckland. In company \\ ith one or two other officers ho was piesent at a private ball, the night after the battleship’s arrival. The usher, not expecting such august company asked him his name, and receiving the reply “Battenberg,” announced “Mr Battenberg.” Shortly afterwards the’Prince, while dancing was interrogated by his fair partner, “Excuse me, but I didn’t catch your name?” “Oh, I’m called ‘Batts,’” replied the Prince, and Mr Batts he remained.

Bishop Clqary’s address,on the Bib-" Je-in-State Schools question at the Garrison hall, Dunedin,on Friday night was hstended to by a great crowd ofvn men and women—the women were in the majority. One of the speaker’s . strongest points .may fbe.quoted imex-jcr teimo (states, the Otago Daily Times.) After referring to what he termed the. In mutilation of the Word of G!od fo.psectarian purposes Dr said’: , .. Tnere ls unfortunately a, more shame-, ~ lul tale of sectarian inutilafion to he' ' told. The Queensland lessons have been lauded on the platform and in the press from end to end of New Zealand: In an interview 1 with the Wellington Evening Post of Februrary 12, so ardent a leader as Dr Youngman then on a visit here, declared that Hicse manuals had met with the ap^ 1 ‘ proval of Protestant churches in;' ia Queensland. Ladies and gentlemen,:/; in these Queensland lessons the Go- - ; veminent had suppressed the narra- q five of the virgin birth of the Said our of the .World! God forgive the Christian churches that approved of such a mutilation of the Bible.—(Applause). Our own Bible-in-Schools party in 1904 suppressed the story of the virgin birth of Christ. The Victorian party in 1900, in its approved manual, suppressed the story of the virgin birth of Christ, and one and all of them gave to the hapless children in the public schools an Ebionite Christ, not the Christ of the Gospels; and this wretched mutilated manual which was offered in 3904 to the children of New Zealand was indignantly described by Bishop Avenll, now vice-president of the league, as an emasculated caricature of the Bible.”-—(Applause).