LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 31 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A well-known tobacconist on Lambton Quay, Wellington, is rejoicing in the fact that he has won £SOOO in TattersalPs sweep on the Newcastle Cup, run on Saturday last.

The Stratford Church of England choir social takes place on Wednesday evening next in the Parish Hall. Arrangements for a very pleasant evening are being arranged.

Fashions at the races at Longchamps, Paris, show that the hobble skirt is passing away. Women are now wearing a modified pannier skirt, the pannier falling sometimes as low as the knee. Most of the skirts are slit on one side, leaving the ankle partly visible.

The Kaimiro correspondent of the Taranaki Herald wrote as follows o?i Wednesday:—"Great sympathy is felt here for Mr 11. Burrows, who lost his wife lately, leaving him with five small children. Yesterday morning, his youngest child, a few months old, was found dead in bed. The child was in good health the night before."

It is understood that a decision has been given by the Crown Law Department to the effect that Mr Jennings' appointment as a member of the Wai.tara Harbor Board was quite illegal and quite invalid, and that the Minister for Marine has called upon him to resign from the Board, intimating that unless he does so proceedings will have to be taken to remove him from office. Mr Jennings was appointed as a member of the Waitara Harbor Board by the Ward Administration in 1911.

'Aifc a meeting of the Egmont NoLicense Union at Kaponga (reports tlio Eltham Argus) the Democratic vote campaign was discussed. Two members could not see their way clear to discard party feeling for "the cause." They considered that an elector, though a strong prohibitionist, should consider the political aspect of the question seriously. One went so far as to make a suggestion to the Alliance, that the Prohibition vote should be held apart from the Parliamentary vote. He remarked that any "rat," who was incapable of winning a scat on his merits, could profess to lie a Prohibitionist, and he might go flying in. This suggestion found no favour with' the meeting.

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Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, addressed a largely-attended public meeting at Hawera last night, when a resolution against Bible-in-Schools was carried.

The Taranaki Education Board having decided to form a new School District for Waingongora, is calling a meeting of householders, to be held at the Cardiff schoolhouse on Wednesday, June'lßth, at 7.30 p.m., for the purpose of deciding the district.

The new Parliament House in Wellington will be three storeys high and a basement, the first storey to be of Coromandel granite. A Press. Association wire says that tenders are being called for the erection of the superstructure, either .in Tonga Bay granite, light grey marble from Motueka, Mount Somers limestone, or Coromandel granite.

A tragic incident occurred at Greenwich this month during the progress of a demonstration by a squad of the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Association. The members of the team were giving a display of first aid, when they suddenly discovered that the patient upon whom they were operating was dead.

An elderly inmate of a workhouse on the Isle' of Wight was last weeksentenced to seven days' imprisonment, with hard labor. His crinw (says a cable in the Sydney Sun) was stealing and trying to sell eightpence worth of bones collected in the workhouse grounds. The old man pleaded that he had fought and bled for his country in three campaigns.

London papers are publishing photographs .taken by Captain Scott and by the rescue party which discovered bis body. The picture of the tent in which Scott, Wilson and Bowers wefo found shows that only a yard of tlie tent remained above the surface of the snow. Other pictures show the cairn surmounted by a cross, which was erected over tHe tent where the bodies were found, and also a photograph taken by one of Scott's party of Amundsen's tent at the South Pole.

The H'unterville Express states that it is understood that a big divisional Territorial camp will be held next year, on the occasion of General Sir lan Hamilton's visit. It will comprise the Territorials of the whole island, about 3,000 mounted and 5000 infantry—the biggest assemblage of military ( in the history of the Dominion, with the exception of the review at' Cl;rif:tchurch, on ■ the occasion of the Duke of York's visit. The camp will be hold in jMarch, when' there is every prospect .of settled weather—probably on the. Waiquru .Plains . , . v t

Two questions of finance with by the Whangamomona County Council at their last meeting. A letter was received from the Treasury Department granting the Council's.; 1 application for a sum of £3BO, being 10 per cent, on the Brewer Road loan. On.the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Cr. Coyne,| it; was;respired ij, .that,a special rate for the. above foev. ;, struck for,a term of 26 years, at; 4J ; y$ ner cent. Again,. the Minister of ! Finance wrote, refusing the Council's! , application for a loan of £IOOO for drainage works in Whangamomona'' township.

Show Week always incites Dunediri tradesmen to make big displays, and if the prices paid by butchers at the Burnside sales on Wednesday be any criterion (says the Star), this year's display should eclipse many former ones. The record price for the yards was broken by a wether, which was serenely unconscious of the, fact that he had changed hands at 535. A whole pen of wethers sold at 49s each, this price also constituting a fresh record. A pen of two-tooth wethers brought 40s and 6d, and ewes sold as high as 37s 6d. Competition was keen right throughout the sale for show sheep.

"Non-unionists should be put off the face of the earth," declared Mr L. Cohen, president of the Victoria Trades Hall Council, when speaking last week in connection with the Federal campaign. "Senator Rae has said that any violence done to non-union-ists is justified. I agree with that veiw. If they are shot or put to death, it is no more than they deserve." Mr John Curtain, secretary of the Victorian Woodworkers' Union, gave expression to this doctrine: "Loafing is a good thing. If the men have loafed, it is to their credit, because every man who makes a job last longer helps to reduce the time between that job and the next."

Little Peter Scott, the three-year-old son of Captain R. F. Scott, who perished in the Antarctic, waited patiently for his mother's return from New Zealand. She arrived at Victoria m the afternoon, having travelled overland from Brindisi. All the morning (states the London Daily Mail), little Peter played about the house 111 Buckingham Palace road running from room to room and peeping excitedly through the windows. He knew that his father could not come home with his mother. A few days ago his;mrse told him that "Daddy' would not come back this time—but perhaps some other time. He was quite satisfied, and believes that his mother will go away again soon on a long journey to fetch "Daddy" home. Some day he will know the whole story of his father's great career and of his courageous end. Today it would serve no purpose to tell him. The meeting of Lady Scott with Peter was the greatest event in his life up to now. Lady Scott reached her home shortly after 3 o'cix-ir, r.r.d Peter stood out on the doorstep ready to meet her. Just a simple ling and kiss, just a few expressions of supreme delight, and Lady Scott and little Peter went up stairs together—hap--11 py in love.