LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 29, 9 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening. At the Court this morning, Mr J. McCluggage, J.P., being on the bench, one first offending drunkard was convicted and discharged. A handsome brass tablet lists been erected in the chapel of St. John’s College, Tamaki, to the memory of the Hon. Win. Swainson, first Attor-ney-general of New Zealand . The memorial recalls Mr Swainson’s valuable help in drawing up the constitution of the New Zealand Church. ; • l;; A special Band of Hope meeting is to be held in the schoolroom at the rear of the Broadway JJcthocisfc Church to-morrow evening, at 7 o’clock, when a good programme of musical items and recitations will be presented. A hearty welcome is given to all to .be present.

Those interested in the formation in Stratford of a branch of the American Constitution of the independent Order of Oddfellows are eminded of the meeting to be held +ai,; evening in St. Andrew’s Hall. Mr .It. T. Spiers, she organiser, who has recently formed branches in South Taranaki, will he in attendance.

An amusing incident happened in the Oriental Bay tea rooms on Sunday afternoon. A couple sat down it one of the tables haying with him a small pup. The lady at th* piano, noticing the pup, stopped piaviig, md loudly declared that she was “not going to play to dogs.” The difficulty was solved by the dog’s owner .getting up and going out in disgust.

The' services in Si.' Paul’s Presbyterian Church yesterday were of a unique dharacter. The forty-third ‘anniversary whs celebrated, and it also marked' the 1 last o, day ’On which the Church will lie used for divine service, as a new building is being erected. The llev. James Paterson, late of St. John’s, Wellington, who preached the opening sermon in the church, conducted the service, and despite his eighty-three years of age, preached a vigorous sermon.

.Jr-.;; >■ : i'cnm-c , A variation of the. Territorial bath }f. allegiance was proposed in all ; seriousness by Mr Tyndall, of Middjemarch, at the first meeting of the Educational Institute last week (states the Dunedin Star). But it was not received serioixsly, being, in fact, the occasion of an outburst of restrained merriment. His motion ran—“ That, in the interests of discipline, it is desirable that all public school pupils over seven years of age should take an oath of obedience to their teachers.” There was no seconder to this novel proposition.

A Wellington Press Association message received this morning reads r --Mr Massey states that the Government hopes before long to make an all-round advance in the limits imposed on borrowing from the Statelending Department. The advances to workers’ limit will be raised from £3OO to £400; and the advances to settlers from £6OO to £7OO. Tire limit imposed on loans to local bodies by the preceding Government lias not in all cases been strictly adheral to of late, where local bodies had development works to carry out.

Members, of the South Island Dairy Association discussed a proposal to remove their headquarters from Dunedin to Invercargill. Opinions varied as to the wisdom of the suggestion '(says the Star), and some of the arguments used for and against it were very pawky. One speaker made a deep impression with an argument, to the effect that Dunedin was by far the better place at which to forgather in midwinter. “You can get a cup o’ kindness here when the weather is cold,” he said, “but you can get nothing to warm you in Invercargill.” (Laughter). One of the speakers at the conference of the Otago Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union stated in the course of discusison on one of the remits that some little time ago he had been penalised to the extent of £5 11s 6d for loading grain, the weight being about 21b per bag more than was permitted by the law. The consignment was a big one of 140 sacks, and was one of three similar consignments. The department’s action in that case was, he said, unreasonable. Shortly afterwards, however, the department failed to supply a sheep truck which he had ordered for a ram and ewe fair, the fault, the, speaker said, lying at the door of a Government official who was responsible for an error in a telegram. The non-arrival of that truck meant an absolute loss to him of £SO. In the latter case the Government would allow him no redress. The Otago Daily Times adds that the Conference decided to write to the Minister of Pail wavs on the matter.

Kokoytseff, Minister of Finance, dueling the Budget in the Duma indicated that the ian military preparations m antiion of the extension of the Baltroublo had cost the nation 140,|OO rotijfles —about £22,166,666. e northern firebell was rung at w minutes to eight last night, cause being a chimney afire in house of Mrs Rodgers, next to Majesty’s Theatre. The brigade 9d but promptly, but the services few members only were required I® ' everything safe.

eaking of the coming session in vterview in Christchurch the Hon I. Bell said that he was preparing fal measures which would bo subed to Parliament. One dealt with igratio/i and another with local irnment. The latter, he felt, would ipecially interesting to the genpublic, as it affected the people’s rwts directly, but he could not irosent discuss the proposals in

, number of interesting addresses be delivered at tho conference of National Federated Beekeepers’ WSiation, to bo held in Wellington i June 18th to 20th. In a cir,r regarding the conference, tho jidtte© stab© that beekeeping is . taking its place among the big istries of the country; and the brence is designed to find means of iring co-operation, publicity and tentration, in order to safeguaid ; interests of beekeepers.

le Salvation Army bonnet as an ,to beauty was recommended by miseioner Richards when speaking the public welcome extended by Salvation Army officers. “I find »en,” he said, “going to Madame i and Madame That for heautig creams and tints; but if they knew, it’s the bonnet that tells, nits long faces. When I see a tan out in a big hat with a, pickled »ge tuck in front, I know that ©tracts from her beauty. There icthing of the pickled cabbage in Salvation Army bonnet. It leaves beauty of the face to declare it- >>

i© following report by the Abattoir wnittee will be presented at this ting’s meeting of the Borough ucil ; W© visited the abattoir on 7th inst. and found everything >rder TSvith the exception of the wing requirements; A new coppei d for copper boilqr, 20pft of wire j set of steps, three buckets (ord), tub© cleaner for boiler] ti aland cement for concrete floor for - and the steam cocks in the water pe require attention. We recomI that a remit be forwarded to next. Municipal Conference to id the Slaughtering and Inspection in* tli© direction of giving Meat ectors the power to grqde peat, beg to recommend that the Aba> Manager be granted a house nlnce of £ls per annum.

farmer who has a straw stack car*off on tho back of a flood would ly see anything funny about the I cleaning up, but when through vagaries of that careering stack threatened with an action for :,g es he would probably reckon it ; too* rough. ’That the CJuLeader) is just what a farmer 5 the banks of the PoiUahaka ris in for. The flooded river ped. up his stack and carried it i to one of the bridges, when it tick,” and has remained there , As its weight had sprung the is the bridge will have to be liftnd fresh piles put in, making it itly job. Or, Quin explained at bounty Council meeting on Friday the stack could not be fired, as is too close to the bridge, .but the ir might be compelled to shift it. Mitchell said the stack was dolamage, and he thought the counould he legally entitled to compel jwaer to remove it. Cr. Cummoved, and it was carried, that owner get notice to remove the : from its present position, and failed to do sp that.it he removed t© council at his expense.