The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 36, 18 June 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr and Mrs Williams have now taken charge of the East Mountain House, having moved up last Saturday, and an immediate start will be made with getting everything shipshape for the coining season.

Headers are reminded of the nolitieal address to he given at the Town Hall this evening by Mr J. B. Hine. MP. for Stratford. The Mayor (Mr W. P. Kirkwood) will take the chair at 8 o'clock.

The following amounts are being paid out this month by dairy factories: —Lowgarth £503, Cardiff £520, Ngaere £756.

The ten o'clock train this morning was of unusual length, consisting of forty-four waggons, two engines, and a van. The rolling stock was part of that used yesterday in connection with the oxcursion to New Plymouth.

The following business is set down for hearing at the Court on Friday : —Six civil cases, two judgment suinmonsos, and one information each for riding a bicycle on a footpatb. driving a gig without lights, riding a bicycle without lights, and riding a motor bicycle without lights.

The opening of (be new quarters of the Methodist Sunday School in Regan Street is to bo celebrated to-morrow

evening by a concert and social, foi which an excellent programme, >c( out iii detail in our advertising columns, lias been drawn up. The concert will commence at 7.15 o'clocTc, and at if", conclusion supper will he served.

A Fremaiitle cable states that the Union s.s. Company's new ferry steamer Wahine lias arrived at Bunbury from tJio Clyde.

A Press Association message this morning .states that it is proposed to

old a re-union at a convenient centre f the .surviving members of the 43rd tegiment on the fifteenth anniversary -f their landing in New Zealand, Delember 12. Mr G. A. Adlam, of hikura, invites the survivors to com nunicate with him.

Another .of the series of the socials being held by the Holy Trinity choii took place last night, when the euchre tournament and dancing were indulged in by a good number. The euchre prizes were won by Miss Middleton. Mr Eyan, anl Mrs Robson (booby). After an excellent supper had been partaken of dancing was indulgd in, the music being supplied by Miss King, Mrs McXeely, and Misses G. Black and Butler playing extras. Mr E. H. Kivell made a capable M.C.

At. the adjourned meeting of the Patea Licensing Committee on Monday the chairman (Mr Kenrick, S.M.) raised an objection to -the manner in which some licensees disposed of their interests in houses and stipulated a time for the completion of the purchase, which did not allow time for the procuring of a Magistrate's order and a temporary and permanent transfer. The present practice was to apply for a certificate of waiver under section 292, but this was improper procedure, as the section was only intended to apply where something had been neglected or omitted, but not wilfully.

In the New Plymouth Court on Monday Harry Johns, a bushman from Awakino, was fined £3 and 7s costs for killing four native pigeons. , De-tective-Sergeant Boddam, who prosecuted, stated that he had arrested the man on a charge of drunkenness on Tune 16, and had found a sugar hag in his possession containing four native pigeons, hence the further charge. A good deal of shooting of these native indigenous birds was going on, said the detective, in spite of the efforts of the officers of the Acclimatisation Society to bring the offenders to book, and he would like to draw his Worship's attention that a fine of £2O could be imposed.

In mentioning the fencing of a bridge approach the South Biding foreman of the Stratford County Council suggested, in his report read at this morning's meeting, that in view of the scarcity of timber all such fences should be of barberry. Or Anderson moved that, subject to the Engineer's, judgment, all bridge' and culvert approaches be of barberry. Cr Smith seconded , the motion, stating that in his riding it was becoming an..acute problem to find posts. Cr Walter's objection was {hat barberry needed a good deal of attention to make a good hedge, and that a big mob of cattle would always break through a hedge. Therefore it would always be necessary to have a fence to protect the hedge. The motion ..was carried.