LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 46, 30 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"It is ricnr , stated, *that the stock stored' outside the ;;Tdko Hotel and saved from the fire consisted of only about half a dozen cases of bottled beer. The “Post” report of the fire also overstated the number of persons in the house at the time, the total number actually being seven.

The outcome of a delicate operation lately performed at the Moumahak : State farm should prove of great in[terest to veterinary surgeons and to farmers generally. When a fortnigh* from calving a valuable Ayrshire cow was stricken with paralysis and died Immediately the body was operated on and twin calves were brought to light. Though weak the little or- , phans revived under the best of attention, and despite the fact that they are only a few days old, are as frisky and as healthy as one could wish. The proceedings at an inquest held at Christchurch were relieved by an incident out of the ordinary routine. The police sergeant in charge of the case, found a lad, waiting ; n the cmridor at the hospital, and ■•ailed him forward as a witnesss. The boy was duly sworn, and his name was taken. He was asked if he was He «on of the deceased, and astonished the Coroner by replying in the negative. The reporters then came to fie rescue, and informed the Coroner that tie supposed witness was merely a ccpyboy from one of the newspapers. Wellington “Dominion” remarks: “Wellington capping ceremonies in the past have been fairly free from disorder, and there is every reason to believe that on the present occasion all would have been well if the advice of the Victoria College Council had been followed by the Sertate. We have no intention of defending unreasonably noisy behaviour on the part of the students, but wo do say that the needless importation by the Senate of an element of discord was a mistake that it is difficult to account for. Moreover, the action of the Chancellor in dotting snort the proceedings as he did yesterday gave evidence of a state of irritation not warranted by the conduct of the students.”