LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 3 July 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local Defence staff, were bus. to-day in getting the movables in tic Stratford office ready for transfer b Hawera, where the headquarters o the Xlth Regiment will in future h situated.

The lowest temperature "recorded le the school thermometer last night w:r 59 degrees, which is a good deal war mor than the majority of winter days Tiie barometer has been gradually fall ing, and now stands at 29. Dump the tweutv-four hours ended at !

o’clock this morning two inches o rain fell.

At a representative meeting a Marton yesterday, it was decided t( form an association to be called “Tin Society for the Preservation am Growth of New Zealand Flora,” witl Mr J. W. .Marshall (Marton) as presi dent, and Mr Sydney A. R. Mair (Hunterville) secretary. A strons committee was set up. It is anticipated that other branches will b§ for med.—P.A.

The Kawhia Settles reports that ai old Maori named Tumohi nun with a fatal accident on Thursday morning falling from a cliff, a clear drop ot nearly 60 feet. When found lie wa; quite dead, having sustained a fractured skull, a broken arm, as well as other bodily injuries. An inquest was held before Mr W. J. Shaw, Coroner for the district.

The receipts of the Xortli Earnout Mountain House and the new hostelr\ io June fin totalled £lll9 3s 2d, tic expenditure hoing £lOlB 13s Id; the Dawson's Falls House showed receipts amounting; to £2OO 3s, and ex pondinire £203 Is; East (Stratford' lls receipts, £23 18s expenditure: West (Halloin') £1 (is receipts, 10s expenditure. The receipts of the Epmoot National Park Board amounted to £390 fis 2d made up of Government subsidies £330 and rent £lO 6s 2d ; and the expenditure amounted to £1 SO 0s !)d.

The Appeal Court reserved its decision in the case (ilaylo v. The Hiverd ale I )ai ry Factory.—’Wellington I’.A. To-day and to-morrow the Inspectors of the Taranaki Education Board a ill he in Stratford taking the junior teachers’ training classes. Most of Ihe junior teachers in Stratford County are attending the classes A Wellington Press Association wire states: The Council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society regrets iha; Maoris presented Captain Halsey and the officers of the New Zealand, when the warship was off Wanganui, with native pigeons, and considers that t ho matter should engage the attention of the proper authorities with a view to action against those who shot til© birds during a close season. As indicating what can be done with the aid of technical school (lasses, there is at present on view in tin' window of Messrs Bellringer and Co.’s premises in Broadway, a display of millinery work executed by girls attending the Technical School millinery class in New Plymouth. The display was also on view at the Dominion Dairy Show, Hawera. The, annual balance of the X,Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., | Stratford Agency, look place on the Tilth June, and next day the local agency was able to forward by telegraph to their head office, the figures for the past year.' This shows what an excellent system of book-keeping the Company adopts. The result of the . past year proved satisfactory in every way, and the profits for the year were ! considerably in advance of those of last

At ;i ha by competition in'New York (says the Daily Mail’s correspondent) Dr. L. Emmett Holt, the children’s specialist, awarded the first prize to the son of an Italian couple, aged 26-W and 2-1 respectively. The following are the particulars of the “perfect baby”.; —Ago. ;J months 15 days; weight, 14.1 la; circumference of head, 16.3irt.; circumference of chest, 17in.; circumference of abdomen, 18in.; height, 2oin. The winning baby’s parents were married when the mother was 15 and the father 17. “Baby,” said the mother, “really brings himself up. Sometimes he goes to bed at 7, sometimes at 10. Sometimes he wants to be nursed 10 times and sometimes only six times a day.” “Oil News,” a London publication to hand this morning wants enlightening regarding prospects of oil in these parts. A correspondent of the publication writes, with , reference to a Xew Zealand company as follows: “I bought 500 of these shares when they were at 7|d “premium, and I should be very glad if you could let me, know if the company has yet found any oil. I believe they have done their host, but I should like to knpw r whether 1; am likely to Jose all my money, or whether there is any hope b the company keeping its head above water and eventually doing well. Yours faithfully, Landlord.” The pessimistic answer given to “Landlord’s” enquiry by the paper referred to is: “We are afraid the prospects are far from encouraging. They may got payable ojl one day but for the present you should . put the shares away and forget about them.” Dr. L. H. Whetter, who acted as surgeon to Dr. Maw son’s Antarctic expedition, is at present under engagement to the Tasmanian Government in connection with the suspected plague outbreak in the islands between Tasmania and Victoria. Dr. A better set up laboratories on the ' arious islands where the native population were in difficulties. The disease was creating havoc amongst them and many deaths had occurred. The Bluff correspondent of the Dunedin Star states that Dr. Whetter discovered that the outbreak was not plague* but was a combination of measles and scarlet fever. The outbreak is now well under hand, and Dr. Whetter anticipates being able to leave in a week or a fortnight.