LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A euchre party and dance will be held in the Cardiff School on Friday evening.

The local Bowling Club members intend to have a working bee on the green on Thursday afternoon to further the improvements contemplated by the Club for the ensuing season, and as large an attendance of all devotees of the game as possible is advisable.

Fifteen civil cases, three of which are to be defended, are set doAvn for hearing at the Court on Friday. Eight persons will be charged with driving gigs carrying insufficient lights and one with riding a motor cycle without light. One judgment summons will be dealt with.

It was rumored in Wanganui on .Monday evening that the New Plymouth express had come near to being wrecked on the Turakina bridge an Monday. The local railway authorities knew nothing about the incident, but the report was that a violent bump was felt as the engine crossed the bridge. The matter was reported, and on investigation being made it was found that one of the beams in the bridge beneath the running track, had broken. It is said that it was miraculous that the whole train did not como to grief.

A 'scientific belief that is now in articulo mortis !(so it is affirmed) isthat of the alleged fluid condition of the'earth's interior. It was believed that the heat was so great that the inside must be molten, but now wo are told that, if that were so, the moon would cause tides in that internal sea, strong enough to shiver the crust to fragments, even though i: were two thousand five hundred mile:thick. Also the way in which earthquakes are sent hither from Japai through the interior of the earth, in dicates that this must be rigid. So now it is thought the inside of this old earth is probably metal.

A professor is alleged to have been closing hens 'with urbtropin, sodiun benzoate, and sodium salicylate, to see if he could make them lay eggf ; that would not' go bad. They did lay eggs that proved far more resistant to the ravages of time and the de composing effects of temperature, but on the other hand nobody wanted to preserve these eggs, as they never we r , good, being abnormal from the start There, was something noticeably un usual about them. So until a mar ket for noticeably unusual eggs is dis covered, the experiment must be con sidered a commercial failure.

The following figures will be hard to beat, says a correspondent :—Foi the half year just completed the attendance record at the Huiroa School was:—Quarter ending March 31st: Average attendance 97.1 per cent of average roll number; quarter ending -lime 30th: 96.6; giving for the half year a percentage of 96.85. The percentage of pupils making full attend ance and thus so far qualifying for at tendance certificates o fthe first class was 54.3; and the percentage qualifying for certificates of the second class i.e., not having missed more than five half-days, was 20.7: giving a grass total of certificates of 75 per cent. Of the pupils, six live over five miles and one over four miles from the school, and of these three qualify for first class and one for second-class certificates. The record attendance of the school for a single quarter stands al 98.6 per cent.

Tn answer to a question in the House of Representatives yesterday the Minister for Justice (Mr Herdman) made a,definite pronouncement on the question of the Police Associ ation. He said the Government war clear and determined on the point that it was not in the interests of t' public that the police should he permitted to form an association. It \y,usubversive of discipline and a breach of Police Regulation 134, which had been made this year. If, said the Minister, . a state of affairs similar to that at Waihi were to occur how could the Government protect life and property if the police were in an association controlled by Labor leaders. There was nothing against the police joininn- the Public Service Association, which was under the control of responsible public servants.

Whangamomona residents appreciate very much the daily mail service made possible by the improved train service. A social under the auspices of the Stratford Fire Brigade is to bo he'd in the Town Hall on July 31st in aid of the guneral funds of the Brigade.

Reports the local paper: Juno was a "rorty" month for Opunake. Weddings showed a record; births specially good ; deaths few; weather beautiful. No drunks. One man dug new potatoes. Good old Opunake.

A meeting of the Whangamomona .Medical Association was held last night, when members unanimously approved the action recently taken by the executive. The Association now merely awaits the procuring of the services of a medical man from England by the Government.

General Sir lan Hamilton, during his visit to New Zealand in April next will inspest all theforces, and in order to enable him to do so, the four big divisional camps are to be held then in order that he may see as much of the territorial army as possible. He will report to the New Zealand Government and Home Government on our forces.