LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 78, 6 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow the local ladies' hockey team will meet a girls' team Trom the Stratford High School.

In connection with the football match, Tukapa v. Waimate, at Eltham to-morrow for the premiership, a brake will leave Davey's Empire Stables at about 2 p.m. The match commences at 3.15. :

To-morow week the lorcal infantry Territorials will meet the' mounted men in a football * match on Victoria Park. . The match is an animal one for a, shield supplied by the officers.

Twenty-three i civil qases (three- of which 1 are| to be defended) are set down "for hearing at the Court on Friday. Two informations under the Destitute Persons Act and one for driving without lights and a judgment summons will also be dealt with.

There should be a crowded house at the. Toko Coronation Hall, . this evening to witness the entertainment and demonstration to- be given by the Stratford troop of Boy S.couts. When given recently, in Stratford the demonstration was found highly entertaining by those who attended.

"Cattle are cattle nowadays," is how a local stock dealer expresses the condition of the market. It was remarked after the stock sales yesterday that there was a rise of ten to fifteen shillings a head hi some lines since the previous sale, and .anything up to a pound a head advance is prophesied in the course of a month or so. Such marked buoyancy is having a

jubilant effect in stock and station circle which augurs well for the incoming season. Professor Mills was the unconscious cause of losing many votes for the Social Democratic candidate (says a West Coast paper), and in a way that the Professor little expected. In one of his local addresses Mr Mills stated that the Labour, supporters would rather vote for a Yellow Dog than foi a ■Reform candidate. It appears that the local representatives of the Flowery Land took the illusion to the "Yellow Dog" as relating to themselves, and were much incensed accordingly. "What for him say we Yellow Dog?" said one local "Celestial. "There plenty white dog, yellow dog, black dog. That no good. We vote Leform." And a party of seven filed in and voted against progress and democracy.

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the advent of the Dunlop tyre—an invention that lias made cycling and motoring possible—and has had a tremendous influence. It was in July, 1883, that Mr J. B. Dunlop, of Belfast, Ireland, re-invented the pneumatic tyre, for a patent was taken out as far back as 1815 by a Mr R. W. Thompson, who fitted up his own brougham with pneumatic tyres, and then proceeded no further with his invention. In 1889 the pneumatic tyro and Booth's Cycle .Agency> Ltd., was floated in England, with a nominal capital of £25,000, to market the Dunlop tyre, and in a very short time, instead of cycling being a pastime for athletes, it became a society craze, and to-day it, is the. pastime and means of locomotion of millions of workers in all spheres of employment in all parts of the world.

To meet the convenience of those travelling by train from the north to the football match at Eltham to-mor-row, the kick-off has been arranged for ',).l') p.m.

The Strathmore footballers are to give a grand Ball m tho lown Hall, Strathmore, on August 15th. The event is being lookc-J forward to. It is stated in the report of the Marconi International Marine Communication Company for 1912 that 700 ships of different nations, exclusive of ships of war, are now fitted with Marconi wireless apparatus. The monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council will be held at the County Office, Stratford, on Wednesday next at 11 a.m. A special meeting, to institute a special order declaring "St. John's "Wort" to be a "noxious weed" within the Stratford County, will be held on the same day. New and strange Indian names continually are being added to the payrolls of the United States Government. The Treasury Department has lately sent warrants, drawn to the order of the following, as allottees of lands in the West:—Mary Full Stomach, John Brings Home the Baby, George Circle Fool, Kettle Woman, Susan Howling Horse, She Paints Her Shoes, Helen Crows, Like Water, and Edward Usefull Heart.

On the morning of the day before the opening of the Marconi debate in the House of Commons a boy in a district messenger's uniform arrived at the public entrance with a bucket containing whitewash and a brush, which was addressed to Mr Asquith. He explained that he had been sent from Paddington by a woman whose name he did not know. The bucket and its contents were taken by the police to the Sergeant-at-Arms.

The following is taken from the last issue of tho New Zealand Farmer: — Wo want to give directors of butter factories a very straight tip. It is not a tip about horse-racing, which is against tho law in this country. The tip is in connection with the disposal of their outputs. It is that they are to put a clause in all their agreements this year giving their company the right to divert at least 25 per cent, of their output to another market than Creat Britain. Those factories that take this advice are likely to profit by it most materially in the hear future. We are not at liberty at present to say more than this, but "a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse."

The i annual concert given by ; the'■' children of the Su'a'jford S.-hool 1 has always been an attractive■•' function, ' and something itetter than last jear's concert is promised to-morrow overling in the Town Hall. A special feature' of the pi-gramme .v'il be 'lie cantata "Dame Durden's S'Jlool,' \v!ii."h will be rendered by the elder pupils. Included in the programme are a number of action songs by the jourgor children. All the cojUren have been carefully trainKl >and can he confidently lo give; a. gdri.l l.c--count of them-;sl«3s.v - ■■•'' ' ;

, As a substitute for the "Sw-it the Fly" campaign the British Government is investigaring the possibility of exterminating tins v/it'na- para«sile. An English, naturalist rras, 'Mihrr-itted to the Government Ins claim? t.. have successfully cultivated a fungus ;that has been' known for some time to he deadly to the fly. but which up to this time has not neon ,ai cultivated. He lias found that the fungus works its way into the fly and is deadly. The Local Government Board is now studying his claims, and if it finds them soun:l presumably will start a fly-killing campaign with artificially cultivated parasites.