LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Lowgarth Dairy Factory haf j consigned its output foi' the seasor without recourse to Messrs Bamforc Bros., Liverpool., An inquest in connection with the Kaimata tragedy will he opened ai Inglewobd to-morrow at 10.30 aim. The English Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders have just concluded one of the most important and far reaching pieces of work that they have yet undertaken, and one that will i ho of considerable value to motorists j generally. The Society named has decided on a standardisation of motor tyre rims, and as soon as the necessary gauges can ho constructed the whole of the English motor manufacturers will fit only rims made to the measurements adopted hy the Society. A lady reported to the Sydney police a few days ago that a hag containing £l2O worth of jewellery, which, sin said, she had left on a chair in a city store, had been removed while she was making some purchases. A few hours later a resident of Manly handed the hag, with its contents intact, to the local police. He had found the hag lying on a scat on the beach at Manly, “where it had boon for three hours,” said the police report.

Dairy factories’ July payments are as followsJN'gaere £1033, Lowgarth £823, Cardiff £l3. Xo Saturday classes for teachers will be held at the Stratford centre on the 23rd or 30tli inst. it is probable, says the Wellington Times, that the football match, Jarauaki v. Auckland, to bo played cm September 4tli, will take place at Wellington, and if so.it will most likely be made a challenge match for tJio Ranfnrly Shield. It is reported that the Maori skin disease known as ake ake is very prevalent among the natives in the Main Trunk line district, and that one or two white children are affected with the ailment.

A W aipawa Press Association telegram states that a deputation representing the Teacher’s Institute interview ed Mr Hunter, member for Waipawa, regarding salaries and payment on average attendance. They asked lor a scheme of payment depending entirely on yearly increases. .Air Hunter promised his support in furthering the demands.

Twenty-four civil cases, three- of which are to be defended, are set down lor decision at the Court on Friday. 1 ho rest of the business is supplied by the Borough Inspector, as follows: Two charges of driving Vehicles without lights, two of riding bicycles without liguts, olio of riding a bicycle on a loot path, and one of driving loose horses. Says the Auckland Star:—The Ranfurly Shield match between Taranaki and Auckland, on Saturday, created tremendous excitement, and the scene on the ground at the close of the gamj will long be remembered by those who .were fortunate enough to witness it. The big crowd simply ran riot, cheering the Taranaki team to the echo, while fully half of the visitors were carried shoulder high to their dressing room. The Auckland team, which battled so bard to save the trophy, were entirely overlooked, and a stranger would have been pardoned had he formed the opinion that the local team were the victors. Such a scene of enthusiasm has never previously been witnessed at Alexandra Park.

A thoroughly fast open game can he looked forward to in the iuterprovincial match at New Plymouth tomorrow. The Auckland team arrived yesterday and is quartered at the Imperial Hotel. It is, composed mostly of University and College Rifles players, and they are expected to give an exhibition of smart, nippy play. The kick off is at 3.15 —in ample time for visitors from this end to travel by the midday train. Tlie evening train is delayed until 5.32 o’clock, and rail way department is issuing excursion tickets for the day.

The annual meeting of the', NoiLicense League was held last night in the Methodist Sunday School. Proceedings were opened with some musical items, after which addresses on the League’s work were given hy the Rev. Pattisou and the Rev. Reader Qiho retiring president). Mr Jos. W. Boon was elected president, and Messrs. C. D. Solo and J. Martin vicepresidents. The position of secretary was not filled, but Mr J. Goodrich was elected assistant-secretary. He will apt as secretary until an appointment is made. Mr E. G. Foster was elected treasurer. The annual report stated that the League had had a quiet year. The balance-sheet showed a credit balance of £2 11s After completion of business enjoyable supper provided by ladies of the W.C.T.U. was partaken of. The sight or a police constable driving a motor oar along the Marine Parade, Napier, last Friday afternoon, created some amusement for the spectators. The incident happened* in this wise. Word was received by the Napier police from Hastings that a man in a drunken condition was in charge of a motor car and was proceeding in the direction of Napier. Constable Pettit was instructed to go and bring the offender to book. When on the Awatoto road the constable espied his man steering a zigzag course along the main road, and, when he came up, the constable promptly stopped him and took charge of the car. The constable had never driven a motor car before, but he had a layman’s knowledge of the brakes and lovers and brought the car along in fine style to the police station, where the inebriated gentleman was placed in the cells.

The following reference to the illfated tug Toanui appeared in a number of the Plymouth Evening Herald received by last mail:—“One evening last week a trunk containing lady’s apparel, jewellery, other articles, and os in money was picked up by a fisherman and landed at Penberth Cove, near Land’s End. With the property was also a letter headed ‘Fernlea. ‘ Information of the discovery having reached Mr Sewell, of Fernlea, Roxburgh avenue, Aigburth, Liverpool, ho has claimed the trunk and its contents as having belonged to his brother, Captain W. 13. Sewell, of the steam tug Toanui. Having just come from the builder’s yard, the Toanui left Greenock on the sth inst., being in charge of Captain Sewell, who hailed from Gisborne, in that far-off country, Now Zealand. From wreckage (including a boat and several lifebuoys all marked Toanui) recovered around the Cornish coast there appears to be little, if any, doubt that the Toanui was lost off Land’s End, where a lookout is now being kept for any bodies that may be washed ashore. On Saturday a teak door, with the letters H and Y on the brass knob, was picked up at Porthnawell Peach, St. Just. The articles in the trunk were presents which Cant ain Sewell was taking to New Zealand for his wife.”