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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 September 1913, Page 4

Early this week the work of planting trees on the river bank below Victoria Bridge was done under the direc- ,*" Li')n of the Beautifying Society. The Finance Committee of the Borough Council is to meet this evening to consider tho question of the Council taking money on deposits, and to draw it]) a report on the matter for submission, at next Monday's meting of the Council. Tho wife of Heir Ottman, a well-to-do manufacturer in Schoonthal, Havana, gave birth to seven children A v ; ihin II month. In April, 1913, four girls .were born to her at the same time, and in June this year she ga.-e birth to triplets, a] 1 boys. The bakers of Stratford notify the public that owing to the higher cost o! materials and increased wages the price of bread has been raised to Sd per four-pound loaf for cash and 9d booked. A rebate of Id per fourpound loaf will be made if accounts are paid on or before the end of the i month following the purchase. The increased rate is to take effect from Monday next, September Bth. A minister of the name of Sparks, was the lather of thirteen children. At the baptism.of the thirteenth, an iiged brother divine, desirous to choose what seemed to him an appropriate description of the life of man, called on the congregation to join in singing the fifth paraphrase, beginning with the line, "As sparks in close succession rise.'' He could not understand the people's merriment until, when he descended from the pulpit, things were explained to him.

The New Zealand Loan, and Mereantile Agency Co., Ltd., Auckland, Saturday, 27th September, on account branch, are holding a clearing sale on of T. J. B. Setwart, of Glen Tui, Mt. Albert, about 3 miles from Auckland, when the whole of bis selected herd of choice Holstein-Friesian dairy cat-, tle will be sold without reserve. The majority of the cows, which are regis-./ tered in. the X Z, Holstein-Friesian Herd Book, are in calf to a bull bred by Mr W. J, Lovelock, of Palmerston North. Full particulars of this '.veil known herd can be obtained on application to the local agency of the Conmanv.

About thirty members of the South Taranaki Club. Hawera, were the guests last night of the members of the Fgmont Club. Card and billiard contests were held, the Stratford members proving superior. An excellent musical programme was gone through, Mess-s. Thomson, Tempter, and Everiss slid several of the visitors contri'buting. A highly enjoyable part' of the programme was that supplied, by Mr Henry Saint George, examiner for the Trinity College of Music, who is at present in Stratford. His services were greatly in demand, and he received numerous encores for his vocal wlcs. Ho was also recalled frequently for bis solos on the , viola d'amour, a member of the violin lazily not often met witli._ The evening, as a. whole, was highly enjoy ible.

liiere are already indications that the spring show under the auspices of the Stratford Horticultural Soc-*f icty, which is to be held in the Town Hall on September 18th, will be even more successful than the last one. This season an innovation was adopted in tae direction of appointing a canvassing, committee, who, so far have met with an encouraging degree ul success, i lie show will bo opened in the afternoon and will be continued in the evening, when an orchestral concert will be given by members and friends of the Society. Residents will, no doubt, thoroughly appreciate the action of the Society in holding the show in the Town Hall. Previously the show was held in one of the smaller halls, but has now grown to such dimensions that more space was necessary.

A. youth who appeared as a witness in :: civil action at the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Tuesday afternoon, -■aid'he had left a situation because lie was tired of it. "What!" exclaimed Mr Kettle, S.M. The witness, unabashed, repeated that he got tired of the job. .Ah- Kettle: What were you receiving?—2ss a week, sir. And a .voun man like you, getting , -os a week-, got tired of your employment?—] mean that I got tired of the trade. Did you have another position to go to?—Xo, not at the time. blow long was it before you got another position-—A. month. Well, you threw up a good job, 25s a iveek, without having other work to go to, simply because you got tired of it!! 'Much is the rising generation," sady added the magistrate.

j The death of the fourth Duke of I Sutherland recalls the fact that his j step-mother, when she became Dowj ager-Duchess, was sent to Holloway I lor six weeks by the late Sir Francis I -Tonne, for contempt of Court,' the 1 contempt being the burning of a let- | tor which should have been removed j with other documents to the solicitors j of the Administrator—said letter, ac- | cording to the lady’s statemnt, being j a private one which she had written Ito her husband before marriage. She drove to prison accompanied by her doctor and a maid, and was incarcera- f ted in a cell 25ft by 15ft, furnished X especially in blue plush by an eminent firm of upholsterers. An equally eminent firm of confectioners catered for her, and she had her own plate, and wine, visits from friends, and “all ihe illustrated papers.” Posisbly this treatment increased her contempt for the Probate Court, but if so she was too tactful to show it.

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