LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A farmer in the Albury district lost a draught horse worth £SO last week The animal was rubbing itself againsv the paddock fence with its full weigh against the single wire which ra. through the gorse. The wire snap ped, and the horse fell over the fence into the ditch on the other side, where it was sp jammed that it could riot rise again.

A resident of Arrow, aganist whon the police had applied for the issue of a prohibition order, made a pathetic appeal to the bench at the sitting of the Magistrate's Court last week He asked to be allowed access to th< hotels for a couple of days in order that he might "taper off," while ai the same time he promised to b'( "square" within a week. A sympathetic bench decided to give defendant another chance, and the case was adjourned for a week in order to ascertain whether or. not the promise.'would be kept.

An adjournment for a week was granted at the Court this morning in the case in which the Borough Inspector is proceeding against William Holmes on a charge of allowing a dead animal to unburied near a public road. Mr R. Spence, who appeared for defendant, said Holmes had been lined, at the last sitting of the Court on a similar charge, and three days after that a further information was laid in respect of the same animal Holmes was out of town. Counsel believed he did not intend to contest the case, but he desired tc make an explanation.

Even though the New Zealander be fond of manly sport, it should not occupy so much room in Ins life as to oust self respect and common decency fronl hi m —that is, providing ho eve-i bad anv Yesterday during the proR ,-css of the evelo road race, a crowd of about 100 liad collected in Broadway, and it is a fact to be regretted thai out of .that number only about r,i) bared their beads while a funeral procession passed, and which, by the way, could hardly'find room to pass. This mark of respect to the dead does not ask too much of a man, and it would have served a good lesson to the smaller generation in that crowd if all the elders had seized the opportunity. 0 tempera! 0 mores!