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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 21, 25 September 1913, Page 4

The annual meeting of the Stratford Fire Brigade will he held on Tuesday, ' October 21. ! The X.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following telegram from their Head ; Office at Wellington, with regard to i London Wool Sales—“ London cable ! prices compared with preceding series i ruled firm, except for fine and medi iiiin wool, crossbred slips. America i not operating.”

A travelling reporter of the Wanganui Chronicle says: “Feikling has been provided with a mild sensation, in consequence of the alleged disappearance of one of the principals of a well-known professional firm. His whereabouts, it appears, has not been known for a week. Trust funds, amounting to several thousand pounds, are said to lie involved—rumor has it between £IO,OOO and £15,000.”

Dr. Mac Diarmid and Capt, Bennett, of the Health Department, are at present in Kawhia in connection with the typhoid outbreak amongst the Maoris. No definite arrangements regarding treatment have as yet been concluded ,but we (Kawhia Settler) understand that it is practically agreed that the establishment of a temporary hospital is ho only feasible method of coping with the trouble.

The Canton villages mission “Every Member Campaign” results to date are: Auckland and Waikato £697, Hawke’s Bay 32, Wanganui and Taranaki £-165, Wellington and Wairarapa £429, Canterbury £1573, Nelson and Westland £167, Otago £1257, Southland £286. These results, with the amounts previously acknowledged, bring the total up to £9,500.

The Auckland Young Women’s Christian Association building fund campaign has concluded. The total amount subscribed was £14,855. The chairman stated that the citizens’ committee would guarantee the small balance of the £15,000 required.—P.A.

Mr N. J. King is the successful tenderer for the erection of a large shed, 28ft. 6in. x. 23ft., for the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., at their Stratford saleyards, so that the Company may have an up-to-date place for selling stock in during rough and stormy sale days.

A Wellington special to the Hawer'a star yesterday states:—While blackleg is now thoroughly under control in Taranaki (only 25 out of 64,809 calves vaccinated last year having died of the disease), it has, unfortunately (states the Agricultural Department’s annual report), made its appearance in the Auckland province, 19 outbreaks having been recorded, the localities being very widespread. It is thought by the live stock division of the Department that the cause of the trouble is (he use years ago of nnsterilised bone manure, imported from India. This assumption is suitparted by the knowledge that the specific organism of blackleg can retain its vitality in the soil for several rears.

The musical world will be interested to learn (states the Ka-whia Settler) that Mr Holden, who is well known throughout the district, has manufactured and patented all over the world an Overstrung Transposing Piano—an idea heretofore considered impossible by piano manufacturers, but greatly desired. It was received with approbation and delight by Professor Thomas (who was the only person permitted to see it in New Zealand), and now Mr Holden has taken it to England, where it took him only three weeks to create quite a buzz among the pianoforte manufacturers there. Ihe invention will give the advantage of an alteration of pitch into four different keys cither below or above that which is in use now, and will render songs more easy to sing and instrumental selections or pianoforte solos capable of greater brilliancy-

After causing innumerable men to fall in love with her—and actually marrying 16 of the richer ones—a wonderful woman named Tatiana Belchcriak has been exiled for life to Siberia. Though now over 40 years of age, her beauty remains remarkable to a surprising degree. She first married at the age of 16. Becoming a widow after three years, she wedded a rich landowner. She left him, however, taking all his valuables with her. The next “husband” was a stockbroker. Having induced him to transfer all Ins property to her the adventurous beauty sold it and escaped abroad, where she took as husband a fascinated Oriental consul. Seizing all his realisable possessions, his “wife” left post haste and returned to Russia by means of a stolon transport. Here she was again wooed and won by an important official. Again she left her latest “husband” after abstracting all portable valuables, hut tin’s time she was caught and exiled to Siberia. The chief 'gaoler in the far eastern wastes soon came under the spell of beautiful Tatiana, and fled with her to Constantinople. In this varied path of life she continued until her sixteenth victim, a barrister, became wedded to her. The union proved happy—there was a child. But at a dance she came face to face with a former “husband,” who, despite her entreaties, in formed the man she really loved . In the proceedings that ensued the police discovered that she was a former convict.

Mr Roy Davis has secured the right to sell sweets at the production in the Town Hall to-night of the comic opera “The Country Girl.” The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Gisborne has decided to forward a letter of thanks for their kindness to two gentlemen who rescued some kittens from the wreck of the Devon.