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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 24, 29 September 1913, Page 4

A Wangahui dairyman named P. Cathro, was fined £2O this' morning for selling milk containing forty per cent of water.—P.A. On and after Wednesday next, October Ist, H. Company of the XTth Regiment (Taranaki Rifles) will parade at the school gymnasium, Stratford, at 8 o'clock each parade evening until further notice. This alteration ill the. time of parade has been made to suit the convenience of dairy farmers.

Further striking evidence of an early spring is afforded by the readings of the weather instruments at the Stratford School. The maximum temperature in the shade for the last two days has been 60 degrees. As a rule such a high temperature as this is not reached in these altitudes before November;

A Wellington Press Association message states :—Eighteen prisoners, who, when returning from Mount Cook brick works to Terrace gaol on Friday afternoon, insisted on halting in Upper Willis Street three times while two of their number publicly complained of the quality of the bread and the insufficiencv of other food, were brought before Mr J. L. Blair, the visiting Justice, and ordered to be punished in various ways. The ring-leaders are not to be allowed to march through the streets in future.

A Wellington correspondent writes: "The Second Ballot is doomed. Just I what will take its place remains to be seen—probably some form of preferential voting or proportional representation with the single transferable vote. Mr Russell tried to draw Mr Massey on the subject in the House on Tuesday, but the Prime Minister contented himself by informing the member for Avon that an opportunity would be given the House later on to repeal the Second Ballot The hon. gentleman must, however, wait and see what was to replace it. It is noticeable that Mr Russell never scores at Mr Massey's expense, although he repeatedly tries to do so."

William Thomas Cleaver, sharemilker, of Hawei-a, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His total debts amount t0.£174 17s 8d and 'his assets £B3 10s, leaving a deficiency of £9l 7s Bd. The list of unsecured creditors is as follows s—NX L. and M.A. Co'- /Stratford), £ls 18s; F. Ferguson (Stratford), ,£3; G. Morrison (Toko), £5; D. Bain (Toko), £8; RBaker (Eltham), £30,; L. Carswell , (Eltham), £5;. Casey and Noonan (El- , tham), £l6-.estate of Dr. Harrison (Eltham), £4 4s; Collier and Colonial ~. Piano C 0,,. £3; lis n , 2d;'F;. : Andrews (Normanby), £ll. Ld v | cal creditors,—A*-H-Arthur £1 105,. „,.-. 'j/ames Grant gjlj C,E. Hollard,£2 7%\ ~ W, 'A.' Parkinsonjapd G0,,,-Ltd., £6,lss. M | Bd, Dominion Show Buildings £l6, Geo. Syme, Ltd., £2 10s, H. Harris £ls, Gillies and Raider £7 17s, C.

Tonkin £2, Barton and Smart £3 35,. :•, The bankrupt, in his written statement to the D.0.A., attributes his position to loss occasioned by fire and also loss in a shop-keeping business and a skating rink venture;-' The Star"" states that the'first meeting of credi- i tors is to be held next Friday, after-v noon. The chief librarian of the General Assembly Library, in his - annual Yeport, observes: "The heavy loss in the sociology class is most significant. The use of the sociology room is, during the session, strictly confined to members. During the recess no privilege holder is allowed to enter this room unless in the company of a library assistant. Yet, outside fiction, the worst loss is of books shelved in this room. This is doubtless accounted for, to some extent at least, by the fact that the books in this room, dealing 1 as they do with subjects such as law, education, finance, land, labour, statistics, and sociology generally, are necessarily in frequent demand. It may be assumed, therefore, that the loss is here chiefly due to persons taking out books without entering them. . Ot'ce lost, there being no record of their having been taken out, the drffi- . culty of recovering the missing volumes is exceptionally great." No fewer than 594 volumes were found missing from the main part of the library.