LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 1 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Court tjiis morning, Mr J. Masters, J.P. presiding, a first-of-fending drunkard who did not appear v.as lined 10s, the amount of his bail.

During October six marriages, seven deaths and seventeen births were registered in Stratford.

The abandonment of the World’s Christian Endeavor Convention in Sydney, which had been fixed for March of next year, has deprived tiie city of the visit of many distinguished and interesting personalities from different lands, who had arrnged to attend and take part.

Sunday, November 9, has been selected as world’s temperance Sunday, and arrangemebis' are being' made by the temperance conveners attached to the various Churches in Sydney to have special sermons preached in connection with the local option poll to be taken on the same dav as the State elections.

Mr W iggins, of Ngaere, has sent to this office something of a curiosity which he found among his full-grown cauliflower plants. The' leaves are about three feet high, but there is no heart, and in its place is a curious funnel-shaped leaf. It is stated that a leaf of the description is not often met with.

The third cribbage match between teams representing' Stratford anti Denbigh K ,ad was played' last night at the Denbigh Road school, the town team' winning by 28 gmes 'to 28.. Following are details of the I 'scores at the different tables,' Stratford names being mentioned ifirst in each'ease. L.i Sliarrock and B. Fainter 5, Ci Brown and 4. KilpiiT 1; Beaver and Thomas 3, Huckstep and Askew 3; J. Donald and W. Collins 5, W. Walker and “Muggins” 2; T. Lawson and J, W. Jones 7, J. Kelly and F. ' Mills 5; C. Kelly and J. Harston 5, O. Prince and J. Brown o; W. Ya J run T>. 3, W. Brown and J.;Casey 7; W. Tomlmsdn'O, L. Mills 5. ft was announced that last night’s'match would he t'he fast for this season, but an early start was promised next season. According to an official report issued by the Board of Agriculture", 1,503 stallions, 20,353 mares and 43,973 geldings were exported from Great Britain last year. Over twothirds of the total were at less than £lO per head—i.e., 18,517 at less than £5, and 27,059 at £5 and less than £lO. The greter proportion of these went to Belgium and the Netherlands. These countries and France appear also to have been the best customers for horses of higher values, the other chief destinations being Denmark, Germany, United States, Canada, and South Africa. Among the countries taking I horses of highest average value were j Austria-Hungary, which took twentyi six at an average of £665; Australia 216, at an average of £306; and New Zealand, 44 at an average of £283. The Greek, Japanese, German, French, and Russian Governments bought up all the Jight horses they could lay their hands upon.

Speaking at the Australasian Fruitgrowers’ Conference at Adelaide last week, when it was resolved that the Government he requested to demonstrate the value of fruit as a food, Dr. H. Benjafield (Tas.) said the subject was the most important which had I come before the conference. As mediI cal officer of health in Glenorchy, where there were 100 square miles I of orchards, lie should know something of the value of fruit from a health point of view. There the children ate fruit as soon as they could chew, .which showed that it was really a natural diet. In Glenorchy, where everybody ate fruit, there had in three years been only four deaths in 1000. He believed that was a record for the world. The average age of the four was 60 years. In an adjoining district of the Tasman Peninsula last year there were four deaths in 1000 persons. Of that number two were drowned, one was a deformed infant, who could not live, and the fourth had taken poison and died. Mr C. 1. I isher (S.A.) stated that in the district of Marsdens, not far from Adelaide, there had been seven people, six of whom were now dead, whose ages aggregated 011. They were all fruitgrowers, and their orchards adjoined.

The annual sports gathering under the auspices of the WhaugamomonaKohuratahi sports club will be held on the Whaiigamomona Domain on Thursday, January Bth next. A full programme of running events has been arranged, and the usual popular events are also in evidence. Thdrc are also five chopping events and a sawing event. A dance will be held in the town Hall in the evening to conclude the day’s outing. Mr A. McMeekan is acting as secretary for the gathering. Ihe Stratford cribbago team has paid two visits to Denbigh Road this spring and on each occasion has experienced tar from pleasant weather. On the first occasion the arrangements tor tile comfort of players were hardly adequate to keep a keen southerly wind out of the schoolroom, and last night fog and light rain were in evidence. On both occasions Ibe team were driven through by Mr J. Donald, of the Crown Stables. Mr Donald has never been over the road by daylight but got the team through safely and with the minimum of bumps. The fords were especially hard to pick up last night, which was dark and cloudy.

The case reported recently in a cable message from Paris, in which M. g Bertillon had offered to allow a trans- • fusion of blood from one of his arteries to save the life of his brother, is not without parallel. Two weeks ago a similar operation was performed at the St. Vincent Hospital in Melbourne. A young man suffering from a gastric trouble was reduced to such a weak state owing to the loss of blood due to internal hemorrhage that his chances - of recovery were considered remote. His brother, however, when made aware of his condition, offered to allow the transfusion of blood from one of his arteries to the young man. Both men were placed side by side on the operating table, and an artery in the healthy man’s arm was tapped. * A similar opening was made in the arm of the patient, and for 35 minutes the heart of the healthy man was allowed to pump his blood through a rubber tube into the weakened body of his brother. The operation was in every way successful, as the renewed strength gained by thte patient has since assisted him materially in overcoming his gastric trouble.