LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 58, 8 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Gun Club will be field on Wednesday evening. Albert Dethyn won a wager of 200 cigars i:i a caie at Gorinehem, Holland, by eating a pound of Hour while he watched another man drink ten glasses of beer. The X.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. Stratford, notify that they have postpoued their Te Wera sab-, which was to have been held on Friday, 14th November. A new date will be advertised later. A speaker at the Sydney District Methodist Synod, in dealing witli the question of sensitive consciences, stated that in a religious instruction class at the public school hie'put-the question, "Where is our conscience—where do you keep it?'" After a pause one little fellow volunteered the reply. "Please sir, it's all over the place." After the laugh had subsided, the speaker claimed that he had as sensitive a conscience as any member of the Synod, but his conscience was not all over the place. Mr A. V. Sims, schoolmaster at Xgaere, met with a painful accident oii Wednesday afternoon. .lumping over a fence lie pitched on a'piece of wood, from which a rusty four-inch nail was protruding. This penetrated the sole of the boot of his left foot and entered quite -an inch into the foot.

and breaking off left the boot pinned to the foot. The Argus states that Dr. Cooper's services were requisitioned and Mr Sims was put under chloroform and the nail removed, raucb to the relief of the sufferer.

Mr Jack Bourke, farmer, of the Mountain Road, Eltham, met with an accident of a painful character on Thursday. ■ He was moving •■some canon a milk stand when lie overbalanced and fell to the ground. In the fall a piece of stick pierced Ins left arm about midway between the wrist and elbow, completely penetrating the arm and protruding on the other side. At the nursing home in the evening (states the Argus) Mr Bourke was put under chloroform and the stick removed.

The following books have been add ed to the Stratford Public Library:•'The Broken Halo" (Florence L. Bar clay). "The Way of Ambition" (Rob ert Hichens), "Threads of Grey an< Gold" (Myrtle Reed"), "The Whit< Gale" (Warwick Deeping), "The Old time Before Them" (.Eden Phillpotts) "Dirk" (A. Marchand), "The Passion ate Friends" H. G. Wells). "The Sec ret of Lonesome Cove" iS. Adams) "The Golden Butterfly" (W. Boasani and Rice), "The Grip of the Past' : (John Stewart), "Shallows" i.F. Watson), "The Power Behind" (M. P. Willcocks), "The Little Nugget" (P. G Wodohousc).

Aii important dispersal sale will hi held by Mr Newton King ar the White Mart Stahlcvs, New IMmouth, on Monday next, lOtli inst. Mr W. H. Jnvy (the proprietor), owing to ill-health, has decided to place everything in file auctioneer's hands, ahsolutely without reserve, so (hat intending huyers should make certain of attending this sale to secure vehicles, horses, harness, and sundries, which, owing to their condition and care, must !>e in great working order. We are informed that all the horses are young, not one being over S years old, and having been corn \\'<l. must he in great order for farmers or for other stable proprietors. In addition to all the plant. Mr King is also to offer the stable property, a nicely furnished residence, and. a Siddlev-Deaslev motor car.

In Germany, when the vote of the jury stands six against »ix. the prisoner is acquitted. A vote of seven against live leaves the decision to the Court, and in a vote of eight against tour the prisoner is convicted. According to. a recent issue of the "Saffron Walden Weekly News" last month a Mrs Rebecca Law, an oldage pensioner, of Little Chestcrford, celebrated her 100th birthday. At the age of 42 Mrs Law was left a widow with seven children, only one ot whom—her eldest, boy, Thomas, agcH LI was at work, earning is 6d pe. * week. She had to maintain her family by working in the fields, hoeing and haymaking, and in the winter by sack mending and washing, and she brought them all up to he a creditable and hard-working family. She has thirtyfive grandchildren and forty-six groat grandchildren. Living in the same cottage at Little Chesterford are four [generations: Mrs Law, the centenarian : her eldest son, Mr Thos. Law. aged "3, who is also an old age -pensioner; her granddaughter, Mrs Carter, aged 54, wife of Mr William Car- ' ter, church clerk or Little Chesterford ; and two great-grandchildren, Grace Carter, aged 18, and 1 Carter, aged 16. Mrs Law is a very . happy and charming old. lady, enjoys I excellent health, and retains all her i facilities. She does the needlework of | the home, and only recently made six-. 1 teen shirts for the rector's wife for . distribution in the parish.