LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

This month the Xgaere dairy factory

will pay out' £3134, Lowgartj)y£2?72 and Cardiff ’£1978.

A Press Association telegram fyom, Wellington states that the dead body of a young child fully dressed was found under a house at Eastbourne, Wellington. The owner reported .it to the police.

A number of the members of McKay’s I’antomime Co. paid a visit to the Dawson’s Falls Mountain House yesterday, aji.d report.‘spending .an en-joyab.ly,-diitH, 1 .,,. the :: caretaker, Air J. ; Miu;phv, ; (Ipjnj* everything to make thejr stay .pleasant."' • t -. / ■

Theye..was again a good audience at the Town Hall last .Saturday.night to witness the second performance hyj Stanley McKay’s Royal Pantomime, Co. Tim company proceeded on to New Plymouth l»y this morning’s train, appearing there to-night and to-mor- ■ row night. ' “A Visitor” writes to the editor as follows:—“Sir, —Kindly permit me space in your valuable paper to draw the Domain Board’s attention] to a nuisance that existed j on Sunday in King Ed-j ward’s Park, hy a number of youths who indulged in cycling round the paths, which is not only a source of j annoyance, hut very dangerous to the] large number of men, women and children who spend a few hours there; on Sundays. I trust that the Do-

main Board will take such action as i necessary to prevent a recurrence c. Sunday afternoon’s exhibition. Thant ing you, Mr Editor, for trespassing o: your space.” An interesting Parliamentary recon embracing the constitution and parlia meats of New Zealand from the yea 1840 to the present time is to ham from the Government Printer. Tin contents opens with introductory mat ter dealing with the British Sovereign ty, Constitution, seat of Government anti Parliament Buildings. Sectior 11, deals with the general government from 1840 to 1913, while the provincial governments from 1853-1876 form excellent history for section ill.-The half-dozen illustrations deal with the new Parliament Buildings as they will appear when completed ; the first Parliament Buildings, Auckland; the Parliament Buildings in 1866; 'Wellington in 1875, showing Parliament Buildings and Government House; and two views of Parliament Buildings, before the tire. The publication, containing 206 naves, is the result of a. motion of the Hon. Mr Jenkinson on Ist August, 1912, asking for a return darning (1) the names of all memiers of, the Legislative Council from 1851 to 1912; (2) dates of appointment and dates on which seats vacat'd; (3) period in House of Represennfives, and electorate represented; nu! (4) ( very official parliamentary losition !ie f ld.

Mr Frank Collins claims to have landed the biggest aggregate bag of trout this season, his tallv now being 93. A poll on the question of erecting a municipal town hall was taken at Viaitara on Friday, the proposal being defeated by 111 to 89. Mr F. W. Green, the successful tenderer for the gravelling contract for the Stratford Racing Club, has commenced the work, and will push it on as fast as the weather will permit. That the road to the East Mountain House is rapidly being put in good order is evidenced by the fact that yesterday 1 a motor cycle was ridden right up jo the house. Mr i- \ v lix Tanner, the fasting man, and the hero of Tanner’s Ark, is living at Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, reports a Times-Sydney Sun Special cable. He expressed a desire to marry Mrs Pankhnrst, pointing out that their abstention from food constituted an ideal link between them. Mrs Pankhnrst was besieged with reporters. Flushed with anger, she described the offer as insulting, and abided : “I am a politician, tub- a* marrying person.”

Norway has a trom an judge (says the Pictorial) in the person of Miss Ruth Sorenson, who is the first woman in the land to exercise the judicial functions. Her jurisdiction is in the far north, at Hammerfest, 250 miles nearer the Pole than that most northerly railway of Europe which penetrates the .Arctic Circle for 200 miles. Life in those climes has all the elements of stagnation in it; hut that, even to the limits of Scandinivia, the Norse spirit is strong is shown by Miss Sorenson’s appointment, which belongs to the future, or to the mediaeval past, but hardly to the present.

A recent visitor to Wellington stated to a Stratford Evening Post reporter, in reference to strike matters, that had one not been told of the industrial war being engaged in, it would have been difficult last week to imagine that anything so serious was in progress. From the heights of Wellington, the hay harbored a fairly’ big fleet, a position that could be accounted not unusual, but the main striking effect was the unwonted calm of the wharves. Business appeared to be in progress in the principal thoroughfares, and beyond a few groups of bystanders at the approaches to the wharves and a special constable or two with his horse stationed here and there, absolutely there was no stir. In our informant’s opinion, the specials must have had a weary job putting in tim’d. 1

iln celebration’’of the jubilee of the New Zealand Herald, die issue of Thursday last consists of 28 pages, and enclosed in every copy of the paper is a facsimile of the first number -of the Herald published on November 13, 1863. A large section of the paper is devoted to illustrations and reading matter, showing the progress of the Herald during the past 60 years. The story of the industrial progress of the province during the half centum: is told in 1 statistics,” the great provincial industries being ’

separately treated. ' : A ■ feature of quite' equal interest is a detailed deseriptioii of the appearance of the city in 1863; ivitii succeeding articles, dealing with the immigration of the time, the homes of old Auckland, fashions and social life, trade and commerce, ships and shipping, and the amusements, education, and church activities of the people of Auckland and its'environs half a century ago. the illustrations in this section show

some of rlie main streets of the city and portions of the waterfront in the year in which the Herald was founded. The war of the sixties is also dealt with historically and from the point of view of its effect on the daily life of the early settlers of the Auckland Province.

Tho horse has been described as “the triend of man,” and, no doubt, his

successors, the push hike and the fj motor hike, would wish to share the J pleasant description; but the bicycle i| rider sometimes thinkb, as tie endeav- ! ors to remedy some obscure malady j his mount has contracted far from li home, that perhaps any old “neddy” -I vvould he more reliable. An illusrari Hen of the doubtful iovs of the l| bicycle was afforded on Saturday af- > ternoon. A gentlemen who . to return to Stratford from Toko, . found that Ids bicycle was of no use tor travelling and “Shanks’ pony” i "as commissioned for the journey. A j little along the road Gent I came upon I Gent 11., who was endeavoring to I find out what ailed hies motor cycle. ! Gent I offered Ids services and as he I quickly put the machine to rights, Gent j 11. could do no less than offer Gent I 1. a lilt on the carrier. Still a little j further along the road the motor cycle overtook a lady wheeling a push I hike, the hack tire of which was deI hated. The motor cyclists dismonnti ed and found that the lady was in a hurry-—she had only about half an , hour to get to town to eateb the evening train. Her tire was fixed up and both parties again set forth. But just a little further on the lady overtook tlie motor cycle, the hack inner tube having gone on strike as a protest against the weight of tlie extra f passenger. When this matter was *. remedied Gent f. decided to finish the journey on foot.