LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 92, 18 December 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Iviiijv of Bavaria has prohibited his officers dancing the 'tango, states a Berlin cablegram.

The Mayor ami Or. Richards waited on 'the County Council yesterday and request that the Council should contribute half the cost of metalline Flint Road to its full'width for live chains east of the railway line. The Borough Overseer estimated the cost of the work at £7B. Cr Smith moved that the request lie acceded to, and that the money he voted from the general County fund. The work was not one properly chargeable against the Xorth Riding. The cost per head of population in the County would only lie twopence. The motion was carried.

Mrs -Brooking. Broadway, who has on previous occasions catered for the Stratford Racing Club’s annual meeting. has again been successful in obtaining the contract for the coining; New Year’s meeting. The management of the Fdtham Axemen's Carnival have also entrusted the catering at the Carnival on the 2bth and 27th to Airs Brooking.

During last August a challenge was published in a Taranaki paper by Mi ,1. K. Shewry, of Taliova, offering to chop any competitor at the Elthavn Carnival in five blocks, namely, 12in,. loin., 18in.. 20in., and 24in., for a stake of £2O each block, making a total stake of £IOO aside. It is understood that Mr D. Pretty, a prominent axeman, will accept the challenge, and the contest will take place at the Eltham Axemen’s Carnival to be held on Boxing Day and the following day. o

! The Borough Council offices will bo ! closed from noon on Wednesday until 1 Thursday, January Stir, for -the -holidays.

The “Observer” Christmas annual is to hand. It is always a bright and welcome number. '"Christmas Cards and Season’s V\ ishes” in verse, as in past years, are quite a feature of the publication.

I here arc two broken-down vehicles, ■’‘dies ol' driving accidents, at different points on lire East Hoad. Cr. \\eret stated s at yesterday's meeting oi the Comity Council that a utimber oi horses had shied at them, and on his motion it was decided that the foreman he given instructions to see that they are removed.

liie report of the Inspector for Scotliincl under the Inebriates Act for .1911 ami 1912 states' that the admissions to the institutions during the latter year numbered 157, 123 being to retreats, .12 to certified inebriate reformatories, and 22 to the State Reformatory. The total number of patients dealt with was 252, 167 being patients in retreats and 85 reformatory inmates. The admisions in 1911 numbered 166.

On outside pages to-day: List of this year’s prize-winners afc the Stratford High School, page 2; discussion between Borough -delegates and County Council regarding the electric light question, page 3j appointment of ranker for Pembroke Road west and report of routine proceedings ,at the County Council meeting, page 7.

At a meeting of the committee last night final _ arrangements were made tor the presentation to Mr W. Morant Bayly of an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns. It was arranged that the ceremony take place at the Borough- Council' Chambers- at 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, His Worship the Mayor CMr.W- P. Kirkwood) to make the presentation. There is every indication that there will be a full gathering of gentlemen • representative of the town and district of Stratford.

Evidence of mechanical skill was revealed when a-fashionably dress young nan, arrested,on a charge of vagrancy, was searched by the Dannevirke police. Amongst his “effects” were several capitally-executed double-headed pennies and a couple of special “kips”— valuable possessions for an ardent twoupper. The kips had cunningly concealed slits wherein the pennies with, two heads would repose until the moment arrived to “fell” the opposing bettors by throwing “ins”—or, in other words, two !lead's.

Mr J, T. Stevenson, ■ ! F.lt.A'S', wrote as follows to the Auckland. Star:. ‘‘The Government’ astronomer'ht ! Syd-' ’ hey advises?me that the. eoineti -oft 19t)0 ■passed closest .to the; elu;thon.'.NovemSer 20,; at ,a distance, of iiahout 50 millions p|, miles,. ,There;i is, ;• therefore; 10 possibility of shooting.sta'rs.Gii -tliis* ! "■ ieci\siou ? /though; the. cablegrams men-ii ‘tionVitf is ; ippqbal>je.” i 1 ;•> vl I 1 .slHoibs ':1 !■>: ;;ci it 1.1 i ' it urs. <’■> ,i«t ; The results:oh : Gw examinations of the New Zealand 'hers in brackets..in,the,inflowing list :>!? dip^te. T number ypf r in> \ whiclTthe candidate.passed :—-New Ply-

mouth: T. P. Anderson (3), E. Armstrong (4), A. M. White (4), X. F. Little (3), B. H. Qnilliam (5).. Strat'F6icl: A. Coleman "(S'), *Tv”G; Morrison(l), G. W. T. Tayler (1), L. A. Tocker (3). Haw-ora : G. J. Eayley (3), A. D. Pearce (4), A. A. Stewart 13), 4. Thomson, (4), 1?. G. Williams 1 (4_). ; 1 I■ btUi ii-:)nuV. 7 , jurulblO ■:b(in i ;l ItnO.vhr j Aalahh-WJA Plfit; ibeen |d-i^&pjV.e#tecl[{iia,> v •Jamaica, Althpugh,;jie is' 2s. years of-net I ’ke, and,has been living in b 1 darboiii-,, J\lonntain -district isisce ‘hirtpi, only ,a/ fewiAveekfi since o; J that the inhabitants -became awarp.ofcoi ! hjs, existence, Force of iCirciimivthAiqds -pmpelled.him to,go ,to thee nearest■; tow.n,, known as Brown’s Town,vadieu A, ’ As appearance excited much curiosityh*!: ■ie stands only- 27in.-»and weighs tinier 501 b, although a perfect specimen ■Af humanity,. ‘ He was idready ®eceiFdcl C.i offers from a well-known showman, vine!) have been declined. „: v v ,

Mr It. 0. Jarrett, of Masterton, who recently sent a pen of white' leghorns to compete at the Missouri Experimental Station, in the United States, lias received a letter from the United Breeders’ Company of Amerca, asking ■t he will sell the pen,-, for delivery at the end of the contest. The,’manager of the company, states that he desires T> obtain some New Zealand white leghorn stock to compare with the American- and English birds. ; He expresses;* doubt whether the 1 New Zealand birds will he successful at the Missouri competition, on account of the change of seasons. .“It would,” he says, “seem that your birds would room re a year’s residence under the changed climatic conditions to show their, best.” , /

A noteworthy performance, and l one that displays the grit possessed 1 by some colonial girls, was' that of a resident of the Mataura district, ■ the daughter of a well-known dairy farmer. Her two brothers were absent at the Gore Show (says the Mataura Ensign), and had not arrived homo at milking time, so their sister commenced alone the task of milking the herd of 44 cows. ' On the farm milking machines are used, and the happening should prove a point in their favor. The cows, however, had to he bailed up, the machines attached, the cows stripped, the milkplaced in cans, the utensils washed and the dairy shed cleaned, which was all accomplished single-handed.

; Cr Hathaway said at yesterday’s meeting of the County Council that-he. ‘ thought the Council should pass a resolution in connection with the present : industrial crisis and the action taken hy the Government. It was a matter which concerned the Council. If the country’s dairy produce had not been shipped the settlers would have been the first to suffer and the Conned would have been the second. T !, o Council would have been unable to collect their rates and the roads would have gone to rack and ruin. It was very evident that if the produce had not been shipped there would have j been very small advances on consignments and the settlers would hot have 1 been able to pay their rates. On his : motion it was decided to’congratulate ! the Government on the firm stand they had taken in maintaining law and I order and in re-opening the ports of the Dominion.

Saturday, December 27, 1913. is notiliod as a Special Bank Holiday at the offices of the various Banks having offices hero.

To-day the pupils of the Stratford Convent school held a picnic at Ngaere, being conveyed to and fro in drags. Fortunately the weather held tiuo, and the litto ones were treated to a good time, the expense having been borne by sympathisers in the community.

Messrs Webster, Dobson and Co’s, yards presented an animated appearance this morning, Mr P. Beore, Inspector of Stock, being busily engaged on the work of innoculating calves against blackleg. A good number of calves were presented lor the operation.

In order to afford facilities for the transmission by telegraph of Christmas and New Year greetings, special printed forms containing the message “Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” may bo obtained at the telegraph office for use on the following dates: —December 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and 31. A uniform charge of sixpence for each such telegram will he made, provided the address and signature do not contain more than eleven words. 'lf, however, the text as printed is varied in any way, the telegram will be treated as'an ordinary one and charged for accordingly.

The first amusement park in Australia at all similar to those of the chief capitals of Europe was opened in Sydney last weeks state; the Sydney correspondent of the Otago Daily Times. Niue acres and a-half at Rushcutter’s Bay, which is two or three miles from the General Post Office in Sydney, has been transformed in the last five months into a white city, similar, though, of course, on a smaller scale, to the famous White City of London. The park is lit with 32,000 small electric lights besides large lights. It has cost nearly £50,000 to date. The designer and bnilderjof this White City is Mr T. H. Eslick, an engineer who made his name n the constructon of the Franco-British Exhibition in. London, and who has since been called in to design and construct 15 similar parks in other capitals and large cities, including Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Brussels, and the Bombay Exhibiton organised by the Indian Government. Mr Eslick, who managed that exhibition, is remaining for some time as manager 6£ the Sydney White City. The “City” is nearly as large as that at Earl’s Court, in London. •