LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Canadian Dairy Division states that iiies cause great loss to the dairy' tanner by so irritating the cows as to reduce the flow of milk .materially; The settingi around, in shallow- pans,; of; a- iftistura, of .sweet skim milk, two parts, and formalin, one part, will do much to reduce the pest.” In Scotland the walking-stick is regarded as distinctly a secular and week-day companion. Max O’Rell records the pained surprise occasion ed during a visit'to Edinburgh, when, oil going for a stroll on Sunday morning, lie took np his favorite cane. “Do you mind taking an umbrella, instead?” asked his host. “.It- lookmore respectable on the Sabbath.”

Last month the estate of 271 deceased persons were finally certified for stamp duty. The largest was that of Sir John Logan Campbell, oi Auckland, £227,9681 The Taranaki estates were:—William Spearman Young £10,560, Richard Morrow £82:2, W illiain Burns Francis 2287, George S. Wood *£2097, Helene Carstens £ll3B. Walter Hewes £946, Anne Player £794.

An extraordinary weather freak was lately 'reported from Roscommon, Ireland. While engaged in harvesting operations a number of people were struck by a cyclone which, confined to an area of about 60;') yards, ragea with great violence, and carried away houses, hay, and corn stacks. A number of people in the area affected were knocked down and injured. Outside the path of the cyclone the weather was perfectly calm.

| A letter from Air B. P. Lethbridge, j of Rangitikei, now travelling abroad, refers to woman’s work thus: “From Amsterdam we started for Berlin, leaving at 8.20 a.m., and reaching Berlin at 7.4 p.m., rather a long journey, but the country is most interesting. One sees ploughs drawn by cows working away in the fields, and very often women working the teams. It seems to he quite the proper thing to make your wife do the heavy work here. She digs the potatoes and carries them in a- orate on her hack to the pit. She also hoes the mangolds and does the farm work generally, and for a change looks cLer the house between times. Then when she has finished this she works at the railway station filling trucks with eoa! and any other light job she can find, j Berlin is a great city. 'By far the I best streets we have- come acres-, in j our travels and tire most beautiful j parts we have seen. Since coming to j Austria we notice that the women j still work in the fields and do the! road work as well, as we saw several j breaking stones as we passed and some mixing cement, while others wore dig-1 ging drains in the streets.”

Instruments and all property of the Stratford Municipal Band have to be in bandroom on Mondoy evening next. Several vacancies have occurred in the ranks of the Stratford Brass Band, and these present an excellent opportunity for students in brass instru-ment-playing to gratuitously develop their faculties. Application should be made to the secretary, Mr G. Ford. A cowardly assault was made upon two railway officials at the Pukekbhe station a day or two ago. it appears that a couple of loungers were interfering with the tablet exchange apparatus, ami they were asked to leave i: a- a There was scum exchange of words, and the officials passed on their way. They were followed, and when in a dark place they were rushed, a clerk named C. M. Todd getting his jaw fractured iu two placer. The affair was reported to the police but so far no arrest has been made. The Westland Pioneers’ Memorial (states the West Coast Times) will, represent the figure of a miner in I prospecting kit, typical__of the pioi neer days, raised on a granite pedes- | tal, and bearing a suitable inscrip--1 tion. It will stand in Hokitika for | all time to the honor of those hardy j pioneers who laid tlie foundations of j the Coast, and made it the promis- ‘ ing. prospering community of to-aav.

Threepence represented the only financial means remaining to a- woman who landed in Wellington . from the Maniari on Monday week, with three children, and the necessity of travelling to Lyttelton to join her husband. She had £o when the steamer arrived in Wellington, but excess dues on her luggage amounted to £4 19s 9d. The assistance of officers of the Labour Department was readily enlisted, and the fares for the woman and her children to Lyttelton were advanced, so that the party was able to proceed South without delay. The husband will refund the money when he can, and the woman says she will see that lie. does so at the earliest opportunity, for she admits she “would have been nowhere” without the Department’s timely assistance. The “Smart Set,” who are appearing at the Town Hall to-night are the only company np to now who have been able to introduce the style of entertainment known as the Revue. A Revue is a burlesque on. all the passing events of the day, all the leading local and political characters, intermixed with pieces of the latest plays, musical comedies,etc. Mr Edward Elliott, of the “Smart Set,” wrote a Revue on South Africa, later one on Australia, produced last year in Melbourne and Perth, and this year in both Auckland and Wellington, the Xew Zealand Revue. “Kia Ora” was the laughing success of the season; as one paper reported, there were more laughs to the minute in “Kia Ora” than in any comedy that had ever been through the Dominion. Owing to the difficulty in producing, at present it is only possible .to present a Revue in the big centres, although without this. Mr Elliott manages to introduce in the smaller towns, many local hits in novel and unexpected wavs.