LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Christchurch woman gave birth prematurely to four children—three bo vs and a girl.

Friday’s Opunake Times says; The tanks have been waiting for the nice showers of rain that fell to-day, but we presume some of the haymakers will have something to say on the subject as well as the concrete mixers. But those who have lately sown their tuvnins will just smile.

An artistic booklet descriptive of the town of Xew Plymouth and detailing the various trips wliieh can he made from the town has been issued by the Xew Plymouth Expansion League. The booklet is nicely printed, admirable pictures of scenery are included and the reading matter is attractively written.

The mail train on Saturday evening consisted of eight carriages, ami

two engines Mere required to bring it up from Hawera. This is probably

the largest up train in.connection with the present holiday season, and the fact would seem to indicate that main people will resume the even tenor or their way to-day.

Dr. Yaiintiue, when hr Opunake, said this was an age lor operations. Headers of tiro. newspapers on this coast would conclude that ho was alluding to financial operations so well does it lit the times. Hawera has just concluded a good sized loan for town improvements, Patea is out for a big fat loan, Waimato is talking of a £60,000 road loan, Opunake Harbour Board is ditto on a £-18,000 loan, whilst a water and drainage scheme is in the same stage—. the eschewing stake.—Opunake Times.

Heimenschueider, who lias found its way into tlio street names of Manaia, says the Witness, is not an easy word to handle and its origin, known only to a few of the oldest residents, lies away back in the mists of time. The chairman at the last meeting of the Town Board explained that it was the name of a German inissioucr in the district in the early days and no doubt thinking to pay the gentleman a compliment

and do .something to preserve his memory, it was affixed to one of the local streets—probably one of the first streets. The chairman of the Town Board administered a well deserved rebuke to the residents of Opunake for their absence from the public meeting on harbor affairs, says the Opnnake Times. Ho said that he noticed that of those present the business man was conspicuous by Ids absence. It was the same thing on railway matters. They required, he said, stirring up. We might add that the complaint is getting chronic with our smaller associations, and yet there is no greater street critic on the local government than the average Opnnake business man. Still, they like to see the flax grow and the bonnie briar bush thrive in place of rndded apples ami honsor pumpkins. Do you know the awful agony of Rheumatism. Tf so, take courage, a simple inexpensive, speedy remedv is available in RHKOH). Thousands nl Maorilanders have tried ii. test'd! it and proved that it cures those diseases which are due to excess ur>:• | acid in the blood. 2s 6d and 4s Gd. (if

The monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held ibis evening. A man whose mental unsoundness was palpable was apprehended at IVhangamomona on Friday and was conveyed down to the Porirna Mental Hospital on Saturday. The Taranaki farmer is getting a better agriculturist every year in addition to being a more scientific dairyman, says the Opunake Times. The plough, harrow, etc., is used more frequently and the paddocks of oats, barley, beans, swedes, etc., makes the country a refreshing place to visit. There were about thirty Stratford residentat the East Egmont Mountain House yesterday, one party of eighteen going no by brakm A good number made the trip through to, Curtis Falls, and. with the brilliant weather, a very pleasant outing was spent. A visitor reports that th»» track is in excellent order and mentions that Mr A. W. Reid ran bis motor car right up to the House. The visitor in question was loud in in's praises of the courtesy of Mr and Mrs Williams, who regard nothing as too much trouble. Complete details of the results of the Alf. Bayly Memorial Scholarship are not yet to hand, but the following are the figures so far available: — Charles Arnold Lawn (Stratford), athletic competition 205 marks, scholarship 482, total 687; C. Yates, 921, 591—686. V; H. Hammond (Havre ra), 137, 532—669; F. C. Kelly 105, 562—607: E. B. Taylor 80, 587—667; Thomas Vickers 1174, 522—6394; K. R. Lye SO, 419—499. The marks obtained by Carmichael (Patea), who gained 200 marks in the athletic competition, and Stubbs 100, who are in the Wanganui Education District, are yet to come. “There seems to be more danger on earth than in the air,” a Wanganui man who lias just returned from England said to a reporter. “The cables on Monday stated that Gustav Hamel and Miss Trohawke Davis had successfully ‘looped the loop’ in an aeroplane. That reminds me that I saw this pair flying- at Hendon one day. They went from the aerodrome to Windsor and back, and then ascended to a height of 7.000 ft., being frequently bidden by clouds. They then alighted, and Miss Davis entered a friend’s motor car, in which to return to London. She had gone scarcely 100yds. when something went wrong with the car, and the occupants were thrown out, Miss Davis being rather badly injured.” Who wouldn’t stay in the air?

A case presenting extraordinary features came up before Mr W. ' Kerr, S.M., at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court last Thursday morning. The local police received a cabled warrant from England charging a well-known and respected local resident, who, with his wife and family, lias been living in Wanganui for some time past, with fraud and embezzlement. With no other information to work on, .Detec-tive-Sergeant Siddells executed the warrant, and the accused was charged under the Extradition Act. DetectiveSergeant Siddells asked that accused

he remanded, pending the arrival of further papers from England. Bail was asked for, but the Magistrate said that while he was willing to do all in his power to mitigate the hardship suffered by accused M'hile he was in Xew Zealand, it was not within his jurisdiction to grant bail, and accused would have to remain in custody. Accused will probably be extradited to England, where lie will stand Ids trial on the charges contained in the warrant. Xapier and Hastings tradespeople of late have suffered from the spurious gold currency. The coins ring true and bear all the outward semblance of the orthodox coinage, the weightbeing the only betraying element. A half-sovereign was broken in half a day or two ago, showing the interior to he composed of aluminium, the exterior being gilt. It is supposed that advantage was taken of the congestion ensuing upon the races to work off the base metal on a holiday-making public and an overworked business people, but the originators seemed to have exercised much discretion as to where thev placed their “gold,” and,

it appears from teeth marks in ono

fictitious sovereign, that one victim at least passed the baby on to someone else to hold. The banks seem to have

escaped, because of information received, and before the Hawke’s Bay races the totalisator staff rvere warned to be on their guardj and to keenly inspect all gold proffered. Tt is said that two had half-sovereigns were passed on to the totalisator ip _n>V rush.