LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

t o _ Tt is understood that at a mooting of the Borough Council last evening, conditions in regard to the lease of the Town Hall for a permanent picture show wore drawn up and that the necessary final terms will bo arranged with the lessee at of the HaJi Committee this evening.

At an early date the Municipal Band is to render a programme of music at the Hospital, and will tak<* up a collection in aid of the funds. The pupils of the Huiroa school proceeded to New Plymouth by this morning's train. The school's first picnic is being held on the East End beach to-day. At the conference of Agricultural Associations held in Stratford yesterday Mr R. Dingle was recommended to the Government for appointment to the recently-constituted Board of Agriculture. At this morning's meeting of the Hospital Esard a hearty vote of thanks was tendered to all those who had extended help in connection with the recent Hospital Saturday eolation. The Chairman said that, considering all the disabilities, the Board had reason to be pretty well satisfied with the result of the collection. The first issue of "The Sun," the

new morning paper which has been promised in Chiistchurch for the past sixteen months, reaches us. It is well

got up in every respect. As to ita policy the new paper itself states:—l "On political and social questions the policy of 'The Sun' will be broad-mind-ed and independent. Extreme partisanship is the bane of journalism in this Country as it is nearly everywhere else, and the perpetual bickering oi party newspapers soon becomes wtire some to a degree, and a weariness tc the flesh." Mr W. A. Hewitt, the local man ager of the X.Z. Loan and Mercan tile Agency Co., Ltd., has just receiv ed word from Mr "Welsh (Welsh an] McCarthy, Haweraf, who is at pre sent in Wellington, that the marriag settlement in the Harding case ha been upset, and that costs have bee given against Harding. This decisio of the judge will be generally of work wide interest, but especially interesi ing to many people in Taranaki, wh were following the case verMmesel}

The Liberals of the district are hole ing a general meeting in the Fore; ters' Hall on Thursday i.ight, whe all supporters (ladies and gentlemer are cordially invited to be present. J is expected that after the delegatemeeting on the following night (Fr day) a definite pronouncement w3l I made in reference to the Liberal cand date to oppose the sitting member \ the general election at the md of tl year. A notice calling these :neet : .ii| appears in our advertising <Jolumu<J. An amusing story is being circular* about the Fitzroy poundkeeper and little surprise he got the other da says the }\ew Plymouth "Herald."' • appears that the New Plymouth Bo ough's man-of-all-work, Mr Benjam Tippins, was paying a dog tax collec ing visit to Fitzroy when he spied fij cattle grazing on the road. Within twinkling he had captured them ai marched them along to the pound. I sought out the keeper of the poun remarking in effect, "Look what I' caught." The poundkeeper looke gasped, and realised that the biter h" been bftten. Two of the impounded cc tie were his own property.—lt significant in view of the above th tlie Council have now appoint "Ben" to take charge of the JFitzr pound.

The Borough Council, like oth local bodies. has not "a bo< to be kicked or a soul to be damned but it is well all should remember th members of such bodies have feeling This was made at last night's meeting of Coun when a letter was read front a ral payer who stated that the Council mt have forgotten where Flint Boad was though it may have been the result ol retrenchment policy—and concludi: with the statement that the particul part of the road was a "disgrace any local body." His Worship to strong exception to the tone of the h ter, which, he said, was not an improt ment on a previous eommunicath

received from the same complainar Continuing, His Worship said any rai payer might have a grievance and w quite justified in bringing tjte saii forward, but the least the Coum could expect was to be approached re pectfully in these matters.

"We want to know.'' said Cr. liters in reply to His Worship the May at last night's meeting of the BorouCouncil as to whether he was satisfi' m having drawn attention tto the msi ter or wanted to move a resolution regard to the custom of the local at tioneering firms in conducting sal with two or more salesmen when on one license had been taken out in t Borough. It was pointed out that license was applicable to the Domini* as a whole, and that if licenses we taken out, say, at Xew Plymouth ai Kaponga and Xgafere, the holders such were quite entitled to sell * Stratford. "They can't all sell -'.

once." was the remark of one eoune lor, with whom all agreed. '"'But a particular firm is holding * sale all those places on the one day, lie can there legally be two salesmen ac ing here in Stratford with only 01 license to work tinder?" These we not the actual terms of the speaker remarks, but they wore the gist them, and on same waged the di cussion, which wound up with the r mark quoted at the opening of th paragraph. 'j

A dance in aid of the building fund of the Midhirst Towii Hall will be held on Friday evening.

A big bl:;ck-and-tan collie dog met au untimely end in Broadway this afternoon at the wheels of a passing hioior cur. and for a time the inert hotly lay an object of curious reasoning among passers-by on Newton King's corner.

This week's sitting of the Court should be a very short >nc —certainly the list of cases is a record for brevity. Thirteen civil cases (two defended) and one judgment summons are to be dealt with, and the only information roit the list is one for failing to attend a Senior Cadet parade

A Press Association message from Hawera states that the Auckland boat failed to connect with the south express this morning, and that' five of the Australian players left Ne»v Plymouth in a motor for Hawera, while the remainder proceeded by the afternoon train. Play was to si a. X at one o'clock.