LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ ■Midhirst people spent their annual holiday at New Plymouth yesterday, about 300 going down by train. A fine collection of asters grown by Air A. M. Spillman is at present on view at the premises of the Cash Tailoring Co., JJroadwy. The official viper-killer of France has a dress composed of 900 skins of venomous reptiles. He receives; a small payment for the head of every viper he destroys. The rector of a Norfolk parish picked up a lady’s watch in the village street, and on the Sunday announced the fact from the pulpit, in case the owner should be among the congregation. immediately afterwards ho gave out the hymn, “Lord, her watch, Thy Church is keeping.” The recent floods in Kimberley, West Australia, according to a report from Broome, have been very severe. The rainfall was the heaviest for 30 years. Inland telegraphic communication has been interrupted, but reports from Derby show that

the Fitzroy Diver came down in a heavy flood, sweeping many hundreds of cattle, sheep, pigs, arid, kangaroos into King Sound. At Fitzroy Crossing, the post office and hotel are surrounded, and at Fairfield station the flood is two feet deep in the homestead. Yoena stock yard is submerged, and the fate of a big white man’s camp on the Fitzroy, near Livaringa Station, is unknown.

A somewhat sensational accident occurred at a farm in the vicinity of Waverley yesterday, says the correspondent of the Patea Picks. A milk waggon'had just returned from the factory with a load of whey and the driver pulled up on the top of a hill and got down to feed his pigs as usual. The horses, being accustomed to move on as fast as one can is empty, moved

on of their own accord. This time, however, the driver was not ready as the reins were tied to the brake, one being tied more tightly than the other. As a result the waggon was pulled round to the edge of the hill and shortly waggon, horses and cans were rolling down the hill side. Upon investigation it was found, strange to say, that the horses were not injured, but the waggon and cans suffered considerably.

At Lyttelton yesterday, Edgar : Joan Blackburn Clough, ex-presidont ,of the Arbitration Wharf Laborers’ ; Union at Lyttelton, was lined £SO for false pretences. Evidence showed that ho collected a donation of two guineas from the secretary of the .Ah dropolitan Club towards a presentation to the president of the union. He said the Union Shipjhng Company was subsidising the amount pound for pound, and gave the name of Austin. Union officials said there was no official movement to make‘a presentation to the president. Clough sent flit' cheques to the secretary, who handed i them to the police. Clough had pre-j vionsly been convicted of a similar j offence years ago. At the meeting of the Xew Plymouth Harbor Board yesterday, says the Xew Plymouth Xews, Air Xewton King mentioned that he had recently been waited on by a deputation of farmers who were anxious to Im.ve a freezing works started between New

! Plymouth aud Stratford. They were , only m ait mg to have tin assurance I rout tin l Hoard ;is to wlion it would j In l possible for ships suitable for cari eying frozen meat, to enter New Plv-I mouth. lit- moved that the Board, at its next meeting, give an assurance to the farmers as to when ihev could safely anticipate that the port will he available for the shipment of | ‘ frozen meat and dairy produce hv j ocean going steamers to the world’s j 1 markets. This was carried, and matter will lie iurther discussed at 1 ' ihe next meeting of the Hoard. HAMSH RHFFMA TIC PAINS— Rheunio brings speedv and perma-l nent relief to every sufferer from]' Rheumatism, (lout, Seialica. Lumbago. A few iloses of RKEFMO will quickly cure-- removes (ho excess uric tii id tiom the blood. Mas cured thousands. Try if. 2 S Gd and Is (id every uli aro, •

1 Roland Watson, who was arrested in Stratford yesterday, appeared at the Court this morning before Air S. B. Hunter, .UP., charged with failure to provide tor Jiis unborn illegitimate child. He was remanded to appear at I’alinerstou next Tuesday, bail being allowed in defendant’s bond for £'7d and one surety of £‘7o.