LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL .

1 ho police ;st Paeroa on Tuesday, seized .5 1 ,001) loot of timber which, it IS alleged, was illegally taken from Crown lands in the district. It is understood that the two newspapers in Whangarei have been amalgamated, the interests of the “.Northern Advocate” having been purchased by the “.Northern .Mail.” I he first Stratford boy to he sent to military detention left lor south last night in the person of Leslie Young, wlio failed to pay a line indicted for ltd I nre to attend parade. Acting upon advice of Air Peed.' ICC., -Mr T. (.'resham, late citv coroner at Auckland, has accepted, under protest, a cheque for LdOt), this being tin' amount voted on the Fvstimates last y p ar in consideration of past services, i j Ihe first issue of the “Xev. Zealand Liberal” is to hand. As it candidly nhmts, the journal’s aim is to oust the

present (Government. and the Liberal Party's views on the leading political questions of, the day are fully .set out in its thirty-two pages. T|, <* railway turnstile at Inglewood ls . r(> ;’“ Hosed hy the Department, The district traflie .manage]- (Mr Armtold an Inglewood deputation Tl,iirsti;, y that it the turnstile was; ( oiisidered a great eonvenietiee, the lovrn should not hesitate to pay foD •■in overhead bridge, w hich w ould r en-1 •for the pnhho immune from accidents. I

A dance will be held in the Midhirst Town Hull on Wednesday evening. Proceeds are in aid of the hall building fund. The visit of the Auckland bowlers to the Horticultural Society’s Show on Thursday was due (we are asked to .-■tatei to the kind invitation of Mr W. if. .Bosley, president of the Society. A. Songster, a member of the Stratford Rifle Club, shot himself into sixth place in the aggregate at the V» airamp a Rifle Association’s meeting, hold just prior to the Trentham meeting. At the Fremiti sports (states the Wcirara Mail j Con -.table La Pouple seized paraphernalia known as “Bird on the Wing.” which was in operation on tho ground, and it is understood that proceeding;? lor conducting a game of chance are to he taken. The Horticultural Society’s successful autumn show was concluded last night, there being a good attendance of the public. The excellent exhibits again called for a good deal of attention, and the music, supplied by the Egmont Club Orchestra was a feature of the cvenimr.

Ul L'l'R t’UJIIUI”. i The Waifcara Mail says: As a sequel : to the disgraceful disturbance in St. j John’s Kali on Wednesday evening, we understand that proceedings are to lie taken against a young man for causing the disturbance. The pro- | prietor of the pictures is determined to I suppress rowdyism of any description. A Press Association telegram from | Thames states; Another large Governi ment order for railway locomotives has been placed with Price Bros. The last contract for ten engines was increased to 90. These were class AD, of 72 tons, while the present order is for twenty of class B. 1 A witness at the Court yesterday | gave it as his opinion that certain j charges for motor repairs were three i times what they should be. If a sysi tom of overcharging is in general i force, it is no wonder that laymen are I chary of lotting their machines get into | the hands of the repairer. | What’s in a name? A good deal | sometimes. When the members of tho Xew Zealand Trotting Association | found that an application had been i made to register the name Phtholognrrh for a horse they promptly threw it out. And they refused to register another as Forty Thieves, because it ; might reflect on the sport. I There was a big crowd at the Ack- ! land Road school picnic, held on Thursday last, a fair number of visitors from Stratford being among those pre- ■ sent Tiie weather was excellent and j ail present spent a thoroughly enjoyable day. Messrs Trimble (chairman), | Rogers and R. Masters, members of j the Taranaki Education Board, were ; present. Mr Trimble presenting the ! school prizes won during the past | year. The members of the Ackland i Road School Committee entertained the visitors in their usual hospitable j manner.

| It has been the practice in the past | for bells to be rung at stations on I the Xew Zealand railways five minj utes before the. departure of trains. | Owing to the fact that annoyance has j been caused to bystanders and to re- ! sidentp in the vicinity of stations by | the prolonged ringing of these bells, j the practice is to be discontinued on ! and after April 1 next. The Department (says the Dominion) has had numerous representations on the mat-, tor made to it, and it lias also been, pm tied out that the ringing of the holts has misled people into thinking it signified the instant departure of trains instead of being merely a warning signal.. Instructions have been issued from the head office of the Department in Wellington to discontinue the ringing, and notices have been affixed to the current railway timetables that the practice is to cease.

Surf-bathers who rarely enter the 1 water without being seized with a fear j that- a binenosed shark or one of some j other variety may make a meal of j thorn, can now fake heart and bathe I in comfort. -V young Fijian has explaini e(l how easy it is to heat the marine : immster. The Rev. AV. E. Bennett, AI.A.. related the story at a Methodist j Foreign Mission meeting in Sydney. Incidentally he introduced the hero ! of it to the gathering (stated the Daily ! Pelegraph). He had taken the young man to set* the bathers at Bondi, and the subsequent letter the lad had forwarded to his father in the islands told of iiow “in the white man’s land the men and women played together in tin’ water, but they did nor go far away from the sand.” (Laughter). “It ‘ was natural 1 suppose,” said the reverend gentleman, “that our young friend Dnudd want to bathe also, and I got hnn a costume and watched him go out, after warning him of the dangers of your snrl. 1 saw him cross the first breaker, then the second and tho third, hut when he went beyond ther w fourth I became anxious, and beckoned him in. A\ hen lie arrived I told him of Hie dangers ol the current or undertow. He >a*.d it was iftnhing. Then I warned him of the sharks. He laughed. ‘Sharks don’t touch you in deep water." he s-nd, ‘and ii von meet one in the shallow water all you have to do i< to dive and clasp your hands around Ins body and then lie can’t bite yon.” I he tiling looked so easy that despite 1 roar of laughter that could he heard i block away, the native seemed to wonder why it was the white man had >ot thought of it before.