LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 86, 2 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the Whangarei Advocate case, plaintiff was non-suited with costs as per scale. A pair of Chinese porcelain beakers fetched two hundred guineas at Christie’s, states a Times—Sydney Sun special. Residents of Whangamomona are at present arranging a fitting celebration of the taking over of the railway to the township, which is expected to take place at an early date. The season for the Mountain trips is proving very extended this year, and those who have not yet visited the Mountain should hear in mind that it is the intention of Mr Williams to remain at the House throughout tiie winter. Some time ago, Mr George Chittenden, a Nelson carpenter, slipped while' carrying a brace and bit, and the bit penetrated one of bis eyes to the depth of two inches. He has completely lost the sight of the injured eye.

The metalling of Ohura and Whauga Roads in the township of Whangamomona lufs now been completed so far as the County Council is concerned, the road from the boardinghouse to the County office and down to the bridge leading to the railway station having been metalled to a width of twelve feet.

“The children in the|N6W Zealand schools are of a good stature, and compare favorably in height and weight with those who attend the better class of schools at Home. We have the chance in this, dominion of raising the best race in the world,” so spoke Dr. Baker in an address to the South Canterbury teachers last week.

A chemist in Belgium, by taking the albumen from the residue of malt grains and putting it through a process, is said to have produced a pasty food, claimed to taste like meat, bpt with three times as much nourishment. The cost of the food is small. Physicians in Brussels have experimented with it, with excellent. results.

Half an inch of rain was record ed in Invercargill for March, the exact figures being .51 inches. In March, 1913, the gauge registered 7.39, but this was at the time when the disastrous Gore floods occurred. Despite the dryness this season, the cultivation in no way suffered, heavy dews providing ample moisture to aid the growing plants and vegetables. The drying-up also aided the soil in the sweetening process.

It is 1 not often that the people of Stratford have the opportunity of hearing a lecture on America by one who has lived ,in that country and has become familiar with it§ life and its customs. Such an opportunity will be given the public on Friday evening, when Rev. Mr Pattison, who resided six years in the United States, will give his impressions of the land and its people. Musical items will also bo rendered.

The subscriptions collected by L. A. MacDpnald, of Halcombe, for the W. H. Vereker-BindOn memorial fund now amount to £l6 13s, and on his list are represented Wanganui, Hawera, Palmerston, Wellington, Feilding, Halcombe, Bulls, Sanson, Waituna West, Napier, Ashhurst and Petone. As the list closes at Easter, Mr MacDonald makes a final appeal to Stratford friends of the late Wanganui inspector for contributions.

A local “mother of six” says she has com© to the conclusion she knows nothing about fly papers or fly poisons, and judging from her experiences it would seem the lady is not far wrong in her opinion: Last year at the time when the flies most do -congregate, some fly traps in the form of a sticky preparation known as “Tanglefoot” were procured, and, certainly, quite a number of the übiquitous little pests ended their days in a dire struggle for freedom, but, then, the family Thomas-cat had not been reckoned with. The sight of this pet careering round in a vain mad endeavour to get free from a sheet of “Tanglefoot,” which he had somehow managed to wrap round himse|f, was too awful for the lady’s nerves, and she vowed never again to allow the charge of cruelty to be laid at her door. So this summer a preparation known as “fly pie” was purchased. The basis of this is arsenic,' and sugar and water complete the deception. It so happened that two of “the six” got dipping their little fingers in the pie, and it was only when one of them Tell on the floor as the result of the poison that the mother discovered what they had been up to. Emetics, and the rush for the doctor followed,. but it was a close call for the younger toddler.