LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 16 May 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Stratford A. and P. Association will be held next Saturday afternoon, in the Borough Council Chambers, Stratford, at 1.30.

The A. and P. Association desires, to acknowledge the* receipt of £1 F:om Mr A. J. Smith, Cardiff, towards iho gift stock fund.

The Press Association reports that at the Dunedin sessions of the Supreme Court, John Crisp, solicitor, for forgery and misappropriation and failing to keep proper books, was sentenced to three years' hard labor. George Havelock Green, for attempted wife murder at Sawyer's Bay, received a sentence of ten years with hard labor.

Aerial flying has got into the Anglican Litany. A correspondent of the London Guardian says:—"lt seems fairly clear that in very many churches the words 'by air' have been added to the Litany for some time past, but might one suggost that the addition should be made without altering the beautiful rhythm—as 'Preserve those who travel by laud, air, or water.' '■"

A well-attended meeting was reld in the Hinemoa Lodge room on Thursday afternoon to form a wom*n"s Orange Lodge in Stratford. Mrs Wilks took the chair in the absence of the Rev. Reader. The Lodge was duly formed and the usual officers and a strong committee were elected. "Mountjoy" was selected as the nam© of the Lodge. Substantial contributions to the funds of the Lodge were made in the room. Arrangements are now being made for the formal opening.

' Land in Queen Street, Melbourne, states a cablegram, has been sol 1 at £460 per foot.

The following amounts are being paid out this month by heal dairy factories:—Stratford £'4132. Xgaero £1602, Cardiff £1223. Lowgir'h £1320

Names freely mentioned as probable candidates for election to the extraordinary vacancy in the local Borough Council, caused by the resignation of Cr. Dingle, are Messrs C. E. Jauies, T. Lawson and C. D. Sole. Of these, Mr Jaine s has definitely accepted nomination, and will go to the poll.

A bright star in the political firmament of Mr Atmore's meeting at Midhirst last night was the presence of a lady elector, the solitary representative of her sex, who had braved the wintry elements of the exceedingly wild night. Mr Atmore made specal reference to Miss Yickers' attend ni\:e, and it was noted that at the supper after the meeting Miss Yickers occupied a place of honr on 'he right of the guest of the evening.

It is characteristic of Captain Cook's restrained nature, observes a Sydney newspaper, that the names he gave are, for the most part, prosaic enough. Mount Edgecumbe recalls the famous height in Plymouth Harbor. Mount Egmont bears the name of a naval First Lord who fell out with the great Pitt, Cape Palliser commemorates Cook's old captain and lifelong friend, Cape Saunders the admiral under whom he held his first warrant as master, Jackson's Head and Cape Stephens are named after two secretaries of the Admiralty, Banks and Solanders Islands after the two great botanists. Gore Bay after his second officer, Mercury Point records the observation of a transit, Cape Foulwind and Cape Turnagain are self-explana-tory. But there is a hint of the fantastic in the Mayor and Court of Aldermen, the Poor Knights, and the Hen and Chickens, and the sailor lad Nicholas Young may have felt a little rueful at the saturnine humor which gave to his one discovery the style of Young Nick's Head, while sentiment is certainly not lacking in the name of Cape Farewell.