LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 35, 2 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The "Stratford Evening Post" will not be published to-morrow (King's Birthday). A concert in aid of tho Toko school funds will be held in the Toko Coronation Hall on Friday evening, and will lie followed by a dance. The animal meeting of the Stratford . Licensing Committee will be held at J the Courthouse on Friday, commeneing at neon. A final reminder is given of the performance of Root's cantata, '"The Haymakers,*' to be given in the Regan Street Hall, this evening by the Methodist choir. Four now members were proopsed at the M. 1".. 1.0.0. F. meeting held in the Forester's Hall last night. There was only a moderate attendance of members present. Xo noetice of intention to defend has '.teen given in respect of the six civil rases set down for hearing at the Court on Friday. Informations will he deait with as follows:—Failing to attend camp 4, failing to destroy noxious weeds 3, breaches of bylaws 2. A man will also appear on a charge of being found in a state of helpless drunkenness. A resident of Watson's Bay (Sydney), named E. Farrell, made a strange find on the beach at Camp Cove on Saturday morning, 23rd inst. Left by the tide on the beach was a large box branded "Singapore." On opening the case, Farrell was surprised to find that it contained a snake 18ft. in length and 2ft. in girth. The reptile had apparently died on board one of the incoming steamers from the Fast, and it had been thrown I overboard and was washed up by the tide. ■T do not know what to say about sinful Sydney,' said Arch'bishop Kelly at the children's Temperance Day celej brations at St. Mary's Cathedral, ! Sydney, on Sunday week. "Sin is I drunk here like water. There are ! girls under 15 years of age who have j gone through more sin than people J of 30 years of age in other places. j Look around the streets; look at what , ! the police and doctors have to say, and you will see the truth of my remarks." Information was brought to Sydney j by the Makambo that H.M.S. Sea Lark, which was at Vila when the steamer left, was to proceed southj wards almost immediately to ander- | take an important survey in and : around the land and seas of the volI canic island of Ambryin. Great ' changes have taken place along the I coastline of Ambryin since the erup- | tion in December last, and with the | further evidence of volcanic upheavals southward towards Paama Island, the prevailing sea charts are practically useless, and the British I Admiralty has therefore decided up- { on a full and complete survey of all ! the waters. The Ambrym volcano and the vent hole which occupies the place of Dr. Bowie's mission station are still smoking, but there has been no further violent eruption. A Frenchwoman on leaving the United States recently delivered an opinion on American men and women. She visited the United States as the agent of a well-known Parisian firm of dressmakers, and she found that there was very little to teach American women in the art of dressing themselves, ft may be (writes the London "Spectator") that this was why 'she turned on the men and abused them: "New York is the land of beauties and beasts. Women are wonderful, but the men are simply awful. Your men dress like ragpickers. One sees a beautifully gowned woman coming down the Fifth Avenue. What is that by her side?—a servant out of livery? You conclude that it is a retainer sent out to protect her from gangsters. He has no moustache, and trousers baggy at the knees. But it is Iter husband. . Tho men can be taught nothing, for they are impossible." A notable incident is related in "The Truth," a weekly paper published in Jerusalem. Last month, Mr Henry Morgenthau, the new American Ambassador, arrived in | David's city, and, being a Jew, was j received with great enthusiasm. By j- | virtue of a special permit from the | Ottoman Government, Mr Morgenthau, ; with Mr Bryce, former British Ambassador to Turkey, were allowed to enter the Cave of Machpelah at Hebron, the portals of which have been closed since the visit of "Edward VII. when Prince of Wales. On entering the sepulchral chambers of the Hebrew patriarchs, Mr Bryce was overcome with emotion, raid exclaimed:— "Oh, ray God. my Cod! Is it possible that I am actually standing in close proximity to the earthly remains of the blessed tat her of all nations?" He then embraced the Mufti and Cadi, who were of the party, saying to them:—"We are all brethren of the same extraction." The latter remark is evidence that Mr Bryce, who is well known as a lover of antiquarian research, is convinced of the Israelitish origin of ihe British people.

In Stratford during May nineteen births, four marriages, and only one death were registered. The social gathering in connection with Holy Trinity Church for Thursday next has been postponed owing to the death of Mr Cedric Crawshaw. Territorials are reminded that for to-morrow morning's parade, revTew order dress is requisite. The work of laying a strip of metal through Whangamoinona township has now been completed, but the work of laying the metal to the full width of the township streets will probably not be proceeded with now, owiug to the wet weather. A total of 9.83 in. of rain fell in Stratford during May. falls being recorded on twenty days. There were four falls of over an inch—l.4l in. o the 7th. l.Tlin. on the 15th, 1.17 in. on the 16th, and 1.42 in. on the 31st (in the latter case ciiiefiy between sunset on Sunday and 9 a.m. on Monday). Other falls over half an inch were as follows: .62in. on the Ist, .soin. on the 2nd, .53in. on the Bth, and .6oin. on the 30th. Of the other wet days, the falls on eight were recorded in hundredths. At Inglewood the total fall was 10.84 in. The chief falls were: Ist :78in, 2nd .61in, 7th 2.17 in, 15th 1.97 in, 16th 1.42 in, 29th .63in, 30th .77in, 31st .89in. The total number of wet days was twenty, the fall on seven being recorded in hundredths.