Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 16 June 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In accordance with the new regulations, which come into force on Ist July, the Union Company's steamer Monowai will be fitted with wireless apparatus this week.

The latest move in the direction of organising the farm laborers is in the JManawatu district, where a union is ,l>eing formed by an organiser from "Wellington.

A reminder is given of the "cobweb" social to be held in the Regan Street Hall this evening for the purpose of raising funds for the extension of the building.'

Mr A. C. Lawrey received word today from Mr T. C. Fookes, who states that he arrived safely in London with his family, all well after a splendid voyage. He sends kind remembrances to all Stratford friends.

Sir Hartmann Just, of the Colonial Office, arrived at the Bluff, by the Maitai to-day. He leaves Invercargill for Queenstowu, and travels to Auckland,/ leaving for England via Yancouv||: in, July. Sir Hartmann says fie is here purely on holiday, but would be much interested in what is known as New Zealand's experimental legislation.—P.A.

Lady Gra<?e Mackenzie (remarks the Pictorial) is undertaking a sporting expedition in every sense of the word.' For not only is she going , big-game shooting into the interior of East Africa vvitiiuul-any, woman in her party, hut she is taking with her various "phones" to secure records of jungle sounds. Having tried extreme heat, her next venture will he to the Arctic regions.

A scheme for enabling teachers to visit Great Britain for their own improvement has been put forward recently by the Auckland District Educational Institute, and the Wellington Institute was requested to ask its members if they were willing to make such a journey. The conditions include that the teachers' must pay £IOO towards the cost, the balance to be provided by the Education Department iflt falls in with the scheme. The secretary of the Wellington Institute reported at last meeting that he had sent out about 860 circulars, and 68 replies, all in the affirmative, had been received.

A Wellington Press Association telegram says: A deputation from the Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club who waited -on the/ Minister of Internal Affairs and asked for the restoration ,of the second permit for racing, said they were anxious to acquire the. freehold of a 101-acre property handy to Carterton as a recreation reserve, but were unable to pay off the mortgage with only a one day's racing. Toe "Hon. Mr Bell replied that he was unable Tinder the existing law to grant'an extra permit without depriving" another club of one day. That might cause injustice, which he would not agree to. If he got the pq.wer\,to issue further licenses, Carterton's.. req« e st would be in the front rank.

"Albert Cashier," an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quiiiey, Illinois. U.S.A., who had been masquerading as a man for 60 years, and who served as a soldier in General Grant's army during the civil war, has just- been found to be a woman. Her sex was discovered only while *she was under the'care of the surgeon. She was born in Ireland 72 year sago, and came to America as a stowaway clad in boy's clothes. • When the civil war broke out she'enlisted in the 95th lUinoisJnfantry, and participated in some of the bloodiest battles, always behaving with great gallantry. "When the war closed she resumed civil life as a workman, tmt3 age and the results of exposure during the .war .made her unable to support herself. She then entered the soldiers' home. She has refused to disclose her name or to tell her family history.