LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 54, 25 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Municipal Band will play in Victoria Park on Sunday next, at 3. A Greymouth Press Association telegram says that Kaetze, who sued the Watersiders’ Union for £2OO for intimidation, was awarded £lO damages. Before leaving by train for Hawera this morning to take part in the Gymkhana the Stratford Municipal Band played several pieces in Broadway and on the railway platform, the music serving lighten the tedium of the big crowd waiting for the train, which was nearly an hour late. Borough Councillors and others now and again become facetious about the stock slaughtered at the local abattoir, drawing attention to the large preponderance of cows and heifers over oxen in the monthly return ; but in one recent week Messrs Cannon and Co. had killed for them at the abattoir no fewer than six bullocks, which is a record for the abattoir. The Dunedin grocers on Monday advanced the price of sugar from 2d per lb to 2Jd. It is asserted (states the Otago Daily Times) that the former price was really a “cut” 'one and left little, if any, margin of profit to the retailer. The cost of a few other commodities, of less importance from a consumer’s point of view, has also been increased. The trade, it may be pointed out, has decfoco to give a uniform discount of per cent, for cash.

The following books have been added to the Stratford Public Library:— “Maid of the Mist” (John Oxenham), “Silver Sand” (S. R. Crockett), “Quinneys” (H. A. Vachell), “Napoleon Decrees” (James Blyth), “Lu of the Ranges” (E. Mordaunt),. “Full Swing” (Frank Dauby), “The Uplanders” (W. Bamfyldo), “John Bulteil’s Daughters” (K. Tynan), “The Hidden Mask” (C. Mitford), <‘The end of the Honeymoon” (B. Lowndes), “Mistress Charity Godolphin” (G. Murdock), “The Strong Heart” (A. Goring-Tho-m;is), “Rung Ho” (Talbot Mundy), “The Duchess of Wrexe” (H. Walpole), “Firmen Hot” (G. H. Hyne), “The World set Free” (H. G. W T ells), “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists” (R. Tressall), “Sunshine Jana” (A. Warnar), “The Marriage Lines” (J. S. Fletcher).

Still something new in science wai presented to the public by an enterprising man who last week (says the Sun), flew over Sydney with a biograph camera. The pilot was M. Maurice Guillaux, and the photogra-pher-passenger M. H. Herault, of Pathe Freres. The pair circled with great amplitude above the waters of Sydney Harbour between 3 and 4 o’clock in Mr Lebbeur Horden’s new hydro-aeroplane, and nearly all the time the camera was busy. The pictures will demonstrate the capacity of the “movies,” which have hitherto carried audiences to all parts of the earth, to transport them also to any corner of the Heavens above the earth.