LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 59, 1 July 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Included in the remits for the July Labour Congress is one from the Te Kuiti branch of the Social Democratic Party, urging as a maximum a five-day week of four hours daily. The majority of the remits are of an ultra Socialistic character. One of them urges full parliamentary rights for women.

Refe"rring to the discovery by Mr Milne-Pott, of Opotiki, of supposed diamonds, the Rotorua Chronicle says that Mr S. J. Dannefaerd, of Rotorua, an expert in judging precious stones, has, after careful investigation, pronounced them as nothing more than siliceous crystals, and in no way associated with diamonds.

A very serious accident happened at Stafford on Friday afternoon, when the nine-year-old son of Mrs J. Byrne, of Stafford, while chopping with an axe, struck the foot of his four-year-old brother, cutting off four toes of the latter's foot. The sufferer was at once taken to the Kaumara Hospital for treatment. Some fear was expressed that the big too would also have to be removed owing to its injury.