LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 63, 6 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thei Foresters’ Lodge, will hold a long-night social to-night.

The Minister for Internal Affairs is to be requested by the Stratford, A. and P. Association to sanction a raffle of a motor car to increase the Association’s funds.

A grand Hibernian ball is to be held in the Eltham Town Hall to-morrow evening. The music is to be supplied by Beesley’s orchestra, and altogether a pleasant evening is promised.

The A. and P. Association has received advice from the HolsteinFriesian Association that they have allotted championship medals for Hol-stfein-Friesian bull and cow for 1914 to Stratford.

The membership of the Stratford Mountain Club is now over 250, being representative, states the energetic secretary, Mr T. Kirkwood, of every part of the Dominion from the North Cape, or, to be exact, from the north of Auckland to the Bluff.

“The Times” publishes the following table, which gives the number of persons in the different communities in India per 10,000 of the population, for the two periods indicated:—Hindu, in 1911 6939, in 1881 7432; Mohammedan, 2126, 1947; Buddhist, 342, 135; Sikh, 96, 73; Christian, 124, 73; Animistic, 328, 259. The total population is given as 315,156,396.

The A. and P. Association has had some trouble through damage done to the buildings on the showground. At the last meeting of the executive the secretary reported that nails he had put in to prevent windows being opened had been straightened out and a pane of glass had been entirely removed from a window in the kitchen to enable access to be gained. He suggested that bars be placed across the windows and that locks also be provided. The matter was left to the grounds committee with power to act.

“Impaled on a ladder” was the terrible end of Charles Regelin (18),a rivetheater, who was at work on the roof of the White Bay power-house, Balmain, Sydney, on Thursday, 27th prox. Regelin slipped and fell a distance of 68ft, and was unpaled on a ladder about 12ft from the ground, and shockingly mutilated. He was hunied to the Balmain Hospital by some of his mates, and was attended to for a fractured skull and internal injuries. _ He was in great agony during the night, \nd died early next morning.

The Stratford Mountain Club committee at a meeting on Saturday light passed the following resolution: “That the President make representations to the Minister of Public Works urging the Government to make a grant of £SOO to the Stratford County Council for the purpose of metalling •he western end of the Pembroke Road, with a view to improving the recess to Mount Egmont, and that the Borough Council he asked to cooperate in such representation.” It is understood that the President (Mr 1. B. Richards) will attend to this matter whil# on a visit to Wellington soxt wsok,

| “Home Worship Sunday” is an idea j of the Baptist Church in Victoria, intended to direct attention to the need for family worship in the home life. The date is fixed for next Sunday.

It has been decided by the Stratford Mountain Club to hold a winter run to tho House on an eariv date to be arranged. The secretary would he pleased to have the names of all members who intend to join the party.

A Press Association telegram from Pahiatua says: The Labour Department is sending a big gang of men to work on the backblocks roads, and the Pahiatua County Council has decided to ask the Department to transfer the men to more urgent work on the main arterial road between Pahiatua and Pongaroa.

At the completion for the world’s type-writing championship, held at Toronto recently, Miss Owenj of New York, the holder of the title, maintained her supremacy, writing 125 words a minute for half an hour. Miss Rose Fritz, of New York, was second with 122.3 words, and Miss Bessie Friedman, also of New York, wits third with 122 words.

On Saturday evening Constable McGowan arrested a man 6n the Stratford Railway Station platform, who was so drunk as to he a nuisance to other people and a danger to himself. He was removed to the lock-up in an express, where it was found he had a considerable sum of mone yon him. Accused, who had been admitted to bail, failed to appear when called this morning, and was fined £l.

At a meeting of the Hastings branch of the Catholic Federation of New Zealand, representing 800 adult members, a resolution was passed (states the Press Association) expressing the opinion that the introduction of the Bible into State schools would b© a violation of the rights of conscience of thousands of electors of the Dominion, and would eventually lead to sectarian bitterness, also emphatically protesting against a referendum.

At a meeting of the committee of the Stratford Mountain Club on Saturday night, the question of nominating a candidate for the Carnival Queen contest was thoroughly discussed, and while the suggestion was generally agreed to be excellent, particularly for advertising purposes, it was eventually resolved to delegate power to the president and secretary to arrange to support a candidate under the auspices of some kindred society in the town.

Maddened by injuries received m a railway truck on the ’Victorian',.lines, a big red cow jumped the 1 railway fence at West Rochester station on Friday, 28th prox., tossed a little girl, charged a horse, drove the stationmaster under the platform,,, dispersed the' station staff generally, and chased many citizens into -houses and up trees. Mounted men at last drove the beast, with other cattle, into a paddock. The little girl who was tossed was two years of ago, and her injuries were serious. She remained unconscious all night and the next day. ■ f ■, ~ .

The high prices for fat stock and the scarcity of good steer calves, is causing farmers in this district <fo turn their attention to a more suitable bull than the Jersey, and it looks as if the Shorthorn will again come into favor. In a herd where the Jersey has been kept it has been the custom to only rear the heifers. These have now become too plentiful, whilst there is a great shortage of Shorthorn steer calves. A splendid type of Shorthorn bull, two years old, bred by Mr Harding, of Hawke’s Bay, arrived in Stratford last Wednesday to the order of Messrs Pitt Bros., who are now dairying on a fairly large scale.

A Denbigh Road correspondent writes as follows concerning Mr W. T. Mills’ candidature in the election of members of the Taranaki Education Board:—‘‘Mr Mills has had some twenty years’ experience of school committee work and is conversant with the needs ,of country schools, especially with the disadvantages these schools have to work under in regard to technical education and the teaching of agriculture on more scientific lines than has hitherto been the case. He has always been in favor of improving the conditions under which many of out teachers have to work, especially those who are starting out in the profession.”

There is no intention on the part of the Stratford Mountain Club to hide its light in the bush on Mount Egmont. The members of the committee know very well the great proposition they have in the picturesque and charming beauty spots so close at hand, and with a view to spreading this knowledge far and wide, it is their intention to issue advertising cards, setting forth particulars of a trip to the Stratford House, and to ,

the summit of Mount Egmont. Fojr instance, the fact that the easiest and shortest route may be taken advantage of by starting from Stratford via the local House cannot he too widely known, and the curds also set out fully the claims of this route and all particulars concerning the cost and the means of conveyance available for the prospective visitor.