LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a sitting of the Juvenile Court yesterday a local lad was charged with the theft of a book of railway tickets. A conviction only was recorded, the lad being, however, severely reprimanded.

The local Scottish Society at a meeting last evening donated £lO to the Belgian Relief Fund. Mr John Petrie was elected secretary, Mr Campbell having resigned on account of his leaving the district.

A lecturo entitled "Faces and Expressions" is to be delivered in the Foresters' Hill to-morrow evening by Mr 0. E. Hugo, well known throughout the country as a phrenologist and physiognomist. Admission is free, but a collection will be taken up.

In addition to the engagements already announced, Mr J. B. Hine will speak at the local hall at Ngaere on Friday, the 20th; Douglas, on Saturday, the 21st ; at 8 p.m.; Pembroke Road, on Monday, 23rd November at noon, and Mahoe,' same date at 8 p.m.

Taupo's well-known Native fisherman, Ngamotu Wiremu, whose records in booking the wily trout have in the past occasioned no little envy on the. part of his pakeha friends, caught 52 'rainbows," weighing 287 lb, on the opening day of the fishing season. One of the planks of the platform of Mr G. K. Sykes, sitting member for Master-ton, is an increase of the beer tax by 3d, which woxild bring in a revenue of £12,500 per year. This could l>e utilised for providing pensions for invalids and incompetents.

People's Day at the Wanganui Show is being held to-day in brilliantly fine weather, and the attendance of the public is very large, there being many visitors from the north and south. Mr a. Chamberlain's San Fran carried off the championship in thoroughbred horses.—P.A.

Mr Semple, during the course of his speech in Oamaru on Thusrday evening, said that -Air T. M. Wilford, solicitor, of Wellington, had been instructed to issue a writ against the Huntly mine owners, in whose mine the recent disaster occurred, claiming £ISOO compensation for each man whose life had been lost through the disaster (says the North Otago Times).

Mr C. Jury, of Tikorangi, had the misfortune to lose a horse on Tuesday in rather a remarkable manner. The Waitara Mail states that he had tethered the onimal near a few hives of bees, and after it had heen there some time it was worried by the bees. The result was that the horse made frantic efforts to get clear, and in doing so upset a number of hives. Then the attack began in earnest, practically the whole colony setting on to the horse. Several neighbours endeavoured to do what they could to got the victim of the bees away, but they, too, were attacked. The final result of the oc{currenee was that the poor animal I was 'jo much stung by the b< 3 e;: thai j it died.

1 Weather Forecast.—The indications ' are for decreasing southerly moderate to strong winds prevailing. The weather will probably prove squally and changeable with a cold night. The barometer has a rising tendency.

The Press Association at Hokitika reports: An extremely heavy sea, combined with spring tides, is making further considerable inroads into the seashore. Northwards of Johnston's, great slices of the bank have been washed away, and the sea is making a great sweep northwards, causing considerable damage to property. The position is most serious.

Football is looked upon by some people as a somewhat rough game, but Mr Churchill (Minister of Education \n New South Wales), said at a, Public Service Athletic Association dinner that he blamed the German atrocities to the fact that Germans did not play football. "I am quite satisfied," he said, "that if the Germans had been taught to play cricket and football at school, and had learned what is meant by 'playing the game,' wo would not have read anything of the fearful atrocities committed upon the vanquished. If there is one- thing more than another that clean sport teaches it is chivalry. I found during my trip, however, that such games as cricket, football, and tennis had made remarkable strides in Germany within the 'ast three or four years, and now, instexd of the young men sitting for hours in the cafes drinking steins of national beer, they are to be found in open spaces indulging in physical exercises. The pity is it did not beg'n many years ago."