LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 13, 16 January 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A young South''"Canterbury farmer who has taken to bee farming as a side-line sold his,output of honey, this season for" 16303 6s Bd.

Weather Forecast.—The indicia ions are for:—Southerly -f" moderate t o strong winds., -feather probably cum! and changeable,;' but there is a prospect of fine weather, days bright ana nights cola? The barometer has a rising tendency .-^Batesy■ Wellington.

There is at any rate one pro-Ger-man in Waitara (states the Mail). After some< /remarks derogatory to Britain British, a townsman?, inquired "What has Germany ' done* that she should be attacked all round?" An answer to that question # ean be found in every issue of this paper since the rapture of peace. What is Germany doing in Belgium?,''-, ~! V, ,,W , •.,.,.,-

The Department of Labour is at regarding the, membership of industrial unions .Jihroughout yew Zealand. Thei'secrehas forward, "ed to union secretaries forms to he filled in, and what amounts to an industrial unions census is now in progress*. J> T o person; who is one year in ayrlaifs .'of dues.- inay be included in the roll. The figures asked for are thffse on the union's books on December 31) and the-last day for sending in.- .tjhe returns is January 31. Tlie .census u of ; workers! unions for 1913 total:membership of 71,544, y which .-rcpresente a 10,000 increase on £l9l2if,Jhtttiit is "not'expected that the 510143 figures as high as those ffir 1918;'because iii 1913 unions ■wefe^formkT^at about strike time, find some unionists were counted J^fle—in tijKj qfi.w atidxllie old'bodies* ;

j Mr Justice Chapman, who has returned to Zealand after thirteen months' absence in Egypt, Europe, and Scpat Britain, in an interview said that the,people in Great Britain had'but one ijßea: Chey must win, even though it cost the last coin and the last drop of blood. They could not contemplate any other possibility. Recruiting going on very satisfactorily. his Honor, "you people out here," judging from what I saw "in- th'f..Australian papers, are as well informed .as/to what is happeningsrn „the _thea£i:es of war as are the people of England." He narrated. howe ) ver,".,a furious incident before b'aying/EngJand. He met a number of2kdies : spent quite a long /jimfeviteu'Eerlin since the outbreak,; »£kthe. war. These ladies de-clare;d-that'tlScy 'were tired of hearing the church bells ringing and the outbursts of popular enthusiasm at tho reported defeats of the English, and they found it difficult to believe that the Allies were still fighting steadily) and that there was even yet a remote prospect" of the Empire's existence.

of nvhiteh bloke out among the workers of Linmstone near 'WHari'garei, lastjf'week has rapidly subdued (say.* ;thej|Aucklaiid correspondent of the ;We|jngton Post). Since Dr. Hall's visifcj of the 80 t 0.40 men who became ill (Sily about six are still suffering in (anyijway severely* The illness took 'the |brm of severe stomachic cramping pain*, coupled with continuous retchHappily these pains have abated in tkiß majority of cases, and the men will %c well and fit for work in about a wj|ek. BlanfM was placed first on the jtailk,,jttten on. the fruit, and then ? n ff e fi %^|f }l % formed --. the ' priu - the breakfast menu. As sbmajof'.the sufferers had no fisli, and so'mifnp fruiti^and•■''others no milk, the cause, of the outbreak remains a puzzje. In answer to inquiries, Dr. Hall the men who were attacked werejjjthe victims of ptomaine poisoning. 'JiThe cause of the outbreak was still a mystery, for while about 40 men were seized, there were about 60 Who resided in tho same place, and the others escaped. It was difficult to ascribe the cojise to any particular article of foo'd; :'iis L those*<nttacked had different eatablesjifrthe.'morning meal. One man and milk was aV-.vftnim.'.-*The '"water suply, tpoo, was the same as that of private houses, the inmates of which escaped the inalaay.

Mr Thomson, £he mine manager at Mount Eadiant (Earamea), and two cadets with him—old boys of the Wan taki High School-being interested in meteorological observations, constructed a rain gauge. The figures recorded are alarming (says the Westport Times), but are accurate i>o within an eighth of an inch. They are obtained from the Mount Eadiant mine. The valley hero forms aV, headed; by high mountains, and facing two narrow valleys. Records were first taken on November 24, and for the last .seven days of November 11. Sin of rain .fell, From December J. to 19 the record L was 63.12in.', or a fall of 74.76 m. in 26 days, which possibly helps to account for the recent devastating floods o.n the coast. The heaviest fall for 24' hours was 16in. on the 13th, when Karamea experienced the biggest flood for 14 years, although the rainfall in the coastline was only 1.95 in. on that date. During the 20 da'vs there have been two falls over 6in.,. three over srn;, two over 4in„ two over 3in., on* over 2in., nine over lin., and one day with 16in.