LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 34, 11 February 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders for tlio lease of the Show Grounds close at the A. and P. offices

at 5 p.rn. to-morrow

The Borough Inspector (Mr W. Barlow) always has his hands fairly full of husiness, but at present ho is particularly busy, being engaged in making a house-to-house canvass of the Borough relative to the water-supply connections.

The following men will represent the Kltham Fire Brigade at the demonstration to lie held at Timarn this month: Superintendent Xuttall, Secretary Burrows, Second Foreman Fake, Firemen Robinson and Reardon. Superintendent Xuttall will also attend the conferences as a brigade delegate.

Mr F. C. Simmons, president of one of tbe leading American hardware

corporations, in a recent letter to the salesmen of bis company, said : “Don’t worry. War or no war, freightrates nr no freight-rates, tariff or no tariff, baseball or no baseball, grapejuice nr champagne, the farmer is still on the job.”

‘‘Food and rent arc two ol the first things that should be paid for,” counselled Mr Kenrick, S.M., during the hearing of a debt case in the Hawera Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for variable and strong breezes, but westerly moderate to strong winds prevailing. Weather cloudy to overcast at times. Barometer unsteady, with a rising tendency.—Bates.

At the Stratford S.M. Court this morning, before Mr .). McCluggage, J.P., Frederick Walter was charged with steading the sum of 9s from Mr H. Kerr’s till yesterday. Sergeant Dale asked for a remand, as other charges against the prisoner were to he gone into. Prisoner was, therefore remanded till the 19th hist.

It is reported (says the Manawatu Standard) that a large number of ‘‘undesirables” have been weeded out of the Maori Expeditionary Force at Auckland. There is a growing feeling in the Dominion that the Government made a big mistake when it sanctioned the formation of the Maori force for active service. The best thing that could be done now would be to despatch the Maoris to Samoa.

in view of the scarcity of vegetables often experienced in the winter months, it may be of interest t o' learn that the current number of the Agricultural Journal advises sowing at the end of the present month the ordinary summer spinach, which will supply the table with this wholesome vegetable through the winter and until early spring. A row or two of ordinary rape is also a vegetable not to be despired for table purposes, while silver beet, if sown now, will provide plenty of young leaves for the winter.

Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., ChiefDetective Bishop, and several other administrators of the law, were confronted with a. somewhat unusual problem at Christchurch on Saturday morning, when they were called upon to decide on a name for the child found on Thursday night on the hanks of the river Avon, near 'the Dallingfeon bridge. For the reason that some person might adopt the six-weeks-old infant, only a- Christian name was given in the meantime, and after everyone had thought for a few minutes, Mr Bailey hit upon the familiar nomen of “John.” “Call John,” he said. “After me; and I found it,” laughingly remarked the constable who was connected with the discovery. “That’s all right,” said Chief-Detective Bishop. “It’s a very good name.”

This week the Wellington Evening Post, one of New Zealand’s largest and most influential daily newspapers, celebrated its jubilee, having been established fifty years ago on February Bth of this year. The founders were tiie late Messrs Henry Blundell and David Curie, and the paper has remained in the hands of the Blundell family until this day, the present chief proprietors, Messrs John ■ and Louis Blundell, being sons of the founder of that time, who acquired hia partner’s interests before the paper bad been six months in existence. The Wellington Evening Post has had a great and prosperous career, and has always maintained a high standard of journalism. Mr Gresley Lukin is the editor of to-day, and no man in Dominion newspaperdom stands in higher regard. To fittingly celebrate the great occasion, the Wellington paper has issued a very fine special number. We offer hearty congratulations to the Wellington Post.

Correspondence has passed for some time between boys of the Stratford school and the Newtown school, one of the largest schools in Wales, and a. batch of letters came to hand this morning. At the same time Mr Tyrer received from the headmaster of the Newtown school an interesting epistle, which included the following: “The recent raid on the Yorks coast has sent men trooping to enlist. It has brought things nearer home to us. On breaking up school yesterday, the headmaster and the staff of our secondary school here (all graduates) went to enlist as privates. Being but one short of the half century of years I am not wanted—as yet. But I am confident that should the ‘blood beast’ set foot in the land he would find pretty nearly every man with a gun in his hand—if we can find guns for all. Well played, New Zealand ! You have done splendidly; you can lick the world—except Wales, .eh? Welshmen and New Zealand ipenX

combined will do their part to settle the Germans’ account!”