LOCAL AND GENERAL.
lii one of the streets of Eltham on Tuesday afternoon almost in the middle of the town, there was seen a hen pheasant and one chick*
A declaration of insolvency in the estate of Robert Hugh' Cameron, of Stratford, contractor, has been filed, and a meeting of creditors will be held at Stratford on Tuesday, March 0, at 2.30 p.m.
Readers.are reminded of the reception to Commissioner and .Mrs Hodder at the Salvation Army Hall to-night, at S o'clock. The Municipal Band will play at 7.30 p.m. outside the Hall.
The following school holidays have been fixed by the Education Board:— Winter, 28th May to 7th June; spring, 20th August to 30fch August; summer, 17th December to January 31. A motion by Mr Marfell to curtail the suminer holidays and extend the winter vacation lapsed. /
The following business will come before the Magistrate's Court, Stratford, to-morrow: Eleven civil cases, and five by-law cases (allowing water to waste, allowing trees to overhung footpath, driving without lights, riding bicycle on footpath, and driving loose horses on street).
The Whangamomona correspondent of the Taranaki Herald says: The Kohnratahi Road extension over the Tangarakau and Aylward's. Road is to be widened to 12ft. this year. The work has been laid off and a start will be made shortly. This will be a step nearer civilisation for the settlers in the Marangai Valley, who have been there nearly six years, at first without tracks and then with a giddy-looking ribbon-like track over which they have had to lake their stores and stock to their very comfortable-looking farms beyond.
The Pahiatua Borough Council has decided to accept the offer of the Panic of New Zealand to take up a special loan of £IO,OOO for an ef.T.uic light and power scheme. A Wellington electrical • expert has informed tiie Council that the price, of electrical appliances and machiiery is the same as before the war.
In another column of this issue will be found the programme of the Toko Settlers' annual sports to be held in the Toko Domain on Thursday, March 25th. The programme is an attractive one, and intending competitors are asked to note that nominations for certain events as set out will close on Monday, the 22nd March. A provision for post entries is made, but this entails an extra payment of a nomination fee on each event.
An unusual application was before the Lyttelton Licensing Committee yesterday. The licensee of the Sumner Hotel asked for permit to close the hotel from March 1 to June 30, 1915. The owners supported the application. The police said there, were three hotels in Sumner, but only business for two. The Magistrate. Mr Bishop, "This .is the first application before me of the kind during thirty years." The re-< quest was granted, and probably the hotel will be closed altogether.
Private William Lonsdale, of tho Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who was a prisoner in Germany, and who was recently sentenced to death for assaulting a German guard at Doerberitz, the sentence being subsequently commuted to imprisonment for 20 years, has a sister in Goulburn, (N.S.W.) named Mrs Spink. The latter, in an interview, said: "As soon as 1 heard he was taken prisoner I thought the Germans were in for trouble if they didn't play fair. He was brutally treated by a German sentry, and, being very high spirited; I can imagine him giving tho brute a little punishment in the British way—with his firsts."
The raising of squabs (pigeons) for table is quite a big. industry in the United States, but so far has not been developed in this country (states the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Special attention and unlimited expense have during the last few years been devolved by American breeders to increasing the size of the birds, till to-day they have pigeons nearly as large as small fowls. The types most utilised in squab breeding are the Giant Runt, the White Maltese, the Hungarian, and the Cannaux. Of these the first are the largest and heaviest by far, but produce one, pair less of young pigeons during the year than do the others. They are sold for table at four weeks old. The Moana, on her last trip, brought a consignment of the four types mentioned above from one of the leading Californian breeders. The whole of the birds arrived in good health.
Stratford Mountain House, ,at the present rate of progress, bids.'fair to rival its competitors at no great distant date. Though the season is yet a long way from being finished, all previous records with regard to visitors and the monetary takings are easily broken. People now realise that the House has every convenience, and that there is no necessity to take anything in the way of refreshments with them, as everything is now provided. Mr Williams is doing everything possible to make the place popular, and it is gratifying to record that he is succeeding admirably. This week-end the High School girls are visiting the House. Mr Williams is now booking for Easter, and he states that if the number of visitors at Easter are as large as at Christmas the House will be more than full, so early application for accommodation is necessary. The roads are very good, and new tracks are being cut through various parts of the magnificent forest adjoining the House; in fact, the whole surroundings are very much in advance of last year.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 46, 25 February 1915, Page 4
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