LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 56, 9 March 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tinopai was scratched for the Easter Handicap at 1 p.m., states a P.A. wire.

For the garden fete on the croquet lawns on Thursday afternoon and evening, the Electrical Supply Co. has consented to provide the illumination free of charge.

The death of Earl Cadogan, at the age of 75 is recorded from London. Lord Cadogan was Secretax-y for the Colonies 1878-80, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1895-1902. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Viscount Chelsea, who served in the South African’ war.

At Mr Newton King’s wool and skin sale, held to-day, record prices were realised, which must prove very gratifying to the vendors concerned. Fleece wool sold up to 13Jd and lambs wool to 12)d per lb. Full wool sheepskins sold to lOkl, and lambs skins to 10;’d per lb, all these prices being records for the district. Hides, however, were much easier in value, showing a shaip decline up to lid per lb.

The following ministers have been elected chairmen of the synodical districts :—Auckland, Rev. Mr Laws; South Auckland, Rev. Mr Spence; Taranaki and Wanganui, Rev. Mr Hammond; Hawke’s Bay and Manawatn, Rev. Mr Murray; Wellington, the President; Nelson, Rev. Mr Baumber; Canterbury, Rev. Mr Sinclair; South Canterbury, Rev. Mr Joughiu; Otago, Rev. Mr Brake; Southland, Rev. Mr Ready.

The State Fire Insurance reports that. 1914 was a record year. The net profits were £18,600, after setting aside £2091 as reserve for unearned premiums, and £IOOO for investment fluctuations. The largest previous profit was £15,443 in 1913. The net income was £6J,693 an increase of £6413; net premium income £64,645, an increase of £5228; fire losses £28,109, as against £27,975 in 1913 ,the ratio to income being 43.5, as against 57.08 in the previous year. The reserve funds were £87,423, an increase of £21,752, and invested capital £68,996, an increase of £24,746.

Justices Hosking and Stringer, who heard the petition against the return of Tau Henare for the Northern Maori seat, to-day ordered the petitioners (two Natives) to pay the costs, which amount to between £l5O and £200.—Justice Hosking said that not sufficient ground had been shown why the Court should depart from the rule that the successful side should get costs. Justice Stringer remarked that the petitioners had proceeded on a bare technicality, and they knew, or ought to have known, that it was necessary to go beyond that in vide to have an election declared void. To succeed, an irregularity must affect the result of the election; yet the petitioners knew or ought to have known that the only effect of the irregularity was adverse to the successful candidate. It was proved from the evidence for the petitioners that in all probability a great number of the votes would have been given in Tau Henare’e favor. In view of the facts known to the petitioners, the petition should not have been presented. The judges remarked that the charges w’ere not to the discredit of the returning officer.—P.A.