LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 29 March 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

K Experienced hand for dressmaking wanted; * ,v f : . .

Hie animal meeting of the Golf Club will he held at Mr, A. Coleman’s office this evening at 8 pclock.

Butter was increased by Id ..per pourid in Dunedin to-day, making the retail price Is 4d, .states the Press Association. (Here in Stratford, the home of dairying iri New Zealand,the price has been >1 s 4d. for the past six weeks!), -

The following is published in “Vorwaeyts,” the leading organ of the German Socialist Party, under the heading “London Without Cats” In spite of the war and its anxieties, people in London ard nowadays puzzling themselves to discover where all the cats who formerly inhabited London have vanished to. It has become quite ri rqre thing to meet a cat in London. The riddle is explained by the increased demand for furs, and cat skin is the best substitute. In consequence of the demand, cat-hunting has become a profitable profession for many people. The /poacher walks the 'streets of London carrying in his hand a piece of meat as a hait. This attracts the cats, who are at once seized and stuffed into the poacher’s sack. Some indication of the great rise in the price of -cat skins is given by the fact that the skin of a Persian cat sells for 12s, the former price having been* Bs. White cats have risen from 2s to 3s, while the common or -garden cat sells at half-a-crown.

A Dunedin reporter has been puttingquestions to Captain McLaglen, a bayonet and ju-jitsu expert, who is under special engagement to the Defence Department for a term. He was asked how he had become so skilled in the Japanese art. He explained that his uncle, a British officer, had been for many years stationed at the British Legation in Japan, and on his .return Home had brought a Japanese servant, who was one of the highest .exponents of the art that Japan possessed. “When I was twelve years of. age,” said the captain, “he began to teach me ju-jitsu', and when I was eighteen years old I defeated all that came along—professors, athletes, and even my own tutor.” When asked what ju-jitsu was, Captain McLaglen replied: “There are' v at the present day only thirty men in Japan who could' tell you that, and who possess it thorough knowledge of ‘Simini-jitsu,’ which mean,s ‘producing sleep.’ There is also - the art of'.Katsu-jitsu,’ which is undoubtedly the most wonderful system of restoration the world has ever known. It is not known to the. medical fraternity. It is possible, under this system, to bring hack to life a person who has fallen dead through shock. Many soldiers die in warfare through a bullet entering the body, and not necessarily because it. struck a vital part, hut simply from shock. The restoration of such cases to life have been proved over ami over again, and I have proved it myself.”