The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 7 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Christchurch Press Association telegram reports: Canterbury won the inter-College cricket match, beating Victoria College by an innings and 135 runs.

The result of the baby show at the Gymkhana on Easter Monday for babies under twelve months resulted: Monica Fabish (Midhirst) 1, Alice Membery 2 ; Edward Hunter 3.

The result of the sheep-guessing 1 competition at the Stratford Gymk- 1 liana is as follows:—G. Thompson, 1 Tariki, and F. 31. Grayling, New Ply-j mouth, estimated the exact weight (112Ihs), and divide first and second prizes. The lowest estimate was 91 Jibs., and the highest 2iOJ-lbs.

A sale of work and produce will be held in the Parish Hall on Saturday, and will be opened at 11.30 by Mr J. 13. Hine, M.P. In the evening various competitions, musical items, and entertainments will be provided. Part of the proceeds are for the Belgian Relief Fund. Admission is free.

At tlio annual conference of tlio ,Timber Workers’ Federation at Christ-' church, the following remit was carried unanimously: “That the Government be urged to establish a State Farm for grain-growing, a State Hour mill, and State bakeries, with a view to preventing any further exploitation ot consumers.”—P.A. i

Red cod arc very plentiful in Otago Harbor just now, and recently an incident, containing all the elements of a “faked” kinema film, was witnessed on the Portobello mad. Some Ushermen had hauled their nets on to the beach, and all hands were busily engaged in clearing them of great quantities of red cod. Passers-by on the road—cyslists, motorists, and occupants of various vehicles—stopped and selected the best conditioned from the squirming heaps of fish. Finally a hearse appeared, and one of the undertakers, in tall hat and black coat,: made his selection.

The sheep in use nt the sheep dog trial and weight-guessing competition at the Gymkhana were kindly lent by Mr T. D. Colson. Much favourable comment as to the first-class condition of the sheep was heard.

The steamer Borodale, which has arrived at Auckland from Canada (states the Press Association) brings from 10,000 to 12.000 bushels of wheat for various ports. The cargo is stated to be in a satisfactory condition.

A Melbourne cablegram states: Mr Fisher and Mr Massey are corresponding regarding the Premier’s Conference. It is stated that if Mr Massey accepts the invitation, the probable place of the conference will be changed from Sydney to Melbourne.

Weather forecast. —The indications are for variable and moderate breezes, but westerly, winds prevailing. There is a prospect of fine weather, days bright and nights cold. The night will probably be very cold with frosts inland. Barometer little movement. —Bates, Wellington.

The Timber Workers’ Conference at Christchurch to-day carried remits that the Government be urged to give power to the local Labour Department officials to proceed against offenders for breaches of awards, without having, as at present, to first refer the case to the head office for official sanction to proceed; and that the Government be urged to grant statutory pieferellcc to Unionists.

At a meeting of the Wellington branch of the Engine-drivers and Firemen and Cleaners’ Association, a resolution was passed protesting against the increasing cost of the necessaries of life, and urging the Government to take action in the interests of the community. Attention was drawn to the fact that it is in .New Zealand’s own produce that the increase in prices is most noticeable, and this is considered altogether unwarranted.

.Mr Hall (Attorney-general of New South Whiles) is as kindly disposed towards prisoners as he is “up against private dealers in bread and wheat. The other day he paid a visit of inspection to the Bathurst gaol, and there made a speech in which he gave eloquent further proof of sympathetic concern for those who for infraction of the law have become gaoled guests of the King. Addressing the assembled prisoners as “Gentlemen,” Mr Hall counselled them to “keep step” with the law-abiding fellow citizens when they got out of prison and proceeded thus: “If when you go outside you are taunted with having been here, keep it down. Those that taunt you, if they had their just deserts, might be where you now are. You are here because you were caught. They are outside because they are luckv.”

A Stratford trooper with, tlie second reinforcements, writing home, has the following reference to life in Cairo and the dangers run by the unwary soldier: “The first afternoon we landed there three of us were standing on a corner, when a couple of guides came up to us and wanted to take us away and show us old Cairo, which is underground ; at the same time they were yapping away in their own lingo. W e were just considering whether to go with them or not when a well-dressed Egyptian came up to us and told us to have nothing to do with them. The other coves started arguing the point and were pushing our friend about We soon stopped that, but all the same there was a fair-sized row on and a big crowd round, and it ended by them going over to the Police Courts in charge of a sergeant to settle—the Egyptian wouldn’t let us go, but told us to go away, so he must have been pretty sure of his ground, but it shows how careful we have to be. Lots of chaps have gone out and have lever been heard of again, and several hare been found with their throats cut 01 stabbed.”

A record has been put up by two I local girls in the Trinity College musi- [ cal examinations. Diplomas or scholarI ships are awarded by the College for each division for competition throughout India and the British Dominions, and in the Junior Theory Miss Florence Richardson (Stratford), and Miss Lorna Forbes (Stratford). both of ! v whom are aged nine years, secured the maximum points, viz., 100, and divide the award. Croat credit is due to Miss Evans, L.T.C.L., who was the young musicians’ teacher. These exhibitions are awarded on the results of the local examinations held last year, and provide for the further musical education of the winners for twelve months at their respective centres and under their own teachers, the College providing the necessary fees. The subjects of the exhibitions include theory, singing and pianoforte, and the successful candidates were drawn from Brisbane, Bunhury, Carnarvon (W.A.), Gympie and Perth in Australia ; Launceston in Tasmania; Dunedin, Stratford and Wellington in New Zealand; Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, and Bangalore, Calcutta. Darjeeling and Kurseong in India. It is interesting to record that tlie complete schemes of these exhibitions, now in its eleventh year, embraces the whole Empire, and that in all no less than OS” exhibitions have been awarded of a total value of C 1,771.

A number of Auckland bakers were proceeded against in the Police Court on Wednesday, reports the Herald, lor ' selling light-weight bread. There were 2G charges in all, and each was dismiss- ! ('d on the legal point that there had been no actual sale to the inspector I who weighed the loaves. T lie uni disputed fact that the great majority of loaves sold were below the standard weight led Mr F. V. Fraser, . ■ S.M., to remark that bakers who dc- | liberately sold light-weight bread, with I the price as high as at present, and with so much poverty in the city, deserved greater punishment than that which the Court had power to inflict. He added that if he had occasion in the future to convict for selling lightweight bread he would have no hesitation in imposing a heavy penalty and in ordering the defendant to pay for advertising the fact of his conviction in tiie newspapers.