LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are l'6r westerly winds, strong to gale, at times, and veering by west to south shortly. The weather will probably prove cold and showery and the night be very cold. The barometer has a rising tendency.—Hates. At Wanganui. Ivloko Kaimoko, a .Maori girl, pleaded guilty to breaking from custody and also to a charge of breaking, entering, and thelt ot articles valued at £3l odd. She was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and remanded to Wellington lor sentence on the second charge. The Pnblif Works Department has accepted the tenders of Sanders Brothers, at £9S)!)7, for additions to the (Jovernment Printing Office at Wellington. and the tender of Pattison and Brookes (Auckland), at £‘2768, for additions to the post office at Hamilton. The following is the business to lie dealt with at the -Magistrate’s Court, Stratford, to-morrow : Thirty-two civil eases, four judgment summons eases, four informations for tailing to attend drill, two applications for exemption from attending camp, and one information each oi tailing to destroy noxious weeds, and driving without lights.

| A Sydney cablegram states that | area near Lithgow has been selected as a State coalmine. A glimpse of Mount Egmont this morning through the clouds showed a coating of snow well down on the -Mountain side. J The St rat ford Acclimatisation So- | ciety has been busy looking after the 1 interests of sportsmen in the district, and the secretary has now 122 pairs of hawks’ feet and 8 pairs of shag*- - . The annual meeting of the Licensing Committee for Stratford Licensing district will he held at the Magistrate’s Court, Stratford, on Friday, June 4 at noon, when all applications, of which due notice has been given, will he considered. “Cinderella,” the pantomime to he produced by the Eire Brigade in about a month’s time, has been rehearsed for some time past by the children. Crider the able and patient tuition of Airs Mcßeth, the youngsters are making good progress, ana the entertainment should prove highly success!ill. in addition to the pantomime, throughout which numerous novel musical items will he rendered, a farce is to he played by adults

Barclay Hector, registrar of the University of New Zealand, was arrested at Wellington yesterday after-

noon on a charge of embezzling a sum of over £IOOO received by him on account of the university funds irom city financial institutions. A Press Association telegram to-day states that Hector was charged at the Wellington Magistarte’s Court with having failed to account for the sum of *lo2r received on behalf of the Senate. The prosecution stated that the total

amount involved was £ISOO. Accused was remanded till Wednesday, bad of one surety of £250, or two of £125 being allowed.

An adcideut of a curious nature occurred to a well-known Wellington theatrical pressman on .Monday night states the Xew Zealand Times). He

was just retiring to rest, and on giv-

ing a comforting anticipatory yawn he managed to' dislocate his jaw. He was not seriously concerned at the moment, hut failing to return the jaw to its place, had to redress and repair to a doctor for treatment. A long and painstaking attention was equally futile, and ultimately a second doctor was summoned and the patient placed under chloroform. Then, with difficulty, the two practittloners managed to relock the displaced jaw. Mr Charles E. Cuming, editor of the “Journal of Agriculture,” has resigned from the public service, having been appointed editor of the “Xew Zealand Farmer” in succession to the late Mr Heyward. Mr Cuming was appointed editor of the department’s publication about four years ago, prior to which he was on the literary staff of the “Xew Zealand Times” for several years. He was also agricultural editor of the “Farmers’ Union Advocate” and has been connected with journalism in Xew Zealand for a considerable period. He is to leave the public service at the end of May, whe lie will remove to Auckland. The “Farmer” is recognised as one of the leading agricultural newspapers in Australasia and exercises a wide influence among the farming community. Air Cuming has received many congratulations on his new appointment. “Despite the prognostications of many that the war would imperil our industries,” says the Labour Department’s “Journal,” regarding the conditions in the Wellington district for March, “nothing of a very serious nature has yet eventuated, and the conditions of both trade and labour compare very favourably with the corresponding period of former years. It is true that many industries are fully occupied in the manufacture of war materials, and a large amount of labour is thus absorbed, hut apart from this there is ii buoyancy in trade which augurs well for the coming winter. TSie engineering trade is still busy, and few (if any) skilled men in the various branches of this trade are idle. Too building trades are a little quieter than the previous month, but the general condition can he considered fair for this period of the year. The textile trades are busy, and there i i a shortage of labour iu the clothing factories. Shopkeepers generally report trade as satisfactory. Drapers and clothiers have opened up their winter goods, and. though the wintry weather has not yet appeared, fair sales have been transacted.”