LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 11, 13 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council will be held at the County Office, Stratford, on Wednesday next, at II a.m.

A Sydney cablegram states that a storekeeper was fined £lO for selling a bnshol of bran for threepence above the fixed price.

William Brocklebank and Ernest Urocklebank, cabinet-makers, of Stratford, have hied a declaration of insolvency. A first meeting of creditors takes place on Monday. May 24th.

The regulation preventing women from landing at Samoa has been removed by tbe Defence authorities. The restriction still applies, however, to wives of soldiers now serving on the island.

Weather Forecast.--Moderate to strong winds prevailing, squally at times. The weather will probably prove cold and showery. Thenight will probably be very cold with frosts inland. The barometer has a rising tendency. —Bates.

An Auckland Press Association telegram to-day states: At the Supreme Court, Stanley Bowrey, who was charged with the theft of a considerable sum of money while employed as clerk by the Mount Roskill Road Board, was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labor.

Dannevirke came to light again last night (states the Press Association), when an amateur concert in aid of the Belgians realised just on £3OO, tinsale of a Hag being responsible for over £2OO. In the last fortnight, three efforts have raised over £BOO for war purposes.

"1 am not going to be a party to any kid-glove business in dealing with short-weight bread cases at a time like this, when the price is high and there is much poverty about." Such was the declaration of Mr. F. V. Fra/.er, S.M., at Auckland yesterday, when bakers were before him on charges of having sold short-weight bread. The maximum fine of £2O was imposed in each case.

"A man has no right to strike another if he can get away. He has only to resort to force when he cannot get away. That is our law." This was the pronouncement made, during the hearing of an assault case in the Wellington Supreme Court by His Honor the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), who added that the law was very precise on this matter, and was set out in sections 71 to 74 of the Criminal Code.

Goo<l progress continues to be made on the Opunake branch line of railway works at the To Roti cud (reports the Hawera Star). For a considerable dis-

tance the formation work is being pushed on, the line fenced off, and idlings made. At one point the level of the line is considerably above the road level, and the road is being made up; at another point near Matapu it passes some feet below the road level, and an overhead bridge will have to be put in. Between fifty and sixty men are at work, including a number of cooperative men From Wellington,. and the number of temporary .sheds and wbares near the Te Roti end give quite a busy aspect to the place. Apparently no start has yet been made with the Waingongoro bridge.