LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 74, 27 July 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A P.A. message from Hamilton says: Lindsay Johnstone, 50 years of age, a well-known Waikato farmer, and brother of Mr Campbell Johnstone, Raglan County chairman, was drowned at Karamu last night whilst riding his horse over the road, which was submerged through the flooding of the Waipa river.

Complaints have reached Mr Dyer, 'Vice-Consul for Greece, at Wellington, that thev military censors a-e refusing to accept letters for Greece which are written in Greek by Greek residents in New Zealand, Creek not being one of the authorised languages. Mr-Dyer has interviewed the authorities, i-ud has arranged that, in future, correspondence in Creek will be accepted, provided'it is written on a post cud enclosed in an addressed envelope with the flaps turned in.

A Wellington telegram states that the Full Court gave its reserved decision this morning in the case Penman v. The Inspector of Mines. The Cour,t held that the daily inspection I required by rule 8 or by special rules ' under the-Coal Mines' Act, 1908, was an examination of the actual working i . . parts of the mine, including all ventilations and appliances wherever situ- | ated. hut these rules do not extend to

the old working, which did not f< Ini : part of the ventilating system. The Court quashed the convictions against Penman, hut allowed no costs against I the Department.

Weather forecast.—South-easterly

moderate to strong winds and bat-king by east to north. There is a prospect of fair weather. The night will probably be very cold with frosts inland. Barometer little movement.- Hates, Wellington.

.Many peculiar words arc used in the nomenclature of children in families. Hut the record as disclosed by the census of one family in the United States of the name of O'Donoghue is really astonishing. The children's names are Iniprinius, Finis. Appendix,; Addendum, and Erratum 1

The U.S. and A. line's steamer, Canastola. arrived at Auc'klanad from New York via Panama this morniug, states the Press Association. While at New York at the end of April there was a bad fire in the 'tween decks of the two forward holds, all the cargo there being destroyed. The hold had to be completely flooded. The cargo destroyed was for Australian and New Zealand ports, and included six motor cars. The iron decks were buckled by the heat and the beams twisted. These had to be renewed, and the vessel was docked for three weeks. A general average of twenty per cent, was struck on the lines affected.