LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 78, 31 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Another social is announced by the Midhirst Public Hall Board to be held on Wednesday evening. The dangerous practice of hoarding and leaving trains while in motion is very prevalent in Stratford, and the stationmaster had occasion to warn two passengers last evening who alighted before the train was station-

An Extraordinary Gazette was issued to-day prohibiting the export of sheep and cattle without the consent of tlie Minister of Customs, which will not lie given without a statutory declaration as to the ultimate destination of the animals.

Territorials and Senior Cadets are requested to parade in uniform tomorrow at a quarter to tno at me School Gymnasium to take part in the funeral of late Kilieman Cameron. “Fall in" will bp punctual. A £ood attendance is requested, and those who nave not uniforms are asked to make an endeavour to obtain them from the Defence Olhce or from Quar-ter-Master itu»s, 'The Home Defence Corps are also requested to parade at the same time and place. The Cardin section of the Home Delence Chips are mustering in lull lorco, and it is hoped that the other sections of the troops will lollow this example.

The monthly meeting of the Ladies’ Orange Lodge was held in the Parish Hall on Thursday evening, when there was a fair attendance. The business ol the evening included the presentation of the balance-sheet lor the year just ended. The Items in the balancesheet were read out hy the secretary, and showed a nice balance m hand. Altogether the year lias been a good one. A very pleasing ceremony then took place, the Hev. Air Header, on behalf ol the ladies, presenting the secretary Aliss Kilpatrick), lor her

untiring services tinring the year, with a gold pendant, for which slit' touchingly returned thanks. The installation of officers was afterwards duly carried out by the Hev. Mr Header. After prayers and the singing ol the Doxology, an adjournment wa s made lor slipper, winch the ladies ah i kind-

ly provided, and a very enjoyable time \vas spent. Pro. Wilks, in a humorous speech, presented the Hev. Mr Header with a beautiful gold emblem of the Order for which .Mr Header returned thanks.. Speeches were made by Ho. Hooker (Nett Plymouth Lodge' and Pro. Young (Stratford Lodge). An

: Miiogv for absence was received Irom the Kltliam Lodge,

The Toko Settlers Social and Pre-

sentation of Prizes has been postponed till August 5. The winning ticket in the Wellington Tramway Art- Union for the Jive-seal-ed. 25 horse-power .Maxwell motor-ear.

valued at £265, was 20540 (no nauu attached to the butt. There wort 20.176 shilling tickets sold.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the AViian-

gamomona County Council, it was decided. that the Chairman (Air A. .Meredith', Cr. Geever. and the engineer Air Robinson). proceed to Wellington to request assistance from the Minister of Public Works for clearing and repairing the roads damaged during the recent storms. Tasmania usually imports cattle during the winter states a Hobart cablegram), but this year, owing to the heavy export to Victoria, a moat famine prevails. Recent sales ot steers touched £3S 10s, bullocks £3l 2s 6d. heifers £l3 os, wethers 51s. owes 375, and lambs 25s (VI, which prices are the highest recorded for years.

At the Fanners’ Union Conference, Air W. AI. Singleton, assistant director'of the Dairy Produce Division, stated that the record authenticated butter production ol a New Zealand cow was made tins season by a Holstein. The amount of butter-fat obtained from the cow tor a period ol one year was "1631 b, which, at the low rate of a shilling per lh, was worth £l3.

At the invitation of His Worship the Mayor (Mr .1, \V. Boon), the Municipal Hand will participate in the obsequies of Mr Dudley Cameron. At the Regan Street Methodist Church at 8 o’clock, the Baud will play “The Garland of Flowers.” and at the cemetery the “Dead March in Said” and sacred pieces will bp played. r llie Band meet in the Bandroom at 1.80 p.m. The Taranaki Herald says: Word has been received that the High School team was disqualified in the Schools of the Empire shooting competition, which it would easily have won. because the score-sheet was signed by Sergeant-Major Hesp. as one of the supervising officers, whereas the regulations provide that it must be signed by two commissioned officers. The headmaster had asked the Department to send two officers to the competition, but as two were not available at the moment, SergeantM ajor Hesp was sent to take the place of one. As the result of this neglect the Dominion has been deprived of an honor which, hut for a technicality, it would have won.

A return, showing the “number ot rescues that have been (‘fleeted from German warships by bis Majesty’s vessels, and from his Majesty’s vessels -by German warships respectively,” lias been issued by the Admiralty. It affords a striking illustration of the different methods adopted by Great Britain and Germany in waging warfare at sea. Over I*2oo members of the crews of German warships lost have been rescued by the British warships engaged, while, up to The time of the Joss of the destroyed Maori, German warships had not rescued one man belonging to British warships in similar circumstances. Six officers and seventy-six men of the Maori, who were rowing in their own boats after the vessel had sunk, were made prisoners hv the Germans.-

Reports of the damage done hy the recent floods in the districts out towards Whangamomona confirm the worst fears. A visitor to Stratford yesterday stated that in the Kiore station yard several cows had met their fate, and he knew of at least six skins of tlie bodies which had found lodgment in the yard having been brought to Stratford. The number of pigs also among the mud is not vet definitely known, but they were considerable. At the Whangamomona tunnel the scene was a remarkable one, the month of the tunnel being blocked almost to the roof, while inside among the debris the fact that a sixty-foot white pine tree twelvefeet in circumference had been deposited showed the strength of the flood waters, In places, the rubbish and mud accumulated to within a' few feet of the telegraph wres , In the opinion of the settler aforementioned, the line to Whangamomona might he opened by Wednesday at the earliest, but then simply a track would be free for the passage of rolling stock. A\ hen normal conditions would he reached would ho. in his opinion, only a matter for conjecture, What this might mean may he gauged from a further state- ! incut of opinion to the effect that the i uc,\t flood waters would cause further I slips uhfi block tlie line for months. I At present about 100 nien are working j day and night shifts ill clearing the I obstructions.

A Press Association telegram from Hamilton states that the committee ot‘ the Boxing Association, in view of the referee’s report on the Mitchell-

Murphy match, which stated t 1 at neither men was trying, decided to place the full evidence before the Dominion Conned, and hand over the stake of £SO to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.

A Press Association telegram from - Wellington states; In the last casualty listsi have appeared the name* of Maoris, and from that it is evident that the Native troops have been in action at Gallipoli. So far. however.

no report has reached the authorities

about any fighting in which the Maoris have been concerned. The Minister for Defence said yesterday he had no further information than was contained in the casualty lists.

vie.w of the Canadian movement to subscribe machine-guns for the troops at the front 'States a Gisborne message) inquiries were made yesterday of the Minister of Defence as to whether he would accept machine-guns for the New Zealand forces. Mr Allen replied that he would be pleased to accept the offer, and was making inquiries on the matter. The first donation for a machine-gun lias accordingly been made by- Mr M. B. Mander. a Gisborne settler.

French and British chemists, as well as the Russian, have already adopted expedients that will teach the Germans a heavy lesson (writes a London correspondent). Poison gas will ho used • against them without the least compunction •wherever it is likely to he successful. It may he that the world is now witnessing another great evolution in the science of warfare. The British Government has called on the services of a large number of young chemists to superintend the arrangements for fighting the enemy with gas in the west.

To-day is the last day of the 1015 Shooting season. In discussing the season and its results with a prominent sportsman and shot, a representative of the “Stratford Evening Post” gleaned that sportsmen, as a whole, are not sorry the season is over. At the early part of the season game was fairly plentiful hut towards the end it fell off and became very shy and scarce. A party went into the hills about fifteen miles in from Eltham yesterday hut the only game shot wore wild geese numbering about eight brace.

A story is going the rounds winch instances of how many people do nor realise, jto put it mildly, their responsibilities in regard to the war. Two AJarton farmers, partners, recently sold several hundred bags of chaff at well over £'o a ton, the deal representing considerably oyer £2OOO. The continued absence of the pair’s names from patriotic lists prompted a friend “to suggest to one of them that it was time they “made a name for themselves.” The appeal evidently struck a responsive chord, for the individual in question replied that when ho went home he would sqe his partner about giving a sheep!

Mr X. Fulton was in Stratford today and inspected the section of land

which was won by Mrs Fulton in the

recent Scottish Society raffle. He Expressed great satisfaction regarding the value of the section, which contains three-quarters of an acre, 'with a 99 foot frontage to a properly-form-ed, metalled street, and gravelled footpath. The land is securely enclosed with practically new fences, and a nice belt of shelter and ornamental trees adorns the back boundary. Ihe section lies high, and will make an ideal site for a modern and pictnr-

| esque homo. Mr Fulton considers this a magnificent gift on the part of Mr Geo. Hall for the benefit of the returned Sick and wounded, and he is gratified to learn that the sale of J tickets realised such a great sum ot money.

In a case which came before -Mr I). G. A. Cooper, 5.. M.. in the-Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Donald Cook, milk vendor, of Kilbirnie, was

charged with selling milk not obtained jj from a registered dairy. Mr Alexant der Cook, dairy inspector to the Agrit cultural Department, stated that none j of the premises were in a lit state to comply with the Dairy Industry Act as regards registration ; in fact, one Li of the dairies was in a very had state.

In one rase a supplier to the clefend..ant had no floor of an;; kind in his shed. Defendant, .who had keen warned on June ‘iS, and still persisted in taking milk from this supplier, should have known better, as he had been a registered dairyman previous to coming to Wellington. He was convicted and fined to and Cl Ids costs. The charge was laid by the Citv Council.

, It is not often that passers-by especially of the male sex take tin' trouble to insjiect the wares in fruit shop windows, lint a representative of this journal has been very interested in the display of some passionfruit in a. certain shop in Broadway Central. During the course of a week’s undisturbed repose on a large dish, this succujent fruit undergoes a methamorphosis. When first placed in Jhe window, the fruit looks very : tempting in it’s purple plumpness. At the end of two or three days the purple plumpness changes into a blue decrepitude, and there it remains till ago and disease necessitate removal. The same dish is again re galed with (voting and tender passion- ; fruit .which is left to the same ciuel. blue-mouldy fate of it’s predecessors. Possibly the übiquitous Inspector could save the poor fruit from such a c dreadful fate by keening a skinned eve | on the windows of the bland Celestials, f And incidentally he would be reiulerf ing a service to public health and hygiene.