LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 84, 7 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather Forecast.—Westerly winds and backing by west to south. The weather will probably prove squally with heavy showers. The barometer has £ falling tendency, but rising after about 24 to 36 hours.—Bates, Wellington.

The ; bulk of' fhe mounted of the Sixth Reinforcements returned to .will go into Snip at Tauherenikau, and the remainder will go back to Trentham on Monday. All the Mounteds,. with the balance of the Sixth Reinforcements "already iri camp, will remain there until they leave for the front. ' The total number of officers and men now in Trentham is about 2600. The infantry of the Seventh Reinforcements who have been encamped at Waitympt'taft, pa their week's leave yesterday. On their return they will go into camp ate Tauherenikau, in order to be near the rifle range at Grey town', the Waikanae camp thus! being abandoned. All memebrs of the Sixth Reinforcements were to have been engaged in manoeuvres during the-whole of • last night, but owing to the rain the operations were not car-: ried out.—P.A.

A deputation from the Moderate League, wainted on the Premier (Hon. Mr Massey), at Wellington, and advocated the setting up of a board of inquiry to report upon the efficiency of the Licensing Act in regard to tho conduct of licensed houses and Tho Trade; also in reference to a system of State Control, Municipal Control, and Public Liquor Trusts. The deputation suggested the abolition of licensing committees', and the establish-

' ing of a special Government department to control the whole Trade and remove abuses. Other points included a request for the elimination of the local no-license'issue. The Press Association adds: Mr Massey said he recognised that the present system of \ control was not perfect, and. that the j mixing up of the liquor question with ) politics seemed to be having a detrimental effect, but he could not enthe belief that any comprehensive Liquor Bill would be introduced this session,-as the whole of their energies would be required in other directions. To attempt to appoint a commission of inquiry would be inopportune and would strike a discordant note, but the points raised would be submitted to the National Cabinet. The Auckland "Observer" heaves some solid chunks of wisdom at the rottenness of Party politics when it says:—"ln the political farce the public represent the paying audience and if the public were asked it wpuld rather buy,a ticket for a dog light. The public, quite apart from the large crop of political parasites who infest the land, don't care two[>ence whether Sir Joseph Ward or Air Massey is Premier", haven.';t : the least interest in: the thiJi inc\ii;a!);l|iibi|ter to pcJitU cians who play the farce, with soldiers fbivpawns and "Royal' Commissions for counters. The public, which employs these egotists who exude reams of selfish twaddle about their rights to political spoils are interested in one thing and one thing alone—that is the .men-' tal and physical power of the Allied armies to keep the British flag Hying ovei' British soil—that's all."

Poor Solomon Stead lav sick in his .. bed, ~.,'. /;. .?Twas,' a. cold that he'd,, contracted, "With lungs like lead, he was all but dead.,. ... Audi his wife was nigh distracted. In the stress of. her grief she shook like a Iqa'f, . But such anguish was premature. For her mother rushed in and replaced hot gin With Woods' .Great Peppermint Cure.