LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 87, 12 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Executive of the A. and P. Association moot this evening at 7.30 o'clock iu the Secretary’s office. A Loudon cable states that the Surdiga has sailed for Wellington awl the. Waitomo for Dunedin. The Presbytery of Sydney,, condemned the holding of raffles in connection with .Australia Day (.reports a cablegram to-day), and demanded the enforcement of the law in future. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that the Maori troupe ..numbering twenty, who went to the Panama Exposition, returned from ’.Frisco hy the Marama to-day. Shearers have enlisted , For military service in large numbers, and in addition to, those’ already at the front (states jtbd Press Association) (there are sixty shearers now in the training camps j The indications jare. that : tlli's’ wil*l hare a serious effect,.on the Vhfeari-ng season, which opens about ■ itlieniuicldla ol 1 month. ' . 1 I ;vI 1 ,( ij- ~ if , “There is a- certain amount, pt Inlipbur amongst the- Turks-,-”-, writes Private Harry Baniard to his, father, | H. .L Barnard, .postmaster! at 'tie* continual : M “ L wUfc, in, the firing line about a foijtuighfc orijbhree .weeks .ago, when the mounteds were there, and some of them were bring at a shovgj,. which a Turk wa, s using for throwing, Ldirt out of the trench. WhetU'Y.er, a was fired (die Turk signalled, a t miss. While 1, was there he signalled one hit.”' I , !( , , :ii ; ■ ...*

*■* AhVClVfdoV-m-douncii. just {jasictted, provides tlkat it the Attorney-General . ■%. . •O! !•»•:> .. • ■ ■ U» I.'UO Ist fcn'tiKned in respect or anv company, t ) si. : u. firm, or person carrying on business ip Now Zealand alien enemy. Whether resident iir -New Zealand'or elsewhere*; is interested in that biwi- ‘ neifsv ahd that'the business is being •cd tried oh under representations calculated to mislead the'public as to the persons interestedXin that business, the" Aftoniey-General may, by notice in the Gazette, prohibit that company. firm, or persoh from continuing to curry on business hi New Zealand.

“It should soon be possible for ns to lift the embargq) on the export altogether.” said the Premier yesterday, in referring to the local reduction i« the price of butter. “All the factories in Auckland, and most of the factories in Taranaki, are now in operation, and the output will increase very rapidly during the next month or two. So far the prohibition of the export of butter has been enforced, ( it will be lifted lowilly when the price falls. A few days ago 1 allowed a small shipment of butter to leave Auckland, on the understanding that the price would be reduced there, and the reduction was made.”

A matter that will occupy the attention of the National Cabinet at an early date is the cost of living. The New Zealand Times states that the agreement which brought about the temporary union of political forces bad a clause relating to this subject, the Opposition being unwilling to join a National Ministry without an assurance that an attempt .would be nwtde to reduce the cost of living. The intention of the Ministers, it is undeis stood, is to bring down legislation designed to place a limit upon the profits of merchants and traders. The machinery of the bill lias still to be devised. The report of the Food Commission disclosed the fact that exorbitant profits were being made by merchants upon articles of common use.

Writes our Wliaug-amomona correspondent: Residents have received advice from the railway authorities that a new timetable will come into effect on Ist October. This will enaable the dwellers of the less sheltered town of Stratford to conveniently spend a week-end here. It will also allow the local children attending the Stratford Hiejli School to return on Monday mornings in good time for school. The timetable for Tuesdays wilt also be altered to one train. one leaving Whanganmmona at fb.'Kj, a.m. and return at the usual ts’me in the evening. This will Imve an advantage for Stratford. in that travellers coming by Tuesday’s boat from Auckland will; he detained in Stratford until the even-' iug. and tkns have an opportunity of doing the sights of the town instead of proceeding after only a short stoppage, to their destination.

Mr Bianehi had a large a tic mla tire at her claim* in the Forester’s Mull last night, and a very enjoyable time was spoilt. ’, A: in an named ’ttios. Jamieson ',28 L employed by the Dunedin Harbour Board, was crushed between a dredge and a pile last night (reports thu Press Association), and ftie injuries termipafed fatally to-day. WeS titer Forecast.—The indication* are for easterly moderate to strong winds and backing by east to north. The weather will probably be coal and changeable. The night will probably bo very cold. Barometer unsteady, .with n falling tenden«§-. Condition* continue thwcatevHng to westward.— Bates, Wellington. The Stratford Homo Dofenee and N'fttibjial Reserve Corps and tha Territorials will parade at the school at , 7.30 o’clock this evening to take part hr the farewell social to be given by the Egmont Club to the next draft of reinforcements to go into camp. The drum and fife baud will play the Corps from the (school to the Egrnent Club’s rooms.