LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 94, 21 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Premier stated last night that there is enough wheat at present in the Dominion to last until next season.

In Adelaide the price of milk has been fixed at 2.Jd per pint as from Monday.

The patriotic funds in Queensland aggregate £330.000. states a Brisbane cablegram.

A Brisbane cablegram states that the price of bread in the southern districts and the Metropolitan apa is r>d, and elsewhere it is bid.

A London cablegram states that the Tnrakina and .Aran have sailed for Lyttelton, and the Matai has left foi San Francisco. I

The Defence Office is issuing a circular to all areas, calling upon men wlio. are slightly over the age limit and slightly unfit to register for service: Fuller particulars will be published on MoWiay. : 1 ”

lit! the House of Representatives yesterday. 1 VepltHfife to h 'question, the lVeiiiiei J, sivid that the case rtf • ProfeKsor K-on'Zddlitjt lifid been treated by the : Government the ' same >as ;i lanjv other alien case, and had been referred to the Aliens’ Committee, who ha'd examined witnesses and reported. He was quite prepared to sprinted such of the evidence taken as was not confidential.

The Auckland {»asj(p|ony«yiy Jias ( f«iV fgred loss as the result of the activities of a ,man who, f'o.r some days, .has Jieen gqing from house to hou,se impersonating h reader of meters. Where, there was ino shilling-in-tlie-slot attachment, he ,simply examined the dial and went away, but, being provided with keys, he opened all meters containing shillings. and carried off the coin. He is believed to have secured a considerable sum, and ’’’'■urgent enquiries being - made as to his whereabouts.

The second'' round in the Cn’hhage Rubber between the “A” and “B” teams was completed last evening, and resulted in a win for “B” team. The scores and players were as follows (“A” being mentioned first in each case)—J. W. Jones and G. Seabright G v. H. Kivell and Harkness G; J. G. Hannah and r T. C. Stewart Sv. Drake Bios 8; \V. Nelson and W. McAllum G v. R. Hunter and C. L. Kivell 8; K. and AY. Collins •) v. T. Lawson and J. Thomas 10; Jones and Clifton 5 v. Slight and AYalshe 10; Kelly and Butchart 7 v. Rickelhen and Harston 6; A. Nelson and B. Green 11 v. AY. Graham and W. Brown 3.

‘‘ft is something in these times to get a novel view of the war.” lemarks a writer in the Manchester Guardian. “Two workmen were discussing it, obviously under the influence of a great deal of unofficial news. ‘ft’ll be an awful long job. Sam.’ said one. ‘lt will an’ all.’ replied the other. ‘You see these Germans is taking thousands and thousands of Russian prisoners, and the Russians i s taking thousands and thousands of German prisoners, (f it keeps on, all the Russians will bo m Germany and all the Germans in Russia. And then they’ll start fresh all over again, fighting to get back to their ’nines.’ ”

“Housewife” is anxious to know the truth about the price of meat in Stratlorcl. “First ol all,’’ slie writes, “wo road that the butchers were charging an extra penny per 11)., and then it was stated to be a false alarm. Now. I had a row with my butcher to-day because he charged me the advanced price, and I had to pay. because lit 1 assured me all the butchers had agreed to raise the price. Why has there been no advertisement in the paper stating the position I-*' This would be only lair to us and also to tin* men on the carts, as some people say they are beating us for the extra money, (loodness knows, the cost of fixing (not to mention hair-cutting), is high! enough here as it is. compared to Eltham and New Plymouth, where both bread and butter has been lowered in price. I hope the publicity gained through life above appearing in your valuable columns will be the means of a little more light being shed on this question of high prices.”

“Should children bo punished . " is a point that is discussed by A: R. Osborn. M.A.. in the second of a series of articles on “Australian Parents and Their Children,” which ho is writing for “Kvcrylady’s Journal,” the August issue of which enterprising magazine is to hand.

Weather forecast:—The indications are lor moderate to strong winces and hacking by K. to N. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather with increasing haze and cloudiness. The night will probably be very cold. Parameter little movement,— Hates. Wellington.

The.annual meeting of the Stratford Racing Club will be hold on Tuesday, 31st August, at 8 p.rn. at llie secretary’s office. Fenton Street. The business before the meeting will be Ibe consideration or the report and oalance-sheet, election of officers, and general. All nominations and notices of motion must be lodged with the secretary by Tuesday, 2-1 th August.

Varied experiences among the natives at Colombo and Port Said, a visit, t'o'Naples and Pompeii, also to Toulon the great French naval base), and to tba historic Gibraltar, all afford interesting matter for a talk on “Ports of Call” to be given by Adjutant Cook at the Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday evening next. A Cornish pasty suppet will follow

A boy named Xeilson, working for Mr Mountford. butcher, of Midhirst, met with a painful accident yesterday. Neil son was washing down the block, when be accidentally knocked a bucket of boiling water over his legs. Ho was brought in to Stratford by motor car and attended to by Dr. Steven.

At the \\ averley Court, on Thursday, Albert Osborne Partridge, farmer, ol Waverley, claimed from H. A. Xodder, motor car proprietor, Hawera, the sum of £ls, the estimated value of a sheep dog. which had been run over and killed by a motor car, the property of the defendant, which was alleged to have been negligently driven. Alter hearing evidence, his Worship entered a non-suit. H« pointed out that there must be clear ami unequivocal proof of negligence before the plaintiff could succeed. In this case he was not satisfied that negligence had ,beep proved. ~The..driver of the ‘car wrfs‘Slot travelling at an excessive ,speed,. and in the cirenm.-, , stances what happened. >\,as, iy.evitable.* ’A non-suit would allow fresh proceedings to be taken if new and convincing evidence as to negligence was availaide. Plaintiff wa ( s allowed costs. , , .

The Territorials, Senior Cadets and ;Home Defence Corps will parade at, the Stratford Railway Station at i. 45 o’clock on .Monday evening to assist the authorities in entraining the i»enp bers of the Eight Reinforcements, who leave* by a special troop train for Tretham at 8.40 o’clock. The entraining officer will arrange for the troops Ip be lined up on the railway platform 'and"will allot to the men their respective carriages. A circular letter received from Headquarters by Lieutenant Gray, area officer, states that the entraining of the troops ’ must be carried, out quietly and under strict discipline. Xo soldier will be ,’ f permitted to leave his carriage after be has once entrained, except to march from the train to the refreshment idioms at Aramoho and Pnekakariki where the authorities have arranged for the men to he supplied with tea, etc. The reinforcements will iall in on the station platform when the bugle sounds at 8,30 and the public can assist the authorities if they will keep clear ol' the portion allocated to the soldiers.

There i s one little incident, hidden away in a paragraph in an English paper, which throws a pleasant light on the temperament and humanity of that much maligned person, the censor

A private in a Lancashire Territonal regiment 'fighting in Gallipoli sent a vivid description of his hattalion’s experiences. He mentions that one ot Ids best friends in the regiment—“pool- old Tommy TT i.” “got it in the neck.” Tommy H was evidently a favorite in the regiment. 1 hey gave him a real good funeral, Ihe dead man’s pals attended the obsequies in that strange outlandish scene just as they would have done in some little quiet churchyard in the dells of the Homeland. The writer remarks that B and C- . and K— and several other friends actually walked under lire for a mile to he present, and to pay their last tribute of respect and love for poor old Tommy H . The writer adds; “I don’t know whether they got hack sale afterwards, because they were under fire all the way hack to their places in the line.” After this concluding sentence of the Territorial’s letter there appears the following; (“They did.—Censor.”) In its way this is one ot the prettiest little side-episodes one has come across yet.