LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 25, 28 September 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

•-I Lieutenant P, JEtfi Anderkon, lately ofiit-ljie'■Samoan' i..AdvUuce !Party, lett • (Stratford if of Taiiherenlkan this afternoon. ;: lieutenant AndeVsbn leaves with the Bth Reinforcements. Pour members of the local Oddfellows’ Lodge and four Foresters will shortly leave for the front, and tlie Lodges are combining to give then* a, send-off on Monday in the Foresters’ Hall. ’ ‘ ' V ' 1 . At the inquest at*'‘Wanganui''’ On Corporah -Glaiule COTUy(is, GVld' M whk fo,und dead: on > the/rdilvvpy\ link .Vesthrday; a> verdict of ‘Wound ddtid’' 1 was returned, ~ deceased.,.jhaxmg -apparently falleyj ~fromr . a night.—F ."A. ‘‘There are a—cousideridiJe mini her of ! . »U.IMH4C »».»» . .. men, also ,l.)oys over fhe. age of .14 years in Stra,tfpycl‘ whp ( are liable to serve under the iyh«i has not registered”- stated, Cray. “Certainly a. few of the men have .been. ( inedieuljy, ( continued the Lieutenant, “but in most cases these expire twelve months from the date of issue, and . then the exempt are liable to attend drill . again. Since June, 1 have had to i\arn about forty Cadets and Territorials of their liability to drill, and in some cases prosecutions have .followed. In a time like the, present,. every boy and young man should att.edd drill without, being forced to do so, and those who will shirk their duty should suffer ftill penalty, of the law.” “Say mister, did you hit the post P” asked a small boy last evening after he had seen a motorist strike a fence when trying to Negotiate the corner of Page and Miranda Streets. It appears that the motorist started away from Midhirst niter looking on the wine when it was, red, and the four iriiles intervening was covered* m safety, hut th e turning of a right angle corner was too much for the rider of the racyig machine, and the ~seqi'iel was that the front forks were badly damaged. Nothing daunted, however, .another attempt at riding was made- as. $OOll ag’ the machine I.ad 'been .knocked into shape, hut it re- ■ fused to budge, and the indignant motorist had to content himself with .staying in Stratford for the night. * 'l'llat the Maoris, are by no means such bad business men as some people would like to make out is proved by an incident which occurred in. Csborne (says the Times). A promin--ghfc sheep farmer was negotiating \vith fhe head of a gang of Maori shearers to have his sheep shorn, in t the early spring. , The pair strolled into .the office of a “censed interpreter to complete the agreement. , The sheep,, farmer was desirous that the Maoris should shear his sheep at the sprne rate, as last year. “No,” said the Mpori, scornfully, “Last year'yon got. 6d for your wool, ..this year you get Is .‘ld. Last year you get 12s 8d .for your sheep, this year you get 255, We want £2 a 100 to shear your ...sheep this" time.” All efforts at conciliation on the part of the interpreter w, unavailing, and the conference broke bo without either side, budging an, inch.