LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 32, 6 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sailed from London lor Auckland: Indian .Monarch. The price of the -lib loaf in Dunedin is now Std lor cash. “The Seventh Day is the Sabbath ol tin* Lord Thy God, in it thou shall ..not do any work.” That is tin* only thing that is expressly forbidden in the Commandment. The commandment does not say Unit you are for- , bidden to play.—Rev. (L AA’. Dent at 1 Kit ham last Sundae. f ' ■ Mr Kred Foley, of His (Majesty's Theatre, states that it is his ini,cation to conduct a comic song contest at the picture palace on Friday. October Id. As in previous competitions. the songs will la* delivered (inring an interval in the picture jdo-j gramme and the audience will lie' the judge. The petition in favor of the remission ol tin,* sentence for manslaughter imposed on Alice Parkinson has O'. 1 .- 187 signatures to date, including ]().- df)() for Hawke’s Bay. Petitions with over fiII,(MJO signatures have been for winded to the (love"'ior and the h o volume oi the petition i> now in pre--1 innatiou. A Press Association telegram from o;imam states: Afte l ' a piolonge.d (nought, a heavy shower <d rain fell fit .midday to-day. There were interim* tent light showers during the nfterni! • i and at seven o’clock rain was fa'bng heavily', with a prospect of. coul.iitiing for some hours. Twenty-om hours’ rain would he of almost due-d----eniable benefit to the'wheat crops an! all stock. ' The Stratford correspondent of, the, 'Taranaki Herald says: ..Mr Hornsby, M.P.. is to make a recruiting speech in front of the Post Office on Thursday evening. AA’e are not doing badly ■ in the matter of enlistment, 1 1 Unit there are somo-oi our young! mehcabout,the towni who will* make .excellent soldiers if they stick to .theft' posts;.in the,trenchesl half' as stubbornly as they stick to Broadway veiandah-ppsts. ~ , i

Dai;!, lift liie last jnontli the estates of. 2-1 deceased,person ( s ,\v<*i’y,#*«.■*!* li. ,f<M- death dufies." Tlie largest' ''’was .that of £()L98d. i Tl)e 'following are the principal estates in the New Pldniohtlr'district : Robert Henry Campbell. £8284 ,-'Alice .Margaret Mary Hempton. £-4.‘{(>i T Ann Marie Hjoring N’ielson. £1811; John Henry Armstrong, £1128; Frances ismitJi, £l()(J.‘l.

A good musical programme lias l)Oon arranged by Mrs Cray tor tin 1 .Military Concert to he, bold in the, .town HaU on Tuesday next. Mapy well k.noHvn artists will contribute items,, and a voluntary orchestra of twelve mom lid's ■{'Ob'i been During an interval in the. concert his Worship the' MiiiMunsoi' Stratford,, Mr. W. Boon, will present .the prizes to the .Senior Cadets or led itorials who sold; the • i (largest number of tickets.

The libel action taken against Ceddis and Blomfiekl, oi the Auckland Observer, for an allegedly libellous eartoon on Mr Justice Edwards, will be remembered. The matter has cropped up again, when the A to E Petitions Committee of the House ol Representatives reported last I* riday that it had no recommendation to make with the petition of \V. ■). Ceddis and another, of Auckland, praying for refund of costs incurred in defending an action for libel.

An incident occurred u rntly at Buku Baku Bay, Bua. rlustrativo ol the ways of the gentle Indian (writes a Kiji correspondent). An Indian lan amok in a small setlemenl at the place in (|uestion. and after killing two men with a knife and putting a spear through a small hoy he set oil alter an Indian woman who had run lor the bush. When he was jimt upon her, and bad actually inflicted some wounds upon Wr in bis blood his* he sin mined 1 Mini fell, losing his grip on the krnle he was using. With ready presence ol mind the woman turned and. snatching up the murderer's kuile, despatched him in slnn l order.

Tin* general secretary of Dip Now South Walos Alliance lor the Snppresooii of tin' Liquor Trafiic lias written o the Chief Secretary in the followiiu terms: The good work irotn the standpoint of temperance that is li( - ing. done hy the two women police, who were recently appointed has keen noticed hy our alliance, and I have keen requested to express to you out appreciation ol your action in making such appointments. There is no douki a work could .he done iu Sydney in watching the interests ol young women especially, as their morals are adversely affected ky ike liquor trafiic. We feel, however, that it is impossible for two women police to do justice toj their positions in a city like Sydney, an,ad we strongly urge the early appointment of additional women police.

.Mails sent via Suez are subject io heavy delay, and under ordinary circumstances arrive in London Inter than mails despatched from New Zealand by tbe next A ancouver or San Francisco steamer. Only specially addressed correspondence is now sent via Sue/... 1 1* 1 ' following cases will bo up for 'hearing at the Stratford Magistrate’s (limi t on I* riday : Twelve civil cases, one defended, four judgment summons. two informations against persons for wilful damage, one for insulting language, otic threatening behaviour. one ohsence language and a by-law ease of driving a motor car 'at night’ without lights. AA outlier forecast.- Ihe indications are for south-easterly moderate to strong prevailing. Kxpect changeable and showery weathei. The night will probably be very cold. The barometer lias a rising tendency.— Bates, AA’eilingtoa. Tbe weekly “Patriotic Markets’ - ’ conducted by members of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee will in future bo held in the .shop lately occupied hv •Mrs Brooking, Broadway. At a meeting of the committee a few days ago it was decided to conduct an afternoon tea department in conjunction with the Market once a month'. The shop will he open on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday for receiving gifts of produce and other articles for sale at the weekly market. It will he of interest to stamp collectors to know that in connection with -tl.u* general new issue of postal stamps iii New Zealand recently, some of the half-pemiy King’s Head design have been may-printed with two black stars in the top corners, and the words “war at the bottom. ’The reason ’lev the over-printing of the half-penny issue is not known, except possibly that it was originally intended to overprint the new issues in this way. The current circulation of the distinct value is likely to have been distributed in limited numbers, so that they may be song sold out. They may he used like the ordinary plain design. The point about the transfigured issue, however, is that it will, in years to

{.nine prove an interesting record of New Zealand’s participation in the war. a; The Committees of' the Stratford*' Home Defence Corps ami the Kgmont C'luh wish it to' be' known that, though the farewell social oil ’Thursday evening i s to a' certain extent ;i public one, yet only a limited number of the public can he admitted on account of the lack of accommodation. ; Hu filiations are being sent out and admission will he by production of the mtci^ilmln l only. Members of the Two organising bodies have been invited along with members of patriotic bodies, and the recruits and their'relatives. The Committee -further desire that anyone who may have been overlooked in the issue of tin* invitations communicate with either of Messrs Lander and Word, the. joint secretaries; , At a. nVeeting of the Patriotic Executive 1 yesterday, representatives ot the Ladies* Comjfilttee TCCre ipi>< , M , nr . by invitation, and matters in connection with the Second Hospital Ship equipment were discussed. It was-de-nuded that the executive would supply the ladies with all necessary material' ■ up to lit(* beds, the cost of each bed averaging about, £11). .It- was also decided to open a Second Hospital Fund, and subscriptions may he paid to any member of the Executive or General Committee The matter of canvassing for funds for any patriotic purpose was discussed, and it was resolved that collectors must first get the consent of the Executive, who will consult with tlie Ladies’ Committee and tlu> Belgian Relief Committee, and when authorised the fact will he published in the Press. la addition to the General Committee already published, Adjutant Cook has been appointed to represent the Salvation A rm v.

It is not a little confusing when the Maori will persist in confusing the ’ gender by classing the feminine as' “he.” As Mr Bawson, S.M;, said at the To Awamntu Court the other day, states the Waipa Post, it was “confusion worse confounded,” when a native giving evidence on Friday reeled off the following confused narrative-: “Mrs Waller he say he want to keep two horses, and Churches he say something I not hear. I sold lie (.Mrs Waller) te horse for £:i 10s, and I want te pig L'2 and her—he gave me io pound, and her—he say wiit till te milking quids come in and he—her give mete ten hoh. Her—he tell me he got te share in te pig and he Churches he tell mo te same.” This witness, it might he added, was not cross-examined, and he left the Court with- a satisfied strut which signified that in his own opinion, at -least, he had-fclenched the whole argument.