LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 48, 26 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The St. Andrew's Church annual sale of work will be held on Thursday afternoon and evening. There will be the usual stalls, and the articles to lie offered present a large variety.' and are stated to lie specially good. j

A man who was arrested at Kiore yesterday by Sergeant Dale and Constable McGowan on a charge of helpless drunkenness, was brought before .Mr F. J. McDonald, J.P., last night, and remanded to New Plymouth for a week for medical treatment.

Mr J. T. M. Horn.shy was present at the Waverley racecourse yesterday, and during the afternoon made a short appeal to the young men present who had not already done so, and who had no ties to prevent them, .to enlist at once in answer to their Country's call in the hour of need'.

At a meeting of shareholders of the Stratford Co-operative" Building Society held last evening ■ for the disposal of two appropriations of £3OO each, Mr S. H. James proved to be successful in drawing the first £3OO, and Messrs Henry Brown and Co. the second sum of £3OO.

The Wellington Lieder'tafel' will no longer be known by its former German title, but will in future sing Hinder a new name—the Wellington Male Voice Choir. A corresponding change is being made by most Liedertafel bodies in New Zealand a.s the lesult of an interchange of correspondence, says a Wellington journal, the feeling being tha't British musical should be distinguished by liritidi names. *

Lieutenant Gray, of the local Defence Office, has received the following circular letter from headquarters: —"Jt has been decided to despatch increased reinforcements' for field engineers and signal service., and as officers for these arms of the service are difficult to procure, applications should be encouraged from civil engineers to come into camp as probationary N.C.O's., so that they may qualify and obtain commissions in these branches."

November 1, states the Sydney correspondent o the "Evening Post." is to see the first delivery of high: explosive shells made in Australia under contract with the Commonwealth Government. The shells are for eighteen-pounder quick-firing gnus. Amongst the establishments where they are being made are the Government Railway Workshops of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, and the factories of nine private firms in Victoria. The latest date on which shells are to be delivered under the present contracts is January 1.

The Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald comments on tbe opening of the Waipuku "toll" in a light vein: "1 have not heard of any arrangements , being made by our County Council to fittingly celebrate the inauguration of the toll on the main road. It is suggested that a good old English "wake" should be held on tbe site of the vanished hamlet of Waipuku with a main or two of cocks and a bull-baiting. On the spot where once stood the ancient hostelry of the Red Rover, scene of many a merrymaking" in tbe days of old. an ox might be roasted and the nut-brown ale now as of yore.

i Arising out of the terrible accident ' to the lad Robert Newburn on Au- ! gust 10, wherebiy both his fret were ! torn off at the Kaitangata mine screens, the Inspector of Mines has issued summonses against the company for alleged breaches of the Mines Act. There are three charges: (1) For employing tbe lad on August 9 for more than eight hours (12 hours' employment alleged), exclusive of the time allowed for meals; (2) for allowing him to oil machinery while it was in motion, whereby the lad- was dangerously injured; (3) for permitting tbe lad to wear loose clothing while engaged in close proximity to machinery. The cases will come up for hearing at next sitting of the .Magistrate's Court, at Kaitangata.

i One of'the Morrinsville tradespeople \\as recently tendered a £lO note by a Maori in payment for goods purchased. The note was very dirty, and was pasted on a piece "of paper, and, on being interrogated as to the reason for pasting it on paper, the Maori stated that lie bad carried it in his trousers pocket for a long while, and it had got dirty. The tradesman wan not satisfied, however, and. on looking up his record of the number of I forged fjlO notes in circulation in Auckland some two years ago, he , found the number, 169,945. to he ideh- ! tical with that of the spurious notes, i He questioned the .Maori as to where lie got the note, and the reply was that he received it in a shop in Queen street, Auckland. Needless to say, the Maori did not get the goods, being requested to call back later. A closer investigation showed that the note was not one of the actual forged, notes. but was a facsimile cut from an illustrated paper at the time, and later, when dirty, pasted on a piece of paper. At the Hawke's Bay Show, just held, users of McDougall's secured 07 out of 150 awards and 8 out of 12 championships, also 7 sepecials, including McDougall's "Rose Bowl."] ft will be readily seen that this Dip j is rapidly coming to the fore. xi

\ Weather Forecast,--Th e are for variable and strong breezes, but northerly strong ujnd, s to gala prevailing. Expect lull weather with much mis! and fog in parts. Rain probable, barometer unsteady.—Bates, Wellington. A woman who appeared at the Xapier Magistrate's Court bad 47 previous convictions entered against her. The convictions comprised 28 for drunkenness and helplessly drunk. 8 lor being idle and disorderly, 8 for vagrancy. 2 for obscene language, and one for breach of the peace. The of> lender is 7u' years of age. It is not often that a ewe gives birth to a quintet of lambs, but such a record goes down to the credit of a ewe on Mr A. Henderson's farm at Isla Bank (says the Otautau Standaid). The mother is an ordinary crossbred flock ewe. Four of the lambs were produced alive, and the fifth was still-born. Three of the quintet are now thriving well, the fourth, a weakly hyiib. having been knocked on the heat!. Lambing percentages in the district are everywhere expected to rule high. » The first batch of National Registration papers wei;e delivered in Stratford to-day by the Postal officials, and the public should note that they are under a heavy penalty for the safe return of the lilled-in forms to the Post Office or the Government Statistician by 9th November. The responsibility of securing forms and sending the information asked for by the Department rests entirely on the individual. It may be pointed out that the registration does not involve enlistment, nor i s it a substitution, for the present system ; those desirous of enlisting may obtain forms at the nearest Post Office. What the'Government want above anything else is a correct statement of the position of every man in the Dominion.,? No one need fear that he will suffer' unduly by so doing—rather will his circumstances receive more careful consideration by adopting a truthful attitude towards this very important document.

Engineers in England aro seriously discussing the possibility that the Lusitania may be raised from the ocean bed, says the Washington Times. She lies at a depth of 300 to 400 feet, on a bottom that is supposed to be hard enough to have prevented her becoming packed in mud and grown into the sea's floor. This is lit, many cases the greatest difficulty about raising a ship. The Lusitania and her cargo are estimated to weigh about 30.000 tons, which* is a greater weight than has ever been dragged up from the sea's bottom. Moreover, the depth at which she lies is, perhaps 100 feet greater than any at which divers have ever successfully operated. But it is suggested that greater power and bigger appliances might cope with the greater weight; while there have been recent improvements in diving paraphernalia which might make the work possible, despite the great depth. Especially is it claimed that a spherical diving machine has been perfected, in which men could go to much greater depths and still work, using artificial light to guide them.