LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 53, 8 February 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the school concert in the Town Hall on Friday next, a number of patriotic songs, most of them new to the Stratford, public, will be given by the children. The greater part of the programme is made up of children’s items, but MrF. Foley will provide an attractive ‘Turn” at the close. A large audience is expected.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states: Mr 1? id dell, S.M.. gave reserved judgment to-day in the proceedings by the Labour Department against six waterside workers who were alleged to have become parties to a strike by workers engaged in discharging the steamer Dalmore, who refused to work for less than - 2s per hour, which rate eventually had to bo paid by Scales and Co. The Magistrate said the case was similar to that of Gohns v. The Auckland Waterside Workers’ Union, hut in that case both parties were bound by an awn id. In the present case the employers were not parties to an award. The defendants’ acts came within the definition of a strike, but as the employers were not parties to an award, the defendants were merely guilty of a breach of contract and could not bp convicted of an offence under section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The informations were dismissed.

A large sunfish was captured at Stewart Island last week, and Mr W. Traill' (Ulva) reports that it is what is known as tlie oithagoriseus moln This ogre of the deep seas is the enemy of the eel, and it was through the finding of larval eels in the stomatih of a sunfish that the babyhood of eels was solved for naturalists. The measurements of the sunfish captured at Stewart Island are: Length, Bit Bin, and girth 9ft 9in. .

Among tlie members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals there is one who is not only imbued with the patriotic spirit, but remembers also the minor duties ot citizenship, and writes to the secretary: “As I expect to be shortly leaving for the front, f would esteem it a favor it you could keep my membership good until such time as I return.”

Discussing the usefulness ol a knowledge of Latin, Professor .Macnul! m Brown said at the University Senate on Tuesday that for the study of modern languages—French, Spanish, mm Italian—Latin was necessary, though not so essential for English. 'I he scientific man also must have some knowledge of .Latin, otherwise he would be unable to make proper combinations of very many scientific terms. Some of the present combinations ol Greek and Latin in science were awful. It was a pity that the scientists who had made these new words had -not kept to some language they knew. “They do not know any language,” remarked another professor.