LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 71, 29 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Sydney cablegram states that the potato market collapsed owing to lower Tasmanian quotations. The price fell to £6 per ton.

I lie Toko Settlors’ Annual Sports meeting will be held on Thursday, March 23.

The Ohura Advocate says there is a ease of infantile paralysis at Niho Aiho and it is freely rumoured that two other districts have cases

A man named Tregoniug was convicted at Waimate on Tuesday for shooting a tame hoar, the property of Mr Morrison. Tte alleged that ho mistook it for a wild one (says the Advertiser). He was ordered to pay £2 10s, the value of the animal.

At a meeting of shareholders of the Stratford Co-operative Building Society. held last evening, the sum of £llsO was disposed of by ballot. In the first group, Mr W. B. Purchas, of Christchurch, drew £300; Mr H. G. Wake, of Hokitika, £3OO, and Mr E. Evans, of Auckland, £l5O. In the second group Mr C. E. Rogers, of Bell Block drew £IOO. 1

At swimming tests/at Petone the other day, Mr T. Shields made the statement that 2000 people lost their lives every ten years from drowning. The great majority of these, he said, could he saved if they understood the elements of swimming, while still more might he saved if people would only study the art of life-saving.

“You can see sheep dying from the train as you pass through,” was the remark of a recent visitor to the South Island to a Dannevirke “News” reporter in referring to the drought in North Canterbury. “Others that are not quite so bad get up. stagger a yard or two, and fall down again. There was not a vestige of grass to be seen on the parched paddocks,” said the same, informant.

Writes the London correspondent of the Wellington Post The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher in a letter to The Times points out that labor organisation, which has done so much for the condition of the workers, is based entirely on the principal of compulsion, and he expresses surprise therefore that the Trade Union Congress should have objected to compulsory service for the

During the last session of Parliament it was stated that the Covernment would arrange to call a meeting of representatives of all friendly societies in the Dominion to discuss matters affecting their welfare. At the district meeting of the Manchester Unity 1.0.0. F., held at Wellington last week, it was decided to approach the Minister with a view to ascertaining when the conference would be held.

The Stanley Road School was coni-' pletely destroyed by fire last evening. The tire started in the shelter shed,! and owing to the prompt actions ofj the neigh hours a considerable amount of tilt* furniture was saved. When discovered, the lire had a fair hold, but owing to there being no supply ol water available, it was impossible to cope with the outbreak. A girl was cleaning the school at the time of the fire, but no theory can be put forward as to the origin of the outbreak.

A destitute family called forth a display of sympathy at the Dunedin Police Court. A man was charged with failing to join the schooner Aratapu at Lyttelton without reasonable cause after having signed on. It was explained that with his wile and two children he had arrived in Dunedin absolutely destitute, and bad bad to be provided for. \\ lien asked to explain why he bad not joined the vessel the man showed signs oi breaking up, ana in entering a conviction and ordering the payment of Court costs (TsL the presiding Magistrate (.Mr M iddowson) said he woidd pay the amount himself. Sub-1 nspector Bmberg, however, announced that the amount was already in hand, having been collected “round the table.” When you apply liniments and lotions RheumaiLm, Gent, Sciatica, and Lumbago do not leave you. They simph loosen their hold for a tine'. To get rid of these dread diseases you must drive the uric acid from the blood. RIiKLMO does it Ibal’s why it cure;. Ps (id and -!s Od per boltlc.

A London shipping cable states that the Ostejley has arrived. I be construction of the city railway in Sydney commences in April, and "ill take five years to complete ("stages a cablegram to-day). ! A Melbourne cablegram states that the embargo recently placed on the Remington typewriters lias been lifted. At,the special adjourned meeting of ibe Stratford Borough Council last evening, the electric light proposals . were discussed in committee. A concert and dance will be held in the Midhirst Public Hall on Friday, -March 5, as a send-off to Pnvates C. .Jones and C. Treves. i i M eathor forecast.—The indications are for easterly moderate to strong winds, and backing by east to north, increasing haze and cloudiness for change. Barometer falling.—Bates, I Wellington. | The miners’ union offices at Fimistnn, Kalgoorlie, were destroyed by dynamite. The Press Association slate;' that it is believed to be the work of Austrians, who resented the union causing their dismissal. There were no casualties. An Auckland Press Association telegram states that the express I which left for Wellington at 8.50 last j night collided with some waggons at j Pukckohe. One waggon of the exj press was derailed, and the buffers of 1 other waggons damaged. Practically I no damage was done to the engine or j carriages and no passengers were :n- ---| jnred. The express resumed its journey at midnight. Owing to a break in the large tooth wheel of the log hauler, McCluggage’s , mill at Pohokura has been idle for a few days. The mill will be in working order again within the next day or so, a new tooth wheel, weighing four cwt., having been cast at Harkness’ foundry. The work necessitated the men in the moulding shop being on duty two days and nights, and flu machining of the wheel took about a day. They made a good job of it, and the product of the men’s labor would be creditable to any of the big foundries in the Dominion. ; A feature of the R.M.S. Niagara, ! when in port at Auckland, was the \ strictness with which the rule is obser- ■ ved that no one shall board the vessel, passenger or not. without a special 1 gangway pass. A Sydney passenger, 1 travelling “de luxe.” the price of j whose ticket was over £IOO, went ashore and be was not able to board the vessel for the purpose of securing some forgotten jewels from his cabin until he procured one of the special gangway passes. The work of disinfecting Napier still continues daily, the streets, baths, Municipal Theatre, trams, stables, and all borough property are being done daily with the City Council’s own mixture, the strength of which is 640 to I. Speaking to a Telegraph reporter the Mayor said that if all shopkeepers swilled their shops down with water diluted with lysol it would help to a great extent to purify the town. He said that churches and, all public halls should be done, but those in authority i did not like the idea of disinfect.ng their churches, on account of the smell. “It is better to stand the smell than to allow the dreaded infantile paralysis to become an epidemic in Napier,” concluded the Mayor. Captain Donald Sim son, writes as follows to the New Zealand Times: Sir —At last the public are taking an interest in the welfare of the soldier, but why? One section wish to close the bars early and save the poor soldier from ruin—the other side with inspired letters want to save and prevent the soldier from insult. Both sides write anonymously. Both have onlv one reason, the welfare and happiness ol the soldier. What hypocrisy ! Leave the soldier out of toe controversy—fight it openly over your genuine signatures. Go to your Goiornment and members who are interested in the liquor trade. Bring m legislation to compel the monopoly to compensate the licensee for taking away a lag part of what bo is paying rent and goodwill for. Give the men canteens in the camps. Stait soldier canteens in the town under proper military control, where the men can meet their pals—have a drink (good quality) in comfort-let the profits go to the men-where thev won’t bo killed with kindness by the shirker who thinks by shouting for a soldier that bo is doing bis bit f„r the Empire. Leave the soldier • ul <! ins beer alone; write and appeal for free tram rides for him; pensions bv right, etc. But, no; you are not concerned with those things. Help t„ cud the war by going yourself and save the poor soldier.