LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 89, 21 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The cost to the Government of maintaining the Wanganui River during the past seven years was £11,250.

Tile name of the man arrested yesterday for an offence against a child is given as John Thomas Potter (not locker, as was stated in a paragraph appearing in our issue of yesterday). Accused is a well-known travelling “saw-doctor.”

At the Stratford Technical School, a class for students preparing for Matriculation and Public Service Senior examination will be opened on Monday evening next. 27th inst., at 7 o’clock. Miss Mickleson will conduct a class in dressmaking on Friday evening from 7.30 to 9.30.

A serious accident befel AJr Leslie Wallace, of the local staff of the H.B. Clothing Factory in a simple manner last evening. Wallace, who is a member of the Fire Brigade, left his room to ,do some evolutions on the trapeze rings, and as he took hold and commenced to swing lie sustained a dislocation of the left shoulder. The unfortunate fellow was attended to by Dr. Steven, and to-day was conveyed to New Plymouth to undergo X-ray treatment, as it is feared there is a fracture of the bone.

The Mail states; Mr Jas. Edwin arrived in Waitara on Saturday with a mob of sheep which he had brought down from Taumatamame and Pioi, off the properties respectively of Messrs Black Bros, and A. W. Budge Their appearance was the subject of comment, and on enquiry it was stated that the mob, being fat and heavy, and the weather hot, had been nursed all the way. Mr G. Dixon, the manager at Pioi, especially was proud of the stock off the place under his charge, and we think he had every reason to be so. i

Some old residents state that the autumn of 1889 was drier than the present season in North Taranaki. The year referred to was that of tire big bush fires around Stratford. j

A question of considerable importance to chemists and the public generally was decided at Auckland on Saturday morning at the Magistrate’s Court by Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M., namely, that where there is no allnight pharmacy, any chemist may supply urgent prescriptions or surgical appliances after the hour fixed by requisition for closing fie ''hups at night.