LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 14 April 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A London cablegram states that in the Sliugsby case, an appeal has been lodged with the House of Lords.

The usual sitting of the Stratford Magistrate's Court was held this morning before Justices, the business being merelv formal.

The weekly patriotic market and tea rooms will be conducted by the members of the Ladies' Patriotic Committee to-morrow.

The annual meeting of the Stratford Golf Club will be held in Xewton King's offices, Broadway, this evening at 8 o'clock.

The eleventh annual meeting of members, of the Taranaki Fanners' Mutual Fire Insurance Association will be held at.Eltham on the 29th April, at 2 p.m.

The Stratford Christy Minstrels are rejoicing in the addition to their ranks of a celebrated member of the theatrical profession in the person of My Leo Asians, who is now residing in Stratford. Mr Askins did the Fuller circuit in Australasia as a star entertainer and shadowgraphist, with much success. His wqrfc will form part of the second half of the .programme at Toko on Tuesday night,. . '

An Australian soldier, who is' '<vt present in Gisborne on final 'leave; mentioned a few days ago that in -he Australian camps preference in pi of motions to non-comiiiissioned 'rank is given to returned soldiers aga'irf' \ reparing for the front. He stated 'clftW all non-commissioned officers who bad, not seen active service were deprived of their raid; some weeks ago, and replaced by the veterans of Gallipoll.

At the Salvation Army Hall on.'Sim-j day afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Major ) Toomer the Divisional Commander of, the Salvation Army Central Division,.! will talk on "The Salvation .Army in the Camps' and for the men at the Front." The meeting will be presided, over by the Mayor, ,(Mr J. W. Boon) and men in khaki are especially invited,, with members of .patriotic, committees and all others interested to attend. Major Toomer is highly spoken of j as a capable platform speaker; and one well authorised to deal with the, subject in hand in a' most interesting manner.

. The Stratford Acclimatisation Society has been notified that an open season for imported game: (pheasants and Californian quail),'ducks and pukako will be gazetted from Ist May. Imported game may be shot from Ist May to 31st July, and native game only during the months of May and June. The season has been very favorable for game breeding, and pheasants and quail are reported in good numbers in the back country. The local Society anticipates licenses to be taken out on a fairly large scale. Licenses will be available in Stratford at an earlv date.

The Salvation Army announce the visit to Stratford on Friday next of the W'anganui Silver Band, which combination is comprised of some '2B players, and which is in good repute in Wanganui. The band will be under the command of Staff-Captain Thurkettle a capable musician, who plays a clarionette. The proceeds are in aid of New Homes for the Children of Fallen Soldiers, a very worthy object and one meriting the support of all. Tjya programme will consist of selections, marches, etc. and will conclude with a powerfully pathetic item entitled "The Bushman's Revenge," giving a chance for the band to show its ability wityi such old favorites as "Nearer -My God to Thee," and other well-known items.

When the tug Dunedin drew near to the Antarctic expeditionary ship Aurora in the Southern Ocean, the first enquiry for news was: "Is it all well with the Old Country? We have not heard for seventeen months."

This was in reference to the war, and the tug' supplied particulars. The next message was a personal one from Mi' Hooke, wireless operator on the Aurora. He enquired for news of his brother, who went to the front with 'the Australians. His brother was dead, but the operators on the tug could not find it in their hearts to wireless back that message to the man who had just escaped from the horrors of ice-packed polar seas. So the message was not sent, until the letter containing the sad news was put on hoard.

The .Minister for Internal Affairs has no; 'ii'd Acclimatisation Societies that ltawks are to be protected this year. The Stratford Society wired a strong protest to the Minister against hawks being protected in this district. While i t may he desirable for the protection of hawks in, say rabbit or pest-infested districts, such a regulation in this district is most undesirable. It is probable that an amendment to the Act will be made in the coming session of Parliament, to lift the protection from hawks in districts, where so desired. TJnlefcs some such provision is made there is bound to be an outcry from many acclimatisation districts throughout the Dominion, against protecting tiie harrier of the air.

In discussing the matter of the increased price of drugs last week, an Auckland chemist was asked if this increase were likely to impose great hardship on the poorer classes. "Xo,' lu.' : , replied, "it need not necessarily atfect them very greatly, because there are so many cheaper and quite as efficacious substitutes. That is a point it would be very wo 1 ! for doctors to bear in mind in m king out prescriptions," he added. "Often and often a poor woman will come in .with a prescription for a powder, for instaice, costing a shilling, when she could have had one just as effective for threepence. M: ''ctirs undoubtedly take into consideration their patients' finance-;, but ethers again do not, and it would help greatly at the present time if they would prescribe cheaper drugs wherever possible to do so." 1 imiMMpwi l mi—