LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 23, 2 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Recruiting Board yesterday decided to recommend Cabinet that the separation allowance should apply to families of five, instead of families, of four, with 3s 6d a week for each child. '

A general meeting of all interested in tins r Soldiers Day, Carnival will he held at the .Patriotic-rooms, Broad ,-. ay, on Wednesday evening, at 8, o’clock, when the balancq-shce-.disclosing the financial result of the Carnival will be presented. ,

At the last'sitting of tlife Supreme Court at Palmerston North, Mr dustico Edwards heard a Fqxtou slander action in which Dr. Manrll sued Dr. Kerr Hisiop for £SOO damages,’ alleging'that he had been called a German. His Honor held that plaintiff had not proved the utterance, and found for defendant with costs to sca.e.

It is reported that an ■ Inchchuhn farmer lias a 60-acre crop of turnips which he estimates will yield 30 tons to the acre. Averaging the price at £1 5s per ton, the gross return would amount to £2250, which shows that given the right quality of land, turnip growing is' a very profitable occupation.

A Christchurch 1 message ways 1 that fifty Chinese were found last night playing fahtan in Southwark Street in a Chinese'cookhouse, and were fined yesterday- in sums ranging from £25 to £10; and a lot at 40s, for being on the premises. There were so main Chinese that the magistrate hold the court out in the open. The Celestials appeared to enjoy the sunshine and paid up cheerfully.

Between the present time and tie middle of August one motor company in New Zealand has under < rder to arrive 1200 motor-cars, valued at £IIO,OOO. The Kurow, which -eachod Wellington from San Francisco recently, brought 300, and 100 are on the Moana. The Dongarra, which has arrived at Auckland from New York, brought 150, and.' between now and August 650 more are coming to hand.

A Swiss girl who has been in Berlin uce the outbreak of war, recently wrote to her former schoolmistress about personal matters. The mistress noticed a number of misspelled words in the letter, and, knowing that the girl was well educated, she tried the experiment of putting together all the misplaced letters, and found that they thus formed the sentence :— “Things are going badly here. We have not enough to eat”-—in the Genevan dialect.

Mr John Leydon, of Auckland, has just received a couple of interesting Gallipoli relics from his grandson, Warrant Officer 15. J. Keates, ol the Australian forces. They are a Turkish shrapnel shell and a Turkish bayonet. The shell, which weighs about 161 b, fell within a lew feet of WarrantOfficer Keates, but failed to explode, and he was able to dig it out of the ground. In construction, it is almost identical with the British 18-pr. shrapnel shell, except that the time fuse is of brass instead of aluminium. The bayonet is a truly formidable weapon, rather light in the blade, and fully 18iu. long, not counting the hilt. So far as shape goes, it might easily be mistaken for the bayonet used upon the new British short ride, lake the shell, it bears various inscriptions in Arabic, ami, in addition, the Sultan's monogram is inscribed on the blade. A close examination, however, lads to reveal the words “Made in Germany,” or anything to that effect. Kmpioyment for Wounded Soldiers. —Men wanted for military employment to release staff for active service. Men wanted for tree planting at Rotorua. Postmaster for Charleston wanted, further particulars Iromihe Secretary. Stratford Patriotic Committee, x

Arrived at London—Zealandia. Dt panures—For Melbourne, Westmeath; for Auckland, Waitomo. A meeting to consider the formation of a card club lias been called for 7.30 oclock on Wednesday evening at Sindh's rooms (late Elders). The quantity of butter in cool store nf the various gazetted grading ports throughout the Dominion on April 30, 1916, was 92,297 -boxes. The total in store on April 30, 1915, was 59,798 boxes, and on. April 30, 1914, 88,062 boxes. At Pembroke Road School on Friday evening next the first of a series of fortnightly socials will be held. These entertainments promise to bo a great success, and visitors may be sure of a good night’s amusement on the opening night.

The sum of over £7OO was netted as the result of the Soldiers Day Carnival in Stratford on Easter Monday. The amount is well above the expectations of the executive, who, naturally, feel highly delighted at the success of their combined efforts.

A meeting of members of the Auzac Minstrel troupe will be held on Thursday evening, at 7.15, at His Majesty’s Theatre, to arrange details of a monster minstrel entertainment and dam-e to be held in the Town Hall at an early date. '

At Riversdale, Inglewood, the observer (Miss X. Trimble) reports that during the month of April the rainfall registered was 7.04 inches. Rain fell as follows .---6l!i, .0-5; 7th, 3.23; Bth, .03; 12th, .02; 14th, .41; 15th, 1.44; 16th, .15; 17th, .48; 22nd, .01; 23rd } .87; 29th, 1.22; 30th, .03.

A London cablegram states that the Missionary Society has an unexpected balance of £7OOO, obviating the curtailment of the Society’s work. Until three months ago the deficit amounted to £26,000, but the response by congregations to an appeal for funds retrieved the situation.

At. the Soldiers Day Carnival Mrs Silk won a coffee service in a guessing competition at Mrs Hogg’s stall, ami Mrs Carter (Midhirst) won an oak dock at the same stall. Two umbrel-i las anil a military 'great Coat, ■ which , were found on the Vroi.inds, may- be recovered by the owners on application, to ■ the horn sec. (Mr 11. Masters); ' r»-

It "was ■ announced by, his Excellency the' Governor at the soldiers, dinner m Auckland on Tuesday night that .the New Zealand hospital ship - Marama had just arrived for the third time at Southampton,' with 580. wounded^ and invalided Imperial soldiers from Salonika. His Excellency added that our hospital ships were considered to be ■the* most efficient in the. Mediterran-

Dr. Blackmore, in his annual report on the tuberculosis institutions, states (says the Christchurch Press) that the war has had a marked influence on the supply and price of drugs used in the Sanatorium and Hospital. For a time tuberculin was unprocurable, but it is now being obtained in sufficient , quantities from an English firm. Most, , of the modern drugs for .reducing , u . temperature, relieving pain, j . lessening cough, are unprocurable. j One drug for which £4 per lb bo paid a short time ago,, used to cost 4s fid per lb, and now it cannot be bought at all.

Under the heading ‘‘Coming and Going,” the “New Zealand Railwny Review” says:—“Several more of the boys and men, married at that, have left loved ones, homes, and billets to don the uniform, and, by the way, pay for buttons, badges, spurs, etc.,- and be bled generally by canteen holders and shopkeepers before they bleed for their country. Several others have returned to their homes and having tasted of the sweets( ?) of war, are not. anxious to return for more. Cecil Barker minus an arm. Cecil Nicholson with punctured lungs, .W. Kitto (who had' to resign to get away) with a lump of shrapnel in his foot, and others in a questionable state of health, all deserving honour, and a fair billet. The department’s part of the war starts here. Will it be loyal to those loval men?”

A sad farce tyas gone through in a Sydney court recently (says the “Bulletin”), when a Mrs Taylor, whose husband had died from the effects of a fall from the Ferris Wheel at the White City, claimed for £4UU under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. This is what she got instead of the money she needed:—“Judge Docker, after visiting the White City, said that the accident did not arise out of Taylor’s employment. He was oiling the axle of the Ferris Wheel, which was out of action at the time. Taylor was a stoker, and it was no part of his duty to oil the wheel. That was the engineer’s duty. His Honor would, therefore, have to give a verdict for tlie defendants. He was very sorry, and if he could have found materia* on which to act otherwise he have geen glad of it. He company would generously of the {•eased, who was ami eHie'eiit employee pany." If the “Bullet in” it ■ ii'u and Dill that i ’ p -in inch • eu! are ;’. i■ o 111 ju•ns■ >ti o i !M ■, blit it 1 h ' , and no incut Bin;her y \ io!!v. ?*’;i pi to ins !i|