LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 10 May 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A London cablegram states that in the case of the Mangaone Oilfields versus the Herman Wiger Manufacturing Co.', New- Zealand, the appeal was dismissed with costs. A commencement was made this morning with the work of asphalting the footpath in front of the new Municipal Buildings, It is Mr Sullivan's intention to have the footpaths completed before the opening of the building. An Auckland Press Association tele-; gram states that the annual communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge was opened ;fhis -afternoon; Bro. J. i i Dougall, Grand-master, presiding. .The annual reports showed that the" adcunui la ted funds were £11,022; of 1 which £27,452 belongs to %he annuity fund, and £BSIO to the'tKpeeial' wai-> belev'olent fund. Bro'. Oliver Nicholson, .Auckland, Was elected Grand-master. Some confusion respecting the Christian names of a witness was cans ed in the Auckland Police Court the other day (says the "New Zealand Herald"). First they were pronounced by the police as "William Venus,* 1 The unusual nature of the second name caused the magistrate, Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., to utter an exclaimaLion ol Surprise. The names were then given by a solicitor, after consulting his [Vipers, as "William Venice." Finally/after further, searching, it war found that '.the lyurie's T of tM'witness were "William Va'nis." , i ,To givo some idea; of-the X'asf imra'ensitics of space, Mr Clement Wragge stated in his lecture in Wei lirigton oii Saturday that, while I'gnt, travelling at the rave of 186,000 mile* a 'second, takes 8J minutes to travel the 93'millions of miles from the •• ini to the'earth, it takes 41 i years to taa vel to the 'earth from the outside rpointer star of the Southern Cross. which is the? next nearest the sun. From some suns, he added, light takes thousands of years to reach the earth , and astronomers know that there arc suns so far away that their light has not yet reached the earth. If then was a railway lino from the earth to the outer point of the Southern Cross, said Mr Wragge, at Id per 100 nubs. a railway ticket there would cost 700 millions sterling—the amount of \ the British debt before the war-and 200 millions more; and, at sixty miles an hour it would take the traveller 41 million years to get there. He wished, for the sake of the. human race, that -the Kaiser would take an excursion ' ticket to that star, and when he got l there stop there. (Laughter -and ap- ' plause). A few of the public are still T ery sceptical and cannot grasp the fact that ! so many prominent singers and actors, t many business, clerical and other profes[l sional men and women write spontane- ■ ously in praise of Fluenzol as a gargle 1 entirely m a ftpint f>f-gratitude. Gargle { for throats and Swallow for Influenza. For Catarrh, sniff up liquid Fluenzol.