LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 52, 5 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Labour journal says that the; rise of the price of milk in Welling- j ton and Oamaru to 6d a quart is a record. The second' of a series of weekly dances will be held in the Parish Hall on Wednesday evening, from 8 o'clock to 1 a.m. Five bankruptcies were registered in Palmerston North during May while for the same month last year only one insolvency was registered. The New Zealand Times says:—Some 80.000 signatures are borne by the petitions already presented to the House of Representatives seeking the closing of hotel bars at 13 p.m. during the currency of the war. The Hon. Dr. NcNab, when opening She Dunedin Winter Show indicated the probability of New Zealand having to face the contingency of the British War Office commandeering the whole of the output of cheese irom the Dominion for 1916-1917..

It is reported that damage to the extent of about £4O has been done in the Stratford cemetery by the action of some persons- in breaking glass globes on the graves. That the articles were deliberately damaged, is proved by the presence of stones inside the broken vessels. To many wole such sacrilege is very painful.

A meeting of delegates of the vaf* bus School Committees in the Stratford district will he held in the Stratford School at 7.30 o'clock this evening. The executive of the New Plymouth School Committees' Association wll attend and address the meeting on >i;o advisahility of committees Joining Iha Association.

King "George, who has made a munificent gift of £IOO,OOO to the Treasury for war purposes, is by no means the richest of European monarch's, for though he receives close upon £500,000 per annum, three-quar-ters of that sum has to be set aside for official expenses. The King of Italy receives £750,000, the Kaiser £920,000, and the Emperor of Austria £1,250,000 per. annum from the State, and the two latter, like the Tsar, have enonnous private incomes.

A house, the property of Mr 1 Wynn Brown, Fencourt, Cambridge, was struck by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm yesterday afternoon, fortunately it was empty at the time. The end of the house was cut off and the chimney shattered, the bricks being distributed about and pulverised. A pier lying alongside a. wire fence a lit tie distance away turned a complete somersault, and then scampered away. A man. mixing concrete "00 .varus away had his shovel kuocke 1 out of his band, but was not injured. The "Swandri," for riding or walking is the only coat on the market that is absolutely waterproof. Made of woollen texture, it is always warm and comfortable to wear, dries in a few minutes, and never cracks. Guaranteed waterproof two years. Sole nrents, E'mont Clothing Go. * I '" i If or Bronchial Roughs take i Woods' Uivat Peppermint (.are.

At the Migistrate's Court on Friday, judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following civil cases: Newton King (Mr Spence) v. Alexander Tosh £4l 18s Hd, costs £2 17s; Thomas Waite (Mr H. E. Lawrence) v. W. F. Hawke £lO 10s, £1 17s 6d; James and Coy (Mr P. Thomson) v. The Wanganui Carrying Coy £5 10s, £1 3s (3d; Cash Tailoring Coy (MiThomson) v. C. Wooding £6 6s, £1 6» 6d; F. L. S. Hitchcock (Mr E. S. Rutherfurd) v. F. Hill £3 3s 6d, 16s; F. L. S. Hitchcock (Mr Rutherfurd) v. M. Cronin £1 4s, 12s.

A certain busybody, who dearly loves to poke a rather soiled finger into anybody's pie (when he thinks it is quite safe to do so) was holding forth on the Railway Station platform this morning on the alleged imperfections of the "Stratford Evening Post." Heaven knows we possess many faults, but it was at least ungrateful of our two-faced "friend" to embellish them, because (with many professions of affectionate esteem, most amounting, in fact, to •"come-an-'ay-a-drink") tlrs person has not infrequently, with due obsequiousness, applied at on- office for early information which lie has then given out as his special perquisite. This morning, as usual, he did not quite know, or what he was talking about, ad one hitherto unnoticed listener promptly intimated that the "mouth-shooting" Herr Meddlesome wp' indulging in ought to absolutely onrr> full recognition, of his long-held • " urn to resemble a harp struck 1 lightning. Most people who knev. th" -Arties chortled.