LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 54, 7 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—— - The mails which left New Zealand on April 13th arrived in London on June 4. (According to private advices reoeiy P d in Wellington there lias been an o‘licr land slide in the Panama C'ai nl

A dance will be held, in the schoolroom, Tuna, on Friday evening, proceeds to go to the Wounded funds.

A Melbourne cablegram states that Wallaroo, a former winner of the Australian Cup, has been "sold to an Indian buyer for 000 guineas.

The arrival and reception in Sydney of Lord Kitchener on his visit to the Antipodes eight years go will bo shown at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening.

The publicans of Victoria have raised the price of liquors. The minimum price of whisky is 7d per nobbier, with o - without aerated waters. Spirits costing over 30s per gallon will be sold at 9d per nobbier.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states: At the. Supreme Court William James Irwin was sentenced to five years’ hard labour on a charge of incest, and two years additional on charges of theft from launches in the harbour.

A Press Association telegram Lorn Auckland states that Henry Johnson, a married man, was killed instantly by the collapse of a derrick used * for transferring cement from the steamer Maburangia to the steamer Westralia.

A novel music hall turn was recently billed at San Francisco. Two eraMi teams of picked motor mechanics W'‘"c matched at putting together on the stage the parts of a “Buick” and “Oldsmobile” car. The Buick tam won with 2min„ 57sec. to spare. The “turn” was a great success.

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert St .nit, at the Napier Supreme Court v js-vv-clay, congratulated the district tit;.-1 there were no serious offences.. it c vas gratifying to find in such troublesome times that crime had not inci eased in New Zealand. In some districts it had almost disappeared.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for northerly moderate to strong winds freshening, and backing by north to west. Expect showery and changeable weather. r i he Barometer has a falling tendency.—Bates, Wellington.

The Athehic arrived at Wellintgon yesterday, bringing 91 returned s 'talers and three officers—Major Waite. D. 5.0., Lieutenants Cotton and Lee. The majority of the men belonged to Uie mkin ’body and'had been hospital cases in 'England. They had greatly bonefitted by the voyage. Several are cases of permanent disablement. The men were accorded a civic reception n. the afternoon.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile wish to draw the attention of the public to the sale of land, stock, farm implements, sundries, and household furniture they are holding on account of the estate of Chamney and Swan, by order of the Public Trustee, at the homestead, Tarata, on Friday, June 16th. Full particulars will he found in our advertising columns on page 8 of this issue. J

Discussing the problems of war-tini' morality, the Bishop of Birmingham told an Evening News that the ancient notion that woman is the “weaker vessel” has been completely disproved. “Mail is sexually the! weaker,” said Dr. Bussell Wakefield, “but it is perhaps not surprising if, as my clergy tell me, there is abroad in the land a certain moral laxity. Directly you take away the married men you set up considerable dangers, and you do not lessen them by leaving the women at home fairly well off.”

The engineering establishments of Christchurch have agreed to pay thenemployees a war bonus of three shillings a week, reports the Press Association. This decision has been reached as the result of a conference between representatives of the Ironmasters Association and the Engineers’ Union. Over 900 men are affected by the ag) cement, and they include fitters, turners, brass finishers, metal workers’ assistants, moulders, coach-workers, maclunists/and furnacemen. The new agreement will take effect as from June 1. continuing until November 30, when u will come up for revision. The bonus will be paid to all employe’e of 21 years of age and over, but apprentices are not included in the arrangement.

M Perth recently, a “German taint libel” was decided before the Supreme Court. This was the suit of Henry Gervase Shugg, schoolmaster, against the All-British Society, for allegeo libel published in the “All British Newspaper.” Plaintiff’s case was that, I nder the heading “German School Teachers,” the paper called upon the Minister for Education to deal with schools in which there was any German taint, and subjoined a list of State school teachers whose names were alleged to suggest their origin. Shugg’s name appeared in the list, and, belonging to an old Cornish family, be, failing an adequate apology, look proceedings. Defendant endeavored to show that Shugg was, or should" he, a German name. The jury found for plaintiff, with damages at £75.