LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 57, 12 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Stratford Borough •Council will be hold this evening.

The Stratford District High School re-opens to-morrow after the winter holidays.

The annual social in connection with the Toko Settlers' Association will be held in the Coronation Hall on Thursday evening next.

The weekly dance which has hitherto been held in the Parish Hall; will in future be held in the Forester's Hal! every Wednesday evening, coinmencing on 1 Ith inst.

■lt is understood. that oyer a luUi " died and forty applications have been received for the..position of manager to the Fanners' Go-operatiye Organisation .Society:

A large deal in cattle was made by a well-known Hawke's Bay pastoralist, who sold a mob of 551 bullocks to a Wellington company at the splendid price of £2l per head.

The petitions in connection with the closing of hotels at 6 p.m. and antishouting, containing in all some ■IO,OOO names, will he before the M to Z Committee on Wednesday and Thurs-

The. Dunedin street collection on Friday for the dependents of men lost id tlie naval battle realised £SOO. Over £SOOO is already to hand in Dunedin. Sargood, Son and Ewen gave £IOOO (£250 for each of the tonicities). , ;,

The Telegraph Department made a start this morning, (.states the Press Association at Wellington), with the training of girls as operators, with a class of thirty. As soon as they have fairly broken the ice, classes will be opened in Auckland, Christclmrch, and Dunedin.

The Stratford Ladies' Patriotic Committee acknowledge with thanks the loan of a piano for the euchre party by Mr G. W .Mills, and the sum of £2 from Mrs Crawshaw for the cake fund. The competition for set of brushes on Saturday was won by Mrs H. Good.

A Palmcrston lady was stuck the other day for a dye. (Dye's couM be obtained in any quantity from Germany before the war). On the advice of a "hello" girl she tore tlw sides off a telephone directory and poured hot water on them. She set her best silk blouse afloat on the liquid with all her hopes, and the fabric ivhen dried presented a beautiful salmon pink. Directories are not issued often enough to make telephone blouses the fashion.

Thursday's Gazette declares the fol-j lowing firms to be enemies under the war regulations :—Charles Zimmerman | and Co. (Chemicals), Ltd., manufacturing chemists; Merck and Co., manufacturing chemists; E. Merck, ! manufacturing chemist; A. Wulfing and Co., manufacturing chemists; the Sanatogcn Co., manufacturing chem-! ists; the Forraaroint Co., mamitaetiu-; ing chemists; Edward Jacob, manufacturers' representative, Melbourne. A gruesome, yet interesting relic Otj the Gallipoli campaign, has been re-j ceived by Mr Campbell Jackson from Lieutenant R. Wood in the shape of a "kukri" and its sheath. This is the useful insi-rument which invested the doings of the Ghurkas with so much interest. It is in the form of an ordinary pruning hook, a weighty, uglylooking customer to run up against in the hands of tiie fighting Ghurkas. The gruesomeness ol the relic is in the appearance of the blade, which is thickly crusted with blood. The blade was iu use a moment before being found, the Ghurka owner having been fatally shot. The leather sheath for the "kukri" has pokets for a small knife and oilier field accoutrements, and bears the authorities' stamp and a number. For Children's Hacking Gb'.gh. Woods' Great, Peppermint Cure.

Weather Forecast —The indications ;:■'■■' for easterly winds, moderate to strong, backing by east to north, and freshening. There is a prospect of fair weather, but with increasing haze

and cloudiness. The barometer has a fading tendency—Pomberton, "Wellington.

In his Worship the Mayor's remarks at the opening ceremony of the municipal chambers on Thursday, the figures as to the cost of the building were slightly misleading in the report. The total amount of money available £10,750, made up of £DOOO loan mOUgjWl and £1750 from the insurance on the old building.

Writing to friends on the West Coast. Lieutenant Seddon, M.P., says ••Just before we left our Oasis camp we had an inspection by the Prince of Wales, lie is a diminutive, but all who know say he is a good sort. After the review he passed down the road to inspect the trenches. We were all along the road, and I had my snap Camera ready, when an electrifying message reached me: 'The Prince of Wales wants to see Mr Seddon.' I jumped on the adjutant's horse, and galloped to obey my first Royal command, but alas! I arrived just as the Prince was getting into his car. I was very untidy, so perhaps it was just as well for the . . ince that I didn't shock him with n: colonial uncouthness."

Fishing founds off the Great Barrier Island, ih*ch have not previously been fishe' by a trawler, says the ".Vow Zop' ' 1 Herald," are now being developed f he steam trawler Baroona, one of 1..0<-sr,s Sanford's Auckland fleet. The trawler was placed in commission at the end of last week, and returned on Friday with a catch equal to 280 baskets of about 801 b each. On Monday the trawler brought in a second haul of about 4CO baskets. These fish were taken in about twenty fathoms, and, with few exceptions, were all large fish. A suggestion has been made that large fish, suitable for smoking, are not taken by trawling, but the experience of the past few days has shown that in shallow water the trawl will secure, fish as large as are ever taken on a line.

A curious sequel is reported to have followed upon the publication in Saturday's issue of "The # Christchureh Press," of a paragraph giving some details regarding a method of bomb throwing devised by Mr J. S. Wearn of Christchurch. On Saturday night, while Mr Wearn was absent from his home for an hour or.so, some person or persons, effected an entrance and made a fairly thorough search of the premises. The fact that no; money or valuables were taken, and thatsealed envelopes were opened seem to lend colour to the theory that the interloper was searching for plans, or information regarding the bomb throwing device. As the information regarding Mr Wearn's system had been forwarded by post to Wellington the search of his house proved fruitless.

On Friday; 2nd inst., the auxiliary vessel Albatross arrived at Hamilton from Auckland, with 90 tons of cargo, and there is much jubilation amongst business men in the Waikato over the fact. It is now proposed to run «. monthly service between Onehunga and Hamilton, and if more cargo is offering, to start fortnightly trips later oh. The saving on benzine and similar classes of goods is 25s a ton by water. It is anticipated that the Albatross will eventually take up the regular trade between New 'Plymouth, Onehunga, Kawhia, Raglan and Port Waikato. Another important feature connected with the service is the probability of opening up a regular direct service with Sydney. The steamer Wallsend will leave the New South Wales capital in a few days with phosphates for New Plymouth, and will then go on to Waikato Heads to load timber for Sydney..