LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 95, 24 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are tor westerly moderate .to strong winds prevailing. Expect changeable and showery weather. Barometer unsteady.—Bates, Wellington; : ,, ~ .'■ ,'.<•■ .

The Patriotic Market and Tea. Rooms conducted by the members ot the Ladies' Patriotic Committee on

Saturday, was in every way a great success. The proceeds will add considerably to the committee's funds.

On the subject of personal and domestic economy there is also much valuable and helpful advice in the July number of "Everylady's Journal." The usual practical departments for women are amply filled. "Life" for July is a heartening aswell as a picturesque number. There are many fine special articles in this issue dealing with various aspectf of life apart from the', war.

With the decrease in manual labor, the increase in the demand for farm implements, farm machinery, and motor cars, grows apace. Mr Newton King's Motor Garage and Machinery Department has, for months past, felt the need for expansion, so much so, that Mr King has now definitely decided to remove the whole of this department into more commodious premises. After due consideration, the site decided on, is the pant of the saleyards directly behind the County Hotel. The building will be, in concrete, and of such dimension.-; and up-to-dateness that tlie requirements of this part of the business should bo met for many years to come. Plans arc now being formed, and as soon as completed', the construction will ba commenced forthwith.

The action of landlords who permit their rents to accumulate in the knowledge that should the debtor, ill©; a petition in bankruptcy their claims would have preference, was criticised at a meeting of creditors held at Auckland last week. In submitted by the debtor, who was being examined, at the meeting, there was a claim for £45 for rent. One creditor remarked that at .& t .recent bankruptcy meeting there was a claim for rent of £2OO. The practice, he said, was very detrimental to other creditors, and he did not see why rent should be a preferential claim.. .Other creditors endorsed this view. The Official Assignee said legislation would be required to alter the position.

A very successful social and danee was tendered to Messrs MeCracken, Nicol and another man, who have volunteered for the front, in the Kahoui'i Bridge Hall on Thursday evening. Despite the inclemency of the weather, the hall was crowded, and a most enjoj %le evening was spent by all present. In the xmavojdable absence of Mr Sangster, Mr Wellington occupied the chair, and presented-leach of tV«> men. with a wristlet watch. During the evening, musical items were contributed by Messrs Rowe, Sullivan and Spriggings" (songs), 31iss Sullivan (song), and Miss Rowe (recitation). Card games were indulged in during the first part of the evening, and dancing was kept up till the early hours of the morning. Mrs Bianchi presided at the piano.

The quick-witted Cockney soldier has (says Mr Malcolm Ross, the New Zealand official war correspondent) a humor of his own, the Irishman has

a ready wit which never fails him, and there is the delightful humor of the Scots soldier with which lan Hay has made us so familiar. Again, the crisp, dry humor of the Canadian is a novelty in France. And hoav there has been added another blend, for the men from the Antipodes have certainly a humor and a slang of their own. Their definition of the various batches of volunteers that have' come out to fight is worth quoting. The first contingent became known as the "Tourists." They were out to see a bit of the world. Incidentally they would do any fighting that came along. And they v did it. Then came the "Dinkums"—the true fighting men they called themselves, "dinkum," signifies the very embodiment of all the virtues. There followed, the "Super-dinkums," the "War Babies," and the "Hard Thinkers,"the latter having i bought a great deal before they came. But even the "Hard Thinkers" are quite up to the mark, it will tax the ingenuity of the colonial "Tommy" to find appropriate names for the batches yet to come;j hut one may be sure that they will] do so.