The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 10, 10 August 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Cardiff Co-operative Dairy Co. has decided to purchase good quality j properly prepared veils at 2s (id each. | A Press Association message iromj Wellington yesterday stated that the dead body of Ellen Roberts, an elderly woman, who escaped from the Ohiro Home, had been found in the artificial lake in the Central Perk. 1 i Another death from cerebro-spmal meningitis has occurred at Trentham.| General Henderson states there are no other cases in either of tho big camps, 1 except one suspected case .at Tren-, tham. Tho Magistrate’s Court at Hokitika was engaged for a full day in hearing two charges arising out ol neighbors , quarrels at South Spit. '1 o emphasise, tho warmth of feeling in the locality' among the parties, a witness stated that the Spit had been dubbed “\er-j dun,” and his home had been nicknamed “Hill 60,” to signify tho hot time they were having there; j A correspondent of a southern paper writes: A farmer not a. hundred miles from Lauder, Otago, offered his wheat cheque of a hundred acres ol wheat to his rabhiter for has raLhit cheque, hut the offer was refused with scorn. The above is not fiction, but an absolute fact. Trappers have been making 1 CIO a month—lO.Vd a pair on the fence being the handsome remuneration. The raffle for the Studehaker car presented by Mr Newton King, was drawn by the Mayor of New Plymouth at the Town Hall last evening. The first ticket drawn was “a blank” the ticket hearing the number not having been sold. On another ticket being drawn, the winner proved to be Mr C. Sorenson, of &mart Bead. Ihe tickets sold numbered 7092 (4852 at N*w Plymouth and 2719 at Stratford). Tho profit is expected to bo about CSSO. The number of the winning ticket was 5899.

The fourth of the series of concerts conducted by the members of St. Andrew’s Church choir was held in St. Andrew’s Hall last night. Dr. Stevens presided, and the hall was packed to the doors. The concert was successful, and the musical and vocal items were much appreciated by the audience. The programme was as follows: Songs -Miss .Milner, Mr. H. LI. Letts, Mrs Edmondson, Miss Phillips, Mr Rowe, -Miss Edwards. Mr Tissiman; vocal quartette Messrs Tissiman. North, Thomson and Betts; recitation. Miss Howe; pmnoloite solo, Miss Evans.

Though we have on several occasions answered the question “M hen does spring commence” it comes in again (says the Dtuiedin Star.) Our reply is in this form; “Taking dune 21 as mid-winter, and allotting three months to each of the four seasons, winter must be the period of U weeks that has June 21 in the middle six weeks and a half prior to and six weeks and a half prior to and six weeks and a half following June 21. By that calculation, spring commences on August 5 or U. This is the astronomical division of the season. Says the Hawera Star; Four gentlemen met outside the post ollicv.on Monday. Said one: “I have been worrying over our starved soldiers who are prisoners of war in Germany.” The other three said they also had done the same thing. “Well,” said the first, “let’s make a little purse.” “Agreed,” said they all. With the aid of eight other patriotic people the sum of £45 4s was contributed in less than an hour, and the same afternoon that amount was cabled through the Bank of New Zealand to the Daily Mail. London, which undertakes the distribution of food to our imprisoned men, and is able to guarantee that they got it.

We often hear about the “untold wealth” that lies under our very feet on the Golden Coast, and this truism was exemplified in a peculiar but striking manner in Grey mouth last week (says the Greymouth Star). The, borough workmen are at present engaged in cleaning out the sewers in various parts of tlie town. In one of thesora. considerable quantity of black sand was obtained, and, with a view to ascertaining if it contained any gold, one of the workmen, it is stated, “panned ofl” a dishful. The precious metal was conspicuous by its absence, but nevertheless.'.the sand contained no small amount of valuables, including pennies, threepenny pieces,' Sixpences, shillings, a gold ring, and a. razor!

“What is intended to be done in connection with the Military Service Act?” asked Mr .1. Anstey(Waitaki) in the House of Representatives the other day. It is understood, lie added, that the Act would not be put into operation' so long as the voluntary system proved satisfactory; but what were the Government going to do with regard to Clause 34 P It was generally understood that the clause was to he put into operation at once. The clause provides that where there are two or more sons in one family who are of military age and lit for active service they can he called upon to show cause why they should not he called upon to serve. The Prime Minister replied that lie could not say that the clause would he put into operation even this week, but lie could assure the bon. member that it was the intention of the Government to put it in operation as soon as possible and that would not be very long.

The Menagerie.—(By Walt Mason). —All living creatures seem to throng the road that I would tour along, in my tin chngmohile ; they’ll leave, thenhomes and travel far, to throw themselves beneath my car, and burst a costly wheel. All 'thoroughfares, with mules and goats, and sheep and heils, and calves and.shoats, for evermore are packed; 1 just collided with < cow—against her adamantine brow my radiator cracked. The cows will leave the tender grass to block the road where I must pass, upon my road to town; the hogs " ill leave the sparking swill to make a stand on yonder hill, and turn me upside down. Anon I squash a farmer’s hen, that surely wasn’t worth a yen, when it was in its prime; but how 1 hear the owner’s howl: “You killed my rare important’ fowl of pedigree sublime!” ! jog along and break the slats of dogs and ducks and geese and cats, and always when they die, the price goes up to beat the band; “they were the linest in the hand,” I hear the owners cry. The way the farm-

(>rs’. beasts run loose is certainly a great abuse, it is no more a joke, and if 1 travel west or east, at every corner there’s a beast that s suffering to croak.

An article in the British Medical Journal emphasises the quality o! goal’s milk and its suitability to the feeding of infants and children. I’rom the medical point of view, it states, the great merits of,the goat are: “first, that it is very rarely affected by tuberculosis; and, secondly, that, if the animal is kept by the consumer himself, the necessity for manipulating the milk in various ways, lor storing it, and sending it long distances by train, as happens commonly with cow's milk, is obviated. (Some of the daily milk supply of Wellington comes from as far alield as Hawke s Bay.) The article quotes Lesagc to tin' effect that the Cat in goat’s milk, being in very fine emulsion, is easily digested, and that a goat eats about one-sixth of the quantity of food required by a milch cow. The-goat thus becomes “the poor man’s cow.” f» many places it can pick up its own living, but it does better when stallfed, and in the latter case requires litfl'o room. The ideal of hdf-au-acre and a goat is more within tin? cof-

> tager’s roach than three acres and a cow. Tluuyield per goat is from three pints upwards daily.

The cases set down for hearing at the sitting of the Stratford Magistrate’s Court to-morrow comprise twenty civil, one judgment summons, and two informations against persons for allowing horses to wander. ! i is rumoured in London (says a cable message) that the New Zealand Government is taking over a fleet ■ presumably of merchantmen). The rumour has been officially denied by Mr Massey. The Dean of Sydney, at the unveiling of a roll of honor in the city recently recounted an incident of a British immigrant upon whose dead body he had picked up a note during the fighting in Gallipoli. Evidently it had been written as the soldier lay dying:—“l am thinking of my mother,” ran the note; “but, by God, good-bye Australia.” That, said the Dean, was an illustration of the Empire spirit. In the last moments of that dying soldier, his thoughts had gone from one end of the world to the other. That was a true portrait, and the type of man Australia would never refuse.

While lecturing in , Auckland >on “Physical Fitness in Women,” Dr. Elizabeth McDonald laid peculiar stress (says the Star) on the fact that little girls up to the age of 12 or 13 should not be coddled any more than boys. They were just as strong naturally as boys, and it was the mistaken idea that they were fragile i which brought on many nervous troubles. There would be fewer nervous children if there were' quieter mothers. The lecturer spoke strongly upon the stupidity of examinations for young children, and installing into their minds the fear of failing. Study should be a pleasure to an ordinary intelligent child properly taught, and not the dread bugbear which causes children to talk about their lessons in their sleep.