LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 14, 15 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for southerly moderate to strong winds and veering by south to west. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather, with scattered showers. The night wilh probably be very cold. The barometer has a rising tendency.— Bates, Wellington. At the Wellington Supreme Court, a youth named Daniel Alexander McDonald, was sentenced to six months’ i reformative treatment for the theit of postal packets at Waitara. Justice Chapman emphasised the seriousness of this class of offence. It was too serious to warrant the Court granting probation.—P.A. I The Eltham Argus states that in proposing that Mr Basham, engineer .to the Eltham County Council, be granted an increase in salary, rlie chairman (Cr Pease), at Saturday’s meeting of the Council referred to the good work that was being carried out in the County by the Engineer, and as 'shown by the fact that people came from other parts of the Island ior information regarding road work. I lie proposal was carried. I ' Though anti-shouting-is not strictly the law of the land yet, as it lias to be the subject of a defining regulation, two of the Wellington clubs are following the spirit of the law, and not waiting for the actual terms of the prohibition of a well-established custom. They have barred treating for several days. The innovation has aroused very little comment in these institu- ! lions (reports the Hlawera Star correspondent), and the short experience ’of the new order of things suggests Jtbat the old custom will not, as we , popularly supposed, die bard. Some members of a club where anti-snouting now rules, suggested to the cones pendent that the treating system had jbeon so abused in the past that most men were glad to be rid of it. The abuse of “shouting” will, they say, be avoided by the regulation shortly to be gazetted, but no paper prohibition will prevent anyone from treating just one.,friend at a time.