LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 24 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I The trustees of the Pert!; (W.A.) Metropolitan Cemetery recently passed a by-law prohibiting Sunday funerals, except in accordance with a medical certificate for sanitary, magisterial, or for other reasons, The Fremantle Cemetery will follow suit.

j At Sydney last week three firms jwere fined substantial amounts for selling: drugs which were falsely described. Each defendant was selling preparations which it was claimed would form flesh. Medical testimony was that thev would not have that effect.

| A parcel of drapery taken from i\v street in Winton on the morning of the recent fire was left at the back door of Messrs Price and Bulleid's premises the other evening (says th Record), with a slip of paper attach ed, and these words thereon: "From a conscience-vstricken person."

In speaking to an audience gathered at the Bays' Institute at Welling-

ton to witness a life-saving and swimming carnival, the'Hon. J. A. Hcman, Minister of Education, stated (says the New Zealand Times) that for the past 20 years no fewer than 114 males and 245 females had met then death by drowning. This illustrates the value of the work of the Royal Life Saving Society.

I The few fine days experienced recently have had the effect of bringing the white-bait up the river in ver;> large quantities for this time of tin venr (says the Kaitangata correspond ent of the Balclutha Free Press), anc 1 the "baiters" are having a good t':.n with the nets. Some very gooc catches have been made, the favouric spot being the mouth of the canal. The appearance of the whitebait tin year is fully a month earlier than us mil.

Some interesting details of his experiences as an officer in the Admiralty service have been received in Auckland from Captain W. T. Williams, late of the Harbour Board pilot launch Waitemata. "Mydup was lost some nine weeks ago," he writes. "It struck a moored mine and I am seven survivors, out of a crew of 25, 01 5 e had left port steaming at 'full' during the foe : nopn (V , f »nd. witb^p, aWut / two miles from inning explosion' occurred, followed by a rattle as of machinery gone mad. . i happened to be on the -bridge at the time, and quickly realised that the vessel would not float long. As a matter of fact, she sank in less than 30 seconds, carrying us all down in 'the vortex. The boats, winch had been swung out on leaving port, were smashed to matchwood by the force ot I the''concussion, which came to the surface had been on the chocks gripped down. How. they cleared themselves is a mystery . anvwav, although they were bottom up, they saved the lives of myself and three seamen. The water was bitterly cold and when the patrol trawlers picked us up we had no strength to take our wet clothes off. The engine-room staff "Wad no earthly chance." J own to P ; cees below bad no time to get out of then- rooms, bo VO u can gather that it was a close us. I had a fortnight in bc( i it. am now chief, officer, with the rank of snb-lieutenant E.N.11. in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary."