LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 51, 27 September 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Arbitration Courts’ award in the slaughtermen’s dispute embodies the existing agreement and all particulars, with the addition of 2s 6d per 100 as a war bonus. The Press Association adds that the award operates for tw'o years from Monday. Regarding the fatal motor accident at Tvaiparoro last night, when Mrs and Miss Timms were returning to Mastertoii from Dannovirke, the Press Association further states time the lights were had and the car went oil the road and capsized into a creek, both occupants being pinned under the car, Mrs Timms was found face down in the -water dead. Another car containing Mr I). IX Ryan and a doctor were in front, and not seeing the lights, they wont back and managed ' to lift the car sufficiently to case Miss Timms, and then got help 1 to make a further lift. Miss Timms was not seriously injured. The new regulation regarding payment of excess war profits was brought to bear upon Mr Allen Doone at Auckland on Monday before the theatrical company left by the mail steamer. His books were taken possession of by representatives of the Government, and the result was that Mr Doone was called upon to pay £6OO as excess war profit. Some ot the members of thei company word also charged certain sums where their salaries were held to be excess taxable under the same Act. Mr Doom: stated to a friend that this was Ids first experience of an excess war proft, and as he had to pay £7o upon coming into New Zealand, he lias contributed £373 to the revenue. The. question to be considered from a theatregoer’s point of view, the Auckland “Star” Kays, is whether this action may have the effect ot preventing companies coining to New Zealand. The better the company, and, the bigger the success, the more will have to }jc paid as c:: - war profit.

The Russians have a new word in their language (says the Petrograd correspondent of the “Graphic.’ ) It is “Anglofilstvo,” and means “Anglophillsm.” It is a perfect mania, hero to use this word, and a man who is not anglophil is about as rare as a man who is not a Gernianophobe—which is saving much. The new British ofieusive which no one hero doubts is a prelude to greater events has set this word in motion. The enthusiasm and regard for everything British has reached unite ardof heights, so much so that it is almost embarrassing to he a Briton, for no man without an iron constitution can live up to the hospitality, and po man without iron cheek can pretend to he as nice as his Russian friends find him. A young Napier man who works on a station at Kiribati, in the heart of the King Country, had an unenviable experience tho.ro several days ago. It happened that the telephone at the station got out of order, 'and m endeavouring to find the material necessary to effect repairs, the youth came across an old Maori canoe stranded by a river hank, and apparently hopelessly beyond repair. It was found that a paling of the canoe would just answer the required purpose, and without second thought the young nian broke up the, canoe and went hack to the station with The) repairing material About night time, people on the station were startled to hear 'fierce shouting and tho clattering of hoofs. r lo their honor they discovered a band of Maoris gathered round the station, crjihg that they wanted the young man who had- violated their tabooed canoe. It dawned on the Napier lad that he had unwittingly committed an unpardonable crime against Maori traditions. He told the manager of the'' Station, who’went up to the Maoris and endeavoured to explain the mistake. The Maoris would not listen, and continued to shout out that they wanted to kill the hoy.and throw his body in the river. The position was a desperate one, and while the natives howled and danced round the station the now much-frightened lad was hid in an outhouse. It "'as only after some considerable time that the Maoris were at last pacified and prevailed upon to accept the sacrilege as ar. unfortunate mistake. Infinite relief‘was felt at the station when the hand of natives mounted their horses and rode away once more.