LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 25, 23 December 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—HP “Love laughs at locks and bolts”— also notices; at least, that is the experience of the College Street School Committee, Palmerston North, who have been troubled with the apparent fondness amorous couples have -or the school doorsteps. The other evening, one of the teachers who wanted to get into the school, had to, go through the window, three doorsteps being occupied." It whs suggested that a notice of prosecution for trespass be put up. The reply was, “Oh, they pulled the last one down.” ; “Blessed are the peacemakers” and “Made in Germany” are quotations neither of our making nor to our liking. At • present,' there can be oy the loyal Britisher'or subject of the Allies no others better hated. Such a combination is impossible—except on paper —and, as it happens, tins is how they can be found here in Stratford over two years after the opening of the war. In search of seasonable presents for friends at a Broadway establishment yesterday; a local churchman I selected several cards with _ mottoes of a Biblical nature, and was nuitn perturbed to note that everyone m the collection bore the imprint of the Huns. However, out of regard tor the shopkeeper, whom he knew to be a loyal son of the Empire, the purchaser took the goods home, consoling himself with the suggestion that they had been in stock for years.

Weather . forecast The indications are for easterly winds moderate to strong chiefly affecting the East Coast, then freshening. Expect warm and humid conditions, increasing haze and’ cloudiness for change. Baromter falling.—Bates, Wellington. H.-J. Hopkins is uaw. selling has the famous Sapphire Ball Point instead of the needles in an , ordinary gramaphone. The Sapphire Ball never wears out, and never; has to he changed.