LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 102, 20 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thursday next, Juno 22nd, being ing Coronation Day and a general public holiday, the “Stratford Post” Av'jli uot.be published.

The ordinary meeting of tho Stratford County Council will bo held tomorrow morning.

Air J. Thorn, of the railway goods department, Dunedin, and formerly of the local railway staff, is at present spending a few days in Stratford. la Paris, a city of curious signboards, one of the most remarkable is a tobacconist’s at 55 Rue du Chateaud’Eau, which lias boon there since 1870. It is riddled with holes made hv the bullets of tho, Prussians.

In Sydney, skyscrapers are becoming popular. Of four largo buildings about to,be erected within a distance of a few hundred yards of the General Post Office not one is to bo less than 100 ft. in height. Of fifty pigs which were recently slaughtered at the Waingawa freezing works, only thirteen were suitable for export. The remainder were more or less affected with tuberculosis, says a Wairarapa exchange. "

The man who sold land, said Mr Justice Donniston, at the Christch'urph Supreme Court, was not a land agent. The land agent was simply a person who endeavoured to persuade men to buy and sdl land. Later on. His Honor said that most land agents appeared to him to be going about like roaring lions, seeking whose property they might secure.

Mr William Hodge, of Kohnratahi, and lately of Whangamomona, met with a nasty accident on Saturday' morning in-the vicinity of Whangamomona. He was riding along the road when his horse stumbled over some burnt papa which had been put on the road, but had not. been napped. . Mr Hodge was thrown, but he (lid not fall clear of the horse and had one of his arms broken in two places. Ho was brought in to the hospital; where he is doing well.

Mr W. G. Kenrick, S.M., was engaged for a considerable time on Thursday in hearing, the case Henry Wells (Mr R. Spence) v. Farnham Bros. (Mr W. I). Anderson). The claim was for £144, for breach ot warranty in regard to/a. herd of dairy cows.- 'Plaintiff, a farmer at Tarata, claimed that lie had bought thirty cows from defendant, through Mr Newton King, on a warranty that they were stinted to a Jersey bull, hut only ten proved in calf. Alter hearing a. lot of evidence, judgment was reserved.

Wo regret, says last night’s “Star,” having to announce the death of Dr. G. H. Brown, of Hawera. He lutd not been v r ery well for some little time, hut ’the progress of the disease from which ho was suffering was at the last rapid, and he passed away early on Sunday morning. In the days of his good health the doctor was one of the most prominent of our townsmen, and apart from his high professional qualifications his many social gifts and graces made him highly popular. He leaves a widow and two children, with whom there will ho general and widespread sympathy. Dr Brown was. a surgeon captain in the Territorials, and Lieut. Dampen, Lieut. Cardalo and SurgeonCaptain Carhery left Stratford for Hawera this morning to be present at the funeral.

At tho-Eltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, before Mr A. 'McGarry, J.P., Thomas Egan, who was arrested the previous night hy Constahlo Wade, was charged with drunkenness and damage to property, and was remanded lor seven days for medical treatment. It. appears, says the “Argus,” that Egan, who had evidently not learnt the lesson Conor! hy “Ton Nights in a Har-rooin,” fancied he‘saw a nine imp grinning at him from behind the window of the gas office. He threw a bottle of medicine which ho had at the blue tormentor, with the result that the window was broken, and later on when he was arrested he was carrying a four-foot piece of iron piping with which to ward olf his enemies.

The quarterly meeting of the Oddfellows’ Lodge was held in >St Andrew’s schoolroom last night., when there was a large attendance of irlcnlbers. It was decided to notify'"'members, through the press, re taking, part in the procession. Hro. J. Thorn, of tlio Manawatu Lodge (late N.G. of the Stratford Lodge), and now of Dunedin, paid a special visit to the Lodge, and was received with the usual honours. Subsequently ho, in a most capable manner, installed the following officers for the ensuing term: —G.M., Hro. T. Lawson; N.G., Hro. T. Partridge; V. Hro. S. Thompson; Guardian, Hro. Scott: Secretary, P.G.M. Hro. C. I). Sole (re-elected) ; Treasurer, P.G. Hro. T. Lawson (re-elected); R.B. and L.S. to N.G-., Bros. Simpson and P.G. Jo hi in ; 11. S. and L.S. to V.G., Bros. W. Walsh and P.G. Hro. Dwyer; E.S. Hro. Harston. 1 Two new members were initiated.

Tomorrow (21st) is the shortest day of the year. The Hawcra Borough Council has decided to meet fortnightly in future.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will bo held this evening to further consider the loan proposals. In another column notice is given of the form Coronation Day celebrations will take. A transplanting of an unusual nature, says a Wairarapa paper,' was recently’' effected at South Featherston, when a totara tree about 16 feet high was moved to the garden of a resident of the ownship by means of a sleclgo was carried out by Mr. Eddie, of Mangahao, Pahiatua. ~ 1 ho Hon. Geo. Eowlds, Minister for Education, will deliver a political address in the Town Hall, Stratford, on Tuesday evening next, the 27th inst., at 8 o’clock. His " Worship the Mayor will preside. The dross circle will ho reserved, for ladies and their escorts. * 7