LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are rumours of a couple of large dairymen in the district going in for the erection of factories of thoii own far the production of butter and n.hceso, says the Manaia “WitrtaEc.” Mr. W. C. Dudley, of Opanake, has received a reply from the Minister for I'ub.'ic Works acknowledging the receipt of the resolution passed at the Kapron meeting. The Minister says “the matter will receive my careful consideration/-' A well-known dairy farmer in this district, saya the Manaia “Witness,” is understood +o have cleared £I7OO last year from herd- of one lumdred cows or theroauouts, in addition to which there’ was a substantial profit from side lines on the farm. The rainfall in Eltham for the month of June amounted to 4.43 in. Rain fell on fourteen days, the maxirmim being" 1.41 inches, on the 2Gth. For the Jialf year the fall was 28.30 in.. as against 20.27 in. for the corresponding period last year. A man whom the Inspector of Police in the first hearing of a case af the Magistrate’s Court, Napier, designated as the stupidest witness be ever had anything to do with,” striped into the witness-box in the Supremo Court as an intelligent man and quite able to answer the railleries of the contending lawyer. The change was commented upon, but the witness did not choose to give an explanation. “ Ton would not send a poor widow to gaol for not paying a debt, surely?” asked Mr. C. C. Kettle, at the Auckland S.M. Court the other morning, when a lawyer asked far an order against a woman who was a judgment debtor. The legal gentleman said if the order was made with the alternative he hoped the debt would lie paid. Mr. Kettle said, “Then if you ask for an order, 1 must grant it.” “There were four doctors after me yesterday for accounts, besides this debt,” remarked a man who apneared at the Auckland Debtors’ Court the other day. The Magistrate add-, eel, “Now the legal profession is after you, which is worse.” whereupon another lawyer rose and said bo also was after the man for a second creditor. The debtor, who was already paying NT a week towards the support of his wife, satisfied both lawyers by volunteering to pay each creditor 2s potweek. Stratford bowlers will be pleased to learn that their green has now been put in first-class order for the comingseason. it was found -necessary to top-dress tire green, and in order that this should ho done thoroughly the services of Mr F. G. Dudley, caretaker of lire Wanganui Club’s grounds, wore scoured, with the result that if the green is not now as h-v‘4 es a billiard-table, it certainly looks it. The soil used for top-dres-sing was brought all the way from Wanganui, liberal supply of suitable manure having been used at the same time. With a wceklv cutting and rolling in the interval, Stratford’s bowling green should he again one of the best in the province when the .1.1)11-12 season opens.

Messrs Ballaiityne and Whetter, daranaki Education Hoard Inspectors, ;ro holding examinations to-day and to-morrow, in the Technical School, >f all pupil teachers in this district. J’ho lie; ! teachers of the schools inferos ted are also in attendance watching proceedingH. Ail. W. G. Dixon, wh.o just nine cars ago took charge of Messrs. R. Hannah and Co.’s Stratford boot am in ess, is about to leave that wellknown firm’s,employ to enter into buiuess on ids own account in Sydney, fine capital of Xew South Wales, having special attraction for him. Mr. Dixon leaves Stratford at too end of inly, and in this connection, to save my possible disputation after bis departure,' it is desired Unit ail outstanding accounts due to his firm bo paid foithwith. Mr. Stanford, of Messrs. Spence uid Stanford, waited on the Hospital Board tins morning in reference to .ho Board's proposal to take sections 877, 914, and 915-(Borough reserves) under the Public Works Act-, roe the purpose of erecting an infectious diseases hospital. Ho said a memorial had been sent to Wellington ror approval, but notiling further had been heard about it. The Board passed a formal resolution affirming its oesire to take the land, and Messrs. Alarfell and Merchant were appointed .0 sign the memorial and other docunouts. A big deal in 2^—year-old dairy miters came off last month, the sell:r being Mr. Cecil Hawkon, who Jives it Hawera, and lias land at the back >f Eltfiam. The deal, says the Manila “Witness” represented a mob if 300, and the price paid was £5 uch, the purchasers being a Manavatu syndicate. The destination of ;iiis large mob of next year’s milkers k the Alanawatu district. It may be uid that good dairy cows are freluontly 'bringing from £l2 to £lB at t ie clearing sales. A couple of years go it was seldom anything over £l2 .Vas reached, but it is common enough now. Householders will soon be called ■ip jii to fill in another census sched:le. On .Monday next the officers will begin distributing the schedules to be iced in connection with the coming doctoral census, and the required, in•onnation has to be written in on die night of Sunday, July 9th. On '.his occasion only the names of adults ’’.re required, and there is an obligaion on tiio head of the house to see that the information is correctly givui. It must be made clear, however, that the filling up of the schedules rill not by itself put people on the doctoral rolls. When the schedules uo distributed, enrolment forms will idso be left at all houses throughout tie city and suburbs, and it will be die duty of all persons not now on the roll to see that their claim is properly filled in ready for collection vit.li the schedule.

A characteristic remark made by Air George Reid, High Commissioner -.or Australia, has become famous in London. It was on the occasion of a kmquot tendered to Mr. Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, in London, on May 17. Sir George was responding to the toast of his health, .vuicdi had been proposed by Mr. Lew's Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies. “And here,” Sir George laid, “are the Agents-Geueral of Australia, who have honoured mo by their presence on this occasion. Our duties overlap so much that if they vere not the most reasonable men in

'die world wo would have been at loggerheads long ago. But a more harnonious body of men, all different from one another, or more devoted to the general welfare, I do not know. 1 do all the dining out, and they do ill , the work,’’ The statement was greeted : with a roar of laughter from those present. Tiie Magistrate and two solicitors .rare engaged for more than an hour ax the Auckland S.M. Court the other ifternoon endeavouring to argue to a lefinition the meaning of “special remlution” as apart from any other resolution passed by a public body. Apparently no satisfactory statutory mthority could be obtained to settle die argument, the point having been mo that had been overlooked in the ■■onsolidation of the New Zealand tatutes. Unfortunately for the liti-

.gants, no English, Australian, or Amlican authority could be found which ,-oiild convincingly illumine the point, ■ud at the conclusion of the hour the Court appeared to be no wiser cu the point than when the argument started. They were agreed that a special brand of whisky was something bettor than the ordinary, but this definition would not apply to resolutions.

In connection with the Marsden ■catenary, which will he celebrated in three years’ time, the Rev. J. King Davis writes as follows to the Auckland “Herald” ;—The Rev. Samuel Marsden sent Messrs. Hall and Kenla.ll on a preliminary visit to the Bay >f Islands about the middle of 1814. !n the last part of the year he made bis first visit, and the*first mission ■tation was formed at Oihi. There he : cfb not only Messrs. Hall and Kenlall, but also Mr. King—each with •is family. Sooner or later the first ind second of these missionaries left New Zealand. Mr. King remained o the end of his lift. His grave is in bis family burial plot, not far from the Marsden Cross. Yet his name is ,iot mentioned in the historical ac;onnt printed annually in the New Zealand Year Book . Hitherto I have refrained from drawing attenion publicly to the imperfection of the Government record. The doing of good work is the essential thing, not ID- being published abroad. And I believe that Mr. King would have

lid, “Better so. . . Let be.” But now that the Marsden centenary in 1914 is so near, it seems time that the account was made complete.