LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 114, 5 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The retail price of (Hitter in Stratford was yesterday raised by a penny, making tlio price now Is .id, widen. However, is lower than the price ■barged elsewhere, butter costing Is id per lb in Wanganui. The Women’s Civic dab of W likesliarre, i'a., inaugurated in tj;ab city i clcaa-aii work, in the course cl vliieh it offered all the boys of a section of tho city a cent a dozen for dd tin cans collected in the yards ird streets of that neighbourhood. The offer was advertised for two days by handbills, and in about throe hours aver 51),0dd cans were mid for. A photograph of the children was taken.

Mr. I l '. ,T. .Jackson is on a visit to Stratford. Ho returns to the \Vairarupa to-morrow. Too monthly meeting of the Technical School Committee will be held this evening. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning a Hast offending Irunkard was fined 5s and ordered to pay -Is cab hire. An application for a prohibition order ana one for maintenance and an information for assault will bo heard at the .Magistrate’s Com 4 on Friday. Thirty-five civil eases arc set down for hearing, and three of those will ■>o defended. Two applications cii judgment summons will be heard. The vicinity of, Lake Coleridge will shortly 1)0 a hive of industry, owing te the work in connection wit Jr tiio hydro-electric scheme. Traction engines are now carting material from Coalgate railway station. A road is being 'formed, from the Acheron to the site of the proposed power-house. A novel feature in connection with the road is that all the fencing posts will be of reinforced concrete. It docs net soem that the recent heavy exportation of horses from New Zealand to Australia has had any disastrous effect either upon the production or the number available for local requirements. At Dunedin on Saturday week, a large number of draught horses came forward, indicating an ample supply in the rural districts, it is affirmed 'that in Southland there is absolutely no danger of a shortage, and farmers arc net in tiio least perturbed on that account. There was a smile at the Taranaki County Council meeting on Monday .vhen the clerk read a footnote to a letter from Mr. A. McLaren Thomson, withdrawing from the election of i councillor for the Hurwojth riding. Mr. Thomson wrote: “As my action will save the Council at least £lO, I think it would 1)6 only a fair thing for th 6 Council to expend at least that amount on my road.” The Council didn’t take the hint. At its meeting on Monday the Taranaki County Council decided to endorse the recommendations of the recent conference of delegates held at llavvora in reference to heavy traffic by-laws. Cr. MeAlium suggested that i by-law should bo framed to provide that in four-wheeled vehicles tho axlof vf the bind wheels should be longer than the front axles, ,so that tigwheels would not track one another, thus achieving tho hotter distribution ■f the load. The chairman explained that there was nothiiigin the present law authorising the of .such a by-law, but tho matter was one that might well bo considered by tin Counties’ Conference. When charged at the Gisborne Po lice Court with obstructing a police constable in the execution of his duty i Scottish piper named Alexander Mo ivenzia replied: “I plead guilty to be ing half daft, your Worship.” “Aov are not charged with being hef daft,” said the Magistrate, “tin barge is that of obstructing the po ice.” The police explained thai Jonstable Johnston was arresting an illier piper, who was helplessly drunk jn.d the accused interfered saying that le would take his mate home. The sergeant met tho constable and accused, and the latter desisted from pestering the constable and tried tc run away. In dodging, the accusoc knocked the sergeant over, and aftoi ;o:ii3 trouble he was recaptured and taken to the lock-up. His Worshij imposed a line of £1 and costs 2s, ir default 4 days’ imprisonment. The ither piper, who was. charged with drunkenness, was convicted and fined is and 2s costs.

At Monday’s meeting of the Tara :U\ki Couny Council Mr. G. A'. Tate voiced the complaint of a ratepayer in .the Waitara West district that dock was being grazed on the loads to a very considerable extent, damag ng fences along bis frontage. Or >f the offenders was in the habit c. turning bis stock on to the road ai light, whilst another who had a lnrg> Ann and large numbers of stock, Inn :o decent fences to keep them in. Tin uggestion was made, says tin ‘News,” that the Council should co iperato with, the Waitara West Rose .'board in the appointment of a ran yer but the objection was raisec that the ratepayer had his own reined; for lie could impound the stock wanlining along his own frontage. Bid thy settlers seemed to want the Conn ■i! to do all their unpleasant work, i’hey looked ,on the Council just aV '"■ho main body of the public looked anon' the general Government, as “jolly good wet nurse to suck! them.” The Council decided to ap oroach: the Road Board in the dire" tion indicated. The case of a man who should havt appeared on a judgment .summons hut didn't, for a debt of over £ll hie to a local hotel proprietor, came VP before Mr Kenrick; 3, At , on Wed les’day last at the Court at Manaia. “He is in regular employment.,” ox' olr.ined Mr Bennett, who appeared for fcJio plaintiff, “and is earning gecc rages, but lie is one of tliose men a’ ho will pay nobody, if Jig can get on; if doing so.” “Have eon sent bur

ho necessary money to take him i< Jourt?” asked his Worship. Counsel epJied that though*he .had saut lira noney to Taihapo, where lie worked ro enable him to appear, ho hre '.cither appeared nor returned tin uonsy . His Worsliip explained thin while the la w was distinctly sympa be tic to men who were re,a!ly unabli In ougli no fault of their owii to ir.ee; their' liabilities, yet it did not conn tenancc such conduct as that of the ■ lefondant in tho present, case. A man who could pay but would not and when sent conveyance money retained it, and did not appear ii Jourt ,deserved no toleration. Lc fendaut, in default of payment, wm committed to Wellington prison foi five days. Wo understand, says the Manai; “Witness,” it is the intention of th< directors of dairy companies at tin opening of next season to .refuse tc give employment to men who an known to be Unionists. This decision is the outcome of the refusal of the Union to take their grievance into tho Arbitration Court for settlement and to the further and more serious fact, if fact it be, that a strike is projected at a moment involving either the dislocation of ‘the ndnstiy, with heavy attendant loss, n default of granting the terms of die men. With such a possibility in ,dew the implication by the secretary >f the ( nion, that men seeking emdoyment might deny they wore TJnionsts, is instructive. The morality of ■men advice is a very open question end equally doubtful is the question of its success. Good causes are nevci helped I)v such means, and a causa oi my kind that depends upon such an ■.isiur.ee is hopelessly damned in advance. The statement, publicly made, dmt men work seventy hours a week .n the factories for a wags jpf 355, s one that demands some explanation it naturally must appeal to the sympathetic judgment of tho general pubic, and it is somewhat surprising dmt it lias, not been followed bm authors five explanation of some vine! from officials of tho dairy comnudes.

The engagement Isas been announced of Dr. Valintine, Inspector of Hospitals ,and Miss Barbara Vickers, eldest daughter of. Mr and Mrs Vickers, of Inglewood. A Palmerston lady, the excellent quality of whose tea is proverbial witli all those who have enjoyed her hospitality, has revealed the secret of the goodness of her brew, says tho “Standard.” She has tho leaves ground, in the same way as coffee,, and, in her opinion, the strength and quality of the tea is greatly improved thereby. She always gets the best tea, but the grinding of tho leaves is the secret, and she maintains. that about half tho quantity suffices. She does not infuse the tea longer than five minutes or so, and if it is not used immediately, she pours off tho tea into another pot, which has been previously heated with boiling water, if then placed in a tea cosy the tea will be as nice after the lapse of almost an hour as if just fresh brewed.