LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 121, 14 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dance takes place in the Cardiff Hall to-night. It is stated there are nearly thirl-; applications of the position of* hnrliom ■ icaster and secretary o i the V ait.na Harbour Hoard. A reminder is given of the conceit and dance which takes place at tl.'o Stanley Hoad School tc-night, in aid of the school funds.

A special social mooting will be conducted on Sunday at the Salvation Army hy Staff-Captain Glithroe, of the if 1 Bovs’ Koine, and or ‘I uosday night■ addresses will be delivered by Revs. Harrison, Metson, and Acl it. Gray, when the Eltham Baud will render a musical programme. Toko is to hold a big Ba.naar in its Coronation Hall, as the opening function for the new building. It will commence on the afternoon of r i hursday, .Inly 20th, when the member for Stratl'm cl. and other gentlemen will deliver addresses. Full particulars are published in another column. Starlings are perhaps the most sociable birds in New Zealand, and may he seen flying about this lime of the year in regular cohorts or battalions.' A correspondent writes .to a northern paper stating that a flight he noticed

was over three-quarters of a mils in length, and the birds weic still rising from tire groan!.

Amongst the improvements iccertly carried out on the Wartaia railway branch says the “.Mad” is the lighting of the carriages, which is now made with gas in place of a miserable kerosene lamp. The better illumination is much appreciated by travellers on the line, especially at this time of the year and also when dreary waits are necessary in shunting operations. Speaking at Tuesday’s meeting of the Patsa Council, the Chairman (Mr (I. V. Pearce) said he believed that the metal obtained from Rangitikei was the cheapest and best the county had ever purchased. It was hand-broken, and far superior to the machine-crushed material from the Mountain. The Engineer is to carry '.out a test of .the two different metals will a view to ascertaining which is the better.

Michael O’Neill appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning ohm ged with haying broken the provisions of the Stock Act, having,' on •June 27th, allowed ton pigs to he at large within fifty yards of his licensed slaughterhouse at Huiakama. Defendant pleaded guilty, and said he had merely turned the pigs out oi the stye to enable him to put a floor in it. The Stock Inspector said that a month previously, defendant was fined for a similar offence. The Magistrate said the Legislature regarded the offence as a serious one, and iufii ted a fine of £5 and costs.

At the Kairanga Comity Council meeting on Tuesday, the Conuo;! donated £l2 towards the funds of tIH Prisons’ Aid Society. Last y.m the Council donated £2O towards* the fund, and was the only County Council to do so. When too Government auditor went through the books and vouchers at the end of the year, ho tagged this item, but the difficulty was got over by receiving a statement oi how the money was spent from chy. Prisoners’ Aid Society. One councillor wanted to give £5 out of his own' pocket if another councillor (naming one ) would do the same, ir stead of taking the ratepayers’ money.

■ A wedding in which a considerable amount of interest has been taken bo the residents of the district was celebrated at St. John’s Anglican CnurM I'V’ding, at noon on Tuesday, uiieu Miss Olive May Ponard, only daughter of Mrs. Harcourt Peat, of Fielding and formerly a member of the literary staff of the Fielding Star, was married to the Eev. Algernon Holland Colvile eldest son of Mr H. A. Colvile, of Oopthorne, Sussex, England, and Vicar-designate of St. Mary’s Now Plymouth. The happy couple' left fo: England by the Athenic from Wellington yesterday, returnigu tq AVw.ply-., mouth at the end of January next. The “Dominion” states that the Boundaries Commission, which is tr decide how the Parliamentary electorates are to be altered in view of the increase in population, is to I. a cr.ilod together by Sir James Can oil (Minister in charge of the matter) on July 15. Two vacancies have to be filled on the Commission —those of Messrs Weston and 'U.uek, who lav e retired. The Commission, when rhev meet, will consider their lino of future procedure. It is understood that the Survey Department lias icady the map which it has been preparing for the Commission. This map snows, in full detail the old (doctoral lurclaries, and the present population ia each.

“I am sorry a Avar ever occurred i i tin's country,” said Sir James Carroll speaking at Christchurch. “It ah arose through a misunderstanding. Those Avbo bad the conduct of our public affairs bad not properly guape -1 the'temperament of the Maori poop]". The Maori Avas anxious about hh land. Ho feared it Avas slipping away ,aud Avhen they started a land lon gua to keep the land it generated friction among the Jaa’o people, Avhic’’ ended in Avar. But as Avar broke ou f you bad to fight, because you fouufb a sturdy foe in the Maori.” Sir .Tamer: excursion into history aroused ver enthusiastic applause from all part' of the house.

At the Christchurch Magistrate's Court the other day, before Mr Ph \V. Bishop, S.M., the defendant i a judgment summons case pleader that he Avas not liable for payment o' the claim as ha bad been under* th age of twenty-one at the time tl;< debt had been incurred. The Magi.' trate remarked that lie had repeated ly pointed out the doubtful moral if of ’such dealings, and asked the do‘ fendant Avhy he had incurred such r debt if bo could not pay it? The cH fondant, in reply, stated that ho had had no intention of getting into delft but had been persuaded by one cthe leading cycle makers in Christchurch to buy a bicycle from him. Hr bad not bad the cycle more than three months, however, before it bad bee stolen, and lie bad been unable to ir for it. The Magistrate remarked that that sort of thing happened too often.! Ho Avould make no order, boAvever, {s the defendant bad been an infant at the time the debt bad been incurred. On Wednesday evening the body ol the late Father Halve, of Kapong.V; arrived at Eltbam *»y r!ie express Horn Wellington. It remained in the Catholic Church at Eltbam until yesterday morning, aaligu solemn High Mass was celebrated in the presence of Arclihiship Redwood. Tno qele'-' brant of the Mass was tiie very Bov. h. Power, HaAvera; Deacon Eathei Ecleton, St. Patrick’s College, Wellington; Sub-Deacon Father Cab.il Daijnovuko, with Father Bowe, Carterton, Master of Ceremonies. Twenty - oue priests attended. The Archbishop preached a beautiful parogyrin on the deceased priest, 'who Avas only 35 years of age. The funeral procession, AA'liich left Fltham at 10.1 c

a.ra., was the largest ever seen in the district. The body was take? into tiis church at Kaponga, where again the Archbishop addressee! the people, after which the precession reformed and wended its way to the cemetery, where the last rites were performed and the final prayers said by the Archbishop amidst the 'very profound grief of Father Haire’s sorrowin'); people. It is understood that 'the Rev. Father Ainsworth, at p v f-nt at Hokitika, will succeed Fatl e. Tlairc.

An inquest on the Osborne -House file will bo held at ;the Courthouse on Monday, at 10 o’clock. Mr d. McCluggage will commence Ids election campaign by delivering an address at Whangamomona ibout tiro 3rd August. •Judgment by default was given in the following cases at the Magistrate’s Court this morning:—Dwyer and Lennon v. R. V. Edwards, 11s 'ld, costs os; A. Ferguson v. IV. P. i hip worth, £3 12s 3d, costs 10s; McMillan and Frodric v. P. Startup, £5 10s Dd, costs £1 3s (id.