The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 122, 15 July 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The executive committee of the A. and U. Association will hold a meeting this evening to consider the question of erecting a hall in which to iroid a winter show which might also be used as a drill shed. As showing the popularity of Taranaki lands, we understand that dv.rStiie past week or so property to value of upwards of £20,000 has been sold by Messrs E. and C. Jackson. As has already been intimated, Parliament will assemble on Thursday, July 27. On tiie following d;y an Imprest Supply Bill will bo put through, as the appropriations u ill only carry the finances on to the last day of the month. The Address-in-Reply debate will, commence on Tuesday,'August Ist. The most important business of the session (including, it is understood, the classification scheme which'the committee set up for the purpose has boon considering) will he held over till the Prime Minister’s return.

The front page of tlio massive ‘•Times' Lmpire supplement,” issued by 1 ‘lJig Times,” is (says a London correspondent) taken up oy a lino advertisement for New Zealand. 'Jhere are pictures of Milford Sound, a Pit of Milford 'track, Cabbage Tree drove, -Wocdsidb, Tamahete, the dredging industry, and Taranaki, tiro centre of dairy farming, as. well as a portrait of the Prime Minister. The letterpress deals with agriculture, cattle-raising, tlio timber trades, water power and electricity, maritime and minbrals. In the body of the supplement a half-column disposes of tire progress of New Zealand during 1911, the subjects referred to bring the now defence scheme and advances ti settlors. A good story is going the round of the London territorial canteens. A distinguished officer was to lire tlio first shot on a new rifle range, hut the rifle selected for him was so light in the trigger-pull that no sooner had tlio gallant loader grasped it than the charge exploded and tlio bullet lodged* in a beam of the roof. The matter would have passed unnoticed, but at the .sound of.the' shot the range marker, an old soldier, who, hidden in his marking bos, had not seen what was happening at the otaer end of the range, rushed up, made a salute, and presenting the target with a neat bullet hole in the yentrev' of the ‘Thick,’ ’enthusiastically exclaimed “Centre one, my lord!”

On August Ist. Mr E. J. Kirkwood will take up dairying on the 200-acre farm in Eliot Itoad now in the possession of Mr Kerritt. The montaiy mooting of the Domain Board was held yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs Curtis (in the chair), Penn, W. P. Kirkwood, Mori son, and Hunter (secretary). Mr Knife was granted leave of absence. The matter of procuring and hanging an iron v-gato was left in the hands of Mr Penn. Mr Morison was requested to procure fifty native trees to bo planted in tiie western portion of King Edward Park. Accounts amounting to £lB ils 2d were passed for payment. The weekly meeting of the executive of the A. and P. Association was held on Thursday evening. Present; Messrs Dingle (in the chair), D. J. Malone, • Porritt, Healy, Saugster, 11. Masters and Dobson. Reports were received from Messrs T. Kirkwood and E. B. Stohr regarding the dog schedule and from Mr T. Webb in reference to the pig schedule. The resignation of Mr E. Griffiths was accepted with regret. The duly issue of the “Windsor Magazine'- is a sumptuous Coronation An tuber, including a new portrait

group or Ineir Majesties King George and Queen Mary, finely reproduced in colours, as a special frontispiece plate, and several lavishly illustrated articles dealing with themes connecteel witn tire approaching ceremonies of State; among the contributors being the Duke, of Argyll, who is respon-

sible for a very interesting account of tiio Crown Jewels and otner Regalia. Another subject incidental to this Coronation season, “me Festival. of Empire," is fully described in an article of which the illustrations will form quite a valuable souvenir of that great pageant. An accident of a novel character happened at Christchurch the other morning. One of the Christchurch Meat Company’s carts, bearing its usual load for the country, was on its way to the raiwlay station. Just alter entering Manchester Street, the near wheel evinced a desire to paddle its own canoe, and, with very little warning, parted company with the cart. The latter bumped along for a short distance, scattering joints, 'chops, and strings of sausages all over the roadway. The wheel had a much more adventurous career, It steered a straight course for a time, but soon showed a strong leaning foi the sidewalk. It negotiated tiic gutter successfully, and then crashed into a large plate-glass window, belonging to a furniture shop, doing a considerable amount of damage. A gentleman who has been investigating West Coast (South Island) records takes exception to the recently published statement that the Brunner coal mine is the oldest in New Zealand. He informed a Wellington “Post” reporter that the honours in that connection belong to the' Motupipo* mine, Nelson, which was being mined in 1813, and coal from which was being sold in Wcliingto: in 1818 at 2os a ton. The Bruunci seam was discovered on 27tii January, 1848, by Mi’ T. Brunner, but it was not until 1860 that a report on the quality of the coal was supplied to the Nelson Provincial Government by Dr. (afterwards Sir) Julius vo;. Haast, and in 1863 a sample of the coal was brought by the Provincial Government to Nelson, and soon afterwards a company was formed tr work the seam. Mr Brunner, iv may be added, died at Nelson i 1874.

Settlement of the native lands and the survey of roads are the two important questions that arc troubling cue minds of the East Coast settlors at present, according to Mr MacDonald, M.P., who had been as far north as Te Araroa, in the Poverty Bay district. Ho explained to a reporter of the local Herald that many native blocks had been taken up in a haphazard fashion. Settlement had proceeded in a very Jax way, and the result was that there were numerous blocks with absolutely no access,_ and no provision for slicin' .1 no question, ho said, had now arisen as to whether the Government, the. County Council, or the natives should bear the burden of the cost of reading. The general feeling was that the blocks should be loaded with the survey, and the roads surveyed, and the settlors should assist- themselves The County Engineer had made 'c propoal for a complete reading scheme to meet the case of each block. 11? presentations are being made to the Native Department with a view t obtaining assistance.

Twenty locomotives now under coustniction for the New Zealand railways are being equipped with superheaters. This is the first time that the principle has been adopted on the New Zealand railway system, though it has been in use, more oi less experimentally, for years oil the Gormaur ailways, and is now bei.iy rapidly adopted in England, whih American railways have been completely won over to it, compound c ti gines by the hundred being converted into “simples,” working will superheated steam. Three 'different types of super-heaters will be usee' among ten engines now being . brill at Addington workshops, the idea being to test the relative efficiency of the types under New Zealand conditions. The engines are of- the powerful class B tender type, wit 1, eight coupled wheels of 3ft 6Jin dia-

meter. A similar experiment will b r tried witli ten W.g. engines, which are being built at Hillside. In tidy case the latest American type o' superheater will bo installed. Tlrs~ are tank engines with six coupled wheels cf 3ft 9ia diameter.

I 1 crerunnors of the tide of immigration that will sot in again bet Ore many months have passed are now reaching the Labour Department in the shape of numerous letters from prospective travellers to the Dominion from tlio Old World. Quito a number! of inquiries come to hand by every mail, and there is every indication that immigrants will come out quite as readily during the spring and summer as ever before. The letters are principally from workers now residing in England, although a small number come from people in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other places. One Britisher states that ho has a capital of £IOOO, which he wishes to use in starting hero in farming. A South Shield;;’ man, a marine engineer of fourteen years’ experience, will bring with idih CIOO and a family of three grown-up hoys. ‘ 'Sheep ranching” is the ■work looked forward to by a Glasgow man., who says that after gaining expei ioncc hero with someone else ho will have good financial support in starting out for himself. Such communications as those have boon replied to in encouraging terms, but the department has warned oilier writers—including a warehouseman, a coachman, a car cleaner and an old army man—that there is no prospect of their getting work out here in their particular callings. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Great Popper mint Cure. Is Gd, 2s Gd.*

Mr Francis William Court is gazetted deputy-resgistrar of marriages, etc.,; at Whangamomona.

A ssven-a-side football tournament will be held at New Plymouth on August 17tii in connection with the Round the Mountain Cycle Race.

Mr Sidney Ward, J.P., will preside over the inquiry into the recent fire, which will be opened at the Courthouse at 10 a.ra. on Monday.

The final payment due to suppliers for past season will he payable 'at tiro office of the Stratford Farmers’ Co-operative Association on and after 20th inst.

Xaupokonui Dairy Co. are now, giving suppliers Is 2d per lb for butterfat, which is probably a record. But it has to lie borne in mind, says the Hawera “Star,” that the supply is very low now.

The Committee appointed by the Borough Council to meet representatives of the Electric Light Co. with a view to settling terms for purchase of the company’s business met last night and drew up a report which will he submitted to a special meeting. of the Council, to be held on Monday, evening.

A novel experiment was tried at tiro Gisborne Technical School cooking classes recently, when the senior High School girls were expected to market and provide “dinner for two” out of the noble sum of Gd. They fully entered into the spirit of the thing, and, on their return from the shopping expedition, some were even able to show change in hand. Mr J. Lawson Robinson, 8.A., arir°s by mail train this evening for a few days’ holiday between terms. Mr Robinson will snortly take up the position of Assistant to the Rev. Gerald Balfour, M.A., 8.D., of First Church, Dunedin. He will conduct tiro service in the Stratford Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow evening. With reference to the paragraph regarding the death of Mr C. E. Lloyd, which wo recently published, Mr S. H. James (from whom the Paragraph did not directly emanate) isks jus to make it known that the statement to the effect that Mr Lloyd .vent Home to receive a large sum of nonoy which had been left him, is quite incorrect.

The person mentioned in the telegram in our last issue as having been arrested for debt at Lyttelton just prior to his departure for England was the defendant in a case recently laard at Wellington in which Mr A. 1. Davey, Stratford, was plaintiff, VTr Davoy making a trying trip by motor to enable him to start proceedings in Wellington. Allan Maxwell, Taranaki’s lightweight champion boxer, leaves for Invercargill, in company with his drainer, Prof. J. J. Stagpoole, on rimrsday, 20th inst., to represent Taranaki at the New Zealand championship tournament, to he hold there ni 25th and 26th July. Maxwell van unfortunate in not gaining per'hission to compete at the Wanganui •h'ampionship tournament on Mon-1-rv,.lint as ’t is, will Mve an exhibition spar with one of their local lads.

Writing to a friend in Eketahuna, a sotlcr from that district, who has a farm at Chincilla, Queensland (where many New Zealanders have migrated) .says : —“The open country when wet would bog a duck, and after a few weeks’ dry weather it the crowbar ring to make a mark in it. In the bush land the soil is a great depth, and it does not matter how much rain comes you will never get bogged, while it holds the ,moisture in dry weather. I had some stalks of sorghum grow to a licight of 13ft 9in. The seed was just thrown on the ground.”

'The following clergy were present at the funeral of tne late Father Haire on Thursday His- Grace Archoishop Redwood (Wellington), Very Rev. Dean John McKenna (Masterton), Very Rev. Dean James McKenna (Now Plymouth), Very Rev. Father Power (flawera), Rev. Fathers Ainsworth, Barra, Bartley, Lecleton, Maliony and Venning (Wellington), Kelly (Foxton), Cahill (Dannevirke), Dwyer (Feilding), Bowe (Carterton), Dnify (Patea), Treacy (Stratford), McManus (Inglewood), O’Beirne (New Plymouth), Soulas (Okato), Menard (Opimake), Bergin (Manaia), Maloney (Wanganui).

The London “Sportsman” in publishing the much belated balance sheet of the Arnst-Barry match on die Zambesi, says that, “owing to ill parties leaving the Zambesi immediately after the race, it was impossible to publish the accounts beoro this. Many rectified bills had to be written for more than once, is some had been mislaid. It will bo seen that but for Arnst’s demand .or an extra £IOO (making his expenses £4OO instead of £3OQ as originally agreed upon) there would ■ ave boon a balance of a few pounds. As it was the three guarantors prodded the deficit of £B3 ss. The item £B9 8s 4d for postages, teleprams, etc., appears to be heavy, but ,t includes the drink consumed by the Englishmen during their six reeks’ stay. No account is rendered for "food and accommodation, |s l in that respect the party were guests of the Goldfields Company in dhodesia.” V

Some amusing references to the ■haracteristics of Ananias, of Biblical time, wore made during the hearing .jf the Masssy-Times libel appeal in (he Court of Appeal on Wednesday 'says the “Post.) In the cartoon -here was a representation of a donkey, bearing the word “Ananias,” vad hitched to a cart. In his sura-ning-up to the jury, Mr Justice Jliapman said;—“So far as the ellviry is concerned, it is somewhat puzding. Ananias is represented as a lebased-looking donkey. l My recollection of Ananias is that he was an imbnsiness-like business man who

■ransacted a transparent piece of business by means of a sordid He. We are accustomed to hear the term used to describe not merely a liar but a sordid liar. Ananias was not bitched to a cart; he .was hitched to a wife.” In discussing the meaning of the word, Mr H, D. Bell, K.C., pointed out that he had taken the trouble to look up the exact reference, and had found that Ananias was not by any means so bad as the reputation ho appeared to have earned seem'd to indicate. All he did was to band over to the Apostles only part d' the proceeds of the sale of his own oroportv, instead of the whole, as be said. Mr Justice Denniston remarked that it was too late to attempt to whitewash Ananias now.