LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 133, 28 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is every prospect of a doctor being permanently stationed in Whangamomona at the end of the present'

year. Judgment by default was given in the only one case at the Magistrate’s Court this morning—William Lovett v. John Bennett, £6, costs £1 10s 6d. Mr. Joseph McCluggage, who has been spending a few weeks at Russell, Bay of Islands, lias returned to Stratford much improved in health, and feeling Jit, for the political campaigning which lies ahead. _ The New Zealand Axemen’s Association, whose headquarters are at Eltham, has a balance of assets over liabilities of £384. The finances were strengthened by £76 as a result of last year’s contributions. Four charges arising out of an alleged assault on the Toko train a month ago were set down for hearing at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, but had to he adjourned for a week, as subpoenas sent to country witnesses in the case had been over-carried by the postal department. The Borough Inspector proceeded against J. Branjiigan at the 'Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge, that lie had failed to register two of his dogs. Mr. Fookes appeared for informant, defendant (who did not appear) having intimated that he intended to defend on the ground that the dog was not his. A fine of 20s, with costs 17s 6d, was imposed. A very pretty wedding was solemnised by the Rev. J. W. Griffin at the Methodist parsonage, Opnuako, on Thursday, the 20th inst., the contracting parties being 'Mr. W. A. Harrison, only son of Mr. W. Harrison, formerly of Dannevirke, and Miss Eva Griffin, eldest daughter of Rev. J. W. Griffin, of Opunako. The bride and bridegroom left during the afternoon en route for Auckland and Tauranga, where the honeymoon is to bo' spent. Their future home will be at Te Puke. Air. V. Nolan, of Te Wera, left by mail train to-day to attend the annual of the North Island Dog Trial Clubs’ Association, to he held at Palmerston North to-day. He will act as delegate for the East Road Sheepdog Trial Club. Mr. W. P. Kirkwood .Has kindly donated a. gold modal for. one of the events at next season’s, trials, and it is on display in Mr. J. Watson’s windoJv. The annual social of the East Road Club will take place shortly, and will be duly announced. C. I). Sole and Walter Brown ware each fined os, the latter without costs, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning on charges of having driven vehicles without lights after dark cii July 2-Ttii. The first-named defendant said he had informed the Borough inspector that he had had an accident on the road which had delayed him; but tiie Inspector said his excuse was that he had been delayed cn the road owing to one of his men having loft a job. Brown said that his lamp had been alight, but had gone out just before he met the Inspector; “The first person I mot,” said Brown tins morning, “after tlie light went cut, was the Inspector. I asked him for a match to re-light the lamp, hut he would not give me one.” The Inspector: “I hadn’t one to give you!” The offences took place at 5.55 ai d 5.45 respectively, and the S.M., Air. Konrick, said in such cases lie did not think heavy lines wore necessary—it was people who drove late at night and had no lamps who should bo heavily fined. “Nature Theatres” are the latest rage in Germany. All over the empire arc being founded theatrical organisations which produce plays in the open air. During this summer ‘‘Nature representations” will ho given more or loss regularly near every large town. At Potsdam* the municipality is leading the movement, and proposes to build an open air stags in a picturesque part of a neighbouring forest. The movement in that city is under the patronage of the Princess Mitel Fried) ich, who is a keen amateur actress. In South Germany the Nature theatre movement is loading to amusing extravagances. Near Nunibcrg an organisation is at woi k which fosters the quaint idea of “therapeutic spectacles.” The theory, is held that acting and reciting are ' u.res for mental and nervous diseases. \n Austrian doctor named Lack, who is in charge, professes to have cured many persons by forcing them to act before audiences of their friends in the open air. The, explanation given is that acting takes the patients out of themselves, and thus prevents them thinking of their own maladies. For chronic chest complaints, Woods' Great FeppeinTut Cure. Is Cd, 2s Gd.*

The annual meeting of the Horticultural Society was called for last night at the Borough Council Chambers, but owing to the large number of other axturcs a quorum did not turn up, and the meeting was adjourned until Tuesday next.

.An instance of the •mporianoe of v. irelcss telegraphy in commercial inatters is afforded by the use to v. Inch the Corinthic proposes to put her apparatus on her run Home. The Corinthic will sail finally from Wellington T; lUth August for’London via Monte Video, Toneriffe, and Plymouth. The London w 00l sales close on 18th SepLomber, but the Corinthic, by means of her wireless telegraphy, will be to report her whereabouts on hth September, and all her wool will 4 tans be included in the catalogue to be submitted at the sale. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” has received a communication from M. J. M. Chappa/., a resident at Mieussy, in the .i-Lpaitmcnt of the Haute Savoie, who p. eposes the follow ing invention: . An instantaneous language,. consisting of a new phonetic metiiod got up by forty-three polyglot professors of divers countries, enabling all the into, atants of the world to pronounce, read, write, spell, print, lithograph tclegrapn, type and telephone on the spot all local, national, colonial and international languages, including Esperanto, with tiieir pure accent, and without having studied them, and to nuclei .stand and speak these languages minutely more quickly and more corrcctly than by the ordinary methods ” in explaining this invention, the author says that it is based on the principle ot “reproducing the same sound ry one and the same letter in all languages m which it occurs.” He asserts that the forty-three learned polyglot professors have discovered that the sounds in all the languages in tlie world arc reduced to forty-five and consequently all that is required is to represent these forty-five sounds oy forty-five separate symbols, composing a universal alphabet. To enter into further details would only 'make matters too complicated at present. All the correspondent may add is that by the new method we may also learn to write in hieroglyphics, or, if we have been writing in hieroglyphics, to return to plain, simple language. Information has reached the Bluff of the privations of a party of three (including Air. P. McQuarrie, New Zealand champion heavy-weight boxer), who endeavoured to walk from Paterson’s Inlet (Stewart Island), to Mason’s Bay, on the other side of the island. The distance between the points is only a little over tw r enty miles, but there is no track, and the country is almost impassable. Communication is usually maintained by boat. The party had quite under-es-timated the difficulties to be encountered, and they were prepared for only a day’s journey. At the end of the first day they found themselves far from their destination. They had no bent, and as it commenced to freeze, choir anticipations for a comfortable eight’s rest were far from glowing. They managed to get a fire going, but fc was more decorative than useful. ? ocd that night consisted of two tins >f fruit, opened with a nail, and some bacon, which had to be cut with the top of one of the fruit tins. The frost vas much heavier than was anticipated. and their blankets were quickly coated with white. As their supply of blankets was not a particularly’extravagant one, it may be realised that their attempts to get to sleep were practically hopeless from the start. Next day they got off the “blaze,” and had a hard time floundering through a half-frozen swamp. They should have reached, Thomson’s run '( seven' ‘'miles' from their destination) that night, but when darkness came on and there was no sign of the hut they realised that they had gone astray, consequently they had to camp hy the lagoon. They had no fire, and practically no food. It froze harder than over. Next day they retraced their steps and picked up the “blaze” where they had left it. The track is known as Raggedy Trackby a few who have traversed it. They reached Thomson’s run that night in a pretty bad state, but were able to reach Atason’s Bay, over a good tx - ack, late the following afternoon.