The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 11, 29 August 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. J. W. Boon made a start this morning with the erection of the new building for the Egmont Chib/ Mr. Newton King lias received the following cable from his Sydney agents, re hides:—“Unchanged.” Messrs. Borthwick and Sons, Waitara, have kindly donated to the Stratford A. and P. Association a three-guinea special prize for the best pen ot three porkers. Only 1291 cases were set, down for hearing by the King’s Pencil Judges in London at the beginning of the last Easter sittings, which is the smallest number known in, legal memory. “We are selling a journal at 2s 6d per annum that is worth £o,” said the Hon. T. Mackenzie, speaking in Parliament of the periodical issued by bis department, “therefore, the circulation is increasing rapidly, particularly in the Scottish community.”

The claims of the west coast of the North Island to representation in the Legislative Council are being urged upon the Government, it being pointed out that there is no member of the Legislative Council resident between Wellington and PI a worn.

Sydney tj ccmlists affirm, after a long series of observations that influenza is one cf the prineipil causes of appendicitis, the influenza bacillus having been, in fact, found in the an nsndie. After an cr.i.lvn a* of iihr.enza cases, of nupmi hint-s have been notice! to be -much nv-'D mvjumb. “The unfortunate experience of this Court,” remarked Mr. Justice Donniston to the jury at the Supremo Court at Christchurch, “is that many a man, whilst not dreaming of doing it to convict a man, will ycU strain Ids conscience and tell a falsehood on oath, in Court to save a friend.”

fa a collection of autograph letters offered for sale at Sotherby’s, in London, recently, there was a note addressed Ivy the Prince Consort to the, late Kin” Edward that throws a Hood of pleasant light upon homely family life in the early days at Windsor Castle:—“My dear Edward, I. wish you to copy this and write it nicely. It will give pleasure to your dear mamma.” There follow four lines in Carman. Another interesting letter was one from Meredith. Writing to Eyre Crowe from 7, Ho bury Street, Chelsea, January :, 1853, with a hook entitled “German Love,” Meredith says: “it is a hook women must like, a book to find them out. For women feel deeper than wo do, though they don’t think so deep. Hence their craving for a preacher, a poet, anything that will beget a thought upon their emotions, as this I mol-; will.” To Mr (las keli. Charles Dickens, under child February 21, 1858, open his heart about tremolos that environ him in his editorial capacity at the office of ‘‘Household Words.’ Declining with thanks n manuscript .Mrs .(laskoll has submitted to him, he continues“ How anybody can contentedly sit down to ic is inscrutable. Don’t you feci the same astonishment f People don’t plunge into churches and play the organs without knowing the notes, or having the ghost of an ear. Yet fifty people a day rush into manuscript for these leaves only who have no earth!, qmiiihc.vtiou but the actual physical art of-writing. W ills is ill. and I am at this moment dieting (up to the neck) in a quagmire of these prnduc(ions.” For io.r.vienra take Woods’ (Ire.-r Peppermint Cure; never fails. Is C and 2s ltd *

The annual meeting of the Racing Rub will lie held in the Rorougu Jounci! Chamber at S o : cl :ek lias evening. One hundred arc! one iv.ilns an hour, at an average, was the record speed ofcutly attained in an aeroplane by ■ I'Vmch aviator. A strong following •rind was the cause of his success. Last year, at Za.ndvoort, in Holard, a crow and a. magpie mated, they sat in turn on the eggs, hut as nothing seemed to he forthcoming tr.ev ace them. 'I liis year the owner

cook away the eggs and put them under a sitting starling. The result is awaited with much curiosity.

Rapid progress is being made on the iVoolworth building, located on tl:o

.'roadway, New York. This immense structure will have 55 stories, and the /rent tower 80 feet square will rise / 50 feet above the sidewalk. Provision las been made for 3-1 elevators. r J be uibical contents of the budding exceed :3,200,000 cubic foot! Tue'caissons are mdded on solid rock 130 feet below

die sidewalk level. The building was begun last November, and will lie completed early next year. There have been some very discreditable scenes in tiie South Australian Legislative Council of late. On a recent occasion the Minister of Agriculture did not reply to a question ol Mr. Bice, who then referred to the Minister as “an absolute shuffler.” To this the Minister with great passion retorted; “You are an infernal soundrel!” Hon. members exclaimed, “Shame! Shame!” as well they might. Another member ejaculated', referring to the Minister, “I would not like to die in the same paddock as you!” This is a nice example to those whom they represent! William Carrington Smith Heale was charged at tue Melbourne City Court last week with having iasuhicient lawful means of support. Constable Berkery said that ho caw Heale lying in a doorway in ilourke Street. Some old rags and papers, wore burning near him, and he had a bottle of beer. Heale usually camped on a vacant allotment in King Street, and was in the habit of raking over dust-bins to ootaiu load. Heale on oath, said that he earned 18s dd a week by selling light wood. Ho had been a bank manager for 22 years, and for live years lie was superintendent in Sydney of a large financial institution at a salary of £IUOU a year. He also said that no was the highest Mason in the Commonwealth. Heale, against .whom there were several previous convictions for similar offences, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment.

An anecdote illustrating tlie decay of traditional naval customs is related by a Service correspondent (says London “Truth”). He states that ins ship was at a certain port, where an entertainment in aid of a deserving cause was being organised, and a lady who was helping in tins suggested that a real sailor’s hornpipe danced by a bluejacket would be a novel attraction. Tiie officer promptly volunteered to find her twenty'performers. But his confidence received a mild shock, when, after exhaustive enquiry, he discovered that only one man of the whole ship’s company could dance the hornpipe at all, and lie, a steward, who had to ;be rigged out in bluejacket’s kit in order to save the reputation of the ship.

The attention of the forecabin steward of the steamer Kapunda, which was leaving Melbourne the other day, bound for Adelaide and Fremantle, was attracted by a feeble cry issuing from the men’s compartment of the steerage. On investigation ho found :r warmly-clad healthy looking rein aid infant about six weeks old. The infant was taken charge of by a Custom House officer, who handed it over to the police. Just previous to the sailing of the steamer two women, one of wljom carried a pared, came on board and went off again unencumbered. Beside the child was a bottle of milk, which smelt strongly of gin, with the object, doubtless, of ensuring the child sleeping until the vessel had started on her voyage.

A bulldog held up the traffic of Swaxston Street, Melbourne, for about ten minutes during one morning last week. Thomas Mather was driving a lorry along that thoroughfare, and when at the corner of Little Collins Street the dog Hew at the horse and fastened to its neck, dragging it down upon its knees. _ The horse shook the dog off, but the dog seined the horse’s foreleg and hung on again, the horse rearing and striking at it with its other forehoof. Eventually it knocked the dog off, and a wheel of the lorry pased over it. The dog attacked the horse again, holding to its foreleg for about 50 yards. At the corner of Collins Street it lot go again, and once more got under tno woods. It was preparing to attack the horse once more, when a constable lassoed the dog with bis bolt. On the way to the Town Hall basement it tried to fly at another horse, but the belt held.

At the annual dinner of the Auckland Law Institute, held last Wednesday, some important remarks were made an connection with matters pertaining to the legal profession. Alter the toast of “The King” had been duly honoured, the chairman (Mr. J. 15. 'Johnston) proposed the toast of “The Judiciary,” and referred to the high standard’of ability and character that had marked the occupants of the judicial benches both in England and the Dominion. In replying, Mr. Justice Chapman mentioned with regret the"'decline of the system of articled clerics, and stated that the absence of

a proper system of apprenticeship had been deleterious to the legal ■ profession, as in other vocations. He also referred to the poor standard of English pronuncaicion that was found increasingly in New Zealand, even affecting the Bar, and urged that the matter of thorough training in this respect, as in other departments of legal education, should receive the earnest attention of the profession. The death of an infant from the efforts of an attack by a rooster has boon reported to the Balmain police (says the Sydney “Daily Telegraph”). A child, seven months old, Thelma Nellie Lillie, youngest daughter of Mr and .Mrs. L. 0. Lillie, of Clay Street, Balmain, was taken bv her mother to visit a friend on .Inly 20fch. A girl eight years of ago, Stella Colvin, took the baby to nurse. She went on to the verandah and sat down on a stool. Soon afterwards a rooster in the yard attacked the children, peeking foe baby on tbo cheek, and twice on the head, and the girl on tbo right arm ■and bead. The baby bled profusely from one of the head wounds. The mother immediately attended to the child, but finding she did not get better, took her to the Children’s Kospi ta 1 on duly 20th, whore she was attended to. As the infant showed no

signs of improvement, she was then taken to Dr. S. S. Shirlow, on duly .‘list, who operated and removed a piece of loose bone from the bead. The baby still showed no Improvement, and was eventually taken to the Balmain Hospital, where she lingered for ton day'-., and died on the loth hist., death b iag due. in the oniuimi of Dr. D. C. Bruce Hillman, resident doctor of Die hospital, to meningitis, due to a fractured skull.

Messrs Spence and Stanford, acting for the local Hospital Board, advertise elsewhere in our columns, a proclamation taking sections 8/6, 877, 914, and 915 Town of Stratford, situate in Miranda, and rortia Streets, by the Stratford Hospital nd Chaiitablc Aid Board for hospital ourpcscs.

Mr. A. H, Herbert, who is opposing Mr. A. W. Hogg for the Masterton electorate, addressing tho Hukanui settlors, said the time had arrived when there should be a break in the continuous 'Ministry. The Government badly needed reforming. At the conclusion of Ids speech, it was moved: “'That this meeting considers tho time has arrived when the Government should be turned out of office.”—On the motion being put, it was carried without a‘ dissenting voice.

Ingenious indeed are the n ctliods which debaters often empl >y to emphasise a point of argument, but that used by a speaker in a debate which took place not a hundred miles from Wanganui on a recent evening was certainly unusual. A member of a team was chaHanged to prove a statement which ho bad uttered, and, in support, annealed to one of his side who had already spoken. This gentleman, apparently indignant that the veracity of Ids confrere should have been doubted, arose in ids wrath, and bending upon the presumptions challenger a look in which anger and contempt struggled for predominance, delivered himself thus; “I’m willing to bet ton shillings to prove the truth of our statements!”—and then, in _a voice of thunder: “Will you take it up?” “I’m afraid that won’t influence tne judge,” said the chairman; the audience smiled broadly, and the incident ended.

The safety and tire future development of aviation were subjects on which Mr. Grahame White gave enlightening opinions to the Women’s Aerial League in London recently. “An aeroplane,” he said, “if it is of good construction, made on recent principles, and driven by a capable man, is as safe as a taxi-cab, or safer. I believe : that very few accidents are attributable to faulty construction ; of course, you can never fell exactly what happened. The dead aviator cannot reveal much to you. But it is probable that the majority of accidents are caused by something similar to the breaking of an axle in a motor-car. Machines are not by any means perfect yet. In the matter of future construction we shall not follow nature—there is much that nature leaves entirely imperfect, and, in my opinion, if we can’t improve on animal flight, there is a poor future before the art of aviation. ’

The ‘•'Autocar,’’ writing about a complaint that the Lout in some streams are being poisoned by the tar washed off certain loads ,sa>s; — “Whether this mortality among the fish is serious or not wo to net know, but, so far as we can gather, it is not, as only a few fish have died. It is doubtful whether the rnomhty is really caused by the drainage from the? tarred roads or not. However, on the assumption that it is, it is well to_ remember that the road tar used is a powerful antiseptic, and, although :z may not agree with_ the fish and some of the lower organisms,, it-is an admitted fact that since the cxtenoivo tarring of the roads in Battersea, certain diseases, particularly soreness of the eyes, which were observed in children who played in the streets, have almost entirely disappeared in districts whore the streets are tarred, and there is very little doubt tnat similarly beneficial results will be noted in all towns and villages where the roads are treated with tar compounds.” As is usual, that portion of the, Petone Courtroom set aside for the public was crowded on Monday on the occasion of the monthly sitting of the Court, says the Wellington “Post.” Interruptions in the business were frequent, and fianlly they drew from Dr. McArthur, who presided, some very pointed remarks. “I have noticed,” ho said, addressing those assembled, “that this Court is always crowded, and it looks to mo as if you have not got much to do. Surely there is some other kind of entertainment to be found in Pctone, or a library where you might go to fill in your time. There appears to lie a number of vouths here to-day. We don’t allow them inside the Court in Wellington, and we are not going to allcjw it here. One of these days 1 will have a look at all of you,, and order outside all who seem to mo to be under twentyone. I am surprised that you should want to come and hear these trivial cases. It is only idle curiosity,” he concluded, “that is all.”