LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 20 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The meeting of the Chamber of Commerce called for last night lapsed for want of a quorum. Mr. H. S. Munro, proprietor of the Foxton Family Hotel, made a rich discovery on Sunday last. One of the drain pipes in the road was choked, and Mr. Munro, in digging it up, unearthed a gold watch and chain, with greenstone pendant, and several silver anej. copper coins. The discovery was made two feet below the surface. The watch is a valuable timepiece, and suitably inscribed. Strong protests have boon voiced in London of late that the lingo expenditure which the Delhi Coronation durbar will entail should not bo countenanced while portions of India' are so sorely afflicted with drought, pestilence, and famine. It is officially estimated that the cost will run into £1,125,000, towards which, the House of Commons has voted only £120,000. Even those whoso Imperialist sentiments are most pronounced are demanding that the durbar should be called off. The King and the Queen will take to India their Coronation robes and crowns, and the whole of the regalia. It will he the first time thtub tnis ten million pounds’ worth of valuables has gone out of England. Nearly all tiie nobility and society leaders will make the trip at meir own expense. A unique ceremony is planned to take plaqp in Calcutta on December 30th, when the King will bo weighed against masses cf gold and silver, which will afterwards be distributed to the poor. A case arising through an agent deferring the sending of a cable stopping the sale of his principal’s cheese occupied the attention of the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin on Thursday last. The plaintiff was Jonas Dumbleton, Otamita, dairy factory proprietor, and tire defendant J. B. McEwan, Dunedin, exporter. Defendant acted as agent for plaintiff in consigning and colling cheese. One hundred and ninety-nine hun-dred-weight of cheese was delivered for consignment to and sale in London per Arawa. On January 17 plaintiff instructed defendant to stop the sale of the shipment ,l, by cable. Defendant, according to the statement of claim, did not carry out this instruction, and the cheese was sold at 57s 6d per cwt., where, if instructions had been carried out it would have realised 61s per- cwt. Plaintiff claimed the difference on 199 cwt., amounting to £34 16s 6d. The defence was that McEwan had advanced 5d per lb. on the shipment, and thus had control over it, so that it was not necessary to consult plaintiff. Decision was reserved.

The sensitiveness of Italy towards criticism of its emigrants was shown in the case of some who went to Australia a few years ago, and the same spirit now reappears as a result of sanitary precautions taken to prevent the introduction of disease by Italian emigrants who are going in large numbers to the Argentine. The Italian authorities treat the matter as one of national dignity. -They state that adequate measures wore some time ago taken by Italy to avoid all cause of complaint, and they had ground for believing that the Argentine Government would show some confidence in the Italian hygienic organisation and give up sending medical inspectors on board liners which were under the supervision of a medical officer of tile Royal Navy in the capacity of royal commissioner, and would exempt all steamers without distinction from quarantine at Argentine ports. The Argentine Government having, however, insisted on maintaining these measures in spite of the Italian Government’s refusal to take on board the medical officers of the republic, “who should have conducted themselves _in accordance with regulations which limit the authority of the royal commissioners, the Government, witlp a view to upholding the national dignity, has suspended by decree all emigration to Argentine.

The death of Mr. James Ciimo, at the age of 91 years, is recorded by tlie ‘-Polonis Guardian.” Deceased, who was a native of Cornwall, arrived with his wife in Nov/ Plymouth on March 31, 1811, and their first child —which was also the first white child born in this town —was born on November 5, 1811. Next year he loft New Plymouth and wont to Kawhia. On returning to Taranaki, Mr. Ciimo was shipwrecked at the Hoads and lost everything. Pie and his wile had to carry their- two children on their back for ten days, living on native food, and fording the rivers. They settled in Taranaki until tlio war broke out, when Mr. Ciimo was called out with the militia, armed, and drilled for defence purposes. In an engagement (Waireka) with the natives on 31 arch 28, 1860, be was wounded, and suffered more or less ever since from the effects of it. As soon as bo was able to leave the hospital bo was invalided to Nelson, and that was how ho eventually came to the Polorus. In August, 1862, lie left Blenheim for Lyttelton, overland, stopping on his way at a place known as “Giggororgo,” between Flaxboinno and the Clarence. Mr. Ciimo and Ids son sawed timber at this place for an accommodation house and school for a Mr. Titiley. They then went on to Lvtteltnn, went back to Wellington, and again returned to I‘icton. Mr. Ciimo also walked from New Plymouth to Auckland, bis wife and family going iv a schooner, which wont ashore on the Manukau bar. For three years ho worked amongst the kauri mills, and lie was there when tlio Californian diggings broke out. Shortly afterwards Mr. Ciimo returned to Havelock district, and had resided there ever since.

Monday next being Dominion Day, is a statutory bank holiday, and all the banks will accordingly bo closed.

A school concert in aid of the school baths, will bo held in the Coronation 'Tall, Toko, to-morrow (Thursday)' waning), commencing at 8 o'clock. There was a cold ‘'snap” yesterday, says the “Nows,” and no one was surprised to learn that snow foil at the North Egtnont Mountain House yesterday morning, starting at 7 o’clock, and continuing throughout the day.

Mr. A. T. McMahon, for many years a well-known resident of Strati oicl, has decided to take up his residence in the north, and leaves for Onohunga in about a fortnight’s time. During his residence here Mr. McMahon has taken an active interest 111 municipal politics, and has done good work as a school committeeman. His friends will unite in wishing him success in his new sphere. Word lias been received that Miss Dorothea Bayly, of Stratford, has succeeded in passing her L.A.B. musical examination. Miss Bayly is a pupil of the Wanganui Girls’" College, and studied under Mr. L. Peck. The honour obtained is the highest musical obtainable in New Zealand, and when it is remembered that Miss Bayly is still in her teens, the fact is very creditable, and is certainly convincing evidence of her musical ability.

Dr. Folshuo states that writer’s cramp and allied muscular affections are induced by the use of too small, a penholder. Many of the penholders in common use are too small to allow a firm grip to be taken, and the result is that the fingers close down tightly in an effort to hold the pen securely, and the long tension results in cramp. If men who write habitually will use a penholder three or four times as large as these generally employed they will never have trouble with their fingers or wrist; A good way to enlarge the penholder is to take a bit of flexible indiarubber tubing and place it on the holder. This both gives a larger stem and affords an agreeably soft surface, which does not need to be grasped very tightjy, or, in other words, which does not tend to slip.