The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 21 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 21 September 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER, 21 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Stratford Cricket Club n il! be Held at the Comity Hotel at 8 o’clock this evening. The road roller question bobbed up seremjly at tho, meeting of the County Council yesterday, although it had previously boon held over for the consideration of tiio now Council to bo elected in November. There was a proposal to do some work at a considerable cost, and Cr. Hathaway said he could not support the proposal—lie would prefer to oppose the proposal with the idea of forcing tiie Council to get a road roller, a scarifier, or something. Discussion on the roller question being- out of order, Councillors devoted tnemselves to discussion on tho Strakor waggon and kindred subjects. A traveller in Tibet relates that he saw women wearing a garment constructed of wood. Wooden clothes, however, are not likely to be confined to Tibet if the idea of an American inventor becomes popular. Ho lias manufactured for himself and wears a fancy waistcoat of pinewood fibre, and looks forward to tho time when wooden suits will bo generally worn. The wood is, of course, not in its usually crude form, but it is first reduced to pulp, then drawn into threads and woven like cloth. Cloth of this kind wears like leather, and is cheaper than the cheapest cloth. Tho making of a grant to the Albania Road caused some trouble at the mooting of tho County Council yesterday. It was moved that £t!o be granted. An amendment that £3O bo granted was lost on the casting vote of the Chairman. The motion to grant £(5() was lost, five voting against it and tliroo in its favour. The Chair-

man then moved that £SO be granted,' but the voting was equal, and he had to give his casting vote against the motion. Tho opinion was expressed at this point that some money should bo granted, and finally £45 was voted.

Details of tho disappearance of radium of tho value of £l‘2s from the Birmingham General Hospital were made known recently. Dr. Douglas Heath bad charge of the precious metal to treat a patient, and after using it placed it on bis. table.' Later in the day be found that .someone haul taken it away. Me informed the hospital authorities and a thorough search was made. No trace of the radium could 1)0 found. The police wove called in and a reward of £5 was rHerod. Nothing was head of the missing indium, however, for several days. Eventually the police traced it to tho patient whom Dr. Heath had treated a fortnight before. Apparently bo had l:;l;en it away thinking In' had to use it at home. For several da; I .s he bad been experimenting with il on his face, and as the result of his efforts lie will probably lose his nose.

The County Council yesterday decided to make a claim for £5 on a settler who, the riding foreman reported, had grazed a number of cattle on a Countv road for some time.

The question of arranging the hours of work of the County Council’s road staff so' Liiat they could have a weekly halt-holiday came up at yesterday’s meeting, but after a short discussion was postponed until too next meeting.

The American Navy Department proposes to test “incinerators” on warships. In the workl-cii ling cruise of the American battleship fleet the slower service ‘ ships reported that tiiay had no diihculty in trailing the lighters by tiie litter which floated in their wake for miles. Experts consider that this is a dangerous condition in time of war, and, therefore, for the sake of covering the trails and for sanitary purposes, incinerators are being tested. The following hours will be observed by the Post and Telegraph Office on Dominion Day, Monday, 25th September ;—Postal Branch : Open from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. for delivery of correspondence only. Telegraph Branch: Open 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., and 7 to 8 p.m. Telephone Exchange: Open as usual. Mails outwards close at 8 a.m. Mails inwards sorted on arrival. Only morning clearances of pillar boxes, and no delivery by lettercarriers. On Saturady evening (2 srd iust.) a delivery of correspondence will bo made over the counter from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., and again on Monday morning (25th hist.) from 9 to 10 a.m.

There is generally a glut in the egg market at tins time of the year, says the “Wanganui Herald,” and it is satisfactory to know that tiie local Egg Circle is still alive and equal to the occasion, having entered into u contract to supply an order for 10,000 dozen eggs before Christmas to one firm, at a price very satisfactory to the suppliers. This should he the means of easing the market of its surplus eggs. Owing to Wanganui being specially adapted for poultry farming, it is becoming a very important industry, many having already opened up here in that class of business, it is therefore satisfactory to lind that those enterprising people, who are prepared to put eggs on the market guaranteed fresh, arc beginning to got some encouragement from outside as well as local firms, who are beginning to realise that the public appreciate a good article in the egg and poultry line.

At Rotorua, a unique sight c;in be offered to visitors and residents, for many have never seen it, says the Auckland Star.' Strolling along the banks of the Utuhina, for an afternoon’s walk, past Sheriff’s farm, and inspecting the stream as one goes, hundreds and thousands of trout will be seen at the bottom. There they arc, ranged by companies and battalions like soldiers on review. The heads are all up-stream, and the tails are gently waving to keep them in their positions in the ranks. They have come from the lake to spawn in shallow water, where there is a sandy or shingly bottom. It is a beautiful and wonderful sight, especially to those from the Old Country accustomed to half and three-quarter pounders ; for here can be seen many trout that would tip the scales at ten pounds.

Whether the early Australian pior.-. eers,_ besides being a plucky and determined class, were a rather morbid lot, is a moot point, says the Sydney “Daily Telegraph.” Their geographical nomenclature, at any rate, was not always of a cheerful or light-h.ea.rted description, for it would be hard to find a bush district with any scenery to speak of which does not possess a “Dead Man’s Gully,” “Mount IvFisery,” “Hangman’s Hollow,” “Cutthroat Creek,” “Devil’s Pool,” or some such lively and inspiring spot. A pastoral witness in the Federal Arbitration Court was endeavouring to fix the location of his station, Glenmore, in Mr. Justice Higgins’s mind. “It’s south of Yea,” lie' explained, “in tlie north-eastern district of Victoria.” “Oh, I think I know the whereabouts,” skid his Honour, “there’s a Mount Disappointment there; isn’t it so?” “Um—no,” said the witness reflectively, and added amid hearty laughter, “I don’t know of a hill of that name, but there’s a Mount Despair near mv place.” At a breakfast held in connection with the meeting of the British Medical Association at Birmingham (states the London “Daily Chronicle”) the president, Dr. Sanndly, delivered an address on the progress of temperance principles. Nothing, was more, striking, ho said, than the great change of opinion that had taken place in England during the last ten or fifteen years. A few years ago the water drinkers were upon as eccentric, even in temperance circles, because although they did not drink alcohol, they drank all sorts of temperance drinks. Nowadays, one found most men in the middle' of the day drank water and nothing else with their luncheon. In all clubs there has been a great complaint of the falling off in the receipts in regard to alcoholic drinks, due to this most excellent change of fashion, and he hoped that the fashion was one which had come to stay. Sir Victor Horsely also spoke, and said that investigation had proved that such an agent as alcohol had the effect of reducing the physiological activities of tlie blood.