LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 36, 27 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The H:nvera Swimming Bath is to ho opened for use next Saturday. A sitting of the Juvenile Court will l)e hold on Friday, when a lad will be charged with false pretences. The sitting of the Magistrate’s Court on Friday should establish a record for brevity, as only three undefended civil actions and two judgment summonses are set down for hearing. A recent official enquiry addressed to 600 Missouri farmers’ wives brought from 53 par cent, of those who answered the reply that the cause of their dissatisfaction with farm l;fe js that they have no running water in the house. It is no small matter to carry water from a distant pump a do non times a day. The manager of the Longburn Dairy Factory, in liis latest monthly report, complained of very strong feed flavours in the milk, caused chiefly by thousand-headed kale being used for cow feed, and he thought that if the kale was cut several days before being used the flavours would not be so pronounced.

Messrs F. Black, Wellington, representing the Electric Supply Co., and E. E. Stock, Dunedin City El rubrical Engineer, representing tne Bor Pugh Council, are at present arr-iag-ing a date for the purpose of starting their work as arbitrators in connection with the Borough Council’s pioposed acquisition of the electric light works.

An extraordinary accident occurred outside liis Majesty’s Theatre, Auckland, on Wednesday evening (says the “Star”). At the conclusion of the “Our Miss Gibbs” performance there was the usual efflux of theatregoers, and a rush for the cars. In crossing the street a young lady, when almost on, the, tram line, found that she_ was in danger of being run down by'either a tram car or a, motor car. To havcattempted to cross the rails would seemingly have meant stepping in front of the tram as it travelled down Queen Street; to have attempted a retreat likewise appeared to lie courting a collision with the motor car, which was also travelling down Queen Street and running abreast of the tram. The lady did what might have been expected under the circumstances she moved neither way hut fell in a dead faint on the spot. Both the tram and the motor jammed on all brakes, and both were brought to a standstill, almost directly over the prostrate figure. The lady was picked up by a policeman, and conveyed to hot home by the occupiers of the motorcar. Her escape from injury was r fortunate one.

Somewhere between five and six o’clock yesterday morning, says today’s “News,” a' middle-aged man named Edward Byden Coburn, employed by Mr. H. T. .Toll as a driver on one of his meat-hawking carts, attempted to commit suicide at his home in Leach Street. He rose very early, earlier than his wont, but told his wife she need not bother to get up just yet, as he would not be ready for breakfast for a long time \ ot. A noise some little while later startled her, but on going out to the kitchen she was unable to see her husband. Site found the door of the washhouse locked, and looked in to, see her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and a blood-stained razor k ing near. She called one of her sons, and when assistance had been procured the man was removed to the public hospital, where, though suffering from great loss of blood, it is believed he will recover. Coburn has been worrying a good deal lately, it is said, and left a letter showing an intention to commit suicide, but assigning no reason for the act. Coburn has a wife and seven children.