LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 6 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death occurred at New Plymouth yesterday of Mrs. Oliver K mickey,* at the ago of 59 years. Mr. Alex McCracken, of Kltham, ims donated three guineas to the Stratford A. and I’. Association for best yearling foal by \ ictory, at the forthcoming show. Of the fourteen civil cases set down for hearing at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, only one came into Court, the rest being settled, .judgment by default was given in the cas? I. Masters and Son v. .Joseph Cabollo, for CIO .‘is 9d, with costs L’l Ids Gd.

Apparently old maids are not tnc only people who are touchy eJior.t their ayes. At the Juvenile Com i this morning it came out that a man aged o(i was unable yot to draw tat •old-age pension, as, when lie had got married, he had understated bis age :iv two years, so that lie will have y

wait another year before being aide Lo claim the pension.

During a tire at Berettco-Bsda, Hungary, an cightcon-vear-old girl, named Aiiriska Turge, lost her life in trying to save her wedding gown, says the “.Daily Mail’s” Vienna correspondent. The gild was to have been married on the next day, and al■Tough not in the house when the fir: broke out, rushed into the burning building to secure the bridal robs. She was maimed by some falling timber, and died within a few hours. It was mentioned by an export witness at the sitting in Dunedin of the Royal Commission on Mines that there are 5000 steam boilers under Government supervision in the Dominion. Of that total there are 800 in Otago. The same witness said that there were no export boiler inspectors representing the Government in England or in the Commonwealth, as we have in New Zealand. Here an official record of all boilers was kept from their birth until they were condomcnd to the scrap heap. In proportion to the number of boilers in use there wore fewer explosions in New Zealand than in Great Britain. Australia, and America.

At the Juvenile Court this morning two very young lads were charged with Theft at Midhirst. The father attended and told the Court that ho had had twenty children altogether, and that at present ho could not do any work. The S.M. (Mr. Kenrick) held that the boys were not properly controlled, and committed the elder to the Burnham Industrial School. He said he would do nothing with the younger lad, declining even to record a conviction; but the father was warned that if he did not control his children better more of them would have to bo sent to the Industrial School.

The military section of the Medical Congress discussed various interesting topics, but when it touched on the physique of the Australian youth and Id's chest measurement, and the means for improving the Australian physically, says the “Sydney Morning Herald,” it ilealt with a subject of paramount importance. But'during the discussion Colonel Roth fired a shot into the locker of the physical culfurists. He said that chest measurements were useless as a guide, the firemen of Sydney—a fine body of men physically—could only expand about three inches. He could get any man and in month add an inch or rnoro to his chest expansion. The Colonel himself could expand six inches, hut it was all knack, and had no bearing on general fitness. The best guide was height and weight. The average Australian was net deepchested, but long-chested. The likeliest place to find a ship’s figurehead nowadays is, it is said, in a suburban tea-garden. Certainly there are few ships afloat which carry them. One of the shipping newspapers, however, recalls the fact that Lie Latimer, once a London-owned Ship, and now purchased by Norwegians, is going about the world with a singular figurehead. This is nothing less than a large open Bible, on which one may read Solomon’s advice to “Hear instruction and be wise, > and refuse it not.” When heard of last July, the Latimer, now known as the, Muella, was in a far-away port,’’apparently waiting to load timber. One of the most effective of the figureheads that used to come into the Thames was that of the sailing coaster Sam Weller. This took the shape of a lifelike model of Sam Weller, as Cruickshank depicted him.

At the Magistrate’s Court this morning Mr. Wake made application for leave to file a notice of defence in a case, despite the fact that the time allowed for such action had expired. The S.M. said in such matters he desired to have a set rule laid down, and he would only grant such leave on the understanding that costs were paid. Mr. Wake said his client lived at Whanganiomona. Ho did not read his summons, and had appealed to the local storekeeper as to what action he should takebut this personage did not know of the necessity for filing a defence, so that his actvice on the matter had misled the defendant. Mr. Stanford, appearing for plaintiff, said he had never heard a more unique plea. The S.M. said that if country storekeepers set up in business as hush lawyers they should take care to he more conversant with the law. On the general principle he said that he felt indisposed to grant leave in any case except when it was proved that the I person receiving the summons could not read or write. He generally feltindisposed to grant leave, because the notice regarding the necessity cf filing a defence was clearly printed bn the summons, the law had been in operation since 1909, and there had been numerous references to the matter in the newspapers. Mr. Wake pointed out that defendant had a good defence, and finally the SAL decided to adjourn the case until 12.30 to enable defendant to file an affidavit. With the affidavit before him lie would decide whether or not ho would grant the application. The following overture was passed at the meeting of tiio Nelson Presbytery in Nelson recently:—“Whereas the Presbytery of Dunedin has named the new Training Institute for Women in Dunedin ‘St. 1 Margaret’s Training College’ ; whereas the history of Queen Margaret of Scotland is medieval, fulsome, and legendary ; whereas one of the Popes has canncniscd her, and the Church of Rome recommends tiie adoration of her relics and hath appointed a festival day in honour of the memory of one reckoned to have done good service in riveting the chains of Romanism more firmly on Scotland; whereas there is danger this Presbyterian Training College in Dunedin with its present designation may lie confounded with an unreformed medieval institution or wit!, a college usso for '•.union an! Inn.mg the same name in Christchurch whose teaching is far from being ibat c.f this General Assembly; the Presbytery of Nelson humbly overtures the Assembly, to n. ,, et .n Duti'P'ii, to give to tliis in uc i-io< ded 'I ruling College a name, or to direct the Presbytery of Dunedin to give it a name, which will not lie open to these objections, which will not wantonly insu't the conscientious convictions of local Presbyterians who perceive that it is in Protestant countries to-day where Romo is taking the firmest hold, and which name will to some extent embody the true genius of Presbyterian* ism! The Presbytery also requests the Assembly, in view of the slighting of Protestant principles on every band, and in many churches, to appoint a vigilance committee on Ritualism and Romanism as in the United Free Church of Scotland, or to take such steps as in its wisdom it shall sec Jit.” The Nelson Presbytery also agreed to act as a Vigilance Committee until the Asesmbly should appoint one.

The race advertised to take place yesterday between Messrs Fahey and Jakes was postponed, owing to the very serious illness of .Airs Jakc-s. The general committee of the A. and P. Association will meet on the showground at 11 a.m. on • Octobef 1-1-tJi.

Alcssrs Dingle, Hoaly, Dobson, Malone and Sangster were present at last night’s meeting of the executive committee of the A. and P. Association, when a large number of routine matters in connection with the show were discussed. The secretary was instructed to write to applicants for space at the show stating that the fees to he charged would be fixed at a later date. ft was decided to get quotations for painting the caretaker’s residence.

Tiie police received notice yesterday that a man named George Nelly, aged 31, had been found dead in bed in his camp about twenty miles past Whangamomona. Nelly was . with a gang of men engaged on road work for the Public Works Department, and lie worked right up to knock-off time on Wednesday, also trimming a mate’s hair befor he retired for the night about eight o’clock. On Tin. ►- day morning he was found dead in bed. The body was removed to Whangamomona, and Air. C. D. 'Sole left for there last night in order to hold an inquest.