LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 45, 7 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Jimmy Lee has donted a guinea to the prize list for the forthcoming A. and I*. Association Show. . Jr. Joseph McClnggage is to deliver his first political address to a Stratford audience in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next. Mr. W. D. Anderson will commence practice as a barrister and solicitor at Toko and Midhirst next wcek( and will also open branch offices at Ngaire and Cardiff. The October number of the “Wide World Magazine” reaches us through Mr. C. E. James, of Broadway. It is in new form, and as full of sensational matter as ever. Mr. S. McKenzie, late of the Hawke’s Bay Dairy Company, who has been appointed tester for the Stratford and Midhirst dai-y factories, arrived in Stratford by last night’s train, and takes up his duties at once. The East Road Sheep-dog Trial Club has donated a special prize of a guinea to the A. and P. Association, to be awarded to the best working type of sheep-dog exhibited at the forthcoming show. The news of the decease of Mrs. Button, wife of Mr. F. C. Gatton, of Douglas, will be received with regret by many friends. The late Mrs. Gatton had been in bad health for some time past, and her death was not wholly unexpected. There are no children left.

Miss C. W. Christie is announced to deliver a lantern lecture in Stratford, in the Foresters’ Hall, on Wednesday evening next, her subject being, “India as I Found it.’’ Miss Christie is stated to be a very interesting speaker, and well worth hearing.

The twenty-first anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Churcli in Stratford will be celebrated to-morrow when special services will be held morning and evening. A large choir, Resisted by instrumentalists and vocalists, will render anthems and lead ;imi well-known hymns. The minister of the church, Mr Metson, will preach. On Tuesday next the tea and entertainment will bo held. Tea at 6.30, entertainment at 8. Dr. Stevens will preside over the latter. In tho course of the report to bo presented at the annual meeting of the Inglewood Bacon Curing Co., to be held on October 14th, it is stated tliat during the year the Company lias paid out to shareholders the sum of £533 14s Id in excess of the market price of pigs. A dividend of 5 pbr cent, on share capital, amounting to £lsl 14s has also been authorised to be paid, and a balance of £l2 14s is brought forward. As to the coming year’s prospects the report says:— “Tile outlook for the sale of factory products is very promising, and you*' .■iivetors would urge on all suppliers tiie importance of keeping up a maximum supply of pigs, the price of wmcii they believe will he highly remunerative during the coming* season.”

The negro type, the “Forum” asserts, is. gradually relinquishing its darker bodily shade and coming into, a rarer and more Caucasian colour. There are negroes, and an increasingly growing number of them, whoso colour is not far removed from the average Caucasian of Southern Europe or Western Asia. Many of them in truth might be taken for Orientals of the darker Italian or Spanish types. The only reasonable hypothesis is—the amalgamation of the negro with the Caucasion. It alone can account for the gradual change in the frontal development of the head, the gradual thinning of the lips, the gradual contraction of the nostrils, and the gradual change in the texture of the hair, receding from its primitive curly state to the straight, black, coarse hair of the South Asiatic, the Malay, or Pacific Island type. This is so emphatically striking that attention only need bo called to the fact.

The following message from Melbourne was published .in the “Sydney Morning Herald,” on September 25: Awakening at about half-past one o’clock yesterday morning, Mr, Davis Do wrick, private secretary to the .Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Graham, saw a man examining the interior of a wardrobe by the light of a candle •which lie held in his hand. Dowrick slipped out of bed and grabbed the ipan round the neck. They rolled on the floor, and a struggle ensued. The lamp globe was knocked down, and there was danger of injury from broken glass. Air. Dowrick left the .com and held the door fast, at the same lime calling for assistance. The burglar tried to pull the door open. Dowrick’s mother and sister were aroused, and they came to the door in tiie dark. Suddenly Mr. Dpwrick lot go bis grip on the door handle, thinking the man on the other side would fall. The burglar, however, kept his feet, and came out, just missing a swinging blow which Mr. Dowrick directed at his head. They wore in the pasasge, and it was dark, Mrs. Dowrick caught hold of the man and told him to leave the house. She then fainted, me burglar prevented her from falling to the floor, and gently handed her over to her son. t!'o then left by the back door, taking with him 11s 6d.

From time immemorial, probably, ships have sailed with something in the nature of a medicine chest on board. Long ago the Board of Trade laid down regulations prescribing what drugs should be carried, leaving it, of course, to the master of a) 1) ' t ' Iccido what Id be tl:

frhe ship to decide what would be the best remedies for particulars ailments. Old salts wlio were quite competent to do a bit of rough surgery when occasion required were hardly likely to go far wrong when it came to selecting a pill or mixing a potion. In too end, however, things reached a rather unsatisfactory stage. New drugs as well as new ideas came into \ ague, putting to shame the oldtime medicine chest, and leaving the sailor at a loss for some of the best and most effective of the new-fashion-ed cures. The ship-owner, too, got a little tired of paying for drugs which were but rarely used, but were, nevertheless, not inexpensive. The upshot of it was that the Board of Trade appointed a committee of medical men to go into the whole question with a view of bringing the ship’s medicine chest right up to date. This committee has rigorously overhauled the old scales, and has suggested all sorts of improvements. Among other things, it proposes that medicines in tablet form hitherto not permitted by the scales shall in future bo carried, under a strict guarantee of quality. This will be a very groat convenience, - as it will allow of the use of a wide range of drugs' which can he put on hoard in a cornmet farm. It will be understood that the committee’s enquiry was p irticularly concerned with the case of ships which carry no doctor. It is l ore that the need for reform is particularly marked.

Judging by the amount of work to be done it is improbable that the Whangamomona tunnel will be finished this year, and owing to the number of bridges to bo built, it will probably be twelve or eighteen months before the trains run into Whangamomona township.

\ A very successful social was held by ■ the Foresters’ Lodge in the Town Hall on Thursday last, being the wind-up of a series of socials held by tFim this season. About a hundred TOuples were present, dancing continuing until 2 a.m. The supper arrangements were in the very_ capable hands of a cornmitteo of ladies fiorn the female court of the horesters - Court. Islington—and the i result of their efforts proved highly pleasing to all present. -Excellent music for the dancing was supplied by an orchestra consisting of Messrs. S\ alsli (2) and Parker.

The annual concert and dance in connection with the Ngaire School was held last night, a large crowd being present. It had been ■ held on a previous date, but owing to the wet weather interfering with the attendance it was repeated. The first two hours of the evening were occupied by the school children, who contributed songs and drill, their performance reflecting the greatest credit on the teachers who trained them. Miss Saunders, of Stratford, contributed a song, and Miss Kebboll gave every satisfaction at the piano. -After the concert concluded dancing was indulged in, being continued .till about half past one. Mr. A. Scott acted as M. 0., and music for. the dancing was Shed by Messrs. Walsh (2), and er. ■