LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 9 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The death, occurred at Egmont Road yesterday of tiio wife of Air. iSam Barriball, at the age of 51 years.

The ordinary meeting of the Bor ough Council will be held this even lug.

The Rugby Union will meet tomorrow evening, when the business for the season will be wound up.

Further celebrations in connection witn the Primitive Methodist anniversary will bo held to-morrow evening. There will be a tea, at 6.30 and entertainment at 8 o’clock.

At Hawera on Saturday some record prices were paid for town property. A section in High Street, with a frontage of 33ft. and a depth of 90ft., with two shops, occupied respectively by Messrs. Sergeant (jeweller) and bach (saddler); realised £99 per' foot. Six other sections in- Union--Street, each 40ft. by 66ft., brou'ght pricer ranging from £2O to £3B per foot. Ah these were the property of the late Mr. A. A. Fantham. Other sections in connection with various estates alst realised satisfactory prices. Messrs Gillies and Nalder were the auctioneers.

Dogs trained in England are to serve as scouts and sentries in the punitive expedition against the Aboi tribe, who murdered Mr. Noel Williamson and party on the Assam border, says tbe ‘.‘Morning Leader.” The ■dogs, which have been ordered by onr of the Ghurka regiments, are to Ik supplied by Major Richardson, dj Harrow, whose trained bloodhounds an famous. It is hoped that the ani mals will serve to protect the troppt from ambuscades in the dense jungles through which they will have tr march.

At a garden fete in the East Enc of London recently Father Bernard Vaughan was the recipient of an ad dress and a gun-metal watcli with r shoe-string as guard. Father Vaughn? (who is averse to presentations tc clergy), would allow no adult to subscribe more than a 'penny, and no child more than a farthing to tiieii present to him. In an amusing speech, Father Vaughan accepted tin new watch, and told a story of a woman who one day tripped after him from Farm Street Church, W., into the sacristy, exclaiming indignant!' that her satchel had been stolen while she was praying. ‘‘Next time,” Father Vaughan replied to her, “whor vou have valuables with you, follow the Master’s advice, watch and pray ind you will save both your tempo: md your satchel.” A correspondent of the “Dail; Mail” at Woore, Shropshire, writes; “Nine weeks ago we borrowed a Campine hen from a neighbour, who lived over the way about a hundred yard? distance. The hen brought forth ; good brood at the end of three weeks tnd mothered her chicks tenderly fir i like period. Then, evidently, the thought of her old home unsettled her for one morning she left her chicks and returned across the way. Bn greater oven than the call of he’ own people was the call of h•nicks, and. now, every morning, sh< visits her brood. Deliberately for tin last fortnight she has come across just as the chickens are lot out, and after a long conversation with ho: family, which she calls affectionatop round her, she returns to the opposite house, and ws see her >no more until the following morning.” At the Mining and Gcologcial Museum in Sydney there is now a specimen of exceptional interest. It con arts of a tabular mass of crystal list'd gypsum, as clehr as glass, ir which is embedded the wing of a dragon fly. This was found at a dept’ of some 200 ft. in an Australian cop orr mine. The wing is in perfect or-'sorve.tion. and is undergoing cximination. The authorities say that ■oossibly. no similar case has been re■orded before, the well-known occur•once of insect remains in amber from the Baltic being hardly analogous seeing that amber is an exudation from certain trees, and it is natural enough for insects to ho embedded n *. Gypsum, on the other hand, ir brined by crystallisation from solution in water. There would seem tc be a channel of communication with the surface down which the wing was In some way conveyed, and the formation of the gypsum must have been apid enough to preserve it before de■omuositioh sot in. Other specimens of tins character have been found al t-ho same nlace.

Mr. F. Bird, Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, has just received a letter from a party in England addressed: “Mr. Bird,' Chief Clerk, County Court. Stratford.” The death occurred at two o’clock ou Saturday afternoon of Mrs. Jakes, wife of .Mr. H. Jakes, the well-known coach proprietor of \Yhangamomona, after an illness extending over four months. Mrs. Jakes was a daughter of tiie late Mr. W. Cook, of Beaconsffelci Hoad. She was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to Canterbury witn her father and mother. While in Ashburton she was married to Mr. Jakes in 1881, and her parents removed to Stratford district live years later. Mrs. Jakes was a un-i versa! favourite with everybody, and was well known and respected for her uniform kindness. There ‘are three daughters, all married—Mrs. Wilson (Christchurch), Mrs. Luraberg (Haworaj. and Mrs. Osborn (of Cardiff). Those fishermen who have taken oiit licenses appear to be enjoying 1 very good sport, as evidenced by the* good catches taken since the season opened. So as to give legitimate sportsmen as good value as possible tor the money 7 spent on a license, the local Acclimatisation Society has decided to instruct the ranger to demand the production of all licenses from fishermen ho may meet on the rivers. License-holders will understand that this is being done in their interests, and are asked to assist the ranger in his duties by carrying their licenses with them. It may be mentioned that apart from the special ranger appointed by the Society* every license-holder is practically a . ranger, and should protect their own interests as far as possible. The special ranger will demand the production of licenses as from to-day.