LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 49, 12 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Lewis Revel! will be held at <‘3 o’clock to-morrow afternoon. The monthly meeting of the Domain Board will be held to-morrow afternoon. Mr. F. Scanlan lost his imported greyhound dog Ethelbald the other tlay.. The dog evidently strayed away and coursed a hare, as it was found in a wire fence with its neck broken. The loss of the dog will be felt by breeders of greyhounds. At the last meeting of the Wanganui School committee a memo, was read from the Education Board recommendng that school children be instructed in fire-drill. The communication went on to state that many fatalities wore directly traceable to the scholars’ ingorance of what to do in cases of emergency. 11 was suggested ; (1) That pupils ho given practice in making speedy and orderly exits from buildings in the event of lira; (2) that the best methods of treating burns bo explained to the children; and (.‘3) that ambulance corps of, say, four boys and four girls, be formed to render first aid, in the absence of teachers. It was also stated that the superintendent of the local Eire Brigade would be willing to visit flic schools and give instruction in fire-drill. The committee expressed their approval of the scheme.

At the conclusion of his lecture last night Professor Mills brought under the notice of the audience a volume lie had written which might he us d as a text-hook by those desiring to reach others on the lines of his adIress. He said flic book was for side, but il a buyer was disappointed d'ter reading it he could have Ids money back. Eighteen thousand peo pie had bought the book, but only me had returned it. This man said ic had bought the bonk under “somewhat gregarious circumstances.” The Professor did not enquire what sort of circumstances could be described as “gregarious,” and he returned the uoney to the man; but ho asked an ’cquaiutanco if he know the man.

Phis acquaintance said he did, and volunteered the further information that the man was “a shingle short.” “T fell sure ho must lie so,” said the Professor in his quaint way. “Othervise lie would not have returned inv nook.”

The Eltham Swimming Club will officially open the season on November

'i'ho football match to have been played tiiis afternoon between t-cams Mr. Newton King’s staff ;nd a combined team representing tho Vestal and Railway Departments, was postponed owing to the inclemency of t.he weather, and will be played on I’hnrsdav next.

Tae friends of Hr. John Kirkpatrick, Opnnakc Road, will regret to I am of tho death of his daughter, A innifred Catherine, who passed away after a long and painful illness. Iho funeral will leave the Catholic Church for tho Kopuatama Cemetery at 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon.

Professor Mills, who lectured in Stratford last night, was no cli appreciated. Ho has, wo learn, consented to give another address in Stratford on November 2nd, this time at the invitation of the Stratford NoLicenso League. I he Orchestral Society contemplate holding a social on October 26th, to entertain vocalists ancj others who have assisted at past concerts. The programme will consist of vocal and instrumental items, and the evening wdl be concluded with dancing. It is expected that invitations will be issued shortly.

It is hoped that early next season a poultry class will be formed in connection with the Stratford Technical School, though too late to start such a class this season. In this connection Mr. Gordon, the well-known poultry expert, is to give a free address iu tpe Foresters’ Hall to-mor-row evening at 8 o’clock, and it is no pod there will ho a good muster of -hose interested in keeping poultry. Iho audience at the Foresters’ Hall last night to hear Miss Christie’s lantern lecture on “India and it’s People, was not large, but they showed rio lack of interest, Miss Christie being a clear and interesting speaker and full of her subject. She speaks to-night on “Reincarnation and Karma,’’ which she claims to be" laws, which, when properly understood, elucidate any of the problems suggested by the inequalities and apparent injustices of life.

Professor Mills made some good points in the course of his lecture last night with quaint remarks. Explaining his contention for equality of opportunity, he admitted that all men were not equal, and said he did not, for instance, desire everybody to be of the one height. “If,” said the Professor, whose stature is small, “you wore cut down to my size, the majority of you would lose your heads in the operation, and if I was stretched up to your height I would snap in the middle, and there wouldn’t bo enough of me left at either end to do business with.”

Speaking last night on the muchdiscussed Maine vote, Professor Mills said that lie expected to see the recent decision upset. There had been a majority of twenty against prohibition, but that majority could be reversed by sending thirty men to gaol for illegal voting. Ho said a large proportion of the population was of a moving character, people coming from all parts of the United States to the seaside resorts, and many of the voters were servants of one kind and another who followed the seaside trippers, while numbers, again, “lived in Canada and sometimes voted in Maine.”

v f'he' letter from the Rangiora Bor•ough Council, asking the Auckland City Council’s co-operation in approaching the Government to secure a public censor for moving pictures, was considered at the last meeting of the latter body. In moving that the letter should be received, Mr. P. M. Mackay said he was a frequent visitor to Auckland’s picture shows, and encouraged his children to attend. He had seen many films, but never one that the least delicate could take exception to. The same letter had come before all the Councils and Road Boards in Auckland, and some had voted for censorship, but he felt certain that those who favoured the proposal had never seen Auckland’s pictures. The very best opinion, he concluded, with regard to moving pictures was public opinion, and no manager would dare put on a picture offending public susceptibilities. Mr. R. T. Michaels spoke in similar terms, and the letter was received without further comment.