LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 53, 17 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tiie monthly meeting of the Strut lord County Council will be held tomorrow morning.

Mr Newton King has received the following cable from his Sydney agents re hides:—“Weaker.”

The annual meeting of the Fire Brigade will be held on Friday evening.

The annual meeting of St. Andrews Tenuis Cluh will be held in St. Andrews Hull on Thursday next, the i9th hist., at V.3U p.m. We have received complaints from residents as to the large number of dogs'which are allowed to wander about the town, the opinion being expressed that something should be doin' to clear the streets of them.

A special general meeting of members of the Stratford Tennis Club will he held at the Borough Council Chamber this evening to consider the advisability of raising the annual subscription and imposing an entrance fee.

Tlk> Town Clerk Inis been advised Unit .Mr A. A. Stark, city electrical engineer, who was appointed to act for the Borough Council in valuing the plant of the Electrical Supply Co., finds himself unable to visit Stratford, and that Mr E. R. Shepherd, consulting electrical engineer, Dunedin, will carry out his duties. The following is taken from the “Otago Daily Times”:—“Dunedin can scarcely be as slow and oldfashioned as some of our northern friends would have us believe, for

seldom, if ever, have l.nildiiig operai ions lu’f'ii more active in the Queen (‘ii v of tiie South, which, it is admitted, already strikes visitors as the most iinposiagly-hiiilt and solid of lie- ‘four capital towns.’ ”

A trout eighteen inches loii£ was !>r >tis_>;hi to the olliee this morning hy Mr H. H'arkness. It had been {;ik(>n From tin 1 pipe.' supphiup; water • jov.-or to .Mr Xowton Kind’s maebin:;i tin' Haymai'lsi't. The snpph ha vin y Failed, investigation showed the presence of the (is!). 'Me.' themo is advanced that the fish in list have e■>' into the mains when iii the fry late, and remained in the nines, theory is supported by a sightless lonic admit the ('yes.

'i he St rat To r( 1 Racing Club has derated to lit*- Stratford A. and P. As*;;x iaiion a special prize of £5 5s to ho awarded as follows:—£3 5s for tho Sr’ brood marc with foul at foot, by a thoroughbred horse, and £2 2s for : i’c bast yearling by a thoroughbred

.Mr. Air.n L. .1 ones, who for tho pr.sl two ami a halt years lias been in ii.(■ tinjjloy oi Sponco ami .Stanford,

: ii/itoi s, ox this town, loft this morning tor Hastings. Mr. .Jones’ home is in Hastings, and he is entering the service of Air. Scanned, a soli's,.a- there. Yesterday his fellow- <■) a Ix.s in the office of Spence and "danford presented Mr. Jones with a \i , handsome case of pipes. Mr. Macdonald, tlio managing clerk, made the presentation, and wished the recipient every success. The firm also made Mr. Jones a presentation of a cheque.

A correspondent of the “Daily iseVis tells the following story:— Once upon a time, about seventeen years ago to lie a bit more precise, the storekeepers in the backblocks put their heads together and decided to inaugurate a system of cash tradirg. The first man to arrive at the house of a certain customer was our friend and cicerone, Mr, Joe McClugga.ge. The lady of the house wanted a bar of soap, and “Joe” produced it. “A shilling, please,” lie said, and “all right,” said the customer, “But,” he went on, mustering up his courage, “] want the shilling before you got the snap. We’ve all decided to stop the credit business.” She grabbed the poker, and furbished up her vocabulary. “What, you son of a seacock (or words to that effect, as the lawyers say), would you stand there and hold ont the soap in one hard and ask for the ‘hob’ with the other ? I’ll tweak your head in with the poker, you —— (suppose we say 'Eel of a soa-cook’ again).” The lady had killed the cash trading scheme, nbned it in the hud, and crushed it with a threatening poker. “Hero you are, missus,” faltered Joe, “take the

soar), and nay for it when you like.” And ho left quickly. “But,” the old lady chimed in, “ T never dealt with anyone else in all these seventeen years, until McCluggage Bros, sold nut.”