LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 70, 6 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Newton King has received the following cable from in's Sydney agent

ro hides:—“Firmer.”

The monthly meeting of the Hospital Board will be hold to-morrow morn-

Mr. Frank Bird, Registrar of Electors, notifies places at which a copy of the Stratford roll may bo inspected by the public. Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary of the “Siege of Pariliaka,” when Te Wiiiti and 'John were arrested. To-day is the fifty-first anniversary of the battle of Mahoetahi. An inmate of the New Plymouth Old People’s Home named Edward Phillmore was found dead in his bed at the institution on Saturday night.

The Stratford Orchestral Society is to repeat the recent social and dance in the Parish Hall on Thursday next, November 9th. The function should prove a thoroughly enjoyable one.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening to consider the report of the valuers in connection with the proposed acquisition of the Electrical Supply Co.’s works.

The anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot was thoroughly celebrated by the youth of Stratford on Saturday. After having taken their “guys” round to see the sights of the city they lit a number of bonfires, around v. Inch they gathered in force to let of crackers, etc.

At the sale of Holstein cattle at Palmerston during the show, Mr E. Lyford, Stratford, purchased the bull Admiral do’Kol for lu gns. Mr TV. Colo, junr., Waitara, bought'the heif-

ers Laddie’s Favourite at 41gns and Clifl'side Laddie’s Annie at 38gns. Mr Lyford’s bull arrived in Stratford on Saturday.

After having apparently settled down for a fine term, the weather broke down again on Saturday, when there wore a couple of very heavy showers of rain. Throughout yesterday showers of rain wore intermittent, and the weather became very much colder than it has been of late. Snow fell heavily on the mountain, the’ white mantle, which, had previously shown signs of receding, being very low down this morning.

Serious concern is expressed by tiie Federal authorities at the prevalence of the feeding bottle used so often for babies, which lias for convenience a rubber tube. This apparatus has been described by a medical authority as a murderous one, owing to the impossibility of properly cleaning it. The Federal Government ashed State co-operation in the prevention of the manufacture of the article. The Board of Health, however, though in accord with the desires of the Federal Government, is unable to pass any recommendation about it, as

there is no law in existence to enable prohibition to ho undertaken. The Wanganui Borough Council has been discussing the subject of hatpins. A suggestion was made that notices should lie placed in the tramcars requesting' ladies to refrain from wearing long hat-pins, unless the points were sheathed, or otherwise protected. A Councillor said he had

seen two conductors have narrow escapes of having their eyes pierced by hat-pins in crowded cars, and a clay or two ago another conductor chewed him his hand, which had been torn from wrist to linger by the same deadly article. 4 Another Councillor suggested a by-law to deal with the matter, and it seemed to be agreed that perhaps such, a course would be found necessary. It was stated that, in Germany, conductors were supplied with cutting pliers, and had the power to snip off the points of over-long hat-pins. Dr. William Frederick Walker, of Flas-yn-dinas, Malhvyd, Merionethshire, who came up for his public examination at Aberystwyth Bankruptcy Court, recently, attributed his failure to the Sabbatarianism of the local Nonconformists. For ten years the doctor has conducted a home for inebriates, obtaining well-paying patients from all parts of the globe, among them being several rich Arnei .- cans. Recently the local authority were forced, out of regard for Nonconformist sentiment, to warn Dr, Walker that unless Ids patients stopped fishing and playing golf on Sundays, the licence would not he renewed. After these now conditions v.tn

imposed the number of patients fell off, notably the rieh Americans, scone off whom hat! paid ns much as ten guineas a week, and, unable to meet in's creditors, Dr. Walker filed iris petition. The Official Receiver- find you been allowed to conduct the home in the same way as originally sia-Wd you would have been able to meet your liabilities? Dr. Walker Yes,

the Americans would have stopped on. The deficiency amounted to £18.)') the assets being valued at £3(5 .