GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 98, 8 December 1911, Page 4

GENERAL.

* * ■—■' . ppP®® quarterly mofeting of the LicenPhg Committee lapsed this morning, there being no business to transact.” 'Hie meeting of the A. and P. Executive, which was to have been held last night, was adjourned till Monday next. Jlio Stratford - Wesley Church choir is arranging a special concert to bo given on Friday, December loth. A preliminary announcement in connection with the entertainment appears in another column and full particulars of the programme will be published later.: ,

At the Primitive Methodist Church, Broadway, on Sunday next, the Sun-day-school anniversary will be held, when there will be special singing by the children. As this is the coming or age, of the school, it is expected that large congregations will be present to greet the children.

Having worn down all scepticism and opposition to its use, the milking machine has now found its way into almost every milking shed in this district (says the Feilding -“Star”), and the story that it injured the cows, or that the milk flow was interfered with, is no longer hoard in the land. On one large farm close to the borough the owner has throe sets of machines at work, milking over 100 cows. Nothing hut praise is heard of the machines, from the point of view of time-savers and the general cleanliness of the handling of milk. Rear-Admiral George Francis Faxon \V ilde, of the United States Navy, whose death was recently was born at Braintree, Massachusetts, on 13bh December, 18-15, and graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1864. He became a master in the United States Navy in 1860, a lieutenant in 1868, lieutenant-comman-der in 1885, captain in 1898, and rearAdimraj in 1904. He retired in 1905. In 1885-88 lie commanded the U.S.S. Dolphin, making a cruise round the world ; the Dolphin being the first steel vessel of flic American Navy to circumnavigate the globe. He introduced gas buoys on tiie great lakes, established an electric light vessel off Diamond Shoal, Cape Hatteras, and introduced a telephone to light vessels from the shore. In 1898 ho landed the first American marines over landed in China and sent them to Pekin, where they guarded the Legation. He captured ami occupied the city of Iloilo in February, 1899, and Vigan in February, 1900.

( Tlie present policy of the United States Government in prosecuting corporations on the slightest pretext lias probably affected all the American millionaires, and recently one of them, Mr Eugene Zimmerman, who is prominant in railroad affairs and the Standard Oil Co., and is father-in-law of the Duke of Manchester, made clear to the public just how a poor millionaire feels nowadays. Mr Zimmeninan arrived in New York after a long stay in Europe, and to the ship news reporters (telegraphs the Ncw York correspondent of the London “Standard”)' he delivered himself of the following plaintive utterances; “Once the millionaires were the popular heroes of the nation—brilliant exemplars set ii]i for the youth to follow. Now everybody is throwing bricks or making laws to hurt the rich.. The millionaire, following the instinct of .self-protection, has taken a hack seat. It is awful. If a millionaire is sent to the United States Senate, somebody accuses him of buying his seat. If lie gets a Cabinet position—well, 1 no President would dare to appoint him if lie values his political life. A millionaire lias no (’banco now. Instead of sending successful men of affairs to Washington, and in the State Legislatures, to make laws, we are electing men who could not manage a hot-potato stand. How can wo expect mi'll who never were prosperous themselves to make laws flint will make the country prosperous? The corporations are being hampered by too much legislation.” •

In another part of this issue Mr Hine returns thanks to the electors for his return to Parliament. Mr J. 11. Mackay returned to Stratford yesterday afternoon, having suffered no ill effects from the journey down from Auckland.