LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 5, 15 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlio New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Go., Ltd., notify through their Stratford branch, that they arc now receiving wool for sale in Wellington and Stratford, and are prepa. red to make full advances against the same. The dates of the Wellington sales are also published.

The famous Cambria Park sale of thoroughbreds, to be conducted by the N.Z .Loan and Mercantile Agency Col, Ltd., doubtless, as usual, will attract a good deal of attention. A catalogue of the sale is to band from the N.Z.' Ll, and M. 'Company, Stratford Agency,

The election of one .member to fill the vacant scat on the Taranaki Education Board is notified by the secretary to the Board, Mr P. S. Whitcombo, who requires that the votes of the Committees of the East Ward be sent to , the Board’s Office, Plymouth, not later than 5 p.m., on Tuesday, January 2nd, 1912 Messrs W. 1). Anderson and R. Masters are the candidates nominated.

At the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr W. C!. Kenrick, S.M.,this raorningj Walter Brown, carrier, was charged with being on licensed premises during such time as those premises wore supposed to lie closed. Sergeant McNeeley stated that he had found accused on the back premises of tlie Club Hotel on the evening of Snipday, December 3rd. Brown pleaded extenuating circumstances, and was convicted and discharged.

Applications for building permits still continue to roll in at the Borough Council’s office. This morning, Messrs J. Ryan and Son, building contractors, applied for a permit to erect an up-to-date building in Hamlet Street for Mr Percy Thomson. ’fae building is to lie of wood with concrete foundations, and the contract price is in the neighbourhood of £IOOO.

The members of the W.O.T.U. met yesterday afternoon in the Primitive Methodist Church, Stratford, this being the last meeting of the o d year. Airs T. White (president! cxpriswd the feeling of the meeting when she said- “Wo have very great cause for thankfulness in winning a substantial majority of votes for Dominion Prohibition at the last poll, yet wo cannot but regret the big handicap put upon us, since it is the will of the majority to do away with the drink traffic in New Zealand.” One new member was initiated, and a member from another branch welcomed to the local branch. The meeting closed in the usual way.

A Dunedin resident has received the following letter from a triend in Canada: —To a vast majority of the uatravelled and less-informed public in the Old Country the Canadian West appears an undeveloped country of wild and woolly ways. Instead, we have the greatest money-making country in the world. For instance, the sail of Alberta is a dark, deep, mellow loam, with a clay subsoil", and tiic climate is admirably adapted for the production of both winter and spring wheat and all other small grains. Our average yield for wheat is from 30 to 50 bushels per acre, barley 10 to Go, oats 80 to 123, Hax 12 to 20 bushels per acre, and a good market for our grains, also noted for timothy and alfalfa grasses. Alberta is also well adapted for the growing of vegetables. At the present time there are several sugar beet factories under construction, which means a great help to the farmers, as they are guaranteed nor less than £1 per ton for their sugar beets. About 20 per cent, of the land in Central Alberta is covered with brush ,aud is more adapted for mixed fanning. The prices of these lauds range from £2 to £4 per acre. These lauds lay within reasonable distance from railway towns. On the unimp roved farms in Southern Alberta, lying east of Calgary, the prices are from £3 ].os to £4'per acre. Those are in the great wheat belt, where improved farms are selling from £0 to £l3 per acre. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company arc building their railroad shops in Calgary, one of the most prosperous cities in tlie M est, also the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Northern Railways are corning through Calgary. It will also be a great manufacturing city, as the manufacturers are coining in last. City property is rapidly advancing in price, which is a good investment at the present time.’ Calgary and the surrounding country is noted for its excellent wafer and abundant rainfalls.

John William Fitzsimons, butcher’s assistant, Stratford, has hied a declaration of insolvency. Members of tiie Stratford Racing v lub are notified that those w.ie have not yet received their tickets f;r the coming race meeting should apply for them at once to tlio secre-

In consequence of the unseating of Mr. John Biggins, it will be necessary to elect a Councillor for the Strathmore Riding of the County of Whangamomona, to fill the extraordinary vacancy which occurs. Nominations

are invited up to noon of Friday, 29th December.

We have to specially thank Mr. F. W. Webster, manager, and the members of Mr. Newton King’s staff, who so courteously assisted in preparing the firm’s window for showing the election results hist night, as received by the ‘‘Stratford Evening Post,” To -Mr. Harry Ashton’s direction of affairs and assistance at night we are particularly indebted.