LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 22 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. F. Bird, Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, left hy the mail train this morning for the West Coast on holiday. Jt was inadvertently stated in yesterday’s issue that Sergt.-Major Ballinger had lectured at the Boy Scouts' meeting on Wednesday night, whereat the address was given by Sergt.-Main; Dunham.

The ' recent storm lias caused a rather serious washout on the Monmouth Road. Tlie extent of the damage is a hole about twenty feet wide, which the water has scoured out to a depth >of fifteen feet. The wily pickpocket is once more in Auckland ready for the holiday sea son. A gentleman waiting his turn to get a Remuera tramcar on Satur day felt a click at his pocket, and upon seating himself, looked to sec if it was torn, and then discovered it was turned inside out and his money gone.

Mr William Rogers, of Pembroke Road, has been notified by the secretary of the Stratford District Ho pital and Charitable Aid Board, that His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint him a member o 1 that body. Mr Rogers will take Ids seat at the next meeting, which takes place on January 2nd.

To illustrate the way in which tin l)roken 'weather has interfered wit! shearing, the case of a large ninhold er in the Clinton district may he fit ed, says the Dunedin correspondent oi the “L'-ttelton r l’imes.” In tire nasi five l weeks only 350 (if his sheep have been shorn, a tally which, under gone conditions, could he put through ii a day. The mere expense oi “tucker ing” the shearers in their long stretch of enforced idleness is no high matter. The uupropritious weathoi is reflected in the catalogues to h< submitted at the wool sale, the tola 1 number of bales being considerably below tin- average for the Deccmbc sale.

Dick A rust is not to ride in the six days’ race after all, according to a Sydney paper. He put in a wtek or so training, to the amusement of the other riders, and, on McNamara, ike New Smith Wales champion, refusing to team with him in the six days’ event, Arnst knocked olf his training on the bicycle, and lias not been near the track since. Good judges who saw the champion sculler during in's few days’ training on the sports ground declare that it would have taken him three months to get into condition for cycle racing. No wonder McNamara declined to team with him. Arnst has put on such a lot of weight during his five years’ absence from the cycle track that his days as a racing cyclist are probably over. There is, however, no tolling what such a plucky athlete as /-rust might do if he properly made up his mind to come into the.sport again.