LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 24, 25 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Intending exhibitors are reminded that entries for the New IMyrnouLv Winter Show close at 9 o clock t.ixs evening. Messrs. Robinson and Christopher, who were appointed by the Borough Council to report on the condition of Victoria Bridge, were to-day engaged in examining the structure. The stage furniture used with such croud effect at the Taranaki Provincial Scottish Society’s social and dance last evening was supplied by Messrs W. and E. Brocklcbank, ol Broadway.

All interested in the Stratford Poultry Society and its coining Snow will be pleased to read that Captain Arthur Allen, an English export, now a resident of Xgaire,- has accented a vice-presidency of the local Poultry Society, and also that Mr.- d. Rutherford, well and favourably -known in Stratford, has. been added to vV-e general committee of the Show.. > Mothers and all interested are reminded of Stratford’s first and unique baby show, to be held in connection with the Poultry Show on July 3rd and 4th. Local doctors arc to decide on the healthiest ,prettiest,' heaviest boy and girl. To the winners beautiful prizes will be awarded. Two handsome prizes are being reserved for the best twins and the champion oaby of the Show. Bull information and entry forms can be bad from the secretary, Mr. C. Downey. A very busy man of late lias been Mr Alex. Henderson, the energetic secretary of the Taranaki Provincial Scottish’ Society. Their gathering last night was certainly a revelation of what can lie accomplished by good organisation, and any amount of resource. The social was not ony of those stereotyped affairs witn which, unfortunately, wo are so familiar, but' a bright, sparkling and original «n----tci tain meat i e.Rec&mg cr*-!:i' on the promoters, of whom Mr Henderson is the chief. At the luncheon given at St. Patrick’s College on Wednesday in honour of Archbishop Redwood’s silver jubilee, his Grace aimounqed the /elevation of the Very Rev. Fathers O’Shea (Wellington), Lane (Hutt), and Power (Hawera) to dcanships. It is worthy of note that in the case of the Rev. Father O’Shea, the building in which the announcement was made was his alma mater. Dean O'Shea is well-known in this district, says the Hawera “Star.” having spent his boyhood days in Hawera. He is a son of Mrs. O’Shea, of this town. The Very Rev. Dean Power is, as our readers know, one of he best known men in Hawera and South laranaki. At the heariifg of the agistment case Barleyman v. limes, at Manaia, on Wednesday, the question of whether a telegram notifying -intention to defend an action was a “written 1 , notice” under the Magistrate’s Courts Act was raised. Mr Crump, solid-

tor for Lines, 1 1 , acl not had Line to put in u notice in writing of intention to defend, and had telegraphed the same, and also put in an applcation for leave to clefeiid. Mr Bennett contended that a telegram was not a written notice unless certain formalities under the .Post and Telegraph Act were complied with. Mr O’Dea contended that it was a written notice, and said lie would rely on the telegram and would not therefore ask for leave to defend. His Worship (Mr Kenriok, S.M.). hold that a telegram containing a notice in the form under the Act was sufficient.