LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7, 2 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The dance to have been held in the Ngaere Hall on Friday night has beer postponed to Tuesday, Septembei bid. The Stratford School re-opened this morning, after its usual winter holiday,?. The Stratford District High School Football team which recently played matches against Wellington and Wanganui returned by mail train on Sat urelay evening. During August rain fell on_ twelve days, the total fall being o.Slin. J'lu maximum fall on one day was 3.27 in .: on the 30th. Mr. Geo. Burgess, who has been in indifferent health of late, left by man train this morning for Rotorua. At the Magistrate’s Court tn f morning, before Mr. C. D. Sole, J l > . a first-offender £cr being drunk on Sat urday afternoon was convicted fine: discharged. Mm C. J. McKenzie, District Public Works Engineer, left this morn up to make an inspection of the ■countrj over which Die proposed railway to Awakino will run, in order to make ar approximate estimate of the cost ol the work. A Masterton gardener claims t< have discovered a method of producing a yellow sweet-pea. If he is success ful in his experiment ho will be £2OOI better off than he is to-day, for tin Sweet Pea Society of England is offer ing that amount for the production ol a yellow flower.

A thrust from a liatpin has heei followed by rather serious cense quences to a young man named Jamei Potts, of Invercargill, states a South land exchange. Potts, with som> companions, was in a street in In vercargill, when some young g:rl passed along, and one of them thmsa hatpin into the man’s body. Pottsthought nothing of the incident at the time, but soon after collapsed. Sine, then he has been in the Invercargil. Hospital, and is now at a nursing home, undergoing medical treatment The girl who inflicted the wound was unknown to the victim. At a meeting of the Council of tin Jersey Breeders’ Association, held a Palmerston last week, it was decider to adopt the scheme of semi-official testing of purebred cows, as explainer by Mr. 1). Cnddie, Director of Dain Produce of the Agricultural Depart meat. With a view to educating youn breeders to become proficient in judging stock, it was resolved that it be suggested to the A. and P. Associations to allow one to accompany the official judge when officiating at shows. The question as to who is the breedei

of an animal came up for cons dera tion, and it was resolved to adhere to the rule (previously observed by tin Association) that the owner at the time of calving is the breeder. Dealing with herd hook matters, It was decided to close the appl cations for the volume on March ‘VI, 1913. A repori was received notifying the formation of a local branch at Gisborne. The annual meet’ng of shareholder?

of tlie Taranaki Producers’ Freezing Works Company was held at New Ply month on Saturday, Mr. A. Morton, chairman of directors, presiding. In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet, the chairman commented on the very satifactory nature of the operations of the past year. Then had, he sa’d, been a decrease in tin quantity of butter put through the works, hut a more than corresponding increase in the nnantity of cheese had been handled. Had it not been for the fact that the spring experienced last year was a very had one, there would have been a substantial increase in butter as well. The autumn fortunately, was very much better than the

spring, ami enabled the company very largely to make nj) the deficiency, and owing to the very large stocks of butter stored during the autumn for winter sales, the amount received on account of storage was heavier than for some time oast. To Ids mind the increase in cheese was going to be very midi more marked in the future than in the past. This year the company j wm going to feel the effect of two or three of its large shareholding, fac-j eoing over to cheese. The re-; h’rin'r directors .A, Drown and Dingle) were re-elected. Air. €. S. | H'mncll was ro-elcctcd auditor at the! ‘■'■’mo remuneration as last year. Mr. AI ort'-.n aml Ms follow d : rectors were; heartily thanked for their services. [ Tin- chairman was voted the usual remuneration. If you have a cold, take Tonking’s Tan seed Emulsion, and you’ll soon find that von haven’t a cold at all. ’ - 2s Gd, 4s Gd.

In Stratford during August 31 births, 5 marriages, and 3 deaths were registered. A record number of births were registered in New Plymouth during the past month, the total being 12. On Wednesday next, the Otago representative footballers try conclusions with Taranaki at Hawera. Mr. W. Barlow lias been very busy during the past few days replacing non globes on the street lamps in various parts of the Borough. Xo less than twenty-one were put in during Saturday, and already fourteen had been renewed this morning. Since the motor-car has come injw general use for hire purposes, cabdrivers are deprived of much of their business. A cab proprietor commenced business in Master con a week or two ago, but after ten days he was compelled to relinquish the business as unprofitable, says the “Age.” During the time mentioned the daily takings amounted to only a few shillings. Mr C. Downey, secretary of the Stratford Egg Circle, states a paragraph in Saturday’s issue may have misled some readers. He exploits that all the eggs sold by the Circle are guaranteed fresh. The Circle’s advertisement was intended to emphasise that to ensure success in preserving .eggs, only the freshest procurable should be used. Kapiti Island as a sanctuary for New Zealand fauna was the subject of discussion by the Wellington Zoological Society at its recent meeting. A suggestion was agreed upon that mo Government, as soon as practicable, should purchase that part of too island now owned by the natives, and thus have the whole island as a sanctuary for valuable New Zealand birds.

On Saturday evening the staff of the Stratford branch of the New Zealand ijoan and .Mercantile Agency Co. met f bid farewell to Mr. M. T. Phillips, who lias acted as stock agent for the company for the past two years and a half, and who lias now resigned from that position in order to devote his attention to his farm. Mr. W. A. Dewitt, manager of the branch, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr. Ph ilips with a handsome gold albert, v ulogising his excellent services to the company, and wishing him a successful future. Practical jokes sometimes have awkward results. In the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court a defendant was sued for £5 -for expenses incurred enough Ins having taken away plainill's child. Counsel explained (hn+ h Pendant, probably for a joke, had picked up tile child Worn its father's noorstep, and driven it into the couutry, afterwards leaving it asleep in the trap. The_ father had to hire a motor car, and get other assistance to hid and recover the child. After bearing the plaintiff’s evidence, the Magistrate gave judgment for the amount claimed and costs. Dr. Truby King, who, with Mrs. K’ng, is on a short visit to Stratford, this morhing addressed a private meeting of mothers at Nurse totronaen s noine, on tlie care of children. In the "orrsc oJ his address Dr. King gave some convincing facts and figures as cviaence of what can he done by odn■ating mothers on the proper care of their infants. Act ve measures in this Jmention in' the care of young children in Dunedin had resulted in lowering the death rate amongst infants from 6 to 4 per cent. The meeting heartily thanked Dr. King for his valuable ati.*, Dess, and, at his' suggestion, formed a local committee to further the 'interests of a society for the protection d young children. Mrs. A. W. Budgl was elected president and Miss Stroiß u'h secretary. We understand that Djfl P rng will lecture in Stratford JB llmrsday evening next. Two Uumeas for tour lines of i'y! Head [Tonking’s Linseed ntimation every Saturday amorgll news items. *