ON THE BOWLING GREEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 62, 6 November 1912, Page 4

ON THE BOWLING GREEN.

(Notes by “Kitty.”)

The Committee of the Bowling CluW met last night, when twenty-four now members were proposed, so that bowlers can look forward to a successful season. Mr C. S. Curtis was appointed delegate to the Provincial Tournament. All arrangements were made for the opening of the green to-morrow (Thursday), when the public are cordially invited. Afternoon tea will be dispensed by the ladies.

Both bowling and croquet greens are in perfect order, so both ladies and gentlemen can rely on enjoyable games, weather permitting.

It is strange (says the ‘Star’) that the dairy farmers of this district should fail to exhibit their bacon pigs at the Hawera Show. There is not the competition that there should be in a dairying district. f An aerial exhibition now being hold in Paris includes some remarkable inventions, amongst which are winged bicycles. The machines are provided with wings like those of a butterfly, and the rider propels them by means of pedals. A sensation has been caused in a Wairarapa town by the alleged discovery of large defalcations from the Railway Department’s funds by a well known railway clerk. It is further aliloged that since his suspension from duty., pending a departmental enquiry he Ifvs disappeared from the loca.ity. Mr. Basham, engineer to the Eltham County Council, requiring men for council work, on being informed by the secretary of the Federation at Wai_ hi that there were “no men available” at that town, determined to advertise in our Waihi contemporary (states the ‘Argus’). The following day ho received about forty replies from Waihi men seeking employment! Several of the applications were accepted, and a batch of nearly twenty men arrived by the mail train yesterday morning.

The numerous prosecutions of territorials "in Gisborne during the'past year has been responsible for a heavy increase in the number of criminal cases (says the ‘Herald’). Up to today the number has reached 1108, whereas for the whole of last year the total was 973. There is, therefore, an increase already this year of 135, with tWo months still to go. In civil matters there has also been an increase this year. The total number of cases so fails 1(150. whq-h is 39 more than the total for the whole of last year. The arrangements for the inauguration of the new capital of India were completed in ,17th September by the publication of an official proclamation converting Delhi and its suburbs from Ist October into a small Chief Conimissionership,. and .appointing a member of t.lie Civil Service, itylr. W. Hailey, to administer it under the Government of India. Lord Hardinge, the Gov-ernor-General, will take formal possession of his quarters in December, in the presence of a large gathering of troops, officials, and Punjab chiefs. The ill-fated are often heard to wish for the “luck of a Chinaman,” and such a possession would he valuable if the fortune of the ' smiling Celestial who spent two , days at the Gisborne races can he taken as a criterion. He visited the totalizator window for the two big dividens of the second day, each time gleefully tucking notes into the pockets of his (says the ‘Times’) nether garments. Before leaving Gisborne he cancelled his steerage passage south and procured a saloon fare, so as to live tip to hi s quickly got wealth.

A meeting of the Toko Farmers’ Union was held on Monday night, when there was a fair attendance of members. It was decided that the rootgrowing competitions be continued on the same lines as last year—viz., three acre's of turnips and half an acre oh mangolds, the entries to close at the February meeting! It was suggested that a prize bo given for the best pen of five heifpr calves for dairying purposes, open to any breed. It was de- • cided to hold the next mepting in February, as farmers are now too busy to attend meetings/j , , ; j , ; Germany might almost be called “thejland of the automat.” Automatic devices of all kinds are popular, and are used for a thousand purposes. At all post offices stamps and postcards are sold by automatic machines; at the railway .stations platform tickets and suburban tickets are sold,byi automats; automat restaurants, where one can secure a glass of beer, wine, or liquor, a sandwich, square meal, cup of coffee) chocolate, etc., by dropping a coin.in the slot, abound every where. Every city off 15,000 or 20,000 population and over has from one to several / hundred such restaurants. At railway stations automats sell chocolate, candy, picture postcards, and even a little kit of “first-aid to the injured,” containing a few drops of painkiller, bandages, needle, thread, etc. Ten pfennigs in a slot opens the doors of toilet compartments, delivering a towel or piece of soap. A coin in a slot obtains a cigar, a tune from a mechanical music box, a pair of shoe strings, a collar, button or a visiting card.

At Hawera oil Monday, R. J. Paid, licensee of the Empire Hotel, was fined £3 and costs 7s for exposing liquor for sale on Sunday, October 27. At 11.30 in the morning the police found seven men in front of the bar, of whom three were boarders. Mr. Kenrick, S.M., in giving his decision, referred to the difficulty there was in getting convictions'for this kind of offence owing to the law giving lodgers the right to treat bona fide guests. Ontil that section of the ti Act was amended there would always be this trouble. He had always said that if a man wi-li-ed to entertain his guests at a time when the hotel was required to be closed he should not give them liquor at the bar, but in the sitting room. If this were done it freed the licensee from the charge of having liis bar open for the sale of liquor, and generally would avoid a good deal of trouble. He woijld have to convict on the charge of exposing liquor for sale, but as the licensee was nob aware of what was going on, he did nob propose to deal with the question of the endorsement of the license. A second charge of having the premises open for the sale of liquor when they were required to be closed with withdrawn.