LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 28 June 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of W. 11, Payton was called for yesterday afternoon, but as no creditors put in an appearance the meeting was adjourned sine die. The bankrupt’s statement showed liabilities £IOB 18s lOd, and assets nil. The chief creditors were G. H. Thornton, confectioners, Wellington, £4O; Newton King, New Plymouth, £49 14s; Masters and Son, Stratford, £ls 4s 6d ; Champion Co., Ltd., confectioners. Wellington, £lO Os 4d; W. Cannon and Co., Stratford, £lB 16s. *

The tender of Mr F. Lundon, of Whangamomona, at £4363, has been accepted for the railway Station buildings at Whangamomona. Tim various officers for Lodge Triumph, 1.0.0. F., A.C., have been elected and the Lodge will be formally opened on July 10th. The anifual meeting of the Midhirst Co-operative Dairy Factory Co. will he held in the Midhirst Hall on

Monday, 28th July, Included in the business to be dealt with is a resolution to increase the capital of the company by £3OOO. M riling of the Reform Government in New Zealand, the Sydney Morning Herald says that “so far it has shown many indications of administrative ability and success in legislation, upon which Australians of all parties will readily congratulate it.”

A few weeks ago a gentleman advertised in the Timaru Herald for the return ot about £IOO worth of jewellery which had been stolen from his dwelling. Last week the jewellery was returned anonymously, a parcel containing it being surreptitiously , * placed on his dressing-table. Under the new methods adopted bv the Public Service Commission, applications are being invited from officers of the public service for positions in the services as they become vacant. For instance, in the last Gazette the Commissioner is calling for applications for the position of deputy chief electoral officer and also assistant land registrar at Dunedin. Following is a record of the business done at the Stratford railway station for the four weeks ending June 21st, the figures for the corresponding period of 1912 being given in parentheses:—Outwards: Parcels 402 (394), live stock 1942 (1427), tonnage , 449 (566), revenue £1122 15s 2d (£1047 6s Id); inwards: parcels 438 (445), live stock 407 (181), tonnage 1168 (1203), revenue £B9O 9s 5d (£741 17s 9d). The wonderful philosophical calm of the Maori was exemplified in connection with the destruction by fire of the Toko Hotel this/morning. Questioned as to whether he was burned in effecting bis escape, the Native remarked: “Oh, no; only te shirt I” It must have been a close call, surely. The same Maori tersely summed up the conflagration. According to him, “Te . roof go up.”

The Okato correspondent of ‘ the Taranaki Herald says :—The 1 local ' . Maoris i are busy catching, piliirau, , a species of,salt-water eel which take,an annual prip. ,up .[the fresh-water , • streams to spawn. (The! modey qf catching is by making beds of grass and fern near the mouth of tho, streams, and the eels are oa2>tured when passing through this. Hundreds • are caught in this manner, and a rare feast follows a successful catch. The writer had some cooked, and when earing them they reminded hfm some- ( , what of the garfish or piper caiight, ,in j, the Auckland Harbor. . o -, ( ! 1 : 1 . : . -nt.f- do ;y nhtd 1 ' J he Journal of Agriculture with its Juno issue which is just to hand enters upon its fourth year of existence. The strides the Journal, has made are well borne out by the very excellent production forward this month, while the fact that the number of ■subscribers is now 10,618—not to mention the 1050 copies which go to read-ing-rooms, and libraries, foreign departments of agriculture, experimental stations, and'investigators in agricultural science in all parts of the civilised world—makes the figures speak louder than words. In an article dealing with the progress of the •Journal, it is stated that the present satisfactory position is principally due to the splendid co-operation of the different divisions of the Department of Agriculture, the leading members of which have liberally contributed to its pages. As to the contents of the June issue, special articles appear under the headings of Sheep Management, Earmarking, Milking by Hand, Silver-Beet, Importation of Fertilisers, Fancy Cheese-making, Silage, Bush Sickness and Cheese.