LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 50, 4 July 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Melbourne cablegram states that the Grand National acceptances include Campanile.

To-night, Bason, hypnotist and magician, from London Hippodrome, will appear in the Town Hall, Stratford. A good programme is promised.

Only one judgment by default was given by Mr Kenrick, S.M., at the Court this morning—L. H. Xeal v. W. Fitzsimmons, claim J6s lid, costs

KJlen Austin (Mr Spence) proceeded at the Court this morning agafnst her husband, George Thomas Austin, (Mr Fookes) for payment of £ls arrears on an order of the Court for maintenance. An order was made by Mr Kenrick, S.M., for the payment of £s*forthwith, with a further monthly payment of £2 off the arrears.

The Temuka Leader has received information that the wife of a settler at Woodbury lias an undisputed claim on the Hartley millions to the tone of about £92,000. The lady is be* ing congratulated on all sides, and the question that is exercising her* mind is what she will do with the fortune when it arrives.

The Timaru Herald remarks: "Mamcountry people continue to drive at night without lights, to the great danger of themselves and other users of the road. There is a by-law both in the borough and county making this an offence, and it would be well if some means could be devised to enforce it." Stratford could lend Timaur its Borough Inspector.

It is proposed to open a class in millinery at the Stratford Technical School with Miss Hunt as instructress. Specimens of. work done by Muss Hunt's students in other centres are on view in Messrs Bellringer's window, Broadway. Ladies wishing to join the class are requested to forward their names as early as possible to Mr F. Tyrer, Superintendent at Stratford.

The annual meeting of sharebolden of the Stratford Electrical Supply Co was held last night. The balance' sheet presented showed that the.yeai had been a prosperous one, a sumo J £1691 15s 3d being carried forwarc after allowing for depreciation o £SOO. The increase of revenue from current supply for the year was £521 The new connections for power am lighting were 67, making the total tk date 572. One mile and a quarter ol route length was added to the lines making a total of 18? miles. Thre; and three-quarter miles of, tensioi wire and twenty-one miles of low ten sion wire were put up during the year The retiring directors, Messrs It. H Cameron and G. E. Wilson, were re elected.

An accident not without its amusing side occurred at the Portobello Fish Hatcheries on Sunday morning, states the Otago Daily Times.' A party of five Dunediii gentlemen, who were spending the week at Portobello, walked over to the hatchery for the purpose of inspecting the lobsters which were recently imported from England. In order to obtain a better view, the party ventured out on a solid-looking plank, one end of which was supported in the middle of the pond by a cement pillar. The plank apparently bore the strain well enough until a sixth gentleman joined the party. This additional weight proved to be "the last straw," for without any warning the plank snapped in the middle and the whole party were precipitated into the water. The gentlemen did not relish such a close inspection, and an undignified scramble was made for the bank. It was a bedraggled and sorrowful party which set out on a two mile journey to Portobello.

Aii instance of the enterprise of some people engaged in the kinematograph film business is furnished by Dr. Jenness, a native of Wellington, who left British Columbia as ethnologist of the Stefansson expedition to the Arctic. The former master of the Karluk, the steam whaler in which the Stefansson party,is voyaging, was Captain Pederson, who has had considerable experience in the Arctic regions. A number of prominent men in San Francisco conceived the idea of sending a vessel to the Siberian ooast to search for whales, and at the same time take moving pictures of those operations. A suitable vessel (the Elvira) was secured, and Captain Pedersen has been sent away in charge of her, and he is confident that she will bring back material which will enable his principals to supply the public with numerous thrilling pictorial illustrations of the dangerous work incidental to the chase and capture of whales.

J. A. Stanford (Huiroa) proceeded against Roy Hill at the Court this morning <m

a. judgment summons for the payment of £lO odd, the majority of the sum being alleged to be due for tobacco supplied over a period of four months. Judgment debtor gave evidence that ho was a general laborer, and his earn-. ings since the date of the judgmenV had been kept Gown owing to wet weather. An order was made for the payment of £1 forthwith and £1 per month. Mr Spratt appeared for judgment creditor, and debtor was represented bv Mr J. R. L. Stanford.