LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 64, 21 July 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Toko Oddfellows aie holding f ball in the Coronation Hall, Toko on Friday, 15th prox.

Preparations are now well forward for the grand concert and dance under the auspices of the Tarahfiki Provincial Scottish Society" to be held in the Toko Coronation Hall on Friday, next,

The eleventh daughter of the eleventh daughter of an eleventh daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Silas Jackson, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana. This makes thirty-three girls in a straight line of descent without the birth of a boy in the family.

A Wellington Press Association message this morning states.—The "hareholders' representatives on the Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand (Messrs Martin Kennedy and William Watson) have forwarded to the Minister of Finance a letter submitting their views and opinions (already expressed) with respect to the proposals by the chairman relating to the capital of the hank.

It has been figured out that the costs in the great Scott will case, in which £1,000,000 was at stake, which ended in favor of Lady Sackville, amounted to £25,000. Sir Edward Carson, K.C., Lady Sackville's leading counsel, received a retaining fee of 2000 guineas, with a daily fee of 210 guineas. Mr F. E. Smith, K.C.. leading counsel for Mr Malcolm Scott, was paid a retaining fee of 1575 guineas, and a daily refresher of 157 guin-

A territorial officer received an kinI expected shock at the Mangaweka Court. The department brought a charge against a lad for failing to attend parades, hut the proceedings were of short duration. Mr Hasoldon, S.M.:. Has this lad attended parades regularly lately? Officer: Yes, he has given satisfaction since the information was laid. Mr Haselden : Do you intend to withdraw the present proceedings? Officer: I would ask for a. fine. Magistrate: You won't get it. 1 have a very decided opinion in these matters. Greater tact and discretion are necessary with these lads. If you won't withdraw the case, then it is dismissed.

Three territorials at Hawera were to-day fined £5 for failure to render personal service, ami one was deprived of his civil rights for five years.—P.A.

A rumor that the Land Board had consented to timber being milled on the Whangamomona Saddle came under the notice of the Stratford Chamber of Commerce at its last meeting, and the secretary wrote to the Commissioner of Crown Lands on the matter. The following reply has now '"'•'i' received by the secretary of the Chamber Our ,1. B. Richards) :—"Re hush on Whangamomona Saddle: Referring to your memo of the 10th ihst., I have to inform you that no application to mill timber near the Whangamomona Saddle has been made to mo up to tho present. lam getting the timber appraised in a block behind Buchanan in Pohokura and in the Waitara watershed, which may account for the rumors. The land on the western side of the Whangamomona Saddle is a, scenic reserve, and could not be touched without the reservation being revoked, and the bush on the eastern side is a. State forest."