LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 23 July 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

accination is in the air. At las night’s meeting of the Rugby Union an application was considered fron the local High School football 'team n bo asked that, in view of recent vac cination, their match set down fot Thursday next.be postponed. The de siied postponement, however, was no granted.

The most prominent feature of th< ladies at Longchamps, the. famon. French racecourse, on Sunday, war their legs (states a cablegram to tin Sydney Sun on July 1.) They were, of course, wearing stockings and othe. clothing, but their skirts were so boldly slashed and their stockings so open ],v openwork that the result was daring for Paris. Other women wore zoo logical hosiery of silk. Serpents on twined the ankles, while butterflies, lizard®, rats, dormice, squirrels, and opossums decorated the legs as far as the knee, and the slashed skirts permitted them to he plainly observed.

Two good "children stories” are related by a writer in the British Weekly. A certain statesman has two chil- ' dren. His parents took the younger j to an exhibition of pictures. Wishing 'to pass into another room, they asked the child to remain a little. They had not been long away when they heard a how], and came back to find the child weeping. "Mother,” said he, "those pictures won’t move.” The little lad had frequented cinematographs. The older child was at the funeral of King Edward. That evening his mother came in and asked him if lie had said bis prayers. He answered firmly, "Xo.” "But why?” said his mother. "Because,” said the boy, "it would be of no use. God can’t attend to me to-night. Ho is busy unpacking the King.”

Smoked deep-sea flathead may evenj tnally become a formidable rival to j New Zealand blue cod, that is, if re- | c('iit experiments undertaken by the Director of Fisheries are followed up. says the Melbourne Argus. During the recent trawling investigations in the Australian Bight some tons of flathead were netted by the crew of the Endeavour at depths up to 200 fathoms, and examination showed that the variety was entirely different from any of those found in eastern waters. Some of the flathead, which resemble haddocks, weighed np to 101 b each, and they were so fleshv ilia

Dannovig was seized with the idea of smoking a portion of the catch.

The following business will be dealt with at the Court on Friday: Twentysix civil cases (three defended), six informations for driving without lights, one application for a prohihiiton order, one charge of failing to attend drill and two informations under the Destitute Persons Act.

The second of the rubber of cribbage between Ngaere and Stratford is to be played on Friday night. T 1 e Ngaere team is as follows:—Messrs Sims, Morrison, Willis, Orr (3), Wisnewski (2), Thomas (2), Taylor, Staverley, Scanned and Callaghan.

A little after noon to-day a little boy named Wilson, aged about six, who was going home from school, had a narrow escape from serious injury on the corner of Page Street and Broadway South. He was knocked down by a gig which was being driven up Page Street, and which lie apparently did not see. The hoy received no serious injury.

Air T. Webb has decided to 1 eave the Stratford district, but Fair Farm, Warwick Road, will continue to be a location for the breeding of Berkshire pigs. The farm has been taken over by Mr F. Newland, Mr Webb’s son-in-law, who lias several Berkshire sows bred by Mr Webb and a boar from the well-known Stevens’ stock, Christchurch, purchased by Mr Webb during a recent visit to Palmerston North.

A lady who had a ticket on a horse that paid a sensational price at Trentham on Saturday, discovered when she went to collect the dividend, that she had lost the ticket. The club’s secretary was appealed to, but naturally he could offer no redress. Later the lady was fortunate enough to discover the missing ticket among a lot of discarded hits ofpasteboard on the tearoom floor, where she had evidently dropped it while partaking of afternoon tea.

A cripple who sits all day beside the Fountain at the Triangle in High street, Dunedin, ha<? a miraculous escape from death or injury on Friday (reports the Star). He was sitting at his usual spot, when a runaway horse galloped up, frantically dragging a delivery 1 van. The horse rushed straight towards the cripple, and before he had time to shift hi® position it was upon him. At the lakt moment, however, it, jumped clean over“his head and landed on the ; border of the Fount;i;ip, leaving jtlife than sitting uninjured between the wheels of the vehicle.

On Thursday, July 31st, the Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade is holding a novel basket social in the Town Hall, and it is hoped that citizens will, as some recognition of the Fire Brigade’s very valuable services, render hearty support. The Brigade is very much in need of funds to clear off liabilities and to make improvements to the brigade station and to carry out other idea® which the allowance already received from the Borough Council does not permit. It is hoped to raise a substantial sum by the generosity of citizens.

With this issue is circulated the prospectus of the Farmers’ Co-opera-tive .Organisation Society of New Zealand., , the objects of the Society are to extend the principle of co-oper-ation to .dairy or other cofnjianies; to buy and sell all classes of gopdfi, including seeds, artificial manures,' agricultural, implements, and general supplies and farmers’ requisites of all kinds; to carry on auctioneering in all its branches, and land and general commission agency, and the manufacture of general requirements for farmers and others; to carry on cooperative hanking, and also the sale of farms and factory products of all kinds. Fuller details of the company’s proposals and a list of provisional directors will be found in the booklet.

A Methodist Band of Hope meeting was hold in the Sunday School, Regan Street, last evening, when an interesting programme was dealt with. Solos were given 'by Miss Keitha Martin and Miss Hilda Henry. A duet, with chorus, sung by Miss Ida Boon and Miss F. McAllister, was a very pretty thing, and was much appreciated. The chairman (Rev. Mr Reader), delivered an interesting address on the .subject of "Temperance,” which was listened to with interest. The main feature of the evening was the dialogues, there being three on the programme. These were all very interesting, indeed, and won the applause they deserved. At the close of the entertainment the opportunity was given to any who were present to sign the temperance pledge, and several responded.