LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tho relatives of Mr F. J. Virgin aro offering a reward of £SO to anybody who within one month from date finds his body or gives reliable information as to his whereabouts.

The Eltham Dairy Company has dis posed of its cheese output for the coining season. The Argus states that it has consigned' to two firms, Messrs Mills and Sparrow, and Clement and Son, at s|d G.W.R\' ::

Determined to leave no stone tinturned in the matter of "The Pirates of Penzance," the Stratford Operatic Society has despatched to Williamsons' headquarters an appeal for reconsideration of the refusal to permit the Society to produce the opera.

Tims Friday's Waverley Tribune: The management of the military ball (to be held here to-night) wish i' understood that dancing is not to I) engaged in by "fair maids" who h:iv not yet reached "the hair Tip" stu of life.

The! ratepayers of Hawera yesterday carried a proposal to borrow £30,000 for street improvements and to complete the drainage scheme, but rejected a proposition to raise £12,000 for a Municipal Opera House. As will be seen by the following figures, therewas a very small poll. Street improvements—For the proposal, 250: against 90; informal 17. Municipal Opera House—For tho proposal, 128: against 213; informal 22.

"Many people have no idea of th< passionate intensity of the devotion which Mr Lloyd George inspires among his own countrymen," writes a correspondent. "A friend of mine who

is connected with a newspaper circulating in North Wales gave me an amusing example of this feeling, 0-: one occasion an article severely attacking the Chancellor ivas published iri the paper. Next clay a man with an unmistakable Welsh accent walked into the office, and hough! over the counter a copy of the issue in quesLiou. Having obtained it. lie proceeded dramatically to tear it up, fling the pieces on the floor, trample on them, and finally spit on them. For that indulgence he paid a penny cheerfully."

Notice was given in the House on Thursday by Mr J. Payne, M.P. for Grey Lynn, to ask the Prime Minister whether he will this session in- ' trodueo legislation to amend the law relating to libel so that no journal or newspaper may publish matter relating to any person which may injure such person in any way or hold him up to contempt and ridicule. "Jn the recent case of Fuller v. 'The Triad,' *' states Mr Payne, "an elderly gentleman was unfairly and without cause lie'!;! up to ridicule and contempt, and during the course of the action the plaintiff was further held up to ridicule and contempt. There arc a number of journals now published in this .Dominion which have the power to lew blackmail by reason of the fact that they can approach any individual and ask him for an advertisement, or to subscribe to such journal, and iii the ease of a refusal such jour-

nals can publish cartoons and articles holding; up the individual to contempt and ridicule."

If you are waking call me early. Call me early, mother dear! |, 7f you do of my recovery You really need have no fear. For it's doing me good already—'Tis really a life renewer! I've always said it's the host op all— Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,

The work of planting trees on Mountain Road between Pembroke and Flint Roads has been completed.

Last year the value of the output of ivanpokonui, the biggest cheese factory in the world, was £151,223.

The company conducts a store, the operations of which van into £42,637 For the year. The News adds: The company operates in an area roughly seven miles by seven miles, and we should imagine that no similar area of grass land in the world is producing the same wealth.

Mrs Brooking had a busy day on Thursday. In the afternoon she catered for the reception in connection with the Jackson-Wood wedding, and in the evening she managed the sup-

per at the military ball in the Town Hall. In both cases she was highly successful, both refections meeting with general approval.