LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1, 2 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The half-yearly meeting of members of tlio Egmont Club takes place this evening.

.Recently Mr Geo. Heads, of Invercargill, picked up a bottle on Riverton beach which contained a message tiiat purported to have been consigned to the Indian Ocean on June 10, 1911. It reads: “If anyone finds this bottle will they please write to Mr Comer, 1 Chester street, Iffley road, Oxford, England. Thrown overboard 3000 miles from the Cape of Good Hope, steamer bound for Australia.”

States the Ha worn'Star’s Wellington correspondent: Mr G. W. Russel expressed the Tears of the majority of members on his side of the House when ho' mentioned during the passage of the railway estimates, that he was afraid the new General Manager of Railways would be a Public Service Commissioner under another name, but the Hon. Mr Homes gave an as- 1 su'rance Quit* s to the contrary. “The new General Manager,” he said, “will not bo a Commissioner; be will be responsible to the Miinistei 1 for Railways, and the Minister for Railways’ will be responsible to the House.”

i 1 Mr F. Newland, of Fair Farm, Warwick Hoad, which Was up till recently conducted by Mr T. Webb, lias received an order from Messrs Slack Bros., of Palmerston North; to supply two Berkshire sows and two hoars. In a covering letter it is stated that if the pigis forwarded turn out well further business is likely to follow. The Berkshire.? of Fair Farm have always been well known, and the fact that breeders of the standing of Messrs Slack Bros, are anxious to secure some of the stock indicates that their merits are widely recognised.

When Messrs. Mullen and Marshall re-open their “Kash” on Broadway, it will be a very different place to the old premises before the fire occurred. The principals are now away securing the latest and most up-to-date fittings and details for showing their special lines. A big new stock of the latest novelties in men’s wear is now being personally chosen, and will arrive in time to open up in the new and greatly enlarged premises. Business is being temporarily conducted in‘a. shop nearly opposite the “Kash.” Having, during their residence in Stratford, gained a good knowledge of what is wanted, the firm ought to be particularly well-equipped for business when they got going in full swing once more.

The Te Wora ladies’ plain and fancy dress hall was held in the Hall on Friday night, and proved to ho one of

the most enjoyable and successful dances ever given in Tc Went, writes a correspondent. There were over thirty couples present, and all seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The Hall was prettily decorated with native hush and ferns, and much credit is due to the ladies, who must have worked hard to ensure the success of the evening. Mrs Calvert and .Miss Ford were most efficient Ai.C.’s. Some of the fancy dresses

were very pretty. The most notable were Mrs Calvert and Miss M. Flynn (twins), Miss A. Ford (Spring), Miss

K. Meredith (milkmaid), Miss Myers ((■ ipsy fortune, teller), Miss Webber ( Dutch girl). Miss W, Flynn (fishwife), Miss T. Ford (5 o’clock tea), Miss I). Meredith (Dutch girl), Miss S. Ford (Coll

Uawn), and Mrs Sander ( Xur.se). Good innsic was supplied by Mr Pearson (Huiroa), and extras, wore played by Mrs Stewart, Miss M.! Flynn, Miss A. Ford, Mr Marsh. 1 The dance was kept merrily going till the early hours of the morning.

The quarterly meeting of Hie Licensing Committee is to he held at the Courthouse at noon on Friday.

1m ft ecu civil cases (one defended) and three judgment summons cases are set down for hearing at the Court on I- riday. Two informations for riding bicycles on footpaths, one for leaving a dead animal near -a public road, and one for allowing a horse to wander at large will also be dealt with.

Mr E. J. Kirkwood lias purchased Iwo of tlio heifers recently imported from Jersey by Mr R. Darkness. Mr Kirkwood, who is in Wellington, made an inspection of all Mr Harkness’s importations on Somes Island, where they are detained for the prescribed period under quarantine regulations. Mr Kirkwood’s purchases will, come on to “Pikau Park” immediately after release from the Island.

The Auckland reps, to play Taranaki on J hnrsday at New Plymouth went through by the mail train last evening. The Taranaki team will lie considerably weaker than the one which played the Northern province a while back. Stohr will in all probability not don the colors, and Leverage after the Welsh match will, through his severe handling, have to he a spectator; it is also mentioned that several others will not he able to play. A lot of interest is centred on the match nevertheless, and Taranaki are out to seal the shield victory by another win. Special train arrangement and excursion fares have been made by the Railway Department, and Stratford is bound to send a big contingent of supporters.

A Wellington Press Association message states: In connection with the supposed boating fatality at Lyell Bay, the launch which was reported missing returned safe late last night. The men had been to Palliser Bay fishing. They started to return on Sunday, when the engine broke down while oft' the Heads. The sea was rough and tho little craft tossed dangerously about. Water got into parts of the engine, totally disabling it, and fearing that the launch would be swamped, those aboard jettisoned a large catch ( of fish which had been secured. Then they hoisted a tiny sail, and after drifting on Sunday night and all day on Monday, eventually made port at a late hour.

A pretty romance lies' behind the announcement of the marriage of Miss Inez Milholland, the millionaire American suffragette, and Mi 1 Eugene J. Boissevain, a member of a prominent Butch family, of Amsterdam. Miss Milholland arrived at Fishguard in the Mauretania on July 6, During the voyage' Mr Marconi introduced her to Mr Boissevain. It was a case of love at first sight, and Miss Milholland and Mr Boissevain were married by special license at the Rochester Row registry office a fortnight inter. Airs Boissevain, who is very beautiful, is probably the most prominent suffragette loader in the United (States.

A Wellington correspondent writes: Ihe House is settling steadily down to business, blit there are occasional ‘stormy winds that blow,” and interludes that are not without their amusing side, as, for instance, when Mr G. j Vt. Russell naively complained, in JH connection with the Public Trust Office 1 ® Amendment Bill, that the Minister, in wit holding the confidential evidence given at.the inqury into tile working ol the Public Trust Office, was “relying upon his brutal majority to see him through.” Mr Guthrie interjecting, “They’re all right,” the member for Avon went on to say that Government members were sitting quiet and doing nothing, while great constitutional questions wore being discussed, while the rights of the people and the rights of Parliament,wore being trampled upon by an autocratic Ministry that got into power by saying that no information should be withheld from the people,” and so on—all of which is very ridiculous in view of the facts. But the member for Avon was obviously disconcerted when, having gently insinuated that the late Government never withheld information, Mr Herdman referred to the refusal of Sir Joseph Ward to supply 1 lie House with information concerning the inquiry into the .working of the Laud and Income Tax Department, and the dismissal of Mr Peter Hoyes. Mr Bussell, however, stoutly maintained that the cases were not analogous. ■

Mrs -I. R. Green, the writer on Irish history, who was the recipient of an honorary degree at the Liverpool University the other day, was greeted hy the students with the following Degree Day song:— Oil, Paddy, dear, the dons are here all illigantly gowned, To pay due honour to the flower that grow on Irish ground. And just to show we’re with ’em on this memorable scene We’ll raise a jintlemanly row for Mrs J. R. Green.