LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 3 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ninety per, cent, of English people can write, only 27 per cent, in Spain, and but 16 per cent., in Russia. The Pihama Dairy Co.. has sold its cheese output to Lonsdale and Co. for 61 d. The purse of sovereigns presented to .Mr H. L. Michel last week by his friends and supporters in the Grey electorate contained £B7O, states tin West Coast Times. A Lincolnshire farmer sent to Spalding market 100 hampers of cabbage, which sold for £2 19s 2d. The farmer’s share was Bd, the expenses being: Cartage 2s, commission £1 ss, railway charges £1 11s Od. English papers report the sale of the | four-year-old Aberdeen-Angus bull Elmhore to a South American buyer for £IOOO. This bull was bred by the late King, and was a great prize-win-ner, being champion at the Highland | Show and also at the show of the i Royal Agricultural Society of England in July. ( Speaking at the reception in Wellington Mr Will Crooks, M.P., said the party of Parliamentarians would carry home marks of their sympathy j— which would remain with them till the end of their days. “We can bare our arms and cry: Witness our scars.” This bantering reference to the party’s recent compulsory vaccination created great amusement. j The directors of the Kaupokonui Dairy Company have instituted a I “Deposit Department.” The company will accept money in any sums repayable to the depositors at call with interest at 4i per cent. This proposal is for the benefit of people who may have money lying idle, -hul who may not he desirous of depositing it for any fixed time. In the September issue of “Life,” begins Captain Scott’s actual story, and the opening chapters are given of a strong new serial story by Jack London, entitled “The \ alley oi the Moon.” These two features make September “Life” a good number, but the 160 well-illustrated pages of the magazine are rounded out with many other articles, short stories, and departments that make the issue very attractive. The Chief Justice and Mr Justice Chapman have delivered their reserved judgment in the Ohakune libel action of Canning against M ilkic, arising out of an exchange of whisky between the local postmaster and a Chinese storekeeper. Their Honors non-suited the plaintiff with costs or the highest scale, thus upsetting the jury’s verdict in his favor for £250. Sir John Findlay and Mr A. W Could appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs C. P. Skerrett and C. E. Mackav for the defendant.

During July 778,932 acres of land i-ere selected in Queensland, as romiared with 01d,319 acres in July of ust year. The area taken up for the even months ended July 31 was 1,813,(>18 acres. There are at present ibout 8,000,000 acres in Queensland tpen for selection. “I am not surprised at Barry winling,” writes an Australian sportsman ■egarding the recent race for the world’s sculling championship, “but I am disappointed at the race Pearce ■owed. v His trial time between Put-' iiey and Barnes’s Bridge was 18min. dOsec. done well within himself. In the race, however, on better water and with a stronger tide. Barry’s time between the bridges was 20min 1350 e., and Pearce was eight lengths behind! Pearce says he was rowing easily at the mile when his right arm cramped, but the fact remains that he was donkey-licked.” A Wellington Press Association message states that Mr Myers, M.P., on behalf of Captain Cannce, applied to the Minister of Marine for a rehearing of the Devon ease, on the ground that one of the assessors was objected to on account of being a coastal pilot. The Minister declined to grant the application, stating that it was unreasonable to suggest that the tribunal was in any way prejudiced against Captain Cannce.