LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Jersey bulls under one year o age, sold by the lluakura Farm of Instruction, this year, have slightly over £4O, states the Journal of Agriculture.

The first Chinese bigamy trial that has ever taken place has just ended in Ti u Chan Tse being sentenced to 80 days’ imprisonment by a" mixed court at Shanghai. The prosecution was instigated by the Chinese Women’s Suffrage Society.

The dam of the sire of St. C Olinda 11., one of the Jersey bulls recently imported by Mr J. G. Harkness, has a record of 7721b5. of butterfat in the year. A striking photograph of this revenue-producing cow aopears in the current number of the Journal of Agriculture.

During the past season (.states the Journal of Agriculture) over 25,000 cows,- purebred and crossbred, members of the ordinary dairy herds, were tested in New Zealand, while over 300 pedigree cows were officially tested in j connection with the register of merit scheme by officers of the Department.

A land deal on a fairly substantial scale has recently been affected by a Xapier firm in the purchase at Motoroa, on the Main Trunk, of some 10,000 acres of land for Mr A. H. Russel, of Hawke’s Ray. It is stated that the purchase price runs into about €70,000.

During September four marriages, six deaths and sixteen births were registered in Stratford.

A further rehearsal of “The Pirates of Penzance” will be held this evening, commencing at 7.20 p.m.

The wrecked barque Okta was sold by public auction at Invercargill yesterday for £6O. One of the ship's boats realised £6, and another £o.

King Constantine of Greece has left

for Athens (states a Paris cablegram), having cancelled a weex-end visit to Emperor Franz Josef at Trieste, owing to the troubles in the Balkans.

The fishing season opened this morning, and it is reported that one keen sportsman who got up with the lark, or, more correctly, before the lark, had landed seventeen fish before breakfast, the smallest being about 31bs weight.

The sitting of the Court on Friday should not last long, only eight civil cases (one defended) being set down for hearing. One judgment summons case will be heard and two Territorials will be proceeded against for failing to attend drill.

A somewhat unusual spectacle for the district was witnessed at Napier South on a recent afternoon, when a working bee commenced the erection of a fence around the Baptist Church section. The same party intends to put up a building on the section in tho same way.

The Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce has notified the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce that the Department will be glad to receive names of persons or firing who export or import commodities to India. The information is required for the purpose of publishing an authoritative commercial book of reference. Persons or firms doing such business should advise the Honorary Secretary of Chamber of Commerce. The Salvation Army intends going in for a big building scheme at Wanganui. Large barracks and a young people’s hall are to be erected. It is proposed to erect during the coming year, a maternity home at Dunedin, orphans’ home at Wellington, and an old men’s home at Island Bay. At the present time 700 men, women, and children are being housed, clothed, and fed in Hie 19 homes of the Dominion.

“Is a man legally responsible for his brother in regard to charitable aid And indigency?” This question was put Ao the secretary of the "Waikato Hospital- Board by Dr,s sand j ; j the answer was “Yes.” " The secretary further affirmed that he had kndw'n a grandfatherj apd-mad© , t liable for his grandson’s illegitimate child.

The peanut fatality which occurred in Wellington on Thursday afternoon, whereby a child named William John Murray, aged two years and ten

months, whose parents reside in Newtown, lost his life, is rather pathetic. The mother was taking her three children to Newtown Park, the deceased, the youngest being wheeled in a perambulator. En route, Mrs Murray purchased some peanuts for distribution among the monkeys at the Zoo, handing them to the two children who were walking. One of the children evidently gave a peanut to the small boy in the perambulator, for to the mother’s alarm she discovered that her baby was choking. She endeavoured to remove the obstruction in the child’s throat, but without avail. Gathering the baby in her arms, she then rushed across the road and signalled a passing tramcar, which was immediately stopped. The conductor kindly made a non-stop run to the Hospital gates, hut on arrival at the institution it was found that life was extinct