LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 18 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Midhirst Dairy Company pays out £4872 for September milk.

The percentage of bull calves among the dairy herds in the Clutha district is tliis season an extraordinarily large one (saj's the Free Press). One farmer on inchelutha, out of a herd of 40 cows, had only two heifer calves; the rest were bulls. It has been suggested that the circumstances arc so peculiar as' to call for the investigation of the Chief Veterinarian.

The illailwtiy Appeal Board at. Wellington upheld the appeal >ofr iJoseph Jarvis against his dismissal for taking a cup of milk from a can on a platform. E. Cloke, storeman at Lambton Station, appealed against his dismissal for gross, insubordination. The appeal was dismissed.

I The Tauranga-Mount Maunganui-Te , I Pnkq section of; the East Coast railway I j w as opened for traffic yesterday in the, [(presence of six hundred settlers from j.Te Puke, Papamoa. and Tauranga. The Maypr of, Tanrnaga opened the sec- ’ ' lion, which is 14 miles long. It will 4 be worked by the Public Works Dep I partment meantime.

A youth was walking out of the Sunnyside Commission of Inquiry last week with his hat on. “Take your hat off,” sharply ordered the Commissioner. The boy did, remarking to a companion. “That’s something I’ve learnt.” The reflection of those who saw the incident (says the Christchurch Press) was as to w hy the growing hoy of to-day requires to be taught civility and respect by a magistrate or a commissioner: why he isn’t taught it in his own home and at school.

I Considerable excitement prevailed ! in the Chain Hills new tunnel on Satj urday motning (states the Otago Daily j Times), w hen, after more than three I years’ strenuous plugging through hard rock, the big drill in the north ! heading, at about 11 a.m., “struck lair,” and the hill was at last pierced, the two headings meeting to a nicety. For a day or two there has been great rivalry between the diffluent shifts as to who was to have the honor of I “holing through.” The Saturday i morning shift, with Bft to go, easily ! accomplished the task, and by the afternoon there was an opening sufficient for a man to pass through, it is, perhpps, worthy of note that the first party to proceed to Wiugatui via the now tunnel was that accompanying j Mr E. H. Riley, the new general manager of'the New Zealand railways, who is at present inspecting this district with Mr T. Ronayne, the retiring general manager.