LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 42, 20 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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A Press Association telegram from Wellington states: Two . deaths occurred on the Rimutaka’s voyage. Airs A-.’ Phelan, of Wellington, died on September Bth, just after leaving Teneriffe, from heart failure.. On October 2nd George CroWson, a steward, died also from heart failure.- Both were buried at sea. i

.At Wanganui the other day. a young man paper. The despicablp form of thelv is not confined to the town mentioned, and acting on the information given by certain subscribers of the “Stratford Post,” who have good reason to believe they are victims of this mean kind of theft, a watch is being kept with a view to prosecution. This ought to be full warning for the cvil-doei'. ‘ '

Negotiations-are proceeding between the Australian and New Zealand Governmeats for the permanent retention of the wireless station -erected hy the Mawson Expedition on Macquarrie Island. A Wellington Press Association message states that it has been found very useful for meteorological purposes, and that the Commonwealth Government has offered to pay half the cost if New Zealand pays the other half.

It is understood that a midnight raid on a nearby country hotel in the Stratford district disclosed several visitors “breasting the bar” in an

endeavor vto quench the drought that follows in the wake of the mazy waltz, or, maybe, the lively Schottische. Further particulars of the movements of these gay dancers are likely to prove interesting to others besides Mr Ken rick when he sits in his official capacity of S.M.

An Onehunga carter, named Gore Coldicutt. was playing with a bulldog at the Onehunga Timber Co’s, mill on Thursday afternoon, when, for no apparent reason, the animal jumped up and bit Coldicutt on the underlip. The wound inflicted was a severe one, and bled profusely, and it was found necessary to insert four stitches. This is the second case of its kind that has happened at Onehunga last week. A few days previously a little girl was bitten through the cheek by one of the dogs in Church Street,

The soa lias been very ront-.tlorate in the recent wrecks around the New Zealand coast, says the Bluff Prpss. It seems to have taken provincial jealousies into account, and given no chance for the South to cry out that the North was having all the wrecks. Auckland had a whole wreck to itself, right in the front garden, the Kaipara ; then Gisborne could look out of its front door and see the Star of Canada, piled up on the beach ; then the Bangitikeites had a chance to see the Tndrabarah go overland; a few weeks back Wellington was favored with a wreck, and the Devon is still there; then the Okta sank sullenly right in front of the pilot station at the Bluff; and lastly. Otago has its opportunity to view the wrecked Tyrone perched on Wahine Point. There

is one cheerful fact about all these wrecks—there has not been a single life lost. Also the Union Company had its usual luck in missing trouble, although the Tyrone would, on discharging at the Bluff, have duly passled into the Union Company’s fleet.

The Ohura Road through the Tangarakau Gorge is likely to become an im-

portant stock route, and in connection therewith the Taranaki Herald records the following interesting transaction. Recently Hr Herlihy wanted to transfer 176 cattle from Kaimata to Ids farm near Taumarunui. To truck them would have cost him over £3O, so lie decided to drive them through the Tangarakau. Ho accomplished the journey of 110 miles in nine days at a cost of less than £lO and without the loss of a single-beast.

The Ijawera Hospital Board to-day received a voluntary donation of £ooo towards the erection of a children s ward. A < resolution was carried thanking the donors (who do not wish' their names published) for their magnificent offer, and a committee was appointed to take the necessary stops to have the building erected.—P.A.