LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 47, 25 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The "Stratford Evening Pest" will not be published on Monday next, October 27th, Labour Day. A first-offending drunkard was convicted and discharged at the Court this morning. Mr .). Masters, J.P.. was on the bench. One way to finish up Labour Day will lie to spend a pleasant evening at the Salvation Army hall, where the Self-denial results for New Zealand will be declared. Musical items will be interspersed, concluding with a plum pudding .'upper. The sum of 6d will be charged at the door. ! A meeting of newspaper proprietors I of the Wellington districts yesterday formed a Wellington Provincial Xews- | paper Proprietors' Association. Mr I Pirani, of Feilding, was elected president. Pules were adopted, and it was decided to register the Association, states a Press Association telegram. As some confusion seems to exist , among parents as to when children [' may be excused from attendance at .' school it may be of interest to them , to know that the Act says that a legal J excuse will be: (1) Illness of the /child; (2) sudden illness of parent; ',! (3) severe weather; (4) fear f infecJtion; (5) distance from school or had f state of roads.

A country school teacher forwards to the Auckland Star some interesting particulars of results obtained through the practice of Swedish drill by his pupils. He states that before commencing the exercises he took a note of the chest measurements -tnd expansion of the children, and the other day after two months' instruction again took their measurements. The increase in chest expansion in so short a

period was quite amazing, he says, two children having increased 2Jin., while others ranged from liri to 2in increase, the majority averaging ljin increase.

At Inglewocd on Thursday the opening of the new municipal hall was celebrated with a public dance, and

though the weather was unpropitious there was a large attendance and everything went off well. Before the dancing commenced speeches were made by the Mayor (Mr G. Young), Mr H. Trimble (chairman of the Moa Road Board) and Mr J. Brown (chairman of the Taranaki County Council).

Recent improvements at the school baths will make them still more popular, and now and again the weather is of such a kind as to make swimmers wish that they were open for use. i ,With every condition in their favor the Swimming Club are looking forward to an active and successful Reason, and as the racing programme can be looked to to be proceeded with at a very early date, it behoves all who are interested in the sport to be present at the annual meeting of the Club, which is to be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Monday evening next.

,A, special train from Marton, which arrived in Xew Plymouth at ll p.m. yesterday, brought about 43 passengers who had been "held up" at Marton by the interruptions caused to the Main Trunk railway service by land slips' on Wednesday, and to enable them to reach their destinations they had to be sent to Auckland via New Plymouth. The steamer Rarawa was detained until after the arrival of the special train. Many of the passengers wish to reach stations on the Main Trunk line north of Taihape, and to get there they have to go to Auckland and then back by the Main Trunk. A very large quantity of mail matter was also brought by the special train, to be shipped to Auckland. m Owing to the dislocation of traffic on the main trunk line, the Rarawa will sail from Onehunga on Sunday night, arrive at Xew Plymouth on Monday morning, and leave for Onehunga again -the same night. Mr H. C. Campbell's free store in Tewsley street, Dunedin, nigh to the wharves, has been temporarily con-

verted into a bond for the reception of the salvage from the wrecked steamer Tyrone (states the Star). Already a big lot of the whisky has been housed there. T'p to noon to-day there were 1,880 cases, 15 quarter casks, and 18 octaves of this stimulating liquid in the bond. The cases are not in the least knocked about. The only sign of damage is that the

cases are a little damp and cmewhat discolored. The contents will no doubt iopen out unimpaired. Much of the whisky is from Dewar's famous distillery, and the brands include "Green Stripe." "White Horse," "Johnnie Walker," "Perfection," etc. The salvors have also landed other goods, such as three 400-gallon tanks of clover, a good parcel of Fry's cocoa, a few cases of cornflour and "cerehos" salt, some bundles of galvanised wire, and about 200 boxes of Hudson's soap extract. Some of these goods got an extra spraying whilst heing brought round in the whaleboat, but they arc not, so far, as one can judge, badly damaged. Buyers will look for themselves when the auction takes place, but, whatever allowance may he made for depreciation, it is sure that the cargo so far rescued has been well worth the cost of saving.

Mr W. M. Caron, Secretary o| the District Grand L.oUce of Freemasons, j S C (Auckland, arrived in Stratford yesterday. Mr Caron will act as Installing Master at the instaUaJion of officers of Lodge Hinemoa on Monday evening.

-It is now settled that a general holidav will be observed in Stratford on Monday next, Labor Day. The executive of the Retailers' Association had decided that retailers' premises should remain open, but in response to a largely-signed petition it was decided to-day that a close holiday bo observed. It is at any rate pleasant to know that whatever one may think of the fitness or unfitness of observing Labor Day as a holiday that there is "now practical uniformity so far as Stratford and the greater part of latanaki is concerned, and wholesale, retail and newspaper businesses will be closed down.