LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 56, 6 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A commencement lias boon made with the survey of the proposal railway line between Opnnake and Moturoa, says the Patea “Press.” A party of surveyors is at present at the Opnnake end of the proposed line and will work in to New Plvmonth.

A man who was found at To Wera wandering about in a state of helpless drunkenness was before the Court yesterday afternoon, Mr Joseph McCiuggage, J.P.. being on the bench. He was remanded for a week for medical treatment.

The effect of the strike is being loli by Mr C. E. James. His new simp front cannot be completed yet, as some of the material for it is still at Wellington. A Stratford resident stated this morning that he had hoard on good authority that Parliament was holding a special sitting to-day to deal with the strike position.

Tins morning Colonel Chavtor, officer commanding the Wellington district, inspected the local troop of the Queen Alexandra Mounted Rifles and also the nflo range. Afterwards he proceeded to Hawera, accompanied by captain Stevens and Colonel Malone.

Mr H. E. Williams, caretaker of the «ist Eginoiit Mountain House, writes m ‘cference to remarks in the “Post” of October 2Sth regarding the House. e says. One part oi the report leads one to the belief that the roads leading to the house are finished as ■ar as the re-forming and doing up is concerned, and one coming to the house immediately after reading your at tide would in consequence think that after all the roads were not going to be too good this season. As it is, not one half of the work that is going to be put into the roads is yet done, the men working on the job not being able to put in full time on account of the wet weather. When finished the roads will be better than ever they have been hitherto, and then two hands will he put on the top track and the gorge which your scribe mentions, hut of course for the time being that particular work is not absolutely essential.”