LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 79, 3 December 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Plymouth retailers close their premises all day to-morrow on account of People's Day at the Stratl'ord Show. The parade called for the 11. Company, Taranaki Rifles, for to-night, lias oeen postponed to Wednesdiv of next week on account or the Show. Kain fci! in Stratford on 21 days during November, the total fall registering 8.17 inches. The maximum fell on the 17th, when -in was recorded. Tho Privy Council reserve:! -judgment in thi' Colonial Sugar Company's case wherein the company is seeking an injunction to prevent the Sugar Commission requiring directors to make answer to specific questions, states a London message. The judge's comments indicate that the Commission Act will be declared invalid. Ir is quite fitting that at Show time :i circus should have happened along, and as Barton Bros'. Circus and Wild Australia give their famous performance to-night and to-morrow night visitors so inclined will be able to visit the circus and wind up the day to their liking. Among the many side show attractions the exhibition of living freaks claims the attention of all interested in the animal world. "Buffalo Bill," tin l largest sheep in the world, a bullock with 'heart in the throat, and a four-year old ewe with five legs, are ■amongst the "freak" display. Friends from the country and visitors to Stratford will have an opportunity to-night and to-morrow of witnessing the Stratford Operatic SoI cisty's very clever re-production of "Pirates of Penzance." The piece is really well played and admirably staged. During November 199 estates of deceased persons were finally certified for duty by the Commissioner of Stamps, says a Press Association mes>age from Wellington. The. largest was that of A. K. V. Lodder. of Wellington, valued at £233,836. The principal estate in the New Plymouth> district- was that of Sarah Ann Scott, £2905. Of late years the trend of development in motor car accessories has boon very naturally on the lines of the , abolition, so far as it is possible, of the many little minor annoyances attaching to motoring. Such things as petrol strainers, and more recently electric lighting outfits and self starters operated by means of a simple switch from 'lie driving seat have all tended to . simplify motoring. One of the handlist little fitments now on the market is a Bowden wire carburetter "tick- ■ ler," which can be operated by a push > button on the dashboard. , Edison's opinions are always worthy |of consideration. One of his latest prognostications is that within ten years cement roads for motor cars will In- universal: in America. The opinion amongst experts is now general that no macadam road,, whether tar bound ;ir otherwise", will ever prove eooreo- ■> .inicallvi satisfactory where the motor

traffic is e.\cessive. Cement of course would afford: a better surface than even the host .granite setts laid scientifically on an unyielding foundation ; nut the Question is would the cement :.ear as well, especially in view of the fact that for some years to come, at i:;' events.,,it, would be subject to the iction of iron shod wheels and horseshoe? When all vehicles are mechanically propelled and rubber shod, ce- • ■ 'U will doubtless come into its own.