LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 96, 23 December 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Counsel for the defendant in a case heard at the London Sessions the other day asked the jury to remember what an ass his client looked when in the dock!

The Meremere Dairy Factory Company (according to the Hawera Star) pays out £2646 7s for November but-ter-fat, individual suppliers receiving £297, £174, £159, £139, £l2B, £ll*l, £IOB, £lO4, etc. This is the largest month's pay-out yet disbursed by this company.

Red garments, especially underwear, form the best curt 1 for laziness, according to a statement made by Dr. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, at the annual meeting in Chicago of the American Association for the Study o! Spondylotherapy. A red woollen nightshirt stores up a day's energy for tlic wearer; and a red undervest, or ever a red chest protector, will banish "th< tired feeling."

The following new books have beeradded to the Stratford Public Library:—"Where the Strange Roads gc Down," Gertrude Page: "Notwithstanding," M. Cholmondey; "Red Wrath," John Oxenham; "MillionairesIsland," Max Pemberton; "The League of St. Louis," David White".aw : "Tide Marks," M. Westrup; "Doings and Dealings," J. Barlow; "A Trap to Catch a Dream," Clayton Calthorp: "The Mercenary," W. J. Escott ; "The Dog Star," G. Hosken; "Watersprings." A. C. Benson; "The Breath of the Karroo," L. Brinkman : "The Story of Waitstill Baxter." K. Wiggin; "Chance," Joseph Conrad; "T. Tembaron," F. H. Burnett; "Tin Dream Ship," Cynthia Stockley ; "The River of Dreams." AY. Westrup; "A Changed Man." Thomas Hardy: "The Remington Sentence," W. P. Ridge. Recently the remarkable case of a man who for many years masqueraded as a prima donna in Hungary, came to light. The "lady" was known as Aronka Gyongy," but her real namewas Ste'efan Mosci. Since the age of twelve, Mosci had appeared throughout Hungary as a soubrette and prima donna, and the trick was only discovered at a small town in the Zala district. "Aronka Gyongy," but her real name company, and applied for a license to perform. ; The.official was suspicious, however, and had.her examined, and it. was then announced that the prima donna was a, man. Mosci was arrested, i ■ ~ ;;. ,/■//..".; : !!.;.-:! I)• /

Tin' Xormanby, correspondent of the Hawera Star says :—On Fridaynigh! Mr D. Stewart, of the well-known Xormanby poultry, yards, by some means managed to shut a young spaniel pup in the incubator house, where a number of specially-bred chicks won' kept, and on going into the house in the'morning found that the dog* had

played JuYvoe .with; him,: no fewer: than sixty being found killed. This will be a great' l'oss-fbr Messrs Stewart and Landsperg, as the birds were intended for the competitions and early spring shows, and they will be unable to set any now ready in time.

Mr P. Speck had a narrow escape from injury last night. He was driving a horse and cart out of the County Hotel right-of-way, and the horse wa. restive and look control, colliding with one of the County Hotel verandah posts. The cart was thrown on its side, but Mr Speck escaped without injury. The horse managed to keep its feet and did not bolt, and the only injury was to one of the splashboards.

Special facilities are provided by I the Telegraph Department during the i Xnias and New Year season for the ! transmission of "greeting" telegrams I at a uniform charge of sixpence provided that the address and signature

do not exceed eleven words. As the ■telegraph traffic on Christmas Eve is 5 1 always abnormally heavy the public -lis requested to band in all telegrams ; ! as early in the day as possible. By so : | doing they will assist the Depart--1 ment very materially, and will also 'assist towards the early delivery of ''telegrams at the office of destination. i All telegrams of importance should ! be sent at urgent rates to ensure i prompt despateli and delivery, as the j delay on ordinary traffic will be coni siderable. j "The conditions of a publican's I lease are such that a conviction under i the Licensing Act, even where there i is no inoVal turpitude on the licensee's J part, involves severe penalties under the lease," stated Mr R. X. -Moody to Mr Kraser, S.M., when John Kelly, j lieens-c of the Imperial Hotel. Auckland, was convicted of a breach of the i Licensing Act, the Magistrate remarking that the circumstances showed no moral turpitude on the part of the licensee. ''The man who takes a Lease under fcliose conditions is a fool," replied the Magistrate. "But they cant't get a lease without such conditions nowaday;;," said Mr Moody. "Well," said Mr .Kraser, "in my own licensiny district (Franklin) ! intend id do something towards stopping that kind of lease if 1 can. ! don't think it is conductive to the proper j carrying out of the lav?.* 1 <

For some days now the morning train has arrived with two engines, but up to this morning the circumstance had more the appearance of a merely formal intimation by the Railway Department that Christmas "'as coming. This morning, however, there was need for two locomotives, the big train (with two luggage vans) being crowded with passengers. At Stratford a further big crowd of passengers boarded the train, a big proportion of them being Eastern residents, the "Toko train" bringing a very large crowd. It is presumed' that very nearly every resident of Stratford will be in Broadway to-morrow evening for the purpose if not of purchasing them of looking' at the special and general goods which the good-natured traders of Stratford have provided for their edification. Any attempt to adequately indicate the nature of the goods on show and in stock would take up a great deal of space and might prove tedious reading; but, generally, it can be taken as proved that all traders are fully stocked with the lines most in demand at this season of the year. The fancy goods shops of Messrs James and Grubb are "dressed" in effective manner, the drapers have all their best and most taseteful goods where the naked eye can the most easily see them, and even the dealers in the prossaic pick and shovel, the harmless and highly necesssary flour, sugar, and potatoes—in fact traders generally—have made some sort of attempt at "dressing," in order, perhaps, to I win their way into the pockets of purI chasers by way of the eye. However,

the tact remains that a promenade in Bioadwav to-morrow will be a matter

of pleasure