LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first-offending inebriate was convicted and discharged at the Conn this morning. .Mr J. Black, J.P., was ou the Bench. The Stratford Licensing Committee holds its quarterly meeting at noon to-morrow, but the business to come before the committee is not heavy. The honey (for exhibition only) at the Horticultural Show is from a demonstration hive at the Stratford District High School, the combs having been lifted off the hive this morning. The onions on exhibition are to show the carelessness of some packers of seeds. The fruit is from the demonstration garden in New Plymouth where Mr R. McK. Morison was instructor. The apples were grafted to one old stock which had been cut back the previous year, the grafting being the work of three ladies of the class. The Skcviugtou trio of babies, born at Mrs Henry's private nursing home, Manaia, ou Monday are, very naturally perhaps (states the Waimate Witness), attracting a good deal of interested attention, and there are many visits and enquiries during the day. Mrs Henry asks, as a matter of conI venienco, that these visits should be | timed between 4 and 5 in the after- ' noon. Ihaia Bead has found the champion mean man, says the Opunake Times. The other day a young fellow splitting firewood put in a charge of gunpowder to burst up the log, but the charge ditl not go off. Ho put in another, which ha dthe desired effect, The unexploded charge he put a match to, and it blew ail .his whiskers off—to save paying for a shave— and his name is . Some fair-sized and unrecognisable fish having recently been caught by anglers in the local streams (states the Wyndhatn Farmer), a specimen was sent to the Museum at Invercargill for identification; and Mr Alfred Pllilpott, one of the lion, curators, has replied io the secretary of the local Anglers' Society in the following tecrnis:—"The it-h you forwarded is a kokopu or Maori trout. At one lime. | -■> to 30 years ago. it was pretty common in all our rivers ; but since the introduction of trout it has become somewhat scarce, it is a lazy, sluggish sort of ftsh, and the Maori sometimes used the phrase, 'As lazy as. a kokopu.' Possibly the name 'cockabnlly,' j sometimes given to it. is a corruption of 'kokopu,' the Maori 'p' being sound-j ed very like '!,.' Wo do nut possess] a. specimen in the Museum, and thank you for sending it ahem." TBOBBLKI) WITH SCIATICA. Lot KHKI/MO «■„,,._ you! f. hns ~,„.. ~ r **""'* A. Cap,-, ~. Wolliuuto,,. should convince ynu. M r Can]) <■• "rites:- 'I was ranch troubled v, ML : Sciatica pains, and a; times I o ail I , £°t no sleen. Following the adcieo "> a frinnd f tried a ho; ie of KHKLMO. and that bottle drove awav the I Sciatica pains. That vr;,, throe months j aao. and thev have not returned si m e \ 'f th'-v do, RHKfMO is H, P medicine! r shall go for." Mr Capper's eoniL aence comes from cxporiraoo. Sold bv chemists ; and stores at 2s Gd and Is 6d per bottle, y o \

That Ohura is capable of producng something ready worth while rem the orchard is plainly indicated iv the line sample of apples and limns sens to this office by Mr W. E. 'oiler, of Stratford, who speaks very ii»;hlv of his new location at Roto load". The Xormanby Horticultural Sociey's annual show, opened yesterday, ras a highly satisfactory exhibition. 'he only Stratford exhibitor was Mr <". Davies, who pained first prize for angle dahlias, double dahlias. six ■actus dahlias, and twelve cactus dahias. gaining the championship with a ted Admiral dahlia. The pupils of the Stratford school lad a real "day out" this afternoon, vlien the annual school sports were iehl. Trie sport throughout was good uid the large crowd of pupils and larents "on the bank" got a good deal )f excitement out of the contests. The eachers and members of he School Committee had a busy time getting iff the numerous events. A correspondent writes: "It may interest your readers to know that there is a lease in the Toko district held from the Government at ten shillings an ace. one acre alone of which brings in over one hundred nounds a year. This seems good interest on ten shillings." People do, just occasionally, discover oilwells or goldmines or diamond fields in their back gardens—but not often, so if our correspondent's information is really accurate we must congratulate the fortunate lessee.

A Wanganui banker had a peculiar experience the other day. He was walking along the street, carrying some small live cartridges in one of his pockets, and smoking a pipe at the time. He put his pipe in his pocket where the cartridges were, and later on was startled to hear an explosion. On making an investigation, lie found that one of the cartridges had been heated by the lighted tobacco, and had exploded. Fortunately, no more serious damage than a hole in his hat was the resuh ; but, had the bullet gone any other way than upwards, there would probably have been more serious consequences.

The committee of the Mountain Club met yesterday afternoon. It was decided that the next trip be to Lake Dive. Members will leave the Stratford House at 6 a.m. on Sunday next, the party being in charge of Mr T. P. James. The work of marking off the miles on the track to the House, repairing the path running down the Manganui gorge and erecting a sign indicating the route to the summit was authorised. The case outside tho Borough Council Chambers Itas been secured for the displaying of notices. The membership is now over the hundred mark, and includes a good number of ladies.