LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 4, 25 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. P. Kirkwood will address a meeting at the Town Hall on Monday evening to reply to Mr N. J. King. Lady burgesses are specially invited. The chair will be taken at 8 o’clock. x

A correspondent of the Daily Express declares that William Lippe of West bury, Connecticut, who is four years old, has been a constant cigar smoker since he was twelve months old. Recently he was declared on a medical examination not to have suffered either mentally or physically bv the habit.

An old law lifted out of an Act of Charles If., and 250 years old, was the basis of a charge laid against Herbert Nelson Hinton, in the Pukekohe Court recently. Defendant was charged with serving a summons on a Sunday. In examination he admitted he was aware that service on a Sunday would not have any legal status if challenged, yet he did not know that it constituted an offence. A conviction was entered, and accused was ordered to pay Court costs, 7s.

The official facts concerning the cablegram published in New Zealand papers some few weeks ago to the “banishment of tho Salvation Army from Finland” have been received at the Army headquarters, Wellington (says the Post). What has occurred is that the Russian Senate has commended the Finnish Provincial Governor to prohibit a local movement which had unsuccessfully endeavored to establish itself under the name of “The Finnish Salvation Army.” This order will not in any way affect the Salvation Army in Finland, where the organisation has 350 officers, and where its work has on several occasions been subsidised by the Government.

A Sydney woman, who has just returned from America, says that they have a sanitary fever over there. In most of the big cities, apparently, the common drinking cup is unknown; water hubbies up in a little jet, and spurts into the drinker’s mouth without him touching the jet; the common towel is also unknown, for the paper towel lias taken its place. In the best hotels no waiter is allowed to bring a finger bowl already filled, in case it may have been used by someone else first. The dry finger-bowl is brought and the water poured into it before the diner’s eyes. And best of all is the/ cleanliness in the hotel bedrooms. After each visitor,even those who have only slept one night, the room is thoroughly turned out and cleaned by a vacuum cleaner. The tariff in the first-rate American hotels is renowned; but apparently you get your money’sworth.

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“1 do not throw this out as a carrot,” said Mr N. J. King in the course of his address in the Town Hall last night. And some two rows of good people burst into a wide smilo when a still small voice asked; “And does His Royal Highness take us all for donkeys!” The officers of 11. Company have made arrangements for the Foresters’ Hal! to he available for the Territorials to-night whilst waiting for the train. The Hall will be open from 9 p.rn. till midnight, and music v ' will be provided by some local supporters of the Company. Opportunity will be taken to bring out can-* didates for the regimental boxing championships to lie fought in camp. This opportunity is also taken to notify the casuals that all correspondence in connection with the* second camp should be posted to Company Headquarters, Takapau, in order to receive prompt attention.

A correspondent writes anent last night’s meeting in the Town Hall as follows: “The principle of endeavouring to make public meetings resemble as closely as possible Sunday school gathering appears to have spread to Stratford. No fault could be found with the order to occupy the seats, while these are vacant, and not to stand at the back of the hall, but when it comes to feeling the heavy hand of the law upon one’s shoulder because he has dared to interject with a witticism or even to grunt dissatisfaction at the speaker’s statements—this, I maintain, is over the odds about free speech and the liberty of the subject.”

At the Magistrate’s Court, Inglewood, on Thursday, before Mr Kenrick, S.M., Arthur Gilbert, of Inglewood, trainer, sought to recover from Crampton Muinby, of Waitui, farmer, the sum of £TO alleged to be the agreed commission payable in respect of Gilbert’s services in assisting Mumby to purchase the well-known hurdle horse “Sandy Paul.” The plaintiff claimed that in May, 1909, he selected for the defendant the racehorse in question—then a two year old—and that a few weeks later the defendant agreed to pay him £lO as a remuneration for his services. This the defendant strenuously denied.. After hearing the plaintiff’s story and five witnesses in support, the defendant gave his evidence. His Worship then intimated that he did not desire further evidence called, and gave judgment for the defendant with, costs £3 4s 9d,pointing out that where a person allows a claim to lie dormant for many years it was only to be expected that the evidence would be more or less hazy. In this case, the evidence of the plaintiff and his chief witness as to the most important conversation—that at which the promise was alleged to have been made—was most conflicting, the plaintiff being positive that his chief witness was. not present, while the witness was just as positive that he, the plaintiff and the defendant, were all together at the time alleged. In the course of his judgment His Worship remarked that it was practically impossible for witnesses to remember accurately the actual words of conversations which had taken place five years previously, and that where a plaintiff comes to Court to recover money after that length of time he must .prove his case right up to the hilt, and in this case the plaintiff had failed lo do so. Judgment was given for the defendant. Mr A. Peterson, of Inglewood, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr J. R. L. Stanford, of Stratford, for the defendant.