LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 6, 25 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr P. Skoglund, Town Clerk, resumed duty this morning, after a fortnight’s holiday spent in the south.

The weekly Fire Brigade social, usually held on Tuesday evenings, has been postponed till Thursday this week.

An afternoon tea will be held in the Parish Hall on Thursday afternoon in aid of the Bible-in-Schools War Fund. Admission is free.

The Golf Club August competitions will be held for gentlemen on Thursday afternoon, and for ladies on Friday as announced in another column.

The United Friendly Societies’ held another dance in the Foresters’ Hall last night. Music was supplied by , Mrs Bianchi, and an extra by Mr L. Young. Mr T. Lawson acted as M.G. Supper was provided as usual.

The death is reported by cable of Sir Normand MacLaurin, M.A., M.D., LL.D., a member of the 'Now Soutk Wales Legislative Council, who has taken a prominent part in political and other public work in New South Wales. .

The track to the Stratford Mountain House is now in good condition, being a little cut up by cattle hoofs, though wonderfully dry. Mr Williams hopes to open the house for the season in November, and with that end in view he intends to visit the house frequently in the near future in order to get things in order.

Twenty civil cases and two judgment summons cases are set down, for hearing at Friday’s sitting of the Court, and evidence is to be taken for a case to be heard in another Court. The only other business set down is a by-law case, the one adjourned last week owing to the offender giving a wrong name.

The Union S.S. Co. .paid £28,609 in settlement of the Wyandotte case, states a Sydney cablegram. A previous message stated: The Wyandott case has been settled, an agreement having been reached withdrawing the prosecution and the defendants’ allegations of unseaworthiness. The crew h'ac been paid off. Mr Williams, caretaker of tbe Stratford house, reports that in accordance with the resolution made at the last meeting of the National Park Reserve Board re the shooting of cattle in the reserve, quite a number of animals have been shot,Mr Collins proving himself an adept hand with the rifle. The reserve as far as the Stratford Mountain House is concerned, is now almost clear of cattle. A Wellington Press Association telegram to-day: Gilbert Henry Price, a tobacconist, who posted a notice in his shop window giving sensational details of an imaginary naval engagement in the North Sea, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with knowingly propagating false war news, to the alarm of His Majesty’s subjects. Price was bound over to keep the peace for 12 months in a personal bond of £SO and two sureties of £25 each.

A Very plucky action was performed at Tarata last week by Phoebe Waite, aged 17, daughter of Mr H. Waite. Three young children, one of Mr Waite’s and two of Mr IbelTs, got into a canoe which was moored in the Waitara River, and, the painter getting loose, they were carried down by the current towards a rapid. Miss Waite saw the children’s danger and instantly threw off her loose garments and swam out to the canoe, which with the aid of a small piece of wood she guided into slack water and safety. But for Miss Waite’s prompt action the children must have lost their lives in the rapid, and it is thought that the facts should be brought under the notice of the Royal Humane Society.

Notwithstanding the world-wide publicity given the Panama Canal (says the Sydney Shipping List), it appears to be impossible to gather a complete schedule of the regulations pertaining to shipping. Certainly, the disjointed casual reference to charges or regulations have been, and are still being, circulated, but nothing official from the controlling bodies has apparently been allowed to get into circulation. That they have been drawn up in a certainty, the Americans in control being enterprising enough to see to that; hut what is beyond comprehension at the moment is that the possibilities of Australia and New Zealand hold out in the shape of vessels that might, undoubtedly will, use the greet cut, has not been sufficient inducement for a complete schedule being made available long before this.