LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 20, 17 August 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To prevent any misunderstanding among country teachers and pupils, it should be mentioned that no classes of any kind will be hold in the Stratford Technical School either to-morrow (18th inst.) or Saturday, 25th August.

A man in Timaru who was digging his garden the other day received an unexpected reward. The spade struck something solid, and investigation led to the discovery of two kegs containing liquid, which proved to be excellent wine. How it came in the garden no one knows, but it is surmised that it was buried there “a very long time ago,” even possibly for forty years. Whether that be so or not, that nine has absolutely no chance of surviving for another forty years.

There are whisperings (says an English pa per j tha t serious embarrassment has been caused m at least tnroe well-known families by the anuounccmoiit that an olticoi itpoitc dead in the early months of the war has turned up within the past month or so. In one ease, the beautiful young u ulo'.v roman icd, hoi otcon uusoaud, like her first, being closely eonneefced with the peerage. There are children by both marriages ol the lady, which adds to the trouble. The wade business intensifies the leclihg many of us have had from the beginning (it is held very strongly m Royal circles.) that some war widows have displayed almost too much eagerness in paying their first husband the “compliment” of putting a second in his place. One actually married again when her gallant husband had been less tmui six weeks in bis grave.

As an illustration of honesty the following incident, related to the Taranaki Herald by Sub-Inspector M'Jlvcmiy, is worthy of notice:—On June 2U a visitor to New' Plymouth alleged that on the previous day, while lie was in the Post Office sending a telegram, he left his pocketbook, which contained £l7, on one

! of tile public desks. About live hours 1 later he missed it. The matter was | placed in the hands of the police. On i their advice, an advertisement "as pm in the local papers, with the result that the police were handed the pocket-book, with contents intact. There were, however, £2 more than 1 the owner had reckoned upon.. Jhe finder, who is it working-man, explained that about three weeks ago he was climbing Paritntu, and found

the pocket book and contents lying alongside the path. An examination of the pocket-book shows that it has been exposed to the weather, and the police' hare found that on the day it was alleged to have been left in the I’osl Office, its owner had climbed I’aritnln. The pocket-book will be despatched in due course to the Bay of Plenty, to be delivered to its owner.