LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 20, 17 August 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Sydney cablegram states that Abaters’ timber mills at Wolougong a ere destroyed' by Jire/ , ' v iiftiltS‘:! , :' ,; running into many thousands.

A sequel to the Australian sli ike is 0 be found-Tn a cablegram from Sydney to-day stating that the federal Government has‘seized all the eoal in the hulks. At the S.M. Court to-day, reserved mdgment was given by Mr Haselde i, s.M., in the case of ?to (lei v.'-John-ston, farmers, of Cardiff, being a charge for damages to two horses by 1 straying Holstein bull. Judgment as given for plaintiff for CIO and costs £4 14s Cd). In the dog-shoot-ing case, McDonald v. Brown, both of A’hangamomoua, judgment was entered up for defendant with costs. Indgnieiit for plaintiff was given in he cases Meßain and Childs v. R. L. Muir, claim G 3 3s, costs 10s; Rooney and Co. (Whangampmona) v. 1. H. Thomas, claim £73 Ss Od, ordered to pay amount within one month, in default thirty days in Nev Plymouth gaol.

Whatever happens to him on this :rip, Lord Nortlicliffe will get no big;er surprise than fell to him when he visited the United States a lew years igo (says the Philadelphia Ledge:), t’on may recall that he edited a tabloid edition of the New York World. The managing editor of that paper, who thought he knew all about tin* correct ways of a newspaper office when a real Lord was boss, said everybody should come to work that night in a dress suit. Regardless of how or where they got the suits, every man of them, some one hundred and fifty in all, appeared in evening clothes. Lord Nortlicliffe came in a bit late, dressed as a working journalist, and be was the only man in the building who was not adorned with a spiketril. Europe’s foreiliost journalist was iomewhat staggered lv the dressy appearance of his, staff, but it didn’t interfere with liiii giving orders like a Napoleon.