LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 44, 17 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

soldiers when they disembark do get At Mr Newton King’s hide sale in Stratford to-day, the large number of 8600 wore catalogued. Extreme prices were realised for all lines, the highest price obtained being 20 : ’d per lb, while over 6000 were sold at 20d and over.

The new regulation by the Ashburton butchers of asking customers to provide their own wrappers for parcels of meat, or, in the alternative to pay a small charge, came into force on Friday last. Several of the thrifty houswives were caught unawares, and were obliged to pay. another penny to provide paper to wrap up their pound of sausages, and, to use a butcher’s own words to a Guardian reporter: ‘By jove, they did snort.”

A conference of representatives of all local bodies in Taranaki has been arranged for 17th October at 2.30 In the Council Chambers, Stratford, to discuss the subject of forming a Taranaki Hydro Electric League. The objects of the League will be to urge upon the the necessity of early and vigorous action in .connection with the proposed hydro-elect-ric scheme for the North Island, and particularly to urge the claims of Tara naki to be linked up with the scheme at the earliest possible opportunity.

Amongst the men of the Offlines® labour companies now in France ther® exists a clannishness that , shows itself in many curious ways. According to our Western ideas, perhaps one of the most remarkable is their attitude towards money matters. A number of them will be in a shop -

Weather forecast.—The indications are for westerly winds and backing by west to south. The weather will probably prove squally and changeable and appear; likely to be cloudy and unsettled v ith rain following. Barometer falling, but rising after about 2t hours.—Bates, Wellington.

A genius with nothing to do till to-morrow suggested in the Daily Dispatch that the Government should install a choke producing apparatus in each of London's 2,000,000 chimneys to rover the capital with a smoke screen before impending air r a iris. Up submitted figures to prove that the ecst “would be nominal.”

Settlers are reminded of the meet* ing to discuss the New Plymouth Harbor Board’s development proposals which is to be Mr] at Kohuratahi to-morrow, in Mat Mv after Mr Newton King’s - 1 - sale. The chairman of th° H ’r ! ior Board and other ihembers wilt b-> -’psent, and it is hoped that Hm-e will be a large attendance of ;<■ tt’e-s.

The matte- of the erection of a bridge orb’- Pa+ea at Cordelia, street w-- -<-B— n? e d another stage at'.the - merk -- of ■he Stratford Borough Conn evening when the Council wo;, rommittee to consider tendp"= *er t’m erection of the bridge. On rrfn->--mg, it was reported that the tender of Messrs Brooking and ‘ Son, Stratford, for £2OO, had been accepted.

The local paper, referring to th® fire at Foxton recently, says: ‘A good deal of pilfering of stock removed from Mr Rimmer’s premise# during the night of the fire is reported. It is stated that one man. was seen making away with a roll of bacon, 1 closely followed by another man. The thief, thinking that his pursuer was following him for the purpose of satisfying the ends of justice, dropped the bacon and escaped. The other man promptly picked it up and took it home.”

examining the various goods. One, wishing to buy ah article, and finding perhaps that, he has not enough money, will calmly help himself from 1

At a sitting of the Eltham Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, a man named Philip D. L. Scown, of Kakaramea, alias . John Barry, was charged under the Military Service ! Act with assuming a, wrong name. Constable Townsend gave evidence that he arrested prisoner on Saturday, when he admitted that he was * living under an assumed name. The Argus reports that prisoner w-as remanded to appear before the Stipendiary Magistrate on Wednesday.

the purse of his neighbour, who looks upon this quite as a matter of course, and raises no objection.

The County campaign in aid of the Bed Cross funds is,meeting with splendid success, canvassers receiving much sympathy, but it is too early to come to a conclusion concerning the effort to raise donations of .£2O and over. No less than thirty three promises of £2O and over have been received. This represents an aggregate sum of over £7OO. The committee meets this afternoon, and a commencement will be made to-mor-row to publish the list of .donors. In the meantime, the committee hopes that the country settlers will make the canvassers’ tasks as pleasant as possible by freely responding to the £2O donation appeal, and that canvassers will lose no time in completing the canvass of their respective districts and reporting the result to the secretary.

An Auckland soldier now fighting for the Empire lately,had the curious experience, which has not been unusual in the fire sent war, of meeting in France a relative whom he had never before seen. Being wounded in battle, he was sent to a French hospital, and presently found that in another cot in the same institution was another man bearing th e same surname. On the two soldiers meeting and comparing notes, they. discovered that they were cousins. One had been in Auckland all his life, and the other in Sydney.

A cable message of to-day quotes an English journal as defining the German position to he: “They that have drawn the sword now seek to save themselves from perishing by the sword.” Singularly by accident OEA intent, and the omission of one tu* detter of the alphabet the cable-man or the telegraphist, or somebody with a really wonderful and truly proper . appreciation of the fitness of things American, changed “perishing” in the message received-at this office to “Pershing,” ' the name’of the leaden of the Army from the United States which is making the dirty Huu squeal all the time.