LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 60, 8 May 1924, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

column the Stratford iCoijrity Council has a notice in referfmfefiif hsavy traffic on its roads.

f*\- An" Egg Circle has been formed at the membership fee being fixed' at ss. '

■Mime Waoganui A. ard P. Association piade a loss of £422 5s Id on last year's working.

' All the chief political questions of the day will be lealt with by Mr R. 'Masters in his pre-sessional address at the Town Hall on Monday next.

j • The .first catch of whitebait,-of the season at Fbxton was mad© by Mr H. .ijawson on Saturday morning at the wharf. Whitebait have put in an appearance j extreaiely early this

r {As a result of being knocked down *. by a car returning from the Hawera last evening (reports the News) Miss M. Morrissey, of Hawera, was '""' to a .private ho pital, suffering ■ iroih injuries to the head and shock

■\ .Speakers at the Empire Press .."luncheon in London sa "l newspapers ■■?. %ould devote greater space to overnews in recognition of their ins 4 fceasing interest in London.

!y ..;! A general meeting of members of ;I .v the,'Avon Bowling Club is to be held' ; ; <ui Smith's rooms this evening a t 7.30 ojclock. Lady friends and members Ofj the Avon Croquet Club are invited ~'.^'.''attend.,-.

v "It, i&, ( the, usual balance-sheet," ■ Started the chairman of the West School,/Masterton, when discussing tlfe; committee's debit balance, "Spent more tha n we received. The Ecraca|ioh Board does not provide enough for us to carry on with, but all committees are the same."

?;Telegraph,operators on the Brisbane Exchange are fined anything frj*m 10s to £5 for talking on the li|ie to subscribers. If the person tfllked' to, however, is a "he," it is considered gallant for him to do the Paying, so probably he is usually a 'he.'' One such man paid smillingly £l-lately for a few minutes' talk.. >ss&h ■■■'■■- •■;■.. 14-,letter card sent from Palmerston North bore an unusual address. The ajert postal official, however, duly delivered it to the person for whom ■ s it' was intended, Mr A. E. Carter, IMfangahao, Pabiatua. The letter cwd, bore the following inscription:— . , .'^oiwhblder,at-finger post, Pahia- { North, first bridge from Pahiatua. I^Bf turning on Tuesday night from a "'". Wharehuia (states the Eltham Cooper met with an accident* to his car. He was on the ' Stratford "when Tie met' •"a;mob'of'cattle ,that were being drivOn© of "the ani--1 ipls*made a mad rush right into the. - ' Ui ear. VAs ; '« fender of the ci^wfls 1 Beht, a mud-guard crumpled ; the "steering-rod 'ben't. The Itigi?} was /disabled, for the time being vind the.'doctor had to come home in' ; ' a. : ta-jfi. t .'7 /■ -■' . ."' ■ y : ■■ [1 '. '"'When there is so much criticism i a tha not too superior position ofiwbmen* in this yoUngj land, it is pleasant %• find some little point of Thus Mrs Ralph, wife Mayor of San Francisco, W p s pressed when visiting Wellington to; see next the door of the Mayor ift <:-3.: tflo Town Hall one marked ' 'MayorW*& "Now, there is no room set apart for me in San Francisco," said the visiting lady, and promptly she made a note of it for comment in he? own city when she returns.

When a person is in an unhappy predicament—"between the devil and the 'deep sea"—h e i 8 sometimes said tp be ".between Scylla and Charybdis." According to a,Greek legend, these were two monsters, one of which lurked Sir each side of a nar. row. sea passage. In steering his vessel in such a way as to escape one the unlucky mariner usuaHv feU into the clutches of the other. There are two words—panic and hygienic—which we use almost every day. "Panic" is a sudden unreasoning fear of something. It is derived from the name of the god of shepherdsPan—whose presence as < lie lurked invisible amongst the thickets or reeds made itself felt by mortals, and suddenly smote them with a fear so acute thai,.they fled from the unseen. "Hygienic" is derived from the name of the goddess of health—flygeia.

Haw many people realise, when they of putting an animal into a lethal chamber that the name comes from Lethe—a river on the borders of Hades—whose waters brought for* getfulness to whoever drank of them ? And when they describe something as.being in a state of "cJStos" do ■ they ever think that they are ham- '; ing the first of all the old heathen gods—Cliaos—who ruled over confusion before any other gods existed ? "Under his aegis" is another phrase often, used. "Aegis" was the name $ the shield of the goddess of wis--1 dom, Minerva, and is used to indicate/what the shield afforded—protection.-

,IJry Rob'nstm and Pcpe for plumbing and .drain-laying. Materials used

are of the best quality, and our work bein* substantially fixed will stand the vest of long years. Phone 372, brVW-Mton Bros. x

Smart Bros, for Plumbing, Drainage and Electric Wiring and Repairs. fling up No. 30, and at night No.

Jack Sullivan, plumber and electrician, guarantees good workmanship and good materials. Prices reasonable. Estimates given. PTune W *

Sanderson and Judd for plumbing, drain-laying, eloctric work, etc. All kinds of electric fittings stocked. Good work, prompt attention. Telephone 222.

Weather forecast: The indications are for southerly winds, moderate to strong, and squally at times. The weather will probably prove cold and showery. Barometer rising.—Batea.

"What «a Liverpool stiff' is, 1 do not know, but I presume the accused referred to one of the Liverpool firemen,'' remarked Mr Justice Chapman in the Supreme Court, Wellington. The judge's observation was greeted with laughter.

The shifting of the Muriwai Hotel in the Gisborne district a distance of 55 chains is the biggest work off the kind done in Poverty Bay. Tli)ei original plan was to cut the hotel into sections, but it was finally decide ed that the building should ba removed intact. It is of two stories, measures 58ft by 33ft, and weighs roughly 70 ton-. Tha hotel was'on the road for 18 days. The boarders slept in it every night, having meals at a temporary structure erected on the new site. The whole work occupied 26 days, and the longest distance the hotel was shifted in any one day was little over 300 ft.

Two young girls, with brothers as escorts, recently rode ten miles to a dance at Wairoa, having earlier sent their evening frocks to a friend's house so that they could change on arrival. The night was dark, and one of the girls blundered on her horse into the dead branch of a tree by the roadside. A little later she felt a tickling'sensation on her neck. It persisted, and her brother struck a match to find the cause, but nothing was visible. So without any tributlation of spirit, she rode the remaining eight miles to Wairoa, feeling just an occasional repetition of the irritation. Changing at her friend's house, she discovered the cause when something dropped from her blouse to the floor. It was a four-inch centipede 1

A young sailor named Charles Joseph Langstaffe, was drunk on the Main Trunk train on Friday night and was occupying a first-class seat with a second-class ticket. When asked for the difference by the collector, he offered the latter a £lO note. This the collector could not change, and asked to be allowed to take it away, promising to bring back the change. Langstaffe, however refused to en< trust the note with the officer, and he was charged at Hamilton with an offence against the railway regulations by travelling in a first-class carriage on a second class-ticket. He pleaded that this was the first.., trip he had ever made on a railway train and wa g not conversant with the regulations. Ho was fined 20s and 15s cost for being drunk and wasi convicted and ordered to come up for sentence wheii called upon on the former offence, a condition being that he made good the difference in the rates