LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 5, 29 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"Flcrodora," the popular comic opera, will ho presented by the mem* bers of tlio Stria tford Amateur Operatic Society at the Town Hall this evening. As the dioss circle is booked up.; and a large number of seats in the orchestral stalls have also been reserved; .the public who have not taken that' precaution should attend early ati the* doors if they wish to procurti?t,.seat. The overture commeuees at 7.40, and the management trusts that patrons will be seated by that time. v.-f

The Gisborne Operatic Society's • production of "FlorodovaV commerie- '; ed on Labor Day. The production will run for six nights. The Palmerston North Operatic Society present "Florodora" next week. ; The Stratford Musical Society open toJnight. ■ ... ', A commencement with the construction of a bridge over the Mokati River, on the Main North Road, is. expected in the near future. The i plans Uavte bben forwajrded ta the Public Works Department, at Wellington, and as soon as the t y, are ajvproved the work will be put in. hand.. The importance of the New Plymouth port in the trade of Taranaln was demonstrated to-day, when' six' vessels of an, aggregate tonnage of 20,712 tons berthed. Four of thesq vessels are overseas, two from England, and two from Australia, , and one of them is a schooner. . . ,aV

A painful accident happened'* t*\ Mr G. Perrott, senr, of Mahoe," oil Tuesday. Ho was engaged in straining wire, when the strainer broke> and a piece of wire flew l>aek and entered lv's thumb, inflicting a painful wound. Mr Perrott was attended by Dr. (Gordon, and is progressing satisfactorily.

"I wish you wouldn't . chew so much, 1 ' said counsel to a i&' a court case at Napier. "Bight &>. ' I'll stick it under here," was the reply, as he fixed a piece of chewing,, gum to the ledge of the witness box. ' "1 don't want to lose it." "Don't bo * rode," retorted the Magistrate, which elicited another "Right ho." V".

New Zealand requires about 7,000.-. 000 bushels of wheat aach year. ' Aji idea of the great quantity of this cereal grown in Canada may be gathered from the fact that at'Point' Edward, a few miles from, S&lriiia, Ontario, it is proposed to erect a, 10,000,000 bushel clevater to .handle "a portion of" the 1920 crop. , -\

Signor Marconi, who i& , visitiiig •„ Athens in the course of a,. Mediteav , ranean cruise, during which he. ie ( experimenting on begird, Iris yacht,' says he believes he has solved the' problem of secret wireless communication 'between any t\v'o .points on the globe without an intermediary, station ; also the problem of acceleration in transmission, which will.reduce the cost of messages to onetwentieth of the present rates. •;'•'

"I am no advocate of international exhibitions in a young country, like, this,?':, remarked Mr H. F. Allen,to the -annual meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association. '.'They invariably firing a slump after them. The country i s flooded afterwards with foreign-made goods, -and*"the result ha s always beefi , the .same. The Wembley Exhibition was. of course, a different matter. It showed' our competitors just what we could do, and gave them ,a shock. I, no doubt."

It was suggested by Mr. Gresson, in the Supreme Court Christchureb, on Tuesday morning that, witness-es-—of whom there was a large number h?. relieved from further attendance. This, he .said, would save expense. His Honor, Mr Justice R*-'ed agreed. "Probably the witnesses will not thank you," he remarked. "They will probably want to stay in Christcburch for a. few days." Mr. Gresson: Yes, when witnesses come 200 miles they want to see the whole' show. -' ,

A streak of philosophy is tofound in most people and it only requires a little encouragement to'bring it out (states' the Otago Daily Times). A witness in the Magistrate's Qourl,' Dunedin, under cross-examination' 'by Mr Sinclair, said that he losiX £12,000 "in one pop" when some manure works were burnt out. Mr Sinclair:' "But for that you would bo a wealthy man?" "J might not be. I might still have finished up in the Benevolent." M.r Sinclair: "Oh, surely-not!" Witness: "You never can tell. The wealthy man to-day may be the poor man to-morrow." ~ ... ~

Lovers of animate and more especially dogs, may be interested to learn that in the course of his sermon at St. Mary'g Cathedral Auckland, on Sunday, on the humane treatment of animals. Canon Percival Jama* said that, while he did not expect others to agree witfi him, he personally believed in the continuity of-the life of animals beyond the phenomenon called death. He said there/'"waS nothing Jn the Scriptures to preclude the idea that animals might not pass on to an after-life, and that thought had been expressed by many of the world's great thinkers, 'writer's, poets, and statesmen. '• :'; '•

A word ia motorist?: Fijing ytml radiators or mudguards to Robinson and . Pope for rtpr.lrs. W« guarantee to give satisfaction in all i our work, and at Dries iLat "will suit you and suit us. Thorn S'iS, er West- . on Broa »-

J. J. Sullivan for plumbing, dra4alaying, and electric wiring. Work-. manship and materials guaranteed. Orders left at Taranaki Hardware or 'phone 94S promptly attendee to.

Kodaks.—Entirely new stocks just landed with all latest improvements. Brown's Pharmacy X

Influenza geras lodge in mouth' and nose—Nazol destroys them.

.'• j ..The Stratford have mow '■ conipleledy%hV re-metalling ka4 tar-grout|£ng ,bf,/Opunake Road from Broadway - to.' Hamlet Street.

instructive leeat Christianity.to.; Engirand/was delivered in the Parish! Hall Ust nightby the Rev. jf I*. A*, JtayVl. ' The lecture, which was.-ilii/str&ted « by lantern slides, dealtVfldth.' Church Life""from the tinifl:"o|E''tb£'Apostles until the end of thelthfre 1 century. It was attentively/ listened to. The attendance WaV/not so large as might have been expected. The Rev. Mr Kayll will t'yHiVer a second lecture at an early Qoe>,{#n& this will "deal with a later ../pftaitfa of Church history. '

' yiiritfbonectioii! w'ithl the letter from :M.* Zihovieff, member of the Russian .'Sibtfei' Government, .to the Centra 1 of the British Communist [Palfty, the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll eipressed the opinion this morning that the'letter was genuine!, He said it' : known amongst criminolomen dealing in compromisi^;'transactions invariably made a ifeiyiby' which they could discredit such transactions or documents if found «iiit;4The ustial thing was to declare them 'a forgery. Just as a criminal Wtnildiattemptito prove an alibi, those feppbnsibte would point to features jrhich'' Would suggest forgery. The iaiit I that the document in question yas'jnot signed by the President in jmd ''.ssttat. way was probably arranged and any one with a knowJed^/of raiminology would reoun-e much, more conclusive proof than was rbrthconung:in the present instance befpri? being misled by tlie suggestion of fojrg'ety. '■'.-