LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 90, 15 June 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

| A gramophone recital will be given I by Mr T. G Grubb in the Medina Tearooms on Friday next, in aid of .the Plunket Society. ! The Stratford Citizens’ Band will play the visiting Scottish Ladies Band and Concert Party to the Town Hall this evening. * Local bandsmen meet at the Trandroom at seven o’clock in uniform. At the York races (West Australia) on June 3 a small boy handed the stipendiary steward an electric battery, which could be concealed in one hand. At one end of the instrument were two needles and on pressure a shock was given. Evidently a jockey applied it in the straight and threw it away before reaching the post. Nothing, however, could bo discovered as to who had used it. Fresh chills and colds unless tackled at once may lead to a difficult cough or bronchitis. Use Nazol freely and it will give inline-

At Cowra (N.S.W.), Mr Thomas Adams, aged 102, who is still hale and hearty, walked from the district hospital, where he is employed, to record his vote at the poll.

The window in Mr W. Murphy’s grocery store in Broadway was blown, in by Lbe force of the gale last evening. Other residents reports similar happenings in their homes, aerials .suffered badly.

The official opening of the Stratford Football Club’s new gymnasium takes place on Tuesday evening, the Mayor (Mr J. W. McMillan) presiding at the ceremony.

The Rarawa will leave Oneiumga at the usual time to-day, and its scheduled to arrive at New Plymouth early to-morrow morning with passengers and general cargo. She sails on the return trip after the arrival of the mail train at night. f-

Hamilton Borough Council has fixed the speed limit all over the borough at 20 miles an hour. The motion was strongly opposed by certain councillors who are members of. the Automobile Association and who wanted the by-law to read a reasonable speed

Ensign Matthews, Young People’s Secretary for Taranaki, is conducting a special week’s meetings in the interest of young people. To-night there is to be a Band of Love meeting, commencing at 7 o’clock. On Thursday a splendid musical evening is being arranged, and on Friday a children’s rally, which are always eagerly looked forward to. All, children are invited to these various functions.

At a meeting of tbe New Plymouth Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers at the wharf last Friday morning the following resolution was carried unanimously: “That this meeting of the New Plymouth Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers draws the attention of the Minfor Mines, the New Plymouth Harbour Beard and the general public to the deadly menace the oil.bore is to life and shipping, and in our opinion some person or persons will be criminally responsible for any loss of life caused through another blowout, at this oil bore”.

The famous Milking Shorthorn cow, Melba XV. of Darbalara, New South Wales, has died from peritonitis, following an accidental injury. Melba XV. was outstandingly the greatest butter-producing cow the world ban known (states an Australian paper), her official test record for 365 days as an eight-year-old being 32,5221 b milk, containing 16141 b butter-fat, equal to butter. The champion was rising ten years old, and has left two heifers and three bull progeny to perpetuate, .her, yvonejerfui production qualities., ■ '

The following story was told at the annual meeting of the Infants’ Home at Ashfield, de Chair (wife of the Governor) visited tho home it was arranged that a small inmate should present her with a./ bouquet. He was carefully drilled/' and seemed to take the matter quite seriously. However, when she arrived the perfect naturalness which marks all the children at the home overcame him. He rushed at Lady de Chair, thrust the flowers into her hand, and said: ‘Here’s the bunch of flowers, and I’ve got a new pair of pants on.’ ” Charged with assaulting a message boy named Albert Leslie Byron on April 22, Michea! Hannah appeared at the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning before Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., and was convicted ' and fined £5. Hannah, who did not appear at the court on Thursday, June 4, to answer in conjunction with Fredrick Magon, the charge of assaulting the youth, was arrested on warrant at Stratford on Friday. He pleaded guilty and admitted having had several drinks on the day of the assault, but said he was not drunk at the time. In inflicting fine the magistrate ordered that half the amount should be paid to Byron. On the application of accused, he was allowed eight days In which to find the money. The other day a teacher’ in an Auckland school gave his class twenty minutes in which to write an impromptu essay upon a smile. This is the effort of one unconsious humorist: “What is a smile? It is a development of the muscles of the cheeks - an exercise which would fain give a man new life if a lady were to give it. A smile behind a counter would magnetise custom. It is the light °f the world, and the proverb is, 4‘Dont trouble trouble till trouble Doubles you.” A man who smilingly goes on tho racecourse, looses a cool hundred and still smiles might be called a cheerful idiot. But if tho world would keep smiling, people would have cheerful homes, wives, children and cats. ’ The reference to the cats puzzled the teacher, who asked for an explanation. “Oh, you know,” was the reply, “Cheshire cat’s smile.” ,

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