LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 54, 4 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

—•— , s Colonel Chaytor, officer commanding tiie Wellington military district, is to inspect the Stratford troop of Queen Alexandra's Mounted .Rifles on Thursday. At last night's meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge, MX.,,,Mr C. 1). Sole, secretary of the Lodge, in recognition of his services, was voted a bonus of five guineas. An unusual incident took place on the Waingongoro cliffs on Sunday i reports the Hawera Star). A Shetland pony, mischief bent, chased a calf, which went over the cliff and was killed. Entries to the number of 115 were received for the railwaymen's handicap at the Taihape sports meeting en Monday. Tins is claimed to be a record for any adult running event in New Zealand. The following business is set down for hearing at the Court on Friday: Thirteen civil cases (three defended), five judgment summons cases, one affiliation case, four charges of failfrag to attend drill,'one information for driving a gig without lights. Mr Philip Skoglund, Town Clerk, who, although i under medical • advice should have further delayed his return to Stratford, decided last night. QttiUStßftha AJisorgrtfiSsitfibTi of transport, that he was well enough to travel ; and his many friends will be glad to know that he reached "Wellington safely and is on the mail train which reaches here this evening. A special coach will leave the Crown Stables at 7.30 o'clock to-night to carry patrons ,to idie, concert to be given in the Midhirst .Town,.. Hall, to be followed by a dance. It was inadvertently stated in , our last, jssuo that the function J was taking, placo on Thursday evening. An excellent programme has been' arranged, .among the performers being Mr Wilkie and Mrs Massey. The Stratford orchestra - will render items.

Mr Louis Voltz, wlro has been on the staff at the Stratford railway station for the past two years and a half, and who has been appointed stationmaster at Patea, was met this morning by, the carriers of Stratford and presented with a case of pipes, Mr J. A. Thompson making the presentation. Mr Thompson paid a tribute to the esteem in which Mr Voltz was held and Mr Voltz, in reply, expressed his sorrow at leaving Stratford.

Strong men turned pale. Women screamed. From Sydney to Petersham a middle-aged man entertained secondclass passengers by the 8.55 p.m. train (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Then, as the train was about to move on. he decided to alight. He succeeded—but he missed the platform, and fell beneath it and the train, which, by this time, was gathering pace. Great excitement followed. The train was stopped after no fewer than three of the rear carriages had passed over the spot where the man had fallen. Railway officials with lanterns, hastily searched for the mutilated remains. But not even a drop of blood could they find. Surely he could not have escaped the cruel wheels? .And then they found him. Reposing gently between the rails under the last carriage, he lay with blue metal for a pillow. Blissfully unconscious of all that was going on around him, he was asleep, and as willing hands raised him to the perpendicular he entered a mild protest. And as the train moved on the pessimist called the attention of those who were in his car to the fact that "fomo people have all the luck."