LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 71, 14 March 1914, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

Mr C: O’Sullivan, of Uruti, has become totally blind and has left for Dunedin to' be operated on by Dr. Linde Fergusson.

The Stanley Road School picnic and sports will be held in Mr Hosking’s paddock on Thursday, 19th. March. Everyone is invited. '

A cablegram from Suva states that the Ventura wirelessed at eight o’clock last night that she was hovc-to in about the same position, but that the weather was moderating.

At Christchurch yesterday .the Canterbury cricket team made 25S against the Australian team. When play stopped Australia had made 54 without the loss of a wicket.

The plant of the Waverley Tribune Publishing Company was offered for sale by auction at Wanganui oil Wednesday last. There were only two bids offered (states the Patea Press), one of £230 from an outside buyer and another of £235 by ourselves.

Kieff, where to-day’s cable newt reports that disturbances have occurred, is the capital of a province oi the same name situated in the west of European Russia, and is not fai from Austro-Hungary. The town ot Kieff, the capital of the province, it on the- right bank of the river Dnieper, which is crossed by a very fine suspension bridge. Kieff really consists of three towns. Petschersk, on a steep hill, is strongly fortified, and contains the remarkable wooden church of St. Nicholas, and near to it is the' famous monastery of Petschersk, with long ranges of caverns forming catacombs. Kieff proper occupies a height on the north, and is also but less elaborately fortified. It contains the famous cathedral of St. Sophia founded in the eleventh century, and contains a marble tomb of the Grand Duke Jaroslav, who built it. The third town, Podol, the poorest part is at the foot of the hill. There are altogether 30 churches, and among the other public, buildings are the palace of the Archbishop, a university founded in 1833, a gymnasium and other educational institutes. Kieff was anciently recognised as the capital of Russia, and it was there that Christianity was introduced. The population of the town is over 80,000. The town is often heard of in connection with repressive measures against Jews, and quite lately was much in the public eye in connection with a charge of murder by Jews for a human sacrifice.