LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 1 April 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Central Mart bn Saturday a sale will be held of a tailor’s and costumier’s 'stock.

Obituary; Professor • Hubert von Herkomer, the artist, at the age of 65.—(Cable).

The death of Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, at the age of 86, is announced by cablegram from London.

The Stratford bakers reduce the price of bread by Id per 41b loaf from to-day.

b Tenders are invited for the erection of a residence in Cordelia Stret for Mr W. J. Crofts.

In the billiard match at Home between Stevenson and Inman, the former has scored 2078 and the latter 1834. ■

A London cablegram states that the revenue for the year was £198,-. 242,897, and the expenditure £197, 492,969.

The following figures show the quantity of butter in cool stores at various ports on 31st March: Auckland 24,595 boxes, New Plymouth 10,197, Patea 577, Wanganui 1355, Wellington 24,503, Lyttelton 3056, Dunedin 1050; total 65,333 boxes. The total on 31st March last year was 44,623 boxes.

For the sitting of the Court'on Friday 27 civil actions (two defended) and one judgment sumriidris fire .set down for hearing. The informations consist of one for breach of"a prohibi,ti6n order, one for driving a vehicle without lights, and oiie for fading to attend drill. An applicatori By a Terrtorial for partial exemption frdm drill will be gone into.

At a irieeting of the Swimming Cl rib Corainittee, held on Monday evening, it was decided to hold an invitation social and dance on April 23rd in the S’oresters’ Hall as a wind-up to the season. During the evening the Handicap Champion Cup and the'medals accompanying it will be jjresbiited; Ladies willing to assist at the function are akked to communicate with members of the Committee.

The members of the Taranaki branch of the New Zealand Veterans’- Association niet ronhd-'.the festive board'ih tho.Brougbam Street Hall, New-Ply-irioutli,’ last'night to celebrate the*anriiversary of '.the Battle of "Waircka. Mr J. E. Wilson presided over the gathering. After honoring a' long.toast list the veterans indulged in reminiscences of the hard'time they had experienced. : 5 ,■ .ip 'J

March was a dry month in Stratford, only 1.92 inches falling on . eight days. The highest fall, and the only fall over half an inch,, was on the 17th, when .98in was registered. Hundredths of an inch fell on the last two Mondays—three on the 23rd, and four on the 30fch. The other falls were: sth .10, loth .17, 16bh .33, 19th .13, 20th .14.

A creditable piece of work was done bn Sunday last by a drag from the Empire Stables, a drag - containing eighteen passengers being driven right up to the'Stratford,House jn. an hour and twenty-five minutes. It ! is necessary l to'state'that the whole of the passengers were in the drag for the whole off the distance. This indicator that the,present condition of tho track in the reserve is all that could be desired.. • ■

•Mr Asquith (Prime Minister), Mr iis VifHarcourt (Colonial Secretary); Lord Emmott (Under-Secr'etary fbr Colonial Affairs), and Captain Collins (Official Secretary of the Cbmmbnwealth), attended the Scottsh Liberal members of the Commons’ farewell luncheon to the Rt. Hon. R. Muhro Ferguson at the House of Commons, when Mir Cath'cart Wason presided.' Mr Asquith, in informally proposing Mr Ferguson’s health-, paid a tribute to his Ibng Parliamentary services-, and said he was quite the right stanip of man for Governor-General of new democracies. i