LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 91, 8 April 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough Council invite tenders for the lease of the old cemetery reserve. A Dunedin Press Association message states that reports from Central Otago indicate that beneficial rains were being experienced there and floods were threatened. A cablegram from Bangkok, capital of Siam, states that two rice mills had been burned, the damage being estimated at 770,000 ticals. A ticftl is worth Is 2d in English money, so that the loss (to be exact) is £44,916 Ids 2d. At the Dunedin Police Court today, George’ Havelock Green ( was charged with attempted wife murder at Sawyers Bay. and was further remanded until the 17th. It was stated by the police that Mrs Green was still ill in the hospital. Her jaws were bound, and it was improbable she h’onld be able to give evidence for fourteen days.—P.A. The weather blew a breath of winter these twenty-four hours past. Thunder and lightning and drivinggusts of rain are no good for holiday fare, and to-day’s forecast holds out little comfort. Here is what Bates says: “The indications are for westerly strong winds to gale, and veering by west to south. Steady rain is to be expected with rivers rising shortly, and the weather will probably become colder. Barometer unsteady, but rising shortly.”—No one will say that is a cheerful prospect for Easter.