LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 93, 11 April 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. E. Bandy leaves on. Tuesday for his new charge in Wanganui, and will motor through. Football is dead in Eketahuna. The Express says it does not appear as though a team will be placed in the field in the coming seson. The New Zealand draughts championship tournament is proceeding. At lunch the record was Ryan It wins, Mac-Lean Jaffel, Moore 1, Brown 2, Cannon 0, Bruce 0, Gibson 1. Gardner 1, Young 0, Calderwood 2, Norton 0, Mackay 2, Wright O.—P.A. “A storm appears to lie approaching from the west, chiefly affectitlfi the South Island.” states the Government Meteorologist in opening to-day’s forecast. Freshening wincls and veering -by west to south after about ,‘l6 The weather appears likely to he cloudy and unsettled, with rain following. Barometer falling. The undesirable intimacy which is springing up between Indians who are over-running the King Country and Natives in different localities was brought under the notice of the Waikato Hospital Board (states the Press Association) in a special report from Nurse Moore, of Mannum, who complains that illicit relationship between the two races is becoming a serious menace to the morals of the Maoris. The Indians appear to have got into the confidence of the Maori wbmen, and there have recently been two births to Indian fathers.