LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notice re election of Councillor to the Borough Council through resignation of Cr. Dingle is advertised. , An anonymous donor has given £20,000 to the Burnside Presbyterian Orphanage, states- a Sydney cablegram. A London cablegram gives the result of the Reece-Inman billiard match as follows:—Reeee 11,694, Ininan 11,402. The first of the sen son's football fixtures will be played to-morrow, when Inglewood 11. play Stratford 11, on the local showgrounds, The kick-off takes place at 3.15;

At the Diinedin Police Court this morning (states the Press Association) Percival Church, second hand dealer, was fined £5 on a'cluu-ge of failing to keep proper books in accordance with the Act. * Tiie annual communication of the Masbnic Grand Lodge of New Zealand was opened this morning at Christchurch by the retiring Grand Master Brother Maurice Thompson. The Association states that Bro.* J. J. Dougall was unanimously elected to fill the position of Grand 'Master'* for the year'. A Gisborne Press Association message to-day says S.-Whitehead, an old settler of the Morere district, is missing; He arrived 1 from- 1 Morere from Wairoa by the coach on "Monday afternoon and set out to walk home 5 by' a short cut, a distance' of six or sevwi miles; including three miles of bush, but ho did not reach home. A largo party is searching the bush. The missing man is said to have beeii unwell lately.

Oamaru householders ere agitated at the price of the 41b loaf. The'Press Association states that a short time ago the price trife risen to e'ghtpeuce, with the result that at •■ a---conference between - a committee'' of ; householders and the master bakers the latter offered a reduction to 7|d. This half-penny .reduction was rejected by aconsumers' meeting, at which it* was' r decided to meet thejincreased cost by starting a co-operative bakery. A strong com-' mittee.was »«t up to give effect to the idea aud a large number of shares we're guaranteed in the room. j, "It if. better to have loved and-lost than never to have loved at all;" Hugh Stewart, a young Scotchman who shot Himself, dead this morning at the Ifrince of \) r ales Hotel, Dijnediu, wrote the above quotation on the back'of a navel (states tbe Press Associaton), and added: "These words were written by me in full control of my mind." The man was found dead in a chair in "a bedroom about eight o'clock. He was •shot through the head, and on the floor lay a revolver with one 'chamber 'mnpty. '*' !j T]itV , "6irciMstances showed that the act had been premeditated. Stewart arrived in New. Zealand .from Scotland a year ago. He bad been employed as at; barman," It is stated that deceased was fond of a girl at another hause, but his love was unrequited. He left another quotation: "I ! have been weighed'in the balance and found wantiug."