Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 36, 4 June 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Yesterday was a brisk day matrimonially, no less than three marriages being solemnised in Stratford.

Mr J. A. Macpherson has consented to contest the Oamarn seat as the nominee of the Liberals, states a Press Association message.

An Auckland P.A. telegram spates: The. mangled body of William Mumford, an old-age pensioner, a resident of Panmure, was found on the railway line near Ellerslie. He had evidently been run over by a train.

Mr Cuthbert Hargreaves .Taylor, M.A., LL.B., was on May 30th, at Wellington, admitted by Mr Justice Hosking, as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court on the motion of Mr D. S. Smith. Evidently Whangamomona can boast of only one flag—the one solitary flag at the Post Office flying yesterday in honor of the King. Knowing the Rugby bump to be largely developed in the postmaster, there was a double reason for this patriotism—Whanga had a big match on in the afternoon. view of some of the alarming reports concerning infectious spinal paralysis in the district, His Worship (Mr W. P. Kirkwood) states that these are very much exaggerated state- ■ ments and that really there is no cause for alarm. Since the fatal case this

week no further cases have" been re-

ported, and His Worship assures us that everything is being and will be done ui the interests of the public health.

It is expected that the Railway Department will take over the section into Whangamomona early next month. The station buildings are completed. The dam to supply the yard with water which broke away some time ago ' owing to a sudden fresh in the creek has been repaired, and the finishing touches are being put on. Whangamomona will have come into its own when it has a direct service to the outside world.

1 Scored with great success and greeted by a large audience, was the order of the holiday programme presented last night at Bernard’s Theatre. The star picture ia “Between Man and Beast,” in which the plot introduces life in Italy and India, and also a

genuine sensation of the burning of a . huge. ocean liner at sfea. The whole of the programme is excellent. This programme will be repeated to-night for the last time, making way for the great production of “The Miracle” to-morrow evening, N

No doubt the Weather-God is entitled to do what { he tushes; but Whanga did not get any better treatment at his hands 'than did Stratford ion King George’s anniversary of his birth. But it takes a lot to dishearten Whanga, and quit© a big crowd assembled on the sports ground to see a friendly Ijtoghy game between Toko and Whanga. The day proved showery, and the groupd was in a sloppy state. Acoord&ig to a spectator, it was ‘a “great” gapfie, Whanga winning by 6 points by Davis and Hendry) to nil; Mr K. Armstrong controlled the game. *A dinner** was tendered the visitors in the evening. In return for the visit, Whanga lias decided to play the Union fixture verfcus Toko on the Toko ground on Saturday week, in place of Toko again journeying to Whanga.*