LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 37, 5 June 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A small siding is being put in at the north end of the railway station. This will run to a shed which is to erected, and will be used for repairing rolling stock. A London cablegram on billiards states that Newman has scored 13,902 ami Gray 13,606, including 704, of which 693 were off the red, which is a record with the ivories. The Conciliation Council to effect a settlement in the cooks’ and stewards’ dispute, and the case has been referred to the Arbitration Court, states a Wellington P.A. message. Information has been xeeived from Ohaewai, states a Wellington P.A. telegram, that at a meeting of delegates to the Bay of Islands Reform League, Mr George Wilkinson was selected as the reform candidate for the Bay of Islands seat. Wanganui Press Association reports: W. J. Wicket, employed as a carter, died suddenly at Waitotara yesterday. At this inquest a verdict was returned that death was caused; by over-exertion -whilst suffering from heart disease. Deceased was a young man and leaves a widow and one son. The Union S.S. Co. has decided, in consequence of the Maitland (N.S.W.) collieries strike, to lay up their big collier, the Waihora. She has just finished discharging a cargo of Maitland coal at Lyttelton, and was to have left on her return this evening for another, but has instead been laid up at Lyttelton, and the crew paid off. The death is announced from London of Sir Douglas Straight at the age of 69. Deceased was a barrister by profession, and was an Indian High Court Judge. He sat in Parliament in the seventies. From 1896 to 1909 Sir Douglas was editor of the “Pall Mall Gazette.” He was also treasurer of the Newspaper Society and Institute of Journalists. Sergt.-Major Dallinger informs us that the total sum to the credit of the Senior Cadets’ drum and fife band for Stratford is £8 4s 6d after paying expenses of printing, etc. The instruments are to be imported by the Defence Department, and will be delivered free of freight and duty. They will be on view in Stratford shortly, and it is understood His Worship the Mayor will present, the instruments to the members of the band. The Minister of Defence says, according to a Wellington P.A. message this afternoon: “General Hamilton’s report on the New -Zealand Defence System is highly satisfactory. The public, -when they see it, will realise what a valuable work has been-done. It shows the force in a better condition to-day than the Minister expected it would be. The money has been well spent. There are faults both in the matters of administration and training, but improvements will be made as we go along.”