LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 39, 8 June 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The existence of a shipping combine mentioned in a recent Tokyo cablegram is denied in a Press Association message to-day. As a x-esult of a raid on Chinese premises in Market. Street, Napier, on Satux-day, See Lee was to-day fined £4O and costs for possessing opium in a form suitable for smoking.—P.A. There is a diphtheria epidemic at the Papatoawai, /railway construction works, in the Gatlins district, Otago, there being 11 cases. The Health Department is moving actively. —P.A. Mr M. H. Hutchinson, one of the oldest settlers in the Whangarei district, was found dead in a paddock yesterday gored by a bull. Deceased was an ex-Px-esident of the Whangarei A. and P. Society, and a wellknown stock breeder.—P.A. In connection with the tug-of-war competition at present proceeding in Dunedin, arrangements have been made for a match between A. Behan, of the West Coast team, and Hogan, of the Inch Valley team, probably for £2OO a-side. The proposed match will take place at Greymouth.—P.A.