LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 27 June 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. Saudi son, chairman of the |o!iura County Council, announces his 'candidature for the Land Board, and expresses his views in another column. The open-air concert advertised for to-morrow has been postponed till Sunday week owing to the indisposition of Bandmaster Marshall, who is suffering from nervous shock. The coming of Archbishop Bonareutura Cerretti, the Papal apostolic delegate to Australia and Oceania, will be an event of especial importance to the Roman Catholic Churoli in Australasia, states a Sydney paper. I Ho will exorcise supervision over its :various operations, generally representing the authority, of the Pope in 'tDaf:t«rs of discipline unci doctrine. Tb* |tim« of hi» arrival i» not yet known.

A Scottish social and dance will bi held in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday, July 9th. It is the intention to hold these socials during the winter and to make the first a succes will augur well for the succeeding; ones.

The railway working account for the four weeks ended May 23 shows that revenue totalled £324,262, the North Island contributing £165,701, and the South Island £158.560. Expenditure totalled £229.958, the North Island absorbing £122,971, and the South Island £106,987. The percentage of revenue absorbed in expenditure to date in the current year is 63.36.

Preliminaries in connection with the Stratford Carnival Queen contest are being arranged, and nominations of candidates are now being called for. A list of the prizes to be given and other particulars appear in our advertising columns to-day. It is anticipated that as the result of the contest, which concludes in September, tho funds of the Beautifying Society and the Band will be considerably augmented.

In the Gisborne Supreme Court case, Hepzibah Cole v. Richardson and Co., being a claim for £ISOO damages for the loss of the husband, Rupert Cole, who was killed while unloading railway iron from the steamer Ripple, the jury returned a verdict of £IOOO, holding that a negligent method was adopted in the discharge of the rails, the lighting being insufficient, that such negligence was the fault of the Company, and the real and direct cause of the accident, and that deceased was not guilty of any negligence.

Where was Tom Bracken buried? asks the Dunedin "Star." Maybe there are some who honoured New Zealand's poet when he was alive, and yet could not now answer the question offhand. I s he forgotten? One would almost think so. A few days ago a visitor asked to see the place of interment and after much debating as to whether it was in the Southern or the Northern Cemetery, and some turning up of yellowing documents, the grave was found in the Northern Cemetery. No stone marks the spot, the mound has fallen in, and the surface is overrun with weeds.

The recent appointments to the Roman College of Cardinals illustrates the tendency towards the internatiohalisation of the Sacred College (says the Catholic newspaper, Rome). When the next consistory assembles, there will be 31 Italian Cardinals and 34 non-Italians. Thus, for the first time in five, centuries. Italy has, ceased to have a clear majority in the senate of the Church. The change has come about gradually, not. as a result of a set purpose, but more or less inevitably in consequence of the immensely increased facilities of communication between Rome and all parts of the world. g

Young George, the entertaining and handsome son of King Dick, and heirapparent to the kingship of the Weilington Zoo, is dead (states the Post). The Zoo has been under 5 a cloud for some time during the sickness of the cub, and the end came yesterday, from an attack of pneumonia. George was a particularly fine-looking youngster, and with his twin sister has always been a very popular exhibit. Teething troubles lowered his healthy vitality for some time before the cold weather came on, and the recent sudden changes and wintry snaps reached his lungs. The Zoo is the poorer by the loss of a very handsome beast, which was the more kindly regarded because he had been bred and born on the spot.