Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 71, 15 July 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A fancy dress football match for to-morraw week is on the tapis to further the candidature of Miss Alice Cramer in the Carnival Queen contest. Horowhenua is to play a Raufurly Shield match against Taranaki in Tarailitki on August 6th. The exact venue of the match will be fixed later. The executive committee of the Carnival Queen contest meet to-night at 7.30 sharp in Mr N. Thomson's office to make final arrangements and allot the numbers to the candidates. All supporters of the sports' candidate, Miss Minnie Hignefct, in the Carnival Queen.contest, are requested to meet in Messrs C. and E. Jacksou's office at 8 p.m. on Friday. A Dunedin Press Association telegram says:—Out of 450 cases of Hobart apple's which were landed to-day, 350 were found to be affected by red mite and scab. The inspector, who ordered them to be fumigated, said he would not permit such fruit in future to be landed. As the result, the charges increased Is per case and the prices dropped 2s per case. The following candidates have, so far, been nominated for the Carnival Queen contest:—Sports, Miss Minnie lugWt; Friendly Societies, Miss Alice Cramer; A. and P. Miss MeCulloeh; tftrathmore, Miss Meredith; Horticultural, Miss Lilian Hart; Fire Brigade, Mrs. George Smith.

According to the figures published in a recent Commonwealth Government Gazette, the luncheon to Sir George Keid, the High Commissioner, on October 21, 1913, cost £126 Is lOd. A luncheon to- the State Treasurers, one to Lord Donman, the departing Governor-General, and refreshments at receptions following the swearingin ceremony, and the opening of Parliament were included in the oneamount, to £313 lis. The luncheon on May 22, in honor of Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, the new GovernorGeneral, caused an expenditure of £230 15s. Florence Spencer, i married, a resident of Epsom and a patient in tke hospital, threw herself from the balcony in full view of the other patieucs. She fell twenty feet to the ground and sustained a fractured skull and other bodily injuries which resulted in. her death in a few minutes. The evidence at the inqluest showed that, deceased, immediately before the' fatality, appeared ; happy and showed no signs of mental depression. After conversing with her fellow-patients, r:h© said she would go for a short, walk. On returning, she had a frightful mad expression, and; walked to the balcony md threw herself over. The Press. Association states that the coroner •eturned a■■ vevdict according to the evidence'; adding that deceased's action, v.vas one committed in a sudden suicidal mpulse, no blame, being .-attachable- to *;he hospital authorities.