LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 74, 18 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

After three unsuccessful attempts fco render a selection of sacred music on Sunday afternoon in Victoria Park, the local brass band again announce that, weather permitting, the band will parade to-morrow afternoon. On the morning of Sunday, Jul> 26th, the newly-formed Stratford Orange Lodge is to assemble in force to attend Divine service at Holy Trinity Church, when the vicar will deliver a special discourse. It is customaryfor such lodges to visit the different churches in their locality. Three workmen, sleeping in a railway car in a siding at Sydenham (Vic.) were rudely awakened one morning last week, when 16 runaway trucks were turned into the siding, colliding with the car, which .was smashed. The three men, M'Donald (a carpenter), Flaherty (a laborer), and Rae (a laborer), received medical attention, and were afterwards taken to the hospital.

A remarkable price was brought for Broad Looks, •a, Lincoln ewe sold at the Sydney Stud Sheep Fair, on account of the estate of the late B. S. Oppenheim, of Latrobe, Tasmania. The Daily Telegraph reports that the ewe is only one year and nine months old, and, as she had never been exhibited in a show, the bidders had only her pedigree arid appearance to go on. She is by Chocolyn from the special stud ewe Ripple. Bidding commenced at 30gns, and advanced by tens and fives until it developed into a battle between a representative of Major George Steward, of Brandon Park, Wheeler's Hill, Victoria, and Mr J. Quodling, of Cooma, who ran the price up to 210gns, when the ewe was knocked down to Major Steward. This is probably a record price for a Lincoln ewe, perhaps even as high as a Bierino «tve hag reached.

It took seven hours on Thursday for a buggy, carrying an injured man, to travel between Mokau and Tongaporutu Ferry. In the summer time (states the Waitara Mail) that distance in a motor car is covered in three-quarters of an hour.

A notification appears in another column that the appropriations of £3OO and £4OO in connection with the Stratford Co-operative Building Society will ) be disposed of on Monday, the 27th July, at the Society's office, Broadway. Shareholders should note that all subscriptions should be paid up to the 25th inst.

The unusual trophy of a wedding ring was competed for at the Ranfurly rifle range last Saturday. The condition with the ring is that, should the winner get married during the year which he holds it, the ring becomes his property, if not, it is handed back for further competition. A gold medal accompanies' the first prize. There are also second and third trophies.

As a sequel to the granting of a license to the Empire Hotel at Waiuta by the Westland Licensing Committee last week (says the Greymouth Star), and in connection with the erection of the building for such license, 12 persons have been summoned to appear before the magistrate, charged that they did unlawfully work at their trade as carpenters on the Prohibition Track on Sunday, July 5. The cases are set down to come on for hearing on or about July 27th. l

Some months ago a man named Thomas Hewitt, while suffering from hallucinations, murdered his wife at Patea in the presence of two children. Information has now reached Patea of a sequel to the sad tragedy. Hewitt's aged mother, who resided in England, on hearing the terrile news, collapsed; and died almost immediately from the shock. It has further transpired that Hewitt's elder daughter, a bright child of 10, has suffered so greatly from the shock of witnessing the terrible occurrence that her hair is going grey in spite of her tender years.

In Messrs Bellringer's window in.' Broadway is to be seen a very fine photograph of a B,ugby League game between the visiting New Zealanders and representatives of New South Wales on the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1913. At that game the attendance reached the enormous number of 50,000, which is, so far, a record for the game in Australasia. Agam, it may be mentioned, the crowd at £h© match with Australia in the. third test on Saturday fortnight wag variously estimated from forty to fifty thousand. '..';• <

At yesterday's meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board, a brief discussion took place in csunniitte'e on the question o fa site for the proposed farmers' meat-freezing works between New Plymouth and Stratford. It was decided to inform the provisional directors of the Company that the Board would be prepared to lease the cbiifipany at 10s per acre up to 40 acres of land, and 30s per acre for anything over 40 acres and up to 100 acres, if available, a suitable site at Moturoa. on a renewable lease for 21 years, qn the condition that freezing works of a value of at least £20,000 be erected on • the land within three years. A committee was set up to go into the matter with the directors and the expert who has been engaged to select the most suitable site. It is understood that the directors and the expert will be in New Plymouth next week.

Cribbage teams representing Stratford and Denbigh Road met in the Denbigh Road School last night, the visitors winning by 44 gaaes to 40. The home team provided a tasty per and a thoroughly enjoyable time was spent, despite the cold night. A return match will be played in Stratford on July 31st. Following are details .of the play, Stratford players eing mentioned first in each case: W. Collins and Yardley 6, G. Anderson and L. Lyford 4; J. Jones and C. Gollop 4, F. Mills and S. Pedersen 8; W. Hawke 3, G. Ferguson 2; L. and J. H. Sharrock 4, C. Frost and G. Mills 5; C. and G. Kelly 4, G. Prince and J. Mills 4; Stewart and Lowe 9, Kelly and Neilson 3; Collins and McCallum 6, A. Askew and G. Kilpin 3; A. Nelson and B. Green 7, W. Walker and H. Huckstep 3; P. Speck and J. Yandle lj A. Meads and F. Askew 8.

; The coming event for next week in the football world will be the match with the famous visiting British team and the representatives of Taranaki at Eltham. The deeds of the team which beat the flower of Australia on Saturday week in Sydney must be worth a journey to see, and, as local residents will be required to spend only an afternoon, there seems to be no doubt whatever but that a great crowd of Stratford enthusiasts will go down to the "concrete" town on Thursday next. Apart altogether from the fact that there, is a good deal of difference of opinion in regard to the old-time Rugby and the new, the visit of such a combination as will be seen on the field deserves to be appreciated. The management seems to have spared no pains whatever in placing the League game before the public of Australasia in its best form, and it now only remains for Taranaki to show its appreciation of the enterprise. Special trains will convey patrons to the ground, at , Eltham, leaving Stratford at half-1 past two o'clock.