LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Borough Council will be held this evening to consider loan proposals.

Two appropriations will be made at a meeting of. the Building Society to be held this evening.

The latest dividend from the Broken Hill Proprietary mine brings the aggregate amount of dividends up to £lO,062,000 (states a Sydney cablegram). V

Mrs Polard gave birth on Sunday to triplets at Waimate. Application (says the Times) is to be made for the King's bounty.

A well-known wool king, of the Upper Clutha district, who scoured his ivool and shipped it Home (says the Dunstan Times) got a cable last week conveying the pleasing information that it had averaged a fraction over 22d.

Mr J. D. Healy, of Stratford, has disposed of two 20-month-old heifers from his well-known Jersey herd to a louth Island buyer at 100 guineas ■piece. Both heifers were sired by Molina's General. The price is clajm•>d to be a record.

The Methodist Young Women's Bible Class are making their swond special effort in connection with their building scheme on Tuesday. This entertainment will be in the form of a Japanese evening. Musical items, recitations, etc., will be rendered by Bible class members and friends, and nipper will be provided. An interesting feature of the evening will be the Silver Tree bearing the silver contributions. It is expected that this effort will b© rren mort successful than the preyious one,

A Press message from Waipawp states that Harry Ellery, a contractor, was burned to death in a whare at Elsthorpe on Saturday night. He was last seen alive three hours before the fire was discovered.

Members of the Stratford Orange Lodges attended church parade at Holy Trinity Church yesterday morning, the Rev. E. L. Harvie preaching an appropriate sermon from the text "Love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the King," 1 Peter 11., 17.

The executive committee of the Stratford A. and P. Association will meet next Thursday evening, when part of the business will be to select a list of judges for the coming show, the same to be submitted as a recommendation to the general committee, which meets on Saturday."

A Christchurch message states that the North Canterbury Teachers Institute has expressed approval with the Educatiqn Bill, congratulating the Minister on tTie suggested reforms, but is of opinion That no scheme of salaries based on an average attendance could be entirely satisfactory.

The annual meeting of the Stratford Co-operative Association was held today in the Town Hall. Proceedings commenced at 11.30, when there were 25 memers present, but the attendance doubled itself before midday. The report and balance-sheet were adopted and the meeting adjourned at 12.45 until 1.30. An extended report will appear into-morrow's issue.

At the election for a member of the Taranaki Land Board, at New Plymouth, on Saturday morning, the voting resulted: Charles James Ryan,, 409 votes; Mr William Sandison, 140 votes, Mr Frederick Charles. Jones, 81 -yotes. There were 16 informal votes. MrRyan retains his seat, having been elected at a previous contest • three years ago.

Two good records in attendance were put up by members of the Wanganui Volunteer Fire Brigade, which held ita forty-eighth annual meeting on. Fri-, day night. It was (says the Herald)' the twentieth meeting at which Mr Lloyd Jones, as treasurer, presented the annual balance sheet, and was. also the thirtieth meeting at which Superintendent George Spriggens attende* as a fireman.

At the Whangamomona Town, Hall, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Augjist 4th and sth, a grand tug-of-war is td be held. The conditions are fiVe men a-side with no limit as to weights. The' first' prize will be £lO, and .nominations close with Mr W. Harris, 'at Whangamomona, on Saturday next, August Ist, at 10 p.m. A strong eon** mittee has been set up, and some good sport is certain to eventuate, as there is likely to be a large entry.

For some weeks every Sunday the local public have been disappointed owing to the wet weather preventing the Band playing in the The effect of continuous postponement' led the Band officials to a decision not to publish a notification in the paper, but to take the chances of a fine day. The result yesterday was that only, half a band (or ten members to be'oxact), mustered, the other half having evidently forgotten the previous arrangements

An accident which might have had more serious results occurred to a Stratford motor party when returning from New Plymouth on Friday night. At Bell Block, when turning a curve, the lights of their car suddenly went out, and the car running off, the occupants were thrown on to the road; with the result jthat the driver, Mr Arthur Burrell, broke his right arm, and Mr Arthur Walsh was cut-about the hand. The driver was able to take the car home with the one hand, and on arrival at Stratford tbe injured were attended to by Dr. Cameron, and are progressing favorably.

For some time (writes our correspondent at Te Wera), we have baen out of the world, and off the map as it were, but in future we hope to let you know that, we have our bit of sport out here as well as Stratford, Wellington, and those Other x large places! Since the railway staff has transferred to Whanga, Te Wera is rather quiet, more especially in the tennis line, but our energetic secretary, Mr Hooker, has things well in hand and expects to throw out a fe'w challenges to Toko, Whanga, and perhaps Stratford, when suitable weather arrives.—Mr O'Brien, our stationmaster, who replaced Mr Comrie (transferred to Whanga) is now on leave, being relieved by Mr Duncan, from Wanganui.

A little homily on punctuality was delivered by Mr R. Dingle, chairman of the Stratford Farmers' Cooperative Association, at the annual meeting held to-day in the Town Hall. In opening the meeting, Mr Dingle said that he had been chairman for eleven years, and they had always started the meetings on • the tick of eleven, proving, he continued, that the directors Believed in attending to business. "I do not want to scold you. added Mr Dingle with a a smile, "but do not blame us if in tho afternoon you think the meeting keeps you too late." Shareholders present received the verbal castigation quite serenely, and the meeting proceeded to business.