LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 87, 3 August 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Immediately on receipt last night of the extraordinary cablegram recording the declaration of war between Germany and Russia the “Post” issued an “extra,” copies of which were forwarded to the churches and posted throughout the town, residents thus being acquainted with the startling news at the earliest possible moment. The Borough Council meets this evening. The Lowgarth dairy factory opened on Saturday and the Ngaere factory opened to-day. Members of the Building Society will meet this evening to decide an appropriation of £3OO by ballot. At the Court this morning a first offending inebriate who did not appear was fined the amount of his bail £1). The Right Hon. Joseph Cook, P.C., receives the pride of place among the contributors to the August number of “Life,” just to hand. -Mr Cook tells how a Prime Minister conducts bis daily round—with its multifarious duties and its scant pleasures. Details supplied by Mr T. H. Penn show that during July there were twenty wot days, the total fall being 5.1 Gin. One six days the fall was under a tenth of an inch, the fall on two days being a hundredth of an inch. The only considerable fall was ,9Gin. on tfte 9th, the only other falls worth mentioning being ,59in. on the 16th, ,48in. on the 30th, ,43in. on the 19th and .40in. on the 10th and 31st.

The certificates for the Stratford winners in the dog section of the recent Dominion Show at Hawera may now bo obtained from Mr I'. Kirkwood, to whom they have been sent. The lithographic diplomas are of handsome appcarjuice, and framed, and quite justify The boast that they are the best in the Nortl* Island. A picture of Mount Egmont occupies the background.