LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 20, 10 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A "liook social" is tq bo hold in the Regan Street Hall this evening, for which a good programme of music and games has boon arranged.

At tho Fire Brigade's weekly social, to be hold this evening in the fire station, the drawing will take olace for the art union held in connection with the Brigade's candidate for Carnival Queen.

A lecture on America will be given by the Rev. Mr Pattison in the St. Andrew's Hall this evening. This -subject was dealt with some time ago by the lecturer, but he is repeating it by request. Tho lecture will be under the auspices of tho Y.W.8.C., and will bo interspersed with solos and patriotic selections.

At 3 a.m. yesterday a fire broke out in Mr («'. W. Rogers 1 promises at Oputiake, being first discovered in the partition between the County office and Mr Parker's billiard saloon. Mr Parker and family lived on the premises md they had barely time to escape vitb a few belongings. The building was completely destroyed. A bucket brigade worked hard and were successful in saving Ihe premises of Cornish (draper),

A lecture entitled "Psychic Photography" is to be delivered in the Foresters' Hall this evening by Mr H. Victor.

The indications are for moderate to strong southerly winds. There is a prospect of fair weather. The nighfc will probably be very cold, with frosts insland. Barometer little movement.

The visiting Wellington footballers have been very well entertained during their short rest in Stratford. Yesterday they were taken for a motor run up Pembroke Road as lav as the bush, and they returned home via Cardiff and Ngaere, where they had afternoon tea. This morning parties were taken for motor runs to various points.

The word "Armageddon" has puzzled some people lately. It occurs, of course, in the Book of Revelation, and is supposed to be identical with Megiddo. The valley of Megiddo, forming the western part of the great plain of Esdraelon, in Northern Palestine—stretching from the valley of the Jordan to the Meriitteraneari Sea, along the course of the river Kishon, was so often the meeting place of ancient armies that it seems to have come to be looked upon as the typical battle ground, and apparently the name Armageddon is an allusion to it in that sense. The ancient city of .Megiddo has been identified in site with the present town of Ledjun, which is the Legio of the Romans —the station of a Soman legion.

The meeting called for Saturday afternoon by the A. and P. Association has been indefinitely postponed as a result of the following letter received by the secretary of the A. and P. Association, Mr A. J. Hill, from Mr Bayliss, fields instructor under the Department of Agriculture for the North Island: "Since writing you some necessary alterations have had to be made, and in connection therewith I have submitted a scheme to the Director of the Division. The Director is unfortunately at present out of town, and until the proposal I have made has been considered, and I have received a reply thereto, I should not he in a position to put the scheme before you. I think, however, that the proposed scheme would meet with the approval and support of the agricultural community, and I will communicate further with you after receiving a reply from Wellington. I would therefore propose that the meeting arrangedv to discuss this ' inatter be postponed until the proposal made has• received consideration.