LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 14 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Further particulars of the explosion at Huntly will be found on page '_'. The weekly social under the auspices of the United Friendly Societies is to be hold to-night in the Foresters' Hall.

Two Wanganui milk suppliers were to-day lined £5 each by Mr Kerr S.M. for watering milk, states the Press Association.

The show, under the auspices of the Horticultural Society, to be I'eLl in the Town Hall on Thursday, gives every promise of being as successful as its predecessors. The musical programme to be given is in charge of the Patriotic Fund Committee, and assistance will he given by the Egmont Club orchestra. The proceeds of the show are to he devoted to the iPatriotic Fund.

T'v ;•;;■ -.! < c:.' Y.'iLu im Gand. rbs mu.-icia:-, is r .<-.-! by cabbg ■«:« from i'uris. At the Court tiiis morning a firstOifcuding inebriate was convicted and disc!i,-.<-gcd. Mr .Joseph \>.cC!uggugc, .1.1'.. was <;u the bench. i be "mountain season" would seem to have opened early this year as over a dozen visitors were at the Stratford House yesterday. Some of them "hoofed" it, while others drove or cycled, which testifies to the good condition of the track.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states: The police raided premises '-lose to Korbury Park yesterday afternoon and seized a large quantity of liquor. When the officers demanded admittance, there was i stampede of young men from the place by fire escapes and windows, but five were caught and released after their names were taken. Prosecutions will follow.

The Hawera Bowling Club has decided to open the season on Wednesday, October 7. The green is said to be looking very well, and will probably he in first-rate order during the coming season. This year there is an appreciable addition to the membership, and the club anticipates being strong in playing members and in finance.

The Stratford Home Defence Corps has been started under good auspices, and the membership has the encouraging total of a hundred odd. The first parade is to be held in the school gymnasium at 7.30 o'clock this evening, when those who have not previously been fully enrolled can he sworn in. On Saturday evening Mr H. E. Abraham, manager for Mr Newton King at Stratford, returned from a business trip to Napier, which he undertook in one of the firm's five-seater 2o h.p. "Studebaker" cars. The trip was made in fine weather, and as a splendid evidence of the reliability of this noted make of car, it may be mentioned that the run to Dannevirke was made with-

out changing gear on any occasion. On the return journey from Palmerston Xcrth the Turakina and WangaeIm hills were negotiated on the top near. In ab, during the week, this particular car has run just on* thousand miles without mishap. Mr Abraham, in conversation with a "Stratford Pose" representative, stated that the Hawke's Bay country is looking particularly well, but very dry. Experienced men in Hawke's Bay told him that the winter has been the driest they have seen in Hawke's Bay for the past thirty-five years.