LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 30, 22 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lieutenant-Colonel W. 6. Malone telegraphs from Awapuni to-day: "Please publish fact that General Godley absolutely desires and urges establishment of Regimental Funds generally."

It is expected that the general election will be held at the end of November or in the early part of December. Correspondence relating to Lieut.Jol. Malone's appeal to Taranaki, and die Huntly Disaster Relief Fund appears on page 7.

Weather forecast.—The indications are for northerly winds, moderate to strong, and freshening. There will probably be increasing haze and cloudiness. Barometer falling.—Bates, Wellington.

The authorities of the Berlin suburb jf Spandau have decided on a novel ;ax—namely, on perambulators. Every citizen who. sends his child riding in one of these must pay a yearly tax o'l is 6d. This will entitle him to push it along on the footpath. The town council calculates that it will raise £550 per annum.

States the New Zealand Times:— A man named John McLaughlin was found lying in an unconscious condiion, and bleeding from the head, on die footpath outside the Terminus .iotel, Taranaki street, about twenty ninutes past 3 <ui Saturday afternoon. \ constable had him conveyed to the Manners street police station, where io was attended by Dr. Martin, who ordered his removal to the hospital. He was suffering from concussion and a scalp wound, but his condition was not regarded as serious. McLaughlin was unmarried, and resided at a boardinghouse in Dixon street. He is a brother of Peter McLaughlin, who died in the hospital on June 26th, as the result of a fall in Willis street.