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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Press Association reports that rt Timaru yesterday, a borough loan pioposal to borrow £IO,OOO for street ini] rovemeuts way carried by 514 votes to 106.

According to the cables the journal Le Matin (Paris) publishes a New York message that an affray, -the outcome of race rivalry, occurred on the Gorman steamer Blucher, bound from Hamburg to Buenos Ayres. Three sailors and 50 passengers were killed.

[ One judgment by default was given at the Court this morning—Wilson and Son v. Digby E. Cardale, £1 7s, costs ss. Iu the judgment summons case, McMillan and Fredric v. Albert Cameron, judgment debtor cfid not appear, and an cider was made for the payment forthwith of Ms,'iirdefault three days' imprisonment.

A Sydney cablegram states that three boys, Williams, McKeon, and Dates, employed at the Powderite Factory, were lunching outside the factory. Their clothes were covered with dust of the explosive, that they had been handling, and one, ignoring instructions, struck a match. All were enveloped in flames and were terribly burned. All three succumbed.

A notification appears in another column that licenses for fishing, available throughout the Dominion, can now 1)0 obtained from Mr R. F. Harkness, secretary of the Stratford Acclimatisation Societv, for the season from October Ist to April 30th, 1915. Halfseason licenses from December 20th, available for Stratford district only, can be obtained, fee 12s 6d.

A motion to prevent the Imperial Tobacco Company from using the Prince of Wales' feathers as a trade mark for shag tobacco came on for hearing in the Chancery Division recently. Tiie appellants were the Royal Warrant Holders' Association, Ltd., for the respondents, Mr Walters, K.C., rend affidavits showing that the feathers had been used by a large number of firms, many of them doing so for over 150 years. Nearly fifty public-houses in London bore the name of Prince of Wales, The Prince of Wales' Feathers, or The Feathers, without any warrant. It could never lie assumed that they were in any way connected with the Prince of Wales or his household. It was absurd to say M'at they had any association with the Prince of Wales. The application was adjourned.

Miss Marie Lorain, a handsome , young woman who lias no arms, was' married in New York on July 20th to a young man named Charles Geradi.l The bride is "The Armless Wonder" attached to a side show of a large [circus. The city alderman, who per'formed the ceremony, was not made laware of the deficiency of the bride, cloaked by the bridal veil. At the proper point he said in the customary way. "Now the ring, please." A somewhat awkward pause 1 , and the bridegroom whispered to the clerk, who whispered to the alderman—and the officer went through without a ring. But at the signing of the register the alderman was puzzled anew. The bridegroom duly signed, and the alderman asked, "How about your wife?" Quickly the bride kicked off her slipper, revealing a dainty foot with a stocking like a glove. She took the pen between her toes, and signed her name in a good round "hand." The couple looked radiant, starting on the bonevmoon.

The legal offices in Stratford will be closed on Monday next, Dominion Day.

In attempting a trial flight at Christchurch last night (states the Press Association), a wheel came off Scotland's aeroplane, and the machine turned on end and was fairly severely damaged. The aviator was unhurt*

The Feilding Press Association agent states: A meeting of shareholders of the recently-formed Oroua and West Coast Meat Produce Co. decided unanimously to purchase a site for freezing works, and to go on with the proposals of the company.

Thirty firemen and greasers employed on the steamer Pakelia, at Auckland ceased work yesterday,afternoon, and informed the officers they would not resume until six German and one Austrian firemen had been put off the ship. It is stated that sailors will similarly refuse duty unless the foreigners are removed. .

A dance in aid of the Patriotic Fund will eb held in the Town Hall, Whangamomona, on Tuesday evening next, and at the Public Hall, Te Wera, on the following evening. A special item in the programme is an exhibition of dance music by Miss E. Walden, blindfolded. Walden's orchestra will be in attendance, and as a good supper is provided and good, floor a large attendance is anticipated.

Owing to the rain yesterday the Home Defence Corps did Hot hold its weekly musketry practice. The rain also probably accounted for a rather poor attendance at the foot drill in the evening, though the squad was quite big enough seeing that all the evolutions had to he carried out in the gymnasium. If the weather is fine the corps will drill with rifles on Monday next, members to pick up their rifles at the Defence Office before parading.

On Wednesday last in the Foresters' Hall, Mr H. Victor gave his final week-night demonstration of psychonietry, in reading from the many articles placed upon the table, delineating with woriderful accuracy the characteristics of their owners, also clairvoyantly describing many of their loved ones passed into spirit life. On Sunday Mr Victor will give his farewell address, his subject being "No Cross; No Crown," concluding with spiritual clairvoyance from flowers.

A. W. llawles appeared again at the Court this morning, and was charged with the theft on June 20th of a motor car tyre and a motor car tube, valued at £7 17s, the property of Newton King. Sergeant McNeely asked for a further week's adjournment. Ho said other charges were to be brought, and some of the witnesses were difficult to Mr S. Spence, who appeared for accused, agreed to the remand, which was accordingly granted, the previous bail being' renewed —accused in £IOO, and two sureties of £SO each.

At the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Bowling Club last night, the following officers were elected:— President, Mr W. J. Penn (re-elected); vice-presidents, Messrs Luscombe and Wood; secretary and treasurer, Mr Ewing; auditor, Mr Buxton; committee, Messrs Hall, Morley, A. K. Smart, Medley, Morrison and Burgess. Messrs Penn, Firth, and Smart were appointed delegates to the Taranaki Centre. It was resolved that the entrance fee he suspended until the club's membership reaches a hundred. Two teams i'A. and B.) are to be entered for the Burner matches.

A defendant who was granted special leave at the Court this morning to defend a case appeared to be under some misapprehension regarding the meaning of the notice to defend, apparently believing that giving notice to defend presumed the procuring of the services of a solicitor. Mr Kcnrick naturally had something to say to defendant for not having followed the directions in the matter plainly set out in the summons, and explained that all that was necessary 'was for the notice to ■he filled in and the case could then be contested in Court by defendant in person.

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 4

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