LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 37, 30 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cat was found alive at White Islam! after the eruption. The monthly meeting of the W.C. T.U. will be held in the Methodist Church, Broadway to-morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock. If the weather is fine to-morrow afternoon, the local howling green will be open for practice play. The police would be glad to hear of the owner of a lady’s handbag, containing a small sum of money, which has been placed in their hands.

Mr Philip Snowden, Labor member for Blackburn in the British House of Commons, is to deliver an address in Stratford on October 11th. Full arrangements will be advertised later.

In addition to the total sum of £8 acknowledged in our issue of Monday towards the Huntly Relief Fund we have to acknowledge a further sum of £1 Is from Mr J. Masters, making the total received to date £9 Is.

The mounted section ot tlie Home Defence Corps fall in at the Fire Brigade Station at 1.30 to-morrow afternoon. The. infantry will hold rifle practice at the butts, and will drill in the gymnasium in the evening.

A Napier Press Association telegram diis morning states; After a hearing lasting two days, the jury in the case in which Dr. Deck sued Dr. Reed, both >f Waipawa, for £5Ol, for damages for dander, returned a verdict of one shilling. The question of costs at the irst trial is to be argued later.

Weather Forecast.—The indications :.re for variable and moderate breezes, mt westerly moderate to strong vinds prevailing; squally at times, and /eering by west to south aPer about >1 hours. Weather probably cool

aid changeable, and appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled temporarily. Jarometer unsteady.—Bates, Welling-

The compulsory use of safety lamps s now enforced on Huntly miners. According to the Mines Act, no person uay enter a mine where “safeties” are n use with matches or smoking appar.tus. Each man descending the mine , hen it was re-opened last week was >rdered to turn out his pockets aud aake a declaration that he did not >ossess such things. The Press Asociation states that a man discovered moking in the dinner hour was disjarged, and was prosecuted to-daj T , icing fined £3 and costs.

An excellent programme has been nepared for the concert to be held at Coko to-morrow evening, the proceeds which are to be devoted to the fund or relieving Belgian sufferers by the ,ar. The best talent in the district ill figure on the concert programme; ■bich is plentifully supplied with varid and entertaining items. In an iuerval the takings will be augmented v.the selling of a Belgian flag, and a ike-guessing competition will also be -eld. The entertainment will be up with a dance, music for hich will be supplied by Rogers’ ar'hestra.

It is rumoured that there was somelung in the nature of a strike among lie public schoolboys one day last week says the Cromwell Argus). It apears the hour dinner interval was not cel a red until 12.15 instead of 12 ’clock. The youths gathered together id refused to answer the bell at' 1 >.m., parading the streets with much

ravado, and did not put in an ap■earance until the regulation hour had vpi red. Then there was a renewed ■ene of “strike.” Several received fair penalty, while various methods ■no adopted by others to avoid “the entence.”

The coroner’s inquest at Auckland m the death of Frances Marshall was •djonrned till October 20. The Press Association states that the police are

nmplctcly baffled. Dr. Keller, who nade a post mortem, says the case is ■emiuiscent of the Whitechapel muricrs. In addition to the wounds on he head and face, there were twenty’ive wounds in the chest, and the woman was stabbed through the lungs j •nd heart. Marshall states he had Seen married to deceased for twenty mars. They had lived the whole of 'hat time in Auckland. They lived roily, and site had been a faithful vife. He added that he had given he police a full account of his movements on Monday night. His wife Vft home to visit a neisrhhor about Prht o’clock, and after leaving the '"ighhnr’s house she called at a house close to the locality of the tragedy about ten o’clock. That was "be last trace of her alive,

The death of the Rev. Dr. Manning, a prominent Anglican, it announced from Sydney. The Legislative Council met at HI a.m. to-day, when the Imprest Supply Bill (No. 4) for £979,000 was received from the House and put through

all its stages. The Council then rose until 2.30 p.m.—P.A.