LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 43, 7 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Defence Rifle Club will hold shooting practice at the rifle range tomorrow afternoon.

A reminder’is giv->n of <ho social and dance to be held this evening at Midhirst to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the local 31. U. I( .0 Lodge.

A cablegram from Sydney states that the Bowling Club has announced diat a rubber has been arranged benveon New Zealand and Australia for mmediately after Easter. , ,

Weather forecast.—The indications ire fo^:— Westerly strong winds to 'ale, with a southerly tendency. Expect changeable and showery weather. Barometer unsteady, but rising slowly shortly.—Bates, Wellington.

The political campaign trill ho started so far as Stratford is concerned at the Town Hall this evening, when Mr W. H. Hawkins, the Liberal candidate for the Stratford seat will deliver an address. Questions, written and signed or oral, will be answered at the close of the address.

A Wellington Press Association telegram to-day states: James Little, who appeared on remand, pleaded guilty to committing an aggravated \ssault on a Chinese in the street on 17th September, and with causing actual bodily harm. He was committed ! or sentence.

The arrangements are all completed for the visit of Mr Philip Snowden, bhe member for Blackburn in the British House of Commons. Mr and Mrs Snowden will be taken to Mt. Egmont next Wednesday, and will irrive in Stratford by the 6.30 p.m. train. It is probable that a civic welcome will be tendered by His TVoi-

diip the Mayor and Councillors in the Borough Chambers at 7.30 p.m. His Worship the Mayor has kindly consented to preside at the meeting, and the profits will be given to the Patriotic Relief Funds. The Auckland pap?rs speak very highly of the Snowdens.

Three respectable residents of Hatlorville, Pennsylvania, have been telling of strange pictures seen by them in the sky on the Bth of August. Harry Hudleson was returning from when his attention was attracted to the sty, and, he says, he was startled to see a picture of an immense house, filled with children dressed in white, with a black hand on the arms of each. As he seoou looking, the children came out of the house in columns of two, dividing at the door, with each column going in an opposite direction. He says he was not dreaming, and the sight was too plain to bo mistaken. Later he learned that Mrs Rush Lutz a neighbor, also had seen an immense house in the clouds. The effect was that of a picture thrown on a screen. Miss Pearl Pursel, knowing nothing of the experiences of the others, made known that she had seen the form of an angel outlined in the heavens^