LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 47, 12 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pcgoud. the first airman to loop the loop, recently entertained a French journalist to breakfast on board his Bleriot monoplane at a height of 2500 ft. Tho menu consisted of sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, fold chicken, and a bottlo of wine.

i The Borough Council meets at A o’clock to-night. i The tender of Mr J. Halo, Strain ; ford, has been accepted for the additions to the totalisator house of the Stratford Racing Club. The Stratford school rc-opened this morning after a fortnight’s holiday rendered necessary through the teach, ers attending physical culture training at New Plymouth. A Melbourne cablegram statea that two rich discoveries of gold formation has been made in virgin country south of Maldou, twenty-five mile* from Bendigo. The motor car ordered by the Stratford County Council from Mr Newton King was delivered at the end of last week. It is a handsome tjiree-seater Studebaker with a special body, and it attracted same attention when running about on Saturday. Weather forecast.—Westerly strong winds to gale and veering by west to south. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled with rain following. Weather probably become colder. Barometer falling, but rising shortly.—Bates, Wellington. Napier Press Association reports : Catherine Ida Locking, daughter of the late Hr. Locking, committed suicide by throwing herself over Bluff Hill early yesterday morning. A verdict of suicide whilst in an unsound mind was returned at the inquest. A Wellington Press Association telegram to-day states: —James Gillow was lying in an alleyway leading to a motor garage off Courtenay Place on Friday night when the wheel of a motor car passed over his head. He was taken to the hospital, where ho died yesterday. At the Court this morning, before Mr S. B. Hunter, J.P., Reginald Gervase Hamerton was charged with the theft on September 26th of one ewe valued at £1 2s 6d, the property of Henry B. Worthington and another. He was remanded till Friday, bail being granted—self •in £IOO and 'two sureties of £IOO each. A cablegram to-day from Lisbon states that an explosion of gas occurred at an electric company’s premises and a pumber of the staff were cut off from the exits. Several were killed and one hundred injured. The adjoining buildings were wrecked, and several traracar passengers and pedestrians were killed and injured.

Mr. T. Krogh, of Port Ahuriri, is the proud possessor of a medal issued by the Danish Government to its troops and sailors who took part in the 'war of 1864, when Prussia and Austria combined robbed Denmark of Sciileswig and Holstein (says the Napier Telegraph). Mr Krogh was serving on the Rolf Kragc, the first combined turret ship and ram to go into action in any war. Mr Krogh got through the campaign without a wound.

Nows received by a recent mail from America states that, contrary to general expectations, the ill-fated Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Ireland has moved from the spot in the St. Lawrence where she foundered. It appears that the vessel is righting herself. Strong currents are said to be responsible. The Canadian Government announces that the vessel’s masts are now only 85ft. below the surface at high water.

A howling nor’-west gale was experienced in Kurow and North Waitalii district on Monday from about 10 o’clock in the morning until long after nightfall. At midday (says the North Otago Times) the wind raged with hurricane violence, and shortly before 1 o’clock the long line of horse boxes—l 9in a l !—on the Kurow racecouse was blown down, and completely wrecked. The boxes, which were substantially built of wood and iron, were only erected in September of last year, and their wreckage is an unfortunate happening for the Jockey Club. The other buildings on the course ©scaped undamaged. Uprooted trees and many flat or dislodged haystacks round the district were mute avideimo of the violence of the gale at its neight.

A special correspondent writes:— “The directors of the Farmers’ Cooperative Organisation Society of N.Z., Ltd., held a meeting on Saturday in Hawera, at which the balancesheet of the Company’s first halfyear’s business was laid before them. The results were most gratifying to tho directors and far exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine of them. The shares are being taken up very encouragingly, while the profits of the Society compare more than favorably with those of the very best of kindred societies throughout N.Z., and the directors confidently look forward to being able at the end of the year to make as good return in the shape of interest upon share capital, bonus on purchases rebates on commissions, to tho shar -y holders as any other similar concern in New Zealand has been able to make. This is a very satisfactory commencement for the Society, proves a complete answer to those who used to say that it was impossible to start a concern of the sort in Taranaki and still more impossible to make it pay even if it did. start.”