LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 48, 13 October 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Manuka, arrived, at 7.30' this morning at, Sydney, states a cable. The Union,, S.S; Company, lias received a wireless, message from the Maitai, which was. timed to and arrived at Papeete ten days after that port, was bombarded by German cruiser?, stating all was well;—P.A. - There . was. the, usual good muster fat, night’s . drill, of the Defence Rifle Club,, There will be no, shooting on Thursday; afternoon, but a •drill will be held on Thursday evening. J A cable from Sydney states that Mr Holman, the Premier, has delayed, delivery of the Financial Statement pending negotiations with the Federal Government.

Weather forecast: —The indications are for: Southerly moderate to strong winds. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. There will bo a 'cold night. Barornetqr 'rising.— Bates, Wellington.

f, Little is heard from,. Australia nowadays of the smallpox epidemic, but that the disease has not been -wholly stamped. out is evident from news contained,-in the, latent- papers •to hand! The Yass ..correspondent! of. the Sydnpy .Daily Telegraph stated ,pn Wednesday last: “Several additional cases of smallpox have occurred, mostly .at. the railway camp. All the patients are being sent to, the quarantine station at Sydney, under the supervision of officers of the Board of Health. To-day Dr. Chappie vaccinated 260 persons at a public depot.”

Mr W. M'Laughlin Kennedy spent Vome time in Canada and. New. York '(States a London correspondent writing under date August 20). He has lately been touring, in the north of •Ireland visiting numerous relatives, alSp in Scotland, where he took part ■in the recent sextenary celebrations of the battle of Bannockburn. While iii Ayrshire he was. the. guest of the Chief of the Kennedys at Finnarfc’s House. Mr , Kennedy,, who is now in London,, hopes to ho able to. sail by the, Orama on September 11. At the Marton Court this morning, before a Justice of the Peace, C. R. Cooke, late secretary of the Marton Farmers’ Union, was charged with failing to account for the following monies due to the Wellington Meat Export Co., £65 7s lid, Wanganui Meat Co. £lll Gs 3d, Gear Meat Pressing ( Co.’ £l6 16s Bd, R. Edwards (Palnierston North) £44 -3s—making a total deficiency, less d credit-at the hank of £228 3s 2d. The Press Association sated that accused peladed guilty and was committed to the Supremo Court, Wellington, for sentence.