LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council will be held next Wednesday. A meeting of the general committee of the Stratford A. and P. Association will bo held in the Association's ooe to-morrow, at 1.30 p.m.
Citizens are reminded of the meeting to be held in the Borough Council Chambers this evening to organise *n connection with the Belgian and Poor of Britain Relief Fund.
A Timaru Press Association telegram this morning states that a splendid rain which fell all last night practically saved the country, as the situation was becoming serious owing to a heavy fall of snow in the back country.
At a largely-attended and enthusiastic public ' meeting- held at Hawera last night, a strong committee was formed to further the object of the British and Belgian poor relief fund. —P.A.
Judgment by default was given in the following cases at the Court this morning:—-Newton King v. George Ward, £3 4s 6d, costs £1 3s Gd; Central Co-op. Store y. Thos. Christian, £5 4s 10d,, costs 18s 6d; Bellringer Bros. v. Thos. Sargison, £2 10s Bd,: costs 18s. j
A family at Gilgandra (N.S'.W.) must, surely, hold the record for broken limbs. A seven-year-oil boy Reggie Heiler, while playing at school, a week or two ago. broke one of his thighs in two places. This is tho eighth break the boy has had. His father had the distinction of recording his 38th break a couple of months ago.
To have lived and died' in the house in which a person is horn is not uncommon in the colonies, but the record of a lady who died in North Sydney last week will stand competition. Miss Eustatia Elizabeth Shairp died at the age of 84 having been born in the cottage in which she died, and which had been her home continuously. Her brother, William M. Shairp, who survives her lived in the cottage also.''
There was rather a small muster of the infantry section of the Defence Rifle Club at the, parade last night, no doubt dye to members not being quite certain if a parade was to be held. However, the men were put through foot and rifle drill, the section leaders taking turns in directing operations. The mounted section held an excellent drill on the showground in the afternoon, the muster being a record one. The next foot parade will be on Monday evening next.
Reginald Gervase Hamerton appeared again at the Court this morning on a charge of having on or about September 20th stolen one ewe valued at £1 2s 6d, the property of Henry Benjamin Worthington and another. Sergt. McNeely asked for an adjournment for a week, stating that owing to distance from Stratford the witnesses could not be got in for that day.. Mr Stanford, who appeared for accused, offered no objection, and bail as previously was granted—accused in £IOO and two sureties of £IOO each.
A novel position was disclosed in the case Thos. Tichbon v. Jesse James Hills at the Court this morning, a claim for £l5B 2s 2d. Notice to defend had been given, and Mr Stanford appeared for plaintiff and Mr Thomson for defendant. It was explained this morning that defendant had paid into Court the amount of claim less £2O, and was now on a visit to Sydney, so that the dafence could not be proceeded with. After formal.proof of the claim judgment was given for the full amount wit 1 ! costs £3 Bs.
The German newspapers, like the French, are very much reduced in size in these war times. Most of them, like the "Kolnische Zeitung," consist of but a single sheet. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" still manages to turn out four pages. Advertisements are not plentiful; most of them are death announcements, which are much more of a "display" character tha>i is customary in England. Many record the death of soldiers killed in action. German'papers are always much more reticent than English papers in the matter of headlines, and even during the war they maintain that distinction. Of war news proper there is much loss in the German than in our own papers. There are no special correspondents with the-German armies or in any of the neutral towns near the theatre of operations. Prac- ! tically the only war news published is the official messages, fortified occasionally by extracts from foreign—mostly Dutch—-journals, I ..
Weather forecast.—The indications are for:—Variable and moderate breezes ; hue south-easterly moderate to strong winds prevailing. Expect dull weather with much mist and fog in parts. Rain probable. Barometer unsteady. Owing to school examinatio-is taking place on the 29th inst., upsettiiig the arrangements for the Fire Brigade's Annual Juvenile Ball to be held that evening, it was decided at a meeting held yesterday afternoon, to hold a Grand Masked Ball for adults or.. Thursday the 29th, in *he Town Hall.. It was h<so decided to hold "a grand children's social and dance in the Fire Station on Friday, 6th of November. Judging by the interest the children are "taking in the grand march and dances, the function should be a great success.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 4
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851LOCAL AND GENERAL. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 51, 16 October 1914, Page 4
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