LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 52, 17 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather forecast.—Northerly moderate winds. Weather cloudy to overcast. Rain probable. The barometer has a falling tendency.—Bates, Wellington.

A London cablegram to-day says:— The Green Engine Co., with a 100 horse-power water-cooled engine won £SOOO in the naval and military aeroplane engine competition.

!At Masterton, reports a Press Association telegram to-day, Henry Rosson and Frederick Johansen were charged at the court with selling liquor without a license, and Johansen was lined £4O and Rosson £25.

At the Australasian Convention of the Y.M.C.A. (states a Sydney cablegram), Mr Jagson, New Zealand Natonal Secretary, read a paper on secretaral training and supply. The following were appointed New Zealand representatives on the national committee for the next two' years : Messrs Peacock, Caughey, Kersley, Longuet. Williams, and Professor Picken.

The first Christmas card was issued in 1846 by a publisher named Cranda’l, who is said to have been indebted for the idea to Sir Henry Cole. The card was lithographed by Jobbins, of Warwick Court, and colored by hand. About 1000 were sold.

A serious landslide at Culebra Cut has stopped all traffic through the Panama Canal. A Press Association cablegram from London to-day states that the first steamer from the Pacific Coast via Panama had reached Liverpool,

Members of the mounted section of the Home Defence Corps are asked to meet at the Defence office on Thursday afternoon next at 1.30. For those who do not possess a horse, Mr A. J. Davey has kindly offered to provide one, which is an offer very highly appreciated.

The Home Defence Corps will meet for drill and musketry instruction on Monday evening next, and as there are several important matters to be placed before the is especially hoped there will be a good attendance. Members are asked to pick up arms at 7.30 o’clock at the Defence Office, Broadway. ' '