LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 19 October 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Ventura arrived at Sydney at 10 o’clock to-day, skates the cables.

In the Magistrate’s Court at Hawera to-day (states the Press Association), Ah Joe, a Chinaman, was fined £ls for his second. offence of having opium in his possession.

The Press Association at Reefton sent the following this afternoon: Mrs James Billett, an elderly woman, was found drowned in the river. She had been despondent for some time.

Wellington Press Association reports: Fifteen men fjom Auckland, who joned the Expeditionary Force, are being treated for measles. A few are in the hospital.

Trooper Cecil Alexander, of Otago, died in the Wellington Hospital on Saturday night from pneumonia, which was contracted while camped at Miramar. His age was 28—P.A.

Weather forecast: —South-easterly moderate to strong winds prevailing. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The night will probably be very cold. The barometer has a rising tendency.—Bates, Wellington.

A Timaru message, per Press Association, states: Owing to his son going to the front, Mr James Wallace has decided not to contest the election as "Reform” candidate for Timaru. It is rumoured that Mr F. H. Smith, M.P. for Waitaki, will be approached.

The Union S.S. Co. and ITuddart Parker and, Co. have arranged a new intercolonial timetable which will be put into use. Under the new timetable (states the Press Association), intercolonial steamers will include Dunedin and the. Bluff in their itinerary. Details are not yet available.

The Maitai, which has been delayed at Wellington since Friday afternoon owing to the firemen who came from San Francisco demanding to be paid off in Wellington, where they had been shipped, resumed her voyage to Sydney at 10.30 this morning, a new stokehold staff having beeen obtained.—P.A.