LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 57, 23 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Stratford Lawn Tennis Club will lold their annual meeting in Mr J. T. Thompson's office this evening.

A London cablegram states: George McDonald, managing director of the New Zealand Oilfields, Ltd., has been remanded on a charge of embezzling £7500, as the outcome of defendant's examination during the company's bankruptcy proceedings.

An alteration has been mado in the ■order of the meetings to be addressed

by Mr W. H. Hawkins, Liberal candidate for Stratford, in the eastern district. The meeting at Tahora has been abandoned and the meeting at Kohuratahi will be held to-morrow evening, and the Whangamomona meeting on Monday evening.

The New Zealand Presbyterian Almrch, recognising the importance of the work amongst the young, has recommended that one Sunday be.set apart by the various congregations called "Young People's Day." "In accordance with this recommendation, Sunday next will be observed as "Young People's Day" in St. Andrew's Church, when special topics and hymns will be used for the occasion. Reginald Garvase Hamerton, charged at the Magistrate's Coun, at Stratford, on remand to-day witli stealing one ewe varied at £'l i's (kl, the property of H. JR.. "Worthington and another, ple?ded not guilty i and was committed for tr'il at the next sitting of the Supreme 'Court at New Plymouth. Another rharge wn • being heard this afternoon.

To-morrow should be a red-ietctr day in the history of Stratford—'t should be in the same as the Saturday on which the Patriotic Fund was given a start, and givon a good start, too. Every citizen cau help towards making successful the collection for the British and Belgian lVor Relief Fund. All who have floweis to spare should forward them to tie school before 10 a.m. ' After being worked into bouquets the flowers will be displayed on stalls in the greets, and children from the school will .sell them. An open-air concert will be given in front of the Post Office, commencing at 2.45, among the items by leading local artists being Captain Allen's recitation of "The Absentminded Beggar."