LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

** leather Forecast.— Westerly . moderate to strong winds with a southerly tendency. Expect’ warm and humid conditions with weather cloudy to overcast at times. Barometer unsteady.—Bates, Wellintgon.

A drowning fatality accompanied by a man’s brave rescue work is reported to have occurred recently in Tasmania. At Penquin, - ' Violet Ida Yeo, aged 2.7, the daughter, of the Rev.' Henry Yeo, Methodist minister, with a friend, Selina Arnott, went for a swim on Johnson’s Beach. A heavy easterly ’sea was running, find the girls were carried out. Jack M’Phail brought both ashore, when Miss Arnott soon rec s o#fsd“ hut was dead. r $

" ■ Something quite out of the ordinary. is to be offered to the people of I feltratford at the Home Defence Rifle Corps’ entertainment to be held on the 23rd ,inst. Music will be plentifully supplied by the Boys’ Drum and Fife Band, the Municipal Band, and the Egmont Orchestra. Some of Strat ford’s best singers are included in the programme. A great event of the evening promises to be the New Zealand Fencing Championship, this being the first time this event has been fought out in the Dominion. Several of the veterans of the corps, if physically fit, will give a thrilling demonstration.