LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 53, 5 March 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A "hallelujah" wedding is announced to take place at the Army Hall on Wednesday afternoon.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for: Southerly winds strong to gale prevailing. The weather will probably prove cold and showery at times. Barometer rising.

A man dropped dead on the Palmerston station at midday. The Press Association states that the name on his portmanteau was C. J. Ward, who was evidently a passenger by the train going north.

The Minister of Finance (Hon. J. Allen) announces that Mr W. lieece, of Christchurch, has been appointed director of the Ban kof New Zealand as successor to the late Hon. Fergus, states a Dunedin P.A. wire.

In the case, Donovan v. The King, which was to have been held in the Supreme Court at Dunedin this month, has been settled for £1050,, states the Press Association. This was a claim for £ISOO damages arising out of a collision between two railway engines in Dunedin, as the result of which plaintiff's husband, who was a fireman, was killed.

Mr Lawrence Manning King, son of Mr N. J. 'King, lately a scholar of the Stratford District High School, who recently passed his matriculation examination, left Stratford yesterday for Dunedin, where he will engage in the study of medicine at the Otago University.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 3rd intsant : —We quote present spot value for the following descriptions:—Fine mutton 42s 3d per cwt., good beef 41s 3d, mixed 38s 6d.

A Dunedin Press Association tele gram to-day states: Captain Henderson, formerly Adjutant in the Southland 'Regiment, is returning to New Zealand in connection with charges to be formulated against him and LieutColonel McClymont, who recently came hack from the front. It is understood the charges affect the matter of the administration of the Regimental funds.

The danger of' riding a motor cycle across a railway crossing, and the expense J of such air action when caught, was brought' home to Owen David 'James at the Stratford Magistrate's Court this morning. Sergeant Dale pointed out that the accused was not used to- a- motor 'cycle and had frankly admitted that he "put on steanv" in-' stead of turning it off on seeing an engine approaching. Mr W. G. Kenrick, S.M., pointed out that James rendered himself liable to a £IOO fine, but in the present caso would inflict one of 20s only, with costs 7s.

The following new books have been added to the Stratford Public Library: —"Arundel" (E. F. Benson), "The Law-Breakers" (Ridgwell Cullum), "The Hidden Children" (Robert Chambers), "Shifting Sands" (Alice Birkhead), "Spragg's Canyon" (H. A. Vachell), "Black is White" ((!. Barr McCntcheon), "The Light of Westerns Stars" (Zane Grey), "The Achievement" (Temple Thurston), "First Cousin to a Dream" (C. Harcourt), "Molly, My Heart's Delight" (Katharine Tynan), "A Green Englishman" (S. Macnaughtan), "The Amfiiable Grimes of Disk Mending" (Ttupert Hughes).

The ballot at Wellington for the election of office-bearers of the Shearers’ Union was decided last night, with the following result:—President, Mr A. J. King; committee, Messrs Boone, Adair, Cook, W. Johnston, Groyndler, and €. L. Johnston. The proposal to amalgamate with the Farm Labourers’ Union was carried by 371 votes; the proposal to increase the price of a ticket was lost by 388 votes; and the proposal to join the United Federation of Labor was lost by 165.—P.A.