LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 58, 11 March 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. J. -Pearce, who met with a serious accident yesterday, is still in a critical condition.

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that Colonel Soult and Bluestone have been scratched for the Great Eastern Handicap.

Wenjlher /forecast. —Southeasterly moderate to strong winds. Weather probably cloudy and unsettled. .. Rain probable. Barometer unsteady, with a rising tendency. Night cold.— Bates, Wellington.

Rotorua reports that the prisoner, Alfred Robert Curtis, who escaped from Kaingaroa Prison Camp on Saturday night, was recaptured at 11 a.m. to-day, while hiding under the counter in Manson's grocer's shop at Rotorua.

Word was received in Marton today from the Wellington Meat Export Co. stating that the Company has purchased a site and is proceeding at once with the necessary steps to construct works at Kakariki. The Press Association says that the company expects to start operations next season.

A picture postcard, one of a pile of three hundred which was standing in a printing establishment at Scarborough when the Teuton baby-killers shelled that town, is a curiosity now on view in the window of Mr C. E. James' shop in Broadway. About £SOO damage was done to the printing works where the cards were prepared, and one splinter of the shell went right thnnjgh the pile from which the specimen in Mr James' window is taken.

A peculiar case concerning a breach of the Grocers' Award (said to be the first of its kind) came before the- Wellington Magistrate's Court to-day, states the Press Association. An employer was charged with employing a boy under age as assistant driver without the knowledge of his original employer. Mr Riddeil, 5.M.., entered a conviction and fixed the penalty at 10s.