GENERAL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The report of the Royal Colonial Institute shows a membership of 10,126,' an increase of over fifty-five per cent, in four years. j At the Sydney Royal Show, Mrsi Stace on Emurlains and Miss Smith on Bandolier cleared Git 6in., a world's record for the ladies' high jump. ( I The marching competition at the band contest at Christehurch resulted: Wanganui, 272.! points, 1; Hibernian Band, invercargill, 26U points, 2; Tim. am Band, 2G7 points, 3; Westport Garrison, 26-1 points, 4. There were eight other competitors.

The steamer Algonquin reports having a wireless from the Royal Dutch West Indies Company that the steamer Prinz Mauritz is sinking slowly off Cape Hatteras. North Carolina, U.S.A. it was believed that four passengers and forty of the crew perished.

The New Zealand University athletic championship tournament at Auckland was held yesterday. There was a keen struggle for the challenge shield, and the result was in doubt until the last race, the 440 yards hurdles. When it started, Otago, the present holders, had half a point lead from Canterbury. Canterbury representatives, however, secured the verdict by a foot, and thus became holders of the shield for one year.

At the Easter golf tournament at Invercargill, the championship of Southland was won by Dr. Boss (Duuedin), who beat Ernest Smith, thirteen and twelve to go. Dr. Ross created a record by doing the first eighteen holes in 73, a remarkably fine performance considering the state of the weather and the rough condition of certain parts of the course.

A New York cablegram states that a receiver has been appointed into the affairs of the International Mercantile Marine Company Organisation (J. P. Morgan), comprising British, American and Belgian steamship lines. The company has been unable to pay interest on the collateral trust bonds since the outbreak of war diminished its earnings. The British subsidiary companies are not affected.

The annual conference of the Political Labor Council in Melbourne adopted resolutions in favor of not contributing to the unemployment insurance premium to bo charged upon the industry, the compulsory school attendance of all children till their sixteenth birthday, and a new platform plank providing for the regulation of tho prices of foodstuffs at any time.