LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 81, 9 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Annual meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Union will be held at the Egmont Club, Stratford, at 7.30 tonight. London's Post Office Directory for 1915 weighs 1 Mb lloz.. and the name "Smith" occupies no fewer than twenty-one columns. The late Sir J. Henniker Heaton's English estate has been proved at £368 states a London cablegram today. ' The Taranaki Education Board invite applications for positions as teachers at Huiakama, Ahititi, Tongaporubu. Rowan, and Stratford, particulars of which appear in another column. The Wanganui County Council decided to-day to include in next year's estimates £2O monthly towards the Belgian Relief Fund, states a P.A. wire.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states: Henry Frances Smith, who escaped Iron) one of the prison camps in February was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment to-day.

The "Recital of Travel" by Adjutant Cook on Tuesday evening next should be interesting. The object is to raise funds to pay expenses to Wellington next week in connection with the forthcoming Congress.

A patriotic service will be held in St. Andrew's Church on Sunday evening, when the Rev. J. Pattison will speak of "The King and the War," a topic suggested by the attitude of His -Majesty towards the drink problem.

At the Magistrate's Court, Stratford, before Mr W. (i. Kenrick, S.M., James Sharrock was convicted and discharged on a charge of allowing nine bullocks to wander at large on Cloton Road. For allowing a dead cow to remain unburied on property near Pembroke Road. Alfred Barlow was lined 10s with costs 7s.

"For every innocent life taken, every Belgian woman outraged, every vile deed perpetrated, there goes down a black mark in the ledger, and peace will not he declared—it must not be declared—till that ledger "is wiped clean, said Mr Hughes, Federal-Attor-ney-Genoral, at the conclusion of a stirring speech at the official luncheon on the Sydney showgrounds.

At the Rodfern (Sydney) Police Court, John Denison, Botany Road, .Mascot, pleaded guilty to having in his possession light-weight bread. An inspector stated that he visited defendant's bakehouse, and found 308 loaves of bread deficient in weight 30(3 ounces, and also .seven lib, loaves of bread deficient Hi ounces. Defendant was fined ,£7(i Ids, with (is costs, in default two months' imprisonment, for the 308 loaves, and L'3 ss, and (is costs, for the seven loaves. The bread was ordered by the magistrate to be given to local charities.

Tin- balance-sheet of the South Island Brass Hand Association showed a balance of C2l (states a Press Association telegram from Christchurch). A number of delegates referred to the practice of publishing a criticism of the band's performances before the judge's results were made known, it was resolved to request the executive either to announce the result of each night's playing or to ask the press to refrain from publishing such criticism at future contests. It was decided to recommend the executive that separate quickstep contests be held for A and B grade bands.

The executive of the A. and P. Association will not meet to-night. Weather forecast.—Southerly moderate to strong winds and veering by east to north, mild and hazy conditions with increasing haze and cloudiness for -change. Barometer little movement, but falling after about 2-1 hours.—Bates, Wellington. Services in connection with the Sunday School anniversary at Hurioa will he conducted on Sunday next by the Rev. A. Reader. On Monday tea will be served in the schoolroom at 5.30. and a concert will follow in the evening as notified in another column. A friend who came over with'the Lusitania on the trip when the American flag was used tells a writer in the "Nation" that if the captain had not hoisted the American Hag the Americans on board would have tried to do it for him. Before the ilag was run up to the masthead many of the passengers had begun to insist that they should have the protection of their own colors. Some indeed had brought star-spangled banners with them, and as the ship approached British waters those emblems were hung out by thenpatriotic und possibly nervous) owners over the sides, so that the vessel( in the correspondent's words, came into port "fairly wreathed in stars and stripes."

Judgment by default was given in the following ca,ses at the Magistrate's Court, Stratford, iliis morning, by Mr W. G., Kenrick, S.M.: H. A. Wunch v. H. J. Sharrock £6 2s 2d (£1 10s (id costs); Johnson (Mr P. Thomson, for Mr W. G. Maione) v. Daniel Fabier £2 17s 6d (costs 16s); W. and L. Brocklebank (Mr P. Thomson) v. W. 11 ili £2 7 S 6d ,(costs 10s); Central Co-operative Store (Mr T. C. Fookes) v. Chas. Gooch £2 3s 6d (costs £1 los). In the judgment summons case Carbery (Mr R. Spence) v. Joseph Sharrock, the debtor was ordered to pay £2 per month, in default fourteen days imprisonment.