LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 85, 14 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The loss in the AVestralian railway and harhor revenue for tho year was Cl-18,00. Findlay’s confectionery shop in Brisbane was burglarised and £ls in notes and silver taken. A bowling match, President and Vice President will take place on the Stratford green to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2 o’clock. A Sydney cablegram to-day states that the Federal Cabinet has placed an order for twenty engines for the trans-Anstralian railway with a Queensland firm. .Mr .Hill, secretary of tho New Smith Wales Rugby Union, has received word of a football match in Egypt (.states a Sydney cablegram today). when New Zealand beat Wales by 21 to 17. A Blenheim Press Association tidegram states that yesterday eleven sections, of the Wither Run Estate, were ballotted by the Land Board. There were 56 applicants. The successful applicants were all local people. The legality of .Madame Nordica’s l‘)t() will is being questioned (reports a cablegram to-day from Melbourne). It is alleged Madame Norciica drew up a second will at Thursday Island, cutting out her husband, Mr. George Yonnd, from any share of Tier estate. Mr. Hartlett, American Vice-Con-sul, proceeds to Thursday Island to inquire into the matter.

Tlio heavily-fleshed Shorthorn, known as the Scotch or Crnickshank typo, has “caught on” in Queensland. and is making headway with several of the largest breeders. .Air C. K. A!‘Dongall, of kyndhnrst, lias just sold 1 O'> yearling herd Shorthorn hulls of the type to a pastoral company of West Australia at 150 guineas a head, which is about a record for Australia if the number is taken into consideration. Air M'Dongall was one of the lirst breeders in Queensland to introduce into his stud the Scotch Shorthorn, and has, by that means (states the Sydney Daily Telegraph) worked up his cattle to a verv high standard.

I Tin: New Zealand Government's tlisj play of apples at the Royal Horticul- ‘ rural Show at Westminster has been awarder a silver medal, states a LoiSdon cablegram. I | Weather Forecast.—The indications are for westerly winds, strong to gale and veering by wiot to south. Iho i weather appears likely- to be cloudy ■ and unsettled. Rain probable, but the barometer rising after about 2! hours; then the weather a il! probably become doder.—Bates, Wei i in tgon.

A conference of the New Zealand Freezing Works Allied Trades Federation at Wellington, passed a motion that it views with alarm the position created by the lack of shipping arrangements for frozen meat, and urges the Government to make every effort to arrange for shipping to relieve the works; which, have failed to secure a fair share of shipping space.—F.A.