LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 31, 7 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kltham and Stratford Hibernians meet in a return card party this evening. The monthly meeting of the Taranaki Education Board will be held on Wednesday, 16th hist. The annual general meeting of the Stratford Bowling Chib will he held next Friday evening, in the A and P. rooms.

The annual meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society will he held in the A. and P. office on Wednesday evening, at 7.30.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for easterly moderate to strong winds and veering by east to north, then freshening. Increasing haze and cloudiness for change and weather probably cold and changeable. Barometer falling. Bates, Wellington.

A man named William Oliver was lined £2O at Taumarunui for stealing money from a boarding house at Owhango. Various sums were taken from the rooms of the hoarders. He had previously received accommodation at the establishment, and suspicion falling upon him after he left the township, part of the missing monev was found in a room he occupied at an hotel in Taumarunui.

The Home Defence Corps will parade at 7.30 this evening. After parade a committee meeting will be held at 8.30 and the handicap shoot for the James medal will take place. On Tuesday evening the Corps will fire a match against the Fire Brigade; and James and Co. will fire a match with Harkrioss and Co. These matches will open at 7.30.

A lantern lecture under the auspices of the C.E.M.S. will be given in the Parish Hall to-morrow evening by Mr Geo. A. C. Buckeridge, of the Elthani C.K..M.S. Mr Buckeridge is an interesting lecturer, and one of the objects of his visit here to-morrow is to meet representatives of the Society from the various Taranaki towns with a view to the federation of the various Societies under one control.

A shooting; team to represent the Stratford Fire Brigade against the Home Defencers to-morrow night at 7.‘io will be picked from the following:—Captain Grubb, Lieutenant Davey, Foreman Drake, Branchman \V. Brocklebank, Firemen H. Voyle, .1. Voyle, F. Davies, (S. King, A. E. Horton, A. S. Davis, C. Bennett, Robson, J. Pearce. The Home Defence Corps will be represented by the following-McMillan, Anderson, Kii'by, Allanson, Richardson, Thorpe, Pivae, Peters, Pinley, Johnsen, CJollop, Edgecombe.

The Prime Minister will receive deputations at New Plymouth on. Tuea-

he day (to-morrow) evening.

A Royal Commission has been appointed in Queensland to investigate the cost of the supply and distribution of wheat and flour. Arrangements are being made by the Patriotic Committee to farewell the next batch of recruits leaving Stratford for Trentharn.

Members of the Stratford A. aud P. I Association are asked to specially : that the annual meeting of members"' I will he held on Saturday next, 12th June, at 1.30 p.m.

The Hospital Sliip Fund has now

closed, Stratford’s contribution being over £717, This amount is very credit-

able to the district, and Stratford has J J shown that it can keep it’s end up | both regarding men and money.

j Lieutenant Grey states that all Senior Cadets who have not returned their i rifles to the Defence Office are liable

! to prosecution. Such steps will be i taken if the rifles still held by Cadets ( are not returned at once.

“Churchgoer” supplies the followj ing: From a pulpit on Sunday, the Minister, preaching, gave this unique ! bit of history: “The first Queen of

England was the son of a French

King!”

A Press Association telegram from Invercargill states that the London Piano Company’s premises were gutted by fire on Sunday morning, and a large stock of pianos and musical instruments were destroyed.

Now that the Plospital Ship Fund has closed, the Patriotic Committee has opened a fund for the benefit of wounded troopers. This fund should appeal very closely to all, as the least those who cannot go to the front can do is to help those who have been wounded in their country’s service.

Broadway North is making progress, which will be further added by the erection of fine premises for Messrs Masters and Son and Mr J. McAllister. Masters and Son are building on the site now occupied by the Methodist Church, which is being removed to Regan Street. Mr McAllister is building on the section on the south side of M cssrs Walker and Clarke’s smithy.

A Gisborne Press Association telegram states: A meeting of farmers approved of the proposal to establish co-operative freezing works, £8730 in £5 sharas being subscribed in the room. Provisional directors were given instructions for the preparation of the plans to enable the factory handling 1500 sheep daily, and to be completed within six months.

Referring to the effort of the Salvation Army to do something for the Wounded Soldiers, Adjutant Cook and ids assistant (Lieutenant Mattingley) got to work and took a collection on Broadway on Saturday, from 2 p.m. to 4 o’clock. The result is interesting. There were collected : Half-sovereign (1), half-crowns (3), florins (10), shillings (57), sixpences (61), threepenny bits (46), pennies (122), halfpennies (4), and one stamp. The value of same was £7 6s lid, to which has to be added donations amounting to £2 18s 6d and Sunday offerings £1 9s 7d, making a grand total of £ll 15s, from which has been deducted an amount equal to the average Sunday collection (15s(, Thus the local Salvation Army Corps raised £ll for the cause. Adjutant Cook desires to thank all who assisted towards this satisfactoryresult.

The Timaru manager of Wilson and Co., Dunedin merchants, takes strong exception to the telegram published on Friday, stating that the manager of the Colonial Sugar Co. declares the supplies Avere ample to meet the Dominion’s requirements, and that he does not anticipate a shortage. Wilson and Co. are the Company’s distributing agents for South Canterbury, receiA'ing shipments of about a hundred tons every three weeks, hut last Friday twenty-five tons only arrived. As Wilson’s have no sugar stored, this district is threatened Avith famine, and Wilson’s ask Avhy, if ample supplies are available, the company i>s not distributing them.-t P.A.

A clever company of juvenile amateurs are producing “Cinderella” at Stratford on June 24th and 25th in aid of the funds of the Volunteer Fire Brigade’s motor engine. The management have spared no expense and trouble to bring this up to a high standard of efficiency. The services of Mrs Mcßeth (herself an actress of no mean order) have been secured for some months past, nd the public can rely on a good evening’s amusement. The dresses are all new, and special scenery has been painted for the production. First-class mechanics have been engaged to light the stage, and these special effects will be worth coming to see. The various dances will he all new to the play-going public of Stratford.