LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 43, 21 June 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The total amount of the collection for,j the Belgian Flag on Saturday was oveV £401). His Worship the Mayor of Waitaijaj has invited, through Major Htoty, all members of I) Squadron Queen Alexandra's Second Mounted Kifle.s, to he present at the unveiling of the Obelisk on Thursday next. All men who can make the journey must parade at the railway station, Stratford, at 8.30 a.m. 'Service dress and arms. A somewhat precipitate departure is said to have been made from Dunedin early on Friday morning by a person who has from time to time been a resident of that city (says the Otago Daily Times). His sudden departure was attributed to the action of a justifiably angry father, who took personal satisfaction for an affront alleged to Have been offered to his daughter, and then threatened further proceedings of a decorative but distinctly able nature. The individual, however, made himself remarkably scarce, not even taking time to collect his belongings as, it is understood, lie telegraphed for these from Palmerston. \ ,