LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 60, 10 July 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Blushing a pretty pink, Xp. 1 of "Hansard" for the first session of 1915 put in an appearance to-day,- redolent as .ever of verbiage.

A Press Association message from Palmerstori Xorth states:—The heaviest rain for many months greeted the troops who evacuated Treiitham for Rangiotu. The first detachhient of the ' Liverpools arrived at four o'clock this morning, but Colonel Fulton refused to allow them to disembark, and 01- , * dered them back to Longbuin, where they obtained a niial arid later came on to Palmerstoni Rain was still falling heavily, and ; they were offered the use of the Racing Club and other buildings. There" was a* long' wait of some hours on the railway station tor official sanction from Wellington, but it* was not received by noon, and the ' men then still at the stat'ion. A later me&kge states that the first two batches of Liverpools, totalling twelve ''• hundred' and fifty, entrained for the racWburse'at I.3o,''arid the third batch of fire hundred has just arrived and Is being accommodated on the j/how ground. .'j'.';■'