LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 63, 14 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day being Labor Day, the Government offices are closed.

Adjutant Inwood, of the Salvation Army, lectures on “A Trip to the New Hebrides” in Stratford to-night.

Some Stratford ticket-holders may he interested to learn that the Civil Service piano winning number is 1691, held I>v Miss S. Elcock, of Ross, Westland.

The general committee of the A. ami P. Association will, at Saturday’s meeting, consider the report of the sub-committee regarding the removal of the stand, and also the election ot a schedule committee.

Tlio secretary of the local patriotic committee acknowledges receipt oi the sum of £3l Os 4d. being the nett re- ! suit of the recent Catholic patriotic social, the total expenditure in conjiection with which was £0 4s Bd.

Weitther forecast. —The indications are for south-easterly moderate to strong winds. The weather will probably be cold and changeable. The night will probably he very cold -with frosts inland. Ihe barometer has it rising tendency.

In view of the local amateur performance of the opera, “Merrie "England,” this evening, the management of His Majesty’s Picture Theatre announce an “off” night. A complete change of programme, with novel and sensational films will he screened tomorrow (Thursday) evening.

At the quarterly meeting of the Railway Superannuation Fund Board yesterday,retiring allowances aggregating Cl lOd were gauted to 20 oliicers; allowances amounting to €075 were granted to ton widows and fifteen eniidren, and refunds amounting to /tid'd were granted to officers who hare resigned.

.Most of our readers are puzzled to know how to pronounce a great many of the names that appear in Hi eeahles. Now. “Everybody's Journal ’ -that enterprising Australasian magazine for women—is about to do a double service. It has arranged a Picture-Puz-zle Competition that will provide amusement for its readers extending over some months, and also teach thorn how to pronounce War names. Ihe picture-puzzles will represent places in the War zone.

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