LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 70, 22 July 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is now nearly twelve months -since the Patriotic Committee was first set up. On 28th November last a balancesheet was issued, audited and published together with a report of operations to that date. Recently a further statement was published showing receipts and expenditure in connection with the hospital ship. The committee

have now decided to issue a balancesheet and report covering operations for the past twelve months and to submit same to a public meeting to be convened shortly. The public will have full opportunity to offer suggestions or criticisms and to re-appoint a committee to carry on the work.

Tho Church of England social will lie hold in the Parish Hall on Monday evening next, instead of Tuesday as previously announced.

A concert and dance in aid of Wounded Soldiers’ Fund will he held in the Pembroke Hoad School to-morrow evening. Owing to the had weather, (lie attendance at the Stratford School yesterday was less than it has been for live years; The Convent School was also serious!v affected.

The Toko Settlers’ Association’s animal concert, which was arranged for to-night has been postponed on account of the weather to a date ol which due notice will he given.

Acceptances for tho North' Taranaki Hunt Club’s Handicap events close with the Secretary at nine o’clock to-night. The Stratford telegraph office closes at 8.

A cablegram from Suva states that on ’Wednesday there arrived the relief .steamer from Minerva Reef with tho

captain and crew of the .Strathcona. Tho estimated saleable value of tho vessel is CbUOO.

The electric light service in Stratford was very had last evening, on account of the flooding of the engine-room. Towards midnight, however, it improved considerably, and was nearly normal.

it is officially stated in Wellington {reports the Press Association) that Private Daniel Kemptliorne, of Templeton. who died in Victoria hospital yesterday,' was suffering from measles. pneumonia, and bronchitis, and not cerehro spinal meningitis.

The trouble with the electric light last evening did not affect His Majesty’s picture-screening, as some people imagined, and the programme was carried out as usual. Patrons are reminded of the change of films this evening.

Further investigation at the Stratford Electrical Supply Company’s Dip’ sol engine power house now shows that the invasion ot water which caused the trouble with the generators yesterday was through flood-water hanking up on an adjoining section to that of the Company, and finding its nay through the ventilators in the walls below the floor level. The concrete. at first thought to he at fault, i.s still quite impervious.

At the conclusion ot the County Council meeting yesterday, it was de-

cided to further increase the rates in the Mangaehu and East Hidings to -Id and did respectively. In moving the increase, the representatives of these Hidings stated that they did not like a further increase, hut in view of the present damage there was nothing else to do. The rates in the other ridings remain at—-. North .‘3d, South 2d. West 2:,‘d.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states: A statement was recently made by Mr Coates. M.P.. that a person bad been charged £1 by tlje Bank of New Zealand, in addition to the cable charges, for cabling £‘o to a soldier in Egypt. The local manager of the Bank ot New Zealand states that this must have been a mistake, the fact being that the Bank is remitting up to £2o free for a member of the forces, the sender having to pay only the cable charges.

The rainfall recorded for the hist forty-eight hours is !)-inches. The heavy rain yesterday caused a big slip on the Stanley Road. Mr Frank Mackay’s property is isolated, together with the settlers below it. The land between Toko and near Douglas is all under water. The Strathmore Saddle is badlv blocked, and two teams

carrying wool have been stopped and forced to leave the waggons on the Saddle.