LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- 7Ty. ~ y proceedings h st hlm' By his w uirlDTi+nl. \!o«f

■}y . .1 ■ ' Toy owing proceedings for mainten- ; anco against him' by his wife, Charles ■’>>. Clark, a resident of Now Brighton, attempted suicide yesterday. The Press Association states that lie. was rcmov- / ; ed to hospital in an unconscious state but is now recovering. The Acclimatisation Cohferehce deended to ask the Government to introduce legislation with reference to the indiscriminate use of the l pen rides and also to prohibit the use of silen--1 cers.’, The Conference expressed the . opinion that the use of autoloading I guns for feathered, imported, and 1 native game shpuld he prohibited. The motion that gun licenses of 10,s a year he paid by all users of sporting guns t was lost. y i;';. , The premises of the Kingsland Company, boot importers and manufacturers, Invercargill, were, completely destroyed by fire "at six this morning. Insurance an the building is £I6OO, stock arid'plant £3360 in the' State Office. The factory has been very

r, busy, and between fifty and sixty men are now idle. The loss is estiva mated at £3006 above the insurance. The adjoining premises occupied by Boys (draper) and Arthur (jeweller), ■ were slightly damaged.—P.A. , V* , As the express train passed through , Dannevirke yesterday (states the I Press Association) a trooper named /-’Private Kohihsdrt,’ ou' leave from Wai'j kaiiae training cam]) and going to Gisborne, had to be taken therefrom and • admitted to the Dannevirke Hospital, where it was found he was suffering i from ce re bro spinal meningitis. x Tbe ■ Health Department issued instructions

for the isolation of ■ contacts, and steps are being taken to prevent the j spread of the disease. The invalid's condition .is said to he very serious.

... ■ .. : ■ ;/ i ' The posters fpr -the New Plymouth Coursing meeting to lie held on the %■ 19th inst. are to hand.- It is eslpeot- , ed thatseveral Stratford dogs will he t found competing, as local well-known P coursers hare got their dogs in capi- | tnl trim. Mr .R v Neal’s Black Chief, | who was defeated at Wanganui last f; month is in better trim imw. and his f. owner has great hopes of him thus ii time. It is not settled whether Mr ||s”j S. Howe’s Daylight Stiii;’will ’make the '. Journey to New Plymouth. Mr R. | w Healy’s Bhicjt , Mascot, who was also j|;"- r d<}feated at Wanganui, is looking very well, and Mr C.’ HeiilyV well-known I'ff Connemara, is again looking very lit, and as shown hy Ids brilliant victory in the Wanganui Stakes. The last--1 named is the best of the bunch.