LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 86, 11 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Tfl Wera boys who are leaving for the front will be entertained at a social and dance at the To Wera Hall ou Friday next.

The Stratford School sent a girls' hockey team and a football team to Hawera on Thursday last to play the Hawera School. The boys' won their match but the girls lost.

A Sydney cablegram s'tates that the Government of New South Wf\|es is considering the curtailment of professional sport of all kinds dining the

An Italian Flag auctioned at the Hamua Settlement last night for the Wounded Soldiers realised a sum in l the vicinity of £IOOO, reports Pahiatua. ~. ~. . i ■lit ?*•:. -' . '•

! Victoria's gold yield last year' (states a cablegram to-day) was *la>■,2lrl:nunees of fine gold of a value of JZ} ,755,236, a decrease of 21,~14 ounces of fine on the 1913 returnj

"it'is the intention of the Government to send) a party of' nurses withy the transports leaving shortly, for the mainly, of' relieving 'soijrie 'or 'the, nurses an the base hospitals]''' I') lift l i' { 'i i'. ■ !'>>!. li' i iv. 1 d;

A writ has been issued for £IO,OOO, for alleged slander, against W; A. Mowbray, merchant, of "Wellington, by F. F. Munro. merchant, Wellington. ' "' - '■ '••' ; ' : "'■""

totiMvi the price of certain .brands of butter in the -Wellington market will be reduced by I twopence per ipound; to 'ls Hdu Other brands T :tfrtt*be reduced-one'penny. 1 ! :> .-••••.

„ Th,e| weather indjeations : are for:— ; —Freshening :to : northerly strong winds to gale, after about .16 hours; A-storm appears<to be approaching from the west. The weather appears] I likely vlt'd l)e cloudy and unseltled. Bain probable and barometer frtlliug. Wellington.

The I Scottish Society confidently expect to raise £ISOO for the Wounded and Sick Soldiers' Fund. Well over £IOOO has been collected already, and with the raffle of another section of land shortly to be organised, this amount will be considerably increased. ,

A letter received from Major Cunningham at the Dardanelles mentions that colder weather is coming soon. He thinks (states a Press Association . message from Wanganui), that socks. Balaclava caps, handkerchiefs, boot laces, sweets, chocolates, pipes (hard to obtain in Egypt) and tobacco would be welcomed.

On Thursday (to-morrow) two football teams from the Stratford School will visit New Plymouth to play matches against the New Plymouth Hijvh School. Two girls' hockey teams from New Plymouth will visit Stratford. The two hockey matches will bo played in Victoria Park, one on the usual hockey ground, and the other on the football ground.

A miniature rifle match between the Home Defence Corps and the Post and Telegraph Department resulted as follows:—Post and Telegraph.—McLeod GO. .Wulvey 59, Oaddock 59, Shea ban 56, Brookes 54, Pike 51, Kivell 41. Total 380. S.H.D.—Richardson 65. Pinhey 59, Peters 56, Yarley 56, Allanson 56, Pivac 48, Mounsey 46. Total ;m.

The great masked plain and fancy dress ball that is to be held in the Elthuni Town Hall on Friday. 13th, in aid of the candidature of Miss Evelyn Quin, the Sports Clubs' nominee to the Elthani Queen Carnival, promises to be a great evening's entertainment, and as the proceeds are destined for the Wounded Soldiers' Fund, it is hoped that numbers of Stratford people will lend their support.

Private Charles Kelly, who is at the Dardanelles, writes as follows, to a member of the "Stratford Evening Post":—June 13, 1915,—Stratford boys are doing first turn in.-front trench. Wallace has been detached, having got a job peppering Turk .snipers. Of those detached in Egypt we hear nothing. All reinforcement X.C.O's. lost rank on coming here. Jones is now our platoon quartermaster. I see Bob Wood now and again, looking well, also Urojiharfc,"