LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 6 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Cardiff Dairy Company will be held at Cardiff Schoolroom this evening, at 8 o’clock.

Dunedin milling products have been reduced as follows Flour by £1 per ton. and is now quoted at £l4 10s for 2001 b sacks ; oatmeal by £2 j|er now £2O per ton in 251 b bags; pearl barley by £1 per ton, now £2l 10s.

A cablegram from Perth states that to the end of June the State batteries treated 1,039.092 tons of ore, extracting bullion valued at £4,277,3(^1. 09.748 tons of tin ore were treated, and the return is valued at £86.222.

Weather Forecast.—-The indications are for southerly moderate to strong winds, with a westerly tendency. Weather will probably be cold and changeable, with scattered showers. The barometer has a rising tendency. Hates, Wellington.

A very line collection of photographs of the many Stratford men who are fighting for their King and Country is being displayed in the window of .Messrs J. Masters and Son’s premises in Broadway, and is commanding-con-siderable attention.

An unfortunate 1 accident licicl a man named Ritchie at Toko on Saturday evening, when, during a friendly tussle, he fell and broke his leg. Ritchie was conveyed' to Stratford, where he was attended to by Dr. Steven, and afterwards removed to the Hospital.

At the W.C.T.F. meeting in Stratford on Thursday afternoon a resolution was carried unanimously protesting against the severity of the sentence passed upon Alice Parkinson, and a request to the Government* to give effect to the recommendation of the jury was sent to the Minister of Justice.

A large number of Stratford residents are hard at work at the present time making their costumes to wear at the Fire Brigade’s “Hard-Up” social on Thursday evening. People from Inglewood and Hawera, aVAvell as representatives of Kaponga and Eltham, and a s far back as Whtmga* ihomonaj have promised to bp present, and every indication points fcolfr’ Successful entertainment.'

In New South Wales a proclamation has fixed the-prices of brail . by ■ agreement wjthi (those fixed by the Millers’ Association! in the counties of Cumberland and Northumberland as follows:—Bran at £o,'.’AfM‘^dllah<|D : ft. ilt)s pjei; tjon. Elsewhere bran is £1 and pollard 10s below the price* in the* • same district ,pn .September, 1914.

A Martop , Press Association , telegram to-day states: The Rangitikei Queen Carnival, extending over eight weeks, concluded on Saturday, nighty There were seven candidates, and-Miss Joyce McKelvie, daughter of Mr J. F. McKelvie (Carnarvon), was elected 'Queen with £582& tp her credit,,., t Miss Bull set'iued £43612, and Mrs S. J;. Gibbons £2275. The total realised

Wits ''• £15,563■ ‘ 13s j 2d,' rei>resentiii& r.i?67;639' votesi'.2Vl iss B«(il 1 fr\jni ‘ Atari till 6 o’clock on Saturday, when' she Was passed hy .Miss McKelvie.i: The contest ciVatcd great ‘excitc■h'uentV ’ {i f i ; ,f ' '‘‘

The “boosters” of tM" Sports Queen of the Elthani Carnival shad a great time in Stratford on Saturday. Early in the morning, daintily-dressed young ladies were on the Railway Station collecting money and selling buttonholes to travellers and townsfolk, the proceeds of which will go to swell the account of the Sick and Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. As the day wore on, the collectors grew more numerous, and at about 2 p.m. White’s (Elthani) big motor lorry brought nearly twenty girls and boys, who collected and gave performances on behalf of the fund; The ( collectors among the fairer -sex, who wore the Red Cross on their arms, met every train during the day and good business was done amongst the people from the country. At about 3 o’clock the lorry stopped outside Newton King’s premises at the ■ corner of Broadway and Fenton Streets, and a selection of patriotic songs and music was given hy the performers. The people who visit the town on market day enjoyed the songs and patter given by the “wee lads and lassies” who constituted the concert party. The large concourse present enjoyed the “concert,” and the Elthani troupe of Boy Scouts, who were amongst the collectors, received whole hearted support. The party left for home at about -1.30. Another party from Eltham, collecting for the same object, again visited Stratford in the evening, and had large audiences whereever they stopped'to play. Young men and young ladies in pierotte and other fancy costumes went amongst the crowd selling art union tickets and (lowers, A very enjoyable evening was spent by the children in chasing the “bear,” who was led about the streets by a man dressed in cloths that had seen “better days.” The children were crying, “We’ll pull his whiskers off,” and it was as much as the “poor bear” could do to keep that wTiich was his own. The town presented a very lively appearance until the departure of the party for home at 10 p.m.