LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8, 8 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The price of milk in Stratford is reported to be reduced to fonrpence per quart. At Wellington yesterday, three Chinese belonging to the crew* !of the steamer Batsford, from New York, were lined £25 each for opium-smuggling. To-morrow. September bth. will be celebrated as she beginning of the Jewish New Year, In connection with the Strsitlord Ladies’ Patriotic Bazaar to he held in December, a section of land presented by .Mr C. Jackson %‘ll be disposed of. - J Pembroke Hoad residents tP-mor-row evening are tendering a farewell social and dance to two members ol the community who are leaving for the Front. “If the buys only knew how the enemy killed , few of them in — would hesitate to enlist.!’ Lx tract from a letter by an Australian private who Jias since succumbed to wounds. i i ' r : nh ■ The Plnnket Nurse will not visit ■Stratford fpr several weeks on account of illness. Mothers , who wish to, olg tain advice, can do so by corresponding with the “Plnnket Nurse,” Hpwera. ■ ... , :i , , , ■ . } J i 1 <; • r | | 1 j The Stratford Bowling 'Club have made, vi’piovenr••'is 10 the gteeli dmmg the ; close season, and it is expected tjie “draw” will he ahead of previous ! standards. To-morrow, the weather being propitious, three rinks will he ready for play; “ ' Weather Forecast. —The indications are for northerly winds, moderate to strong prevailing. There is a prospect 1 of fair to cloudy weather. The night" will probably he very cold, Ibe barometer has a falling tendency.Bates, Wellington, fit f ■•■■''- ■ ■ ■ Hon. G. W. Russell. .Minister of internal Affairs, has received the following telegram from-Commissioner Hodtier: “Learning of your desire that Committees should . contribute funds for a hospital for-wounded soldiers at Rotorua, on behalf of .the Salvation Army I beg to offer £o(K) tor one pavilion,”

Mr Tbreadgill, Physical Inspector and Instructor, is at present visiting the schools in the Stratford district. Mr Threadgill ga\> tlie pupils of the Cardiff School their first lesson yesterday, and expressed- himself as pleased with the way in which the scholars went through the exercises.

The picture “The Fighting Annies of Fnrope,” will he shown in Stratford on September 17th at the Town Hall. Tlie pictures were photographed at great personal risk by Mi - 0. Ik Holmes, who is travelling with tluy picture, and who describes each scene. Many exciting scenes are thrown on the screen, and from beginning to end the picture is a “thrill.”

Tlie Stratford Ladies’ Patriotic Committee will meet at the Fire Brigade Hall on Saturday afternoon, at ;!.;)() o’clock. The ladies are working Jiard for the soldiers and have been granted permission by the A. and lb Society to erect a tent, generously presented by Mr I'. Lamason. for the purpose of an afternoon tea stall, the proceeds of which are to go to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund.

Mesdames Skoglnnd and Malone are holding “a market” in the O.H.A. Buildings on Saturday, to augment the funds to purchase goods for their stall at the Bazaar to be held iu the Town Hall in December' under the auspices of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee. The promoters of the “market” will be pleased to receive gifts of vegetables, dairy produce, (lowers, etc. The whole of the proceeds are to be donated to the Sick and Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, so that it is hoped the “market” will he verv success-

Tht* secretary of the Stratford Chamber of Commerce has been notified by the railway authorities that a Mew timetable "ill be brought into operation on the Wbaugamoniona line in October 1. On Mondays and Saturdays the time ol departure of the morning train will be b. lb. arriving in Stratford at 5.20; on Tuesdays, !). 10. arriving at Stratford at 12.20 ; on Wednesdays, Thitrsihiys and Fridays. 11.20, arriving at Stratford at 1 ,bb. The departure,s from Stratford, will he: Mondays and Saturdays ib'!o, arriving at destination at 11.50; and daily in the evening at 7.0, arriving at 0.20.

'| The local branch Manager I 1 New /calami Clothing Er.cto’HHjHß II Humic-tiT) lias received a of circulars bearing a Roll ol employees of the Company 'vhHSHSHB ■ joined the Expedit ionarv Roll the names lowing ;■••• Charles G. Johnson, A. *so:i Perkins, Frank Calvei wait] P. Prlsk. W. L. Tlim^^H Henry Asshetoil. H. Fids. H. A. K. Fudge, H. W. Boyce, Henry Cooper. Richard Dryden, F. G. Ross. A. K. Wixou. J. hBHH| Stanley Burrell, Harry Jonas .>’■ Daniel .las. McCallnni, Finest T. 1. La mason wi ] I sell at tile residence of Mrs F. : Cordelia Street, tin* whoi’ef: hoiisflmld iin nil ni f and effect quantity corrugated iron pouters materials will also hr disHHHI ot. The sale presents a good tnnily those desirous of I ol securing first-class fnrnituri^KsL'^V.