LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 19, 21 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A concert and dance in the wounded soldiers will be the Ngaere Hall on Thursday. The monthly meeting of the Stratford School Committee will be held at 7.30 o’clock this evening. A special meeting of the Stratford Borough Council was held last night, when the estimates for the suggested street improvements (kerbing and channelling) were discussed in com-! mittee. It was ultimately decided to' ascertain the state of the money inar-j ket before any steps were taken.;;, , Among the performers who contrm hated to the concert programme -ti the Catholic social last week was Miss 11. Fieldes, whose name was inadvert+j eijtly omitted from the newspaper report of the This lad.Vj sang “She is far from the Land,” for. which she was encored.

An Auckland Press Association telegram to-day slates: George Lovegrove, a married man, was found dead on the cliff near Fort Coutley, with a gunshot wound on the temple, a revolver with one chamber discharged being alongside the body. Lovegrove was 45 years of age and resided in the Mount Eden district.

Anglers are reported to be busy repairing their gear in anticipation of the opening of the season on October 1. The Acclimatisation Society representatives state that the rivers have been heavily stocked, and all of them having been cleared by the recent floods, the prospects for a good season are bright, and good sport should preva i i.

Theie can be no question the Salvation Army has done and is still elding, a great and useful work among the men in the military camps here and in the various parts of the Empire. Brigadier Carmichael, Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army for the Auckland Division, will lecture on this subject on Thursday evening, at S o’clock. Councillor J. H. Thompson will preside, and a Cornish pasty supper will follow.

A case of grave-rifling of more than ordinary interest is mentioned in London cables to-day, as follows : —Three men attempted on Saturday to rifle the grave of the caretaker of,, the Llandy'silio Hall., who died .a cept.ury, ago, to ascertain s whether, the, coffin Contained a will,, to establish a claim-. aiit’k Tighti to the Pritchard millions I .] The same i grave was' . unsuccessfully j ■searched fifty years ago. There are] J three hundred claimants to the pio-, perty,; which is Worth four millions. ;' An I pffipji' at 1 the Trout, reckoning, up the actual contribution of Taranaki in officers, gives the following list : _Colonel Malone, Majors Brunt, Home, Cox, Fletcher, Wylie; Captains Short, Boon, Shepherd; Lieutenants Furby, Narby, Wills, McColl, Hartnell, Tayler, Urquhart, Clark, Carter; t Second-Lientenants Cargo, Dayips, Munro, Hepderson, and Gilhbert. all of the,,infantry; and. Cap-. I tain Chisholm, Lieutenants Jansen, J,ames, JolV, Risk, Hammerfpn) Cra\yI siuaw, ,arid Winder, mounted men. j Captain .McDpnell is not included'iir . the list because he is a New Zeahyid staff officer, ! I '' ' i The Wanganui Patriotic Committee last evening unanimously passed a resolution earnestly urging the Defence authorities to at once arrange for the despatch of another contingent of 10,000 men in additions to the reinforcements contemplated. The Press Association states that the committee was influenced in its decision by the urgent appeals for more men from Lord Kitchener, Mi - Lloyd George, and others, and by the offer of the British authorities to arm any number sent. The committee also resolved to urge the Department to issue a badge to

men who had offered and been rejected. Statements were made on evidence submitted by returned troopers that parcels of .comforts sent to the front had never been received by them, and that a big donation of jam sent by the Auckland province was absorbed in Government stores m Egypt.

I “Silencer” writes as follows: —When one learns that the Borough Council intend enforcing by-laws regulating motor traffic, the mind reflects on the unholy clatter made by cars, and especially motor cyclists, in Broadway on Sunday, “the day for rest and quiet,” and one must say “It is about time too.” It seems to be the fondest wish of some young fellows now-a-days to get on a cycle and tear along without silencers; spin around corners to

do the “leg act”; and, generally, to show off. The speed of these road hogs, is never less than the limit allowed, ami often approaches a rate which is indisputably dangerous to the cyclist and the general public. Another type is the one who, not content with one noisy parade along the street, makes several trips. A couple of limy dies would probably cure the evil even at the risk of an accident to one of tile cyclists. While the Borough Council are on the job, why not make use of silencers compulsory? Perhaps a further suggestion will not appeal to the motorists referred to- “Make the numbers' of the cars and cycles be displayed fore and aft.”-

Miss Laverty, librarian at the local Library, has been granted three weeks’ holiday, commencing on October 1.

Mr H. J. Feaver (Midhirst). S. E. Hill (Stratford), E. Scarry and H. Hume ('Wliaiiganiomona) have been passed as medically fit for the Reinforcements

Mrs George Everiss, Juliet Street, received a telegram from the Hon. •lames Allen, Minister of Defence, yesterday, stating that her son, Private \\ illiam Everiss, is convalescent in a hospital at Alexandria.

A social will be tendered to Sergeant A. S. Davis, who is leaving on Monday to join the Reinforcements, by the members of the Cinderella Pantomime Company/ at the Parish Hall, on Friday night.

The fishing party of six Auckland policemen who were reported to be missing yesterday, were found by a motor launch sheltering on Rakino Island. The Press Association reports that they returned to town last night. Though the market held in the C.B.A. Buildings on Saturday was well stocked with all kinds of provisions. there was evidently a scarcity of wrapping paper. A Stratford lady who bought a cake—which by the way was cut in halves—had it wrapped in a small piece of paper, and when home was reached only half of the cake was in the possession of the purchaser, much to her chagrin. The other half was in one of the side channels in the Borough.

At the quarterly meeting of the Stratford Oddfellows’ Lodge last evening, a committee consisting of Past Grands Bros. Sole, Lawson, Lawn and Hancock was appointed to arrange a suitable farewell to four of the Lodge members—P.G. Bros. A. E. Gorton. V.G. Bro. Sumerfifeld, Bros. B. Harston and S. Williamson—who have offered their services for the Reinforcements. and are expected to leave at an earlv date.

Mesdames Skoglund and Malone are holding a Patriotic market in tue C.B.A. Buildings, Broadway, on Saturday, when the proceeds will be devoted to the purchase of Christmas gifts for the soldiers in the trenches, la addition to produce, etc., suitable* for sale, the promoters wilj be pleased to receive girts of tobacco, cigarettes, ■ writing paper and envelopes, sweets in tins, etc..‘and in fact anything that will be, appreciated by the boys who are fighting’for their King and Court- 1 1 try. ‘ Saturday week another market will be held,'when the proceeds will he utilised for the supplying of gifts to the new hospital ship.. : i i I'niMaidHiliißi' 11