LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 34, 9 October 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The .ordinary, meeting of <the (Stratford Borough Council 'Will be held on Monday evening, audi a special meeting Avill be held on Tuesday evening in connection with the extension of the brick area in the borough.

This morning (states a Press Association telegram from j Palmerston Xorth), Detective - Quirke arrested James Fitt on a change of stealing £sl4. worth of gold from Hum Kee, grocer, Polmerston Noi'th. ' 'i' ' The Legislative Council, sat • atp'lo o'clock this morning. An amendment to the .Mining' Amendment Bill was.introduced by Governor's, Message, postpouiiiigHtbei n&iHional i-dMty ;of' Jt'hreepence per ounce on gold until 1916 The ainend'mef>^' ! w«!** , <*Kr | WMl*-io and the Cofliicil''adjmtrn , ed;V-r > '.A. ; \> i.. i.

A Berlin newspaper is stated to be claiming the discovery that Jerusalem is;.identical with the North German to.\Vn of Gohlar. It says that Moses w;ts born in the Hart/, mountains, and led the North German tribes to Malta, and Messina, Solomon's Temple stood on Mount Brocken. .

; A, Press Association telegram from Auckland to-day states • George Nelson Bryant, farmer, of Karaka, was killed through being dragged' by a (horse, which bolted while he had a rope round his hand. Deceased, wire was dragged fifteen chains, was married, and was 43 years of age. Wellington reports that the weather is improving for.the big parade of troops at 2.3o,this afternoon. , The column is expected to be the longest that has yet passed through the city, . comprising five thousand men, including the '7th Reinforcements and, the First and Second Battalions of the N.Z. RiHe Brigade.—l\A.