LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 39, 15 October 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The .Mariiiiui, the 2nd Hospital Ship, left San Francisco yesterday for New Zealand.

The Opawa arrived at Plymouth from 'New Zealand yesterday. The Remuera sailed on the same day for New Zealand.

The Stratford Borough Council met last night and discussed several mat-j tors in connection with the electric light proposals, and adjourned until next Fridav evening. I '['ho profit from the recent social' conducted at Toko by a number ofi young ladies amounted to £lO Os 9d. j which has been handed over to the local Patriotic Fund. ; The indications are for .westerly' moderate to strong winds and hacking by west to south. -Mild and hazy con-! ditions. Weather clouding over, rain later. Barometer unsteady.-—Bates, Wellington. In, another column of this issue full j particulars arc given regarding the terms and conditions under which moneys may he invested on the seeur-l ity of the Public Hevenhes of New, Zealand, in accordance with the (Government’s decision to issue TV per; cent. Bearer Debentures under the authority of the Finanace Act, 1915, to provide moneys for local expenditure during the war.

His Worship the Mayor iMr J. W. Boon), in conjunction with the Mayors of Wellington and other towns, is', circircuiating a subscription list for funds to purchase tobacco and cigarettes in London and sent to our soldiers at the front. Wellington by this means has ‘sent over £I6OO to London for this purpose. The maximum donation is fixed at half-a-crown. though in cases this may he voluntarily exceeded. A resident of Esperance, a summer resort, noted for its interesting eaves, near Perth, West Australia, writing to a friend in Stratford, remarks that the war is making things bad everywhere. “We have had New Zealand butter at 2s 6d, but it is falling a little now ; the 21b loaf at 7d, and hour at 12s 6d the 501 b bag—it used to be 5s Gd to 6s! Everything else is in proportion.” The writer incidentally states that they were having the wettest winter ever known in W.A. The latest mail by which Xmas gifts may be despatched to Gallipoli with a reasonable chance of delivery before Xmas will close at Stratford on November 2. But the best course is to take advantage of the .usual weekly mail. All parcels addressed should be marked “via Australia,’,’. The reason of tliis is that the Commonwealth Government have arranged for the direct transit of parcels to Egypt. Otherwise the parcels are sent to England and then returned.'to Egypt. A warning is issued that matches must, not be included in any package. The weekly Patriotic Market being held to-day in the C.B.A. Buildings, Broadway, by Mesdames Sangster and Mt'Ouay, on behalf of the Ladies’| Patriotic Committee, was doing tb,e u sua l brisk business. The shop is j plentiful supplied with cakes, preserves, vegetables, Rowers, etc., and the Ladies’ Fund should benefit, considerably from the day’s takings. A raffle for 561bs of Hour is being conducted, as • well as a guessing competition for a doll. A feature of the Market is the afternoon tea department.