LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 62, 12 November 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The alleged appearance of Angels at dons gives interest to the question of “The character and ministry of Angels,” a subject which will he discussed at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening. An important particular hr the information supplied to ns regarding the death of an infant child of Mr and Mrs 'I 1 . Gooch, Hninga, was incorrect. The name should have read Myrtle] Elliot Gooch, infant daughter of Miami .Mrs Gooch. The services at the .Methodist Church on Sunday will he conducted morning and evening, by the Rev. A. Reader. As the it is tlie world’s Temperance Sunday, a special address on “The greatest problem of tint war” will he delivered at the evening service. All are cordially invited. Brigadier Carmichael will “farewell” from Stratford and Taranaki at the Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m. This is due to tlie rearrangement of boundaries of divisions in Salvation Army work, and in future this wol’k in tlie Taranaki district will he controlled from Palmerston North. All the officers of thus district will meet for council during the afternoon and participate in the public meeting at night.

lii tile history of the oldest inhabitant the electrical storm which • struck Stratford last i night was a truly irema i:ka hie one and unprecedented. Thunder and lightning played ini-es-s,ant|v for hours all round the heavens, and the sight of forked lightning amid the Hashes .winch at times lighted up the night, as by then Moon iadded to the weird, effect,, Many people, indeed,, .were considerably alarmed,. and not a few were visibly affected. I -

A case of much interest to chemists was decided on Wednesday' in the Okahune Court, when Cunningham, a chemist, was charged with selling liquor, to wit, “Wine-amis,” in a no-license area. The Magistrate, Mr Hewitt, decided that section 278 of such a sale by a chemist, and that it negatived exemption in section 8. Since it was a test case he would only impose a linWof £B, but in future would treat the sale of “Wincarnis” as an ordinary breach of the Act and indict a higher ' penalty. ,

Speaking at the presentation of kits to thirty-four men forming the Hastings draft of the 9th Reinforcements, tile Hon. R. McNah said that every family which sent representatives into the held of battle increased the number of clamourei's for conscription. The parents of the boys who volunteered wanted conscription, so that those who held back should be compelled to do their duty. He thought that shortly there would be such a demand for conscription that the Government would be forced to adopt the system. The Minister paid a high tribute to the work of the medical officers at Gallipoli, where there had been only 12 per cent, of deaths due to disease, as compared with the Russo-Japanese war of 2d, the Franoo-Prussian war of j 35, and the South African war of 63 per cent.

A movement lias been organised in Wellington by the combined amateur sports bodies to provide a Christmas gift oi tobacco and sweets to every soldier of the Allies on Gallipoli and at Samoa. Arrangements have been made with English firms to send out tiie gifts direct to Gallipoli in hermeti-' rally sealed tins, embossed with suitable greetings. Each box of tobacco purchased for the sum of one shilliiigj will contain sufficient to make one hundred and twenty cigarettes; about four ounces of chocolates and barley sugar will also be included. It is hoped by the Wellington committee, 1 which is in charge of the fund, that the' matter of contributions will be taken up by every town in the Doinnion, thereby ensuring a box for every soldier—English. French, Indian, Australian, and New Zealand—on the Peninsula and Samoa.