LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 1 December 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow night, the Pictures at His -Majesty’s Theatre will commence at 0 p.m., and run continuously until 10.15 p.m. Two complete programmes will be screened, each including the film “War is Hell.”

A lire in the storeroom at Donaghy and Coy.’s twine works at Parnell, Auckland, caused several thousand pounds worth of damage, mostly to the stock which is covered by insurance in the New Zealand Insurance. —P.A.

Our readers are give a final reminder of ihe Military Concert to be held in the Town Hall to-night. A considerable percentage of the takings are to he given to the Tobacco i ( mid for “Our Boys” at the font. The programme is varied in its character than the average concert programme. Tickets have been selling freely, and a good house is confidently anticipated.

Speaking at an intercession service in Christchurch, the Hev. Percy Knight said there was too much going on in Christchurch that was thoughtless and careless, as if nof.iThig of serious import was happening, and n.s il the nation were not engaged in a desperate struggle ior its existence, lit' commented on the tact that whilst £BOO.OOO had passed through the totalisator in Christchurch recently tlu> Canterbury patriotic fund was the least in the Dominion. Such a stale of ;kings should make them pause, and showed an urgent and desperate need for humiliation and prayer, Tt proved that they had internal foes ns well as external foes to combat; The war had taken the very bloom and fragrance of our land but. ilia 1 Itauie of it was— (lie pity of il was—that it had loti our streets teeming with the cynical, indill'erent and selfish.

Weather Forecast:—The indications are for southerly winds moderate to strong prevailing. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weathbr. The barometer has a rising tendency.— Bates, Wellington.'

The next meeting of the Taranaki Education Board will bo held on December loth. The Board’s office will close from December 21, 1915, until January 10, 1916,- for the Christmas holidays.