LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 20, 29 December 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERA L.

fließivtiks throughout tlio Domi hffi'j; will close* Vo r_ Sev Yo;;r on Saturday anil M&xday next*. ? " ■ -;-i•/•'■ „ i Weather V'ore«Y;it.—Tlie- indications are ' fox: south-ca sterly Inoderate-, jo: 'o6ng : winds ' prevailing. ' ■•Weatherj probailiv cool and changeable: apd y!V cold nigh::, The’ barometer has a, nsjag tendency,--Hates; Molim-ron. ; Very many Christmas J Cards uud New Year Greetings have reached the office of the “Stratford Evening Post” from other newspapers iU ul those w ho tread the inky waj’. 'ho all ox these we most sincerely wish a - glad am .prosperous ( New tear. A strange case is •imported % c-ifue-grara from Sydney. Private Thorgood, who was invalided' homo deal and dumb, was attacked by' a rHgoi-j snake when picnicing. He. killed tncj snake, but the excitement, of the en-l counter restored his voice aim hea.i - j •ing. His frmmfe were astonished to: hear him ask: “Well, v/hrv •; '-ho, next item on the programme!” . j Tu a slrmoii at Christchurch Bishopj Julius referred to the subject cl con -j scription. .Ho said the robini.aO tern had failed utterly. The way dl' t conscription lay. through a tliornj ; path, but it would hard to be trw.-, den. God’s band was upon us, ami- wcj would have to have it- Speaking otp the effects of the war already approw| oiifc in the nation, Bishop Julius touch-, ed upon the gradual obliteration-, of j class distinction. “Rave you evey thought.” he said, “of what is going j on iii the ()ld Country ? Have you j seen Bot lalis'in in its bexicr and \i mei j sense triumphant I” < lass dixtineiiOii ■ was breaking down because men w.-r g recognising tiiat the well are of all 'do-1 ■jended on personal saerlliee. 1 1 ’ t Information wu s received in; Btriuy ford yesterday that Mr Frank Tiiicn- * berg, of York • Hoad, Midbirsi, who had been missing from his honio since ; Thursday . last bad been' found w-<" , by MrKiceman, manager of the iopK-’ hirst Dairy Paeiory. .Mr was nearing the "Waipahu bridge *’■ he noticed a body in s he diten .Wujng ■ to the r;vi?r, and on ofyNiinire-ion., j found. if to l.i>‘ the demised. ihnj -slice were notiiied. and -he body W" :; rem-jv;;! ;.e Hi- smi'wue.y A: Hi- Btce'v-'! lord Police S-aimn ytA- at ter.;;: ;> as. inoncsf wan. conducoA bc-lnre Mr •■•j Ward. .’."P. spry of-five. John i'd'iTnel, ■, T-iMmrgJ ;:;..n of ' Frank IJidonbur*?:- farmer,' York Goad. Mid- . Vavo evidence In < he elhr-t Pail, father '.'()■') \ \ r,;, ok :> wo. : U? wag' bon: i;i YMraymy. ; but- was a - f uSturahsed .B.iM.hbmv idea lifted /the body iccoY;n sd by tlio- police as ‘tbat.of Ins fathe!'. Purl si;, hearing was adjourned uni i 'in ’ ■ y next, at, .2 !

-i girl luuiml liiv.ifj Oiive Gosling mod J i year.-, was dnwnw:- while balking in-the Opnxra River, on Monday. ! ' Having been 'tried b v district: ' - ••• • an. in. ii. Vif; ri: . and ibnml > t.i dc'-ei (inti. i'Vi'. r. Co J.onn f vie •■ ;,, )i:li-. .i mcmi.-.'r‘of the An.lv Medical Go:-... m! tm- An-tr di -n ’ffxpedi.tionai'% Force, has been sentenced to cO days! imprisonment with Imro labor. The Court also recommended his -discharge with ignominy from his ' Majesty’s service--. .;.V ~ ilviiisk, where, the main interest-on-r!;e i’o.' -m:i ir.ei! k centre;] :.f (lie momei' 1. , ; ,;r; i ; name for ;ri n’C ;-'f, i city , for I . v, ;;. m;!v in [SP.f ih'ir 10 I' M’le w;'s bJ!v given i > ii‘ - ii.-.vu -.mil icr; r of ! mm:burg, loonded in :_';S by the Livonian Knights of the Sword. Ivan tffo Terrible captured if from IMand in fold, only to restore it. mid it was not nn-i-d bn’ {l. > i .ijiialiy hocki-e .Ivus.-.i.'.n, Apart froiu’its sir; iegie value' Bviilsk is an important eomuscreial centre, imtsk, or Luck, to give the Polish name, is another of cue towns of era -kuropo -which can point To a' - .checkered Jjisvory. i;. cs irmiifiomiliy •said to h ive been Jeuiideij in. the seventh century. Four .hundred year,s . hue. l ' it had developed into the ca'pitai ■ of an ipdejiendcnt principality. After a Jurtiier lapse of four centuries, it Tvasa. healthy place, and the seat "of a * I'isliopric. I),it evil times awr.iicd it, and during the ikiAo-Fol-isli wars of tile sixteetitn century Lutsk lost its importance. In J 7JU it fell into !lus-siaul-hands, which now once more're:iii)inres : L .