LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 59, 15 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Australian and English mails ox Moeraki at Wellington, are due in Stratford to-night. Upon the motion of Mr Samuel Spence, of Messrs Spence and Stanford, solicitors, Stratford, probate of the will of Francis Uhlenberg, deceased, was, on the Ist inst., granted by Mr Justice Hosking to tire executors therein named. While mustering sheep on Saturday afternoon, the eldest son of Mr J. Lucena, of Toko Road, met with a painful accident by being thrown from his horse. The lad, whose arm was badly smashed at the elbow, was attended to by Dr. Steven. An Auckland Press Association telegram states that the body of William Hannah was found near his parents’ residence. Mercury Bay. Death was evidently caused by deceased discharging a revolver in his mouth. At the inquest a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.

In reply to a question at last night's Stratford Borough Council meet-, ing, the -Mayor stated that no tenders had been received for the erection of a footbridge over the Patea River at Cordelia Street, and after a discussion in committee it was decided to hold the matter over until the next financial year. On the motion of his Worship the Mayor (Mr J. W. Boon), at last night's Council's meeting, it was decided that the Council call a public meeting to form a recruiting committee, and that the Council ask the co-operation of the County Council and the member for the districv. All art unions in connection with the bazaar in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund, to be held at-Huiroa on Thusrday next, as advertised in our columns, will be publicly drawn in the schoolroom during the evening, and the results will be published as soon as possible after the drawings. Good progress is being made with the erection of the magnificent marble altar in the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral, and the entire work (says the Sun) i s expected to be completed well in advance of the ceremonies in connection with the consecration ot Monsignor Brodie as Bishop of Christchurch. The M.idhirst school children will hold their annual picnic at the East Knd Beach, New Plymouth, on Thursday next. Tin- train will leave Midhirst at 9 a.m., and will stop at the East Knd platform. Tickets are procurable from Mi- Mail (headmaster) or at the si at ion on Thursday morning. Hoi water, tea, milk and sugar will be provided free. A special meeting of the Stratford Borough Council, to consider the question of leases in the .Municipal Buildings and the electric light proposals, will be held next Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The Mayor's notice of motion regarding an amendment to the Water Works By-laws was held over, and will also be discussed at this meeting.

Mi--s Fanny Durack won the 100 \ards Women's Championship of Australia, in 69 2-ssec. "We were, 'in the soup' last year" remarked His Worship the Mayor at the Council meeting last evening in referring to the finances, and he added naively, ''but this year we are £2OO worse off .'" "Weather Forecast.—The indications are for : South-easterly winds, strong to gale prevailing. The weather appeals likely to be cloudy and unsettled. Rain probable. Barometer unsteady, but rising shortly.—Bates, Wellington. The senior pupils of the Waitara State School are objecting to their annual picnic being cut out this year, and have sent a "round robin" to the chairman of the School Committee on the subject. The "Waitara Mail understands that the committee will- stick to its resolution. Two ferro-concrete bridges, of 12ft. span, are at present in course of erection on the Denbigh Road. It is expected that one will be completed to-morrow by the County Council's staff, and on completion it is intended to remeta! the portion of the road on which a special rate has been struck. At last night's meeting of the Stratford Borough Council a step further was taken in the negotiations for purchasing the plant of the Stratford Electrical Supply Co. The matter of appointing arbitrators was discussed in committee, and it was decided to accept the services of one man, and further negotiations are under way for the appointment of another.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of Sidney Arthur Ward, of Stratford, agent, wbo has been adjudged a bankrupt, has been summoned to be held at the Courthouse, Stratford, on Monday, February 21. at 2 p.m.. Another assignment is that of Richard Herve Byng Gerand of Hiverlea, sharemilker, who was adjudged a bankrupt on February 12, and the first meeting of creditors has oeen called for the Courthouse, Eltham, on Friday, February 25, at 10 a.m.

Au appreciable contribution has just been made to the Stratford' Patriotic Society’s Funds by Mrs X. Fulton, of Brougham Street, New Plymouth. It will be remembered that this lady was the winner of the three-quarter acre building site donated by Mr Geo. Hall to the Stratford Scottish Society for their art union drawing during July last. Mrs Fulton has recently succeeded, through the efforts ol the Scottish Society, in selling the section for £l5O, which sum she is now donating in full to the above funds. Old residents of Kawhia say it is many years since such close and oppressive weather has been experienced in Kawhia as that experienced recently. On Tuesday last the thermometer registered lOGdeg. in the sun (reports the Settler). The epidemic of infantile paralysis has caused a scare among parents, and at a special meeting of the school committee, it was resolved to close the school for two weeks to watch developments and until the weather became cooler, an amendment to close the school ior one week only being lost.