LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 69, 26 February 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is tlie ftrst anniversary ol the Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles. The adjourned special meeting of the Stratford Borough Council will he held on Monday evening at 7.30 p.m. The Stratford members of the 11th Reinforcements, who are on holiday leave, returned by the mail train last evening. In the report of the Stanley Road farewell social appearing in Thursday’s issue, the name ol Mr Joe Wade, who gave a sword dance, was inadvertently omitted. On Thursday next the Stanley Road School will hold their picnic and sports, in Mr Hbsking’s paddock. In the evening a farewell social will he given in honor of R. Guppy and .A Hartnell, of the 11th Reinforcements. The weekly patriotic market and tea rooms were conducted by the members of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee in the committee’s shop in Broadway to-day. Th e shop wa s well supplied with produce, cakes, etc., and business was brisk throughout toe day. At a public meeting held in the Town Hall last night a committee was appointed to canvass the Stratford Borough in connection with The new recruiting scheme adopted by the Recruiting Board. His Worship the Mayor (Mr Jos. W. Boon) presided over a very small attendance. A committee consisting ol Messrs J. Masters, C. D. Sole. B. Skoglnnd, Lt. Cray, and the Mayor (ex officia) was appointed. 'l'he second volume of the Now Zealand Clydesdale Stud Book has been received at this office from the secretary of the society at Dunedin. The book contains over 100 pages, is excellently bound and is full ol useful information to Clydesdale owners and breeders; it consists of four parts; first, the additional produce of mares entered in the first volume; second, the pedigrees of 318 mares, with their produce; third, the pedigrees ol 288 stallions; fourth, a series of appendics. Such an excellent book of ininformation to olvdesdale owners and breeders should find a resting place in every farm library. There was considerable excitement' in the locality of Math’s circus at. New Plymouth yesterday afternoon (states the News) when the valuable elephant “Alice” which loads and unloads the wagons on to trucks at the railway, went down to the creek to have a drink. She slipped from the bank into the mud, and though she made tremendous efforts to extricate herself she was unable to, and her weight caused her to slowly sink. When she was nearly exhausted the keepers hitched-on two other elephants, which hauled her out, very much exhausted. “Alice” had a very narrow escape. A meeting of the creditors in the estate of Edward Smith, hotelkeeper, was held on Wednesday at Patea, the D.().A, (Mr C. A. Budge) presiding. The bankrupt was till recently licensee of the Masonic Liabilities were shown at £564, and assets at £35. Mr Fleming, solicitor, Patea, represented several creditors, and the bankrupt was represented by Mr P. O’Dea, of Hawera. At the outset Mr Fleming put in three special proxies for absent creditors, which the D.O.A. refused to accept, as being informal. Mr Fleming and several creditors thereupon left the meeting. A resolution was carried that the estate be wound up as speedily ns possible, and that the bankrupt’s discharge he facilitated. 'file Conciliation Council sat at New Plymouth yesterday to hear a dispute between the Taranaki branch of the Auckland Motor-car and Horse Drivers’ Industrial Union of Workers, in respect to bakers’ drivers, and employers throughout Taranaki. Mr U Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner for the Northern and Taranaki district, presided, and the assessors were - For the employers. Messrs E. A Craig (Auckland!. M. 8. doling /New Plymouth U and W. McDonald /'Stratford); and. for the union. Messrs G. Davis and C. Weaver (Auckland) and F. J. Lyons j Plymouth). The same position arose I in'connection, with this dispute as was. the case in connection with (be gene- ; »I .H—’ am-”*. " n V'4 Z" mattor I>o tT ; •Arbitration Coc.-i.

Weather Forecast. —The indications are for northerly winds, moderate to strong, and backing by west to south. The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with. rain following. Barometer falling.—Bates, Wellington. A Christchurch man who is over the military age, but who looks much younger, recently wrote to the Recruiting Board, pointing out the invidious position in which men such as ho would be placed through being mistaken for men who are evading their responsibilities, since there is no provision for the issue of armlets to them under the new recruiting scheme. J lie hoard has replied that the question of the issue of an arm badge to men who, being under or over military age, do not appear so, lias been considered, and it has been decided in the meantime to take no action in tlie matter. The board will, however, be quite prepared to give further consideration to the question, should it bo shown in the future that there are sufficient cases to warrant the issue of a distinctive arm badge. In our edition of Tuesday in the list of donations to the Serbian Relief Fund, £1 was credited to “J. Parkinson,” in error; the money should have been credited to Mr J. Pattison, Bird Road.