LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 75, 4 March 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

C The Bank of Australasia has ■ declared a. dividend of £l4 has been added to the'- reserve of £30,000, and has carried forward • £115,0%'. .-fAx?-->;■'■'''■' The weekly patriotic market and tea I'oonis was conducted by the members of the Ladies' Patriotic Committee today. A very busy' day was experience ed, and the result should considerably augment the committee's fund. . The Tenth Reinforcements. ..paraded the streets of Wellington this afternoon (reports the Press Association"). The thoroughfares.were gay with bunting and the men were enthusiastically received, - < ~■■<■ '/.U"!'-' The Wellington woollen milHyqrkers have replied that they had decided to give notice that unless the demand of a 10 per cent, increase -in \rage¥is 'conceded by Thursday next, a week's notice that they intend to leave employment will be given.—P.A. While working on Mr Myers' property on the Pembroke .Road the other day,-two/'men employed by Mr Harry Cray bari the good luck to find • the sum of 15s under a stone in the river. Tlie men were carting boulders. and on lifting •'Tip ? a stone, the glitter of'silver caught the eye of one' of the workeis,. ." On examination, it was found that there were two sixpences, three -shillings, three florins, and a five shilling piece, the date of which whs- years old. Unfortunately for "the finder, he thought that the crown was only halt a crown, and after telling his story to a man in Ml d hirst, 'he thought he' made a bargain when lie sold it for'five shillings. ; '- r : '." : '' :'":'"' ' Sir Westby Percival.: •■wrvfcihg from London on December 4 21 to,an old friend in Chr'istt'liurch, says :-v-"'l-his ,country is at last taking the war seriously, and after making our usual blunders we "haver '•learnt . our lesson and are tacldiAg iii(' V jof)''prop-:i : Iy. We shall win, right. enough.'.' and handsomely, but and the application Kooneir of Impress methods rfemlir - -liat'e'"Saved -millions, 'and thousands of sala'tible -li'vctf. . The New Zealand - ;; .A'dst!raiiyii troops have dMiKN^o^lers'; ; Wnd'einr,KH:'the admiration o* mffitarv critics, hi fact, tlie Dominions are fast ■■ coining-:ont on top., and will, bv tlieir.vkjijfry. save the 15m]>in.. This ]fi- ' lh( .ro is mucli 'truth in If. ''»n ttte whole. f suppose Australasia n;u» Canada are making.marc in<:mjY the war than.,.tibey.. ait" >; r 'M,ti -u.-: '' ( ornpeiisatJ9n/for, r tJM';.lo:;s <£\s}P;'Y ,b| e lives." hut' 'somelhing _to »M :3ainst the bill:". • :■ '; ■ '•'.'•/■ *'''•'» ; i