LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 77, 7 March 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An Eltlram Press Association message states that a meeting last night, at which about 100 were present, .passed a resolution favoring Conscription.

A Press Association telegram from Palmerston North states: The audited balance-sheet of the McHurdy art union presented to the Patriotic Society shows that the net profits amounted to £8737, of which £2OOO was voted to the Y.M.C.A.

Theosopliists will be interested to learn of the return to Stratford of the well-known lecturer. Miss C. W. Onstie, organising lecturer of tho Theosophical Society, details of whoso lectures will be found in our advertising columns.

At the Oddfellows' meeting last night, Bio. C. D. Sole, in reply to a question with respect to "Hat-foot-ers" being rejected for military service, said that at Wellington recentlv. he had heen told of a sports meeting held there that a "flat-foot" got first place, while second .place was also secured by a "flat-foot" in a running event. "This is sufficient proof as to the 'flat-foots' capabilities as soldiers," said Mr Sole.

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Oddfellows' Lodge. Manchester Unity, was held in the Foresters' Hall ' Inst night, ami was largely attended. The District Officers paid their official visit to the Lodge, and congratulated the Order on its solid progress during the year. The Corresponding Secretary (Bra. C. 10. Hellringer) stated that over 100 members of the Taranaki Oddfellows' have volunteered for the front, and some have already given their lives for their Country. Degrees were conferred on several members. At the conclusion of the Lodge business, an adjournment was made to Mr Cramer's tea rooms, where light refreshments were partaken of.

A case of infantile paralysis was reported to the secretary of the St ratlord Hospital Board yc;lerhiv. This makes the second case reported in Stratford to date. A fatal case of infantile paralysis occurred at Elthath deports the Press Association), the victim being Timothy John McCarthy, ape 33; Deceased was a strong vigorous fa liner, and had only two days' illness. At the Stratford Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr J. MeCluggage, J.P. ? a first offender for drunkenness, who was arrested yesterday afternoon, was convicted and ordered to pay 10s, the amount of his bail.

A cablegram from Brisbane states that a verdict for the plaintiff was delivered in a test case, the claim being for £3 9s, by a shipper against the A.U.S.X. Company for failure to safely deliver a consignment of fruit,

While driving home to Midhirst in a gig on Friday evening, Mr if. Gray, Collided with a motor cycle on the Mountain Road, near the abattoirs. Both the shafts of the gig were broken, and the occupant luckily escaped injury. The motorist had a small bone in his foot fractured.

An attraction at the St. Andrew's Church garden fete will be an exhibition by several growers of the latest and best varieties in sweet peas, cactus dahlias and asters. As these will be all named, a good opportunity will be afforded lovers of these popular flowers of selecting the varieties they wish to see blooming in their own gardens. A soldier in Sunderland hospital has undergone a wonderful operation. Having been struck by a piece of shrapnel on the head, which dislodged a piece of bone, strips of bone were taken from his shin and filled into the skull cavity, which was 3in. by 4-inches. The new bone knitted with that of the skull,'and the patient rapidly recovered.

The scholars of the Stratford Methodist' Sunday School have by. unanimous vote decided to forego their annual outing and devote the amount of its approximate cost to the relief of the Serbians. This is praiseworthy indeed, and the sum of £2 has been handed to Adjutant Cook, of the Salvation Army, for the above purpose, and which the Adjutant desires gratefully to acknowledge. The backblock settler, even if sonic of them are prosperous. does not always live in the lap of luxury (says the Bannevirke "News"). A well-known sportsman of the coast district remarked that with another three weeks gone he would have resided on his present holding for forty years; it was only within the last three years that he had had a road to his place (and it could not now be traversed by motor traffic in winter) and he had the great privilege of having to pay £IOOO a year in rates.

In conversation with a reporter in Wellington an officer of the troopship which conveyed the Bth Reinforcements from these shores paid a ■warm tribute to the conduct of that force while on the ship. He described them as being willing workers to a man, especially in regard to thecleaning and general care of the vessel. Her clean and tidy appearance earned for the troopship quite a reputation at the various ports called at, and. the officer stated, things went as smoothly during the voyage as if they had been-on an ordinary

The Queenstown correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times" states that the Queenstown police received' advice on Wednesday morning from Mr John Patrick Mcßride, station-owner at Kawarau Falls, Frankton, that three men, named Edward Waters, Joseph ScoJiard, and Alexander Cameron, were missing from his station. They left the station at 6 p.m. on Monday, stating that they would not be long away. They crossed the Kawarau river, and were seen at 10 p.m. by Dr Edie,' of Frankton. He gave them a lift in his motor-car, and took them close to the edge of the Kawarau river, which they had to cross by boat, and left them. The boat has been found about five miles down the stream, bottom up, and it is feared that the men have been drowned. Arrangements have been made to drag the river, which is very wide and in places from 20 feet to 40 feet deep.

The self-reliant spirit shown by the settlers on the Waihapa Road in providing a section of two acres, free of cost, on which to erect a permanent school is to be commended. Mr It. Masters, member of the Education Board, visited the Waihapa Road yesterday and conferred with the settlers regarding the establishment of a school. Mr .Neil Brown has generously presented, the Board with two acres, on which to erect the school and Mr G. M. Brown has given the use of a house to start a temporary school. Messrs Brown Bros, have also put a paddock at the disposal of the children for accommodating their horses. The site is very conveniently situated, and will serve the children on the Robson Road as well. Mr Masters promised to recommend to the Board that the offer be accepted, and that a school be started immediately. RHEUMO cures Rheumatism. When it has cleansed the blood of uric acid, improved and strengthened the circulation—then the nerves are quieted, the muscles become elastic, pain disI appears. RHEUMO cures RheumaI tism because it purifies the blood—the only way. It has cured thousands. I Try RHEUMO,