LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 24, 3 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Clan Ross lias arrived at London, states a cablegram to-day. A general meeting of oil interested in the recent Soldiers Day Carnival will be held in the Patriotic Rooms, Broadway, at 8 o'clock this evening, to receive the balance-sheet. The Stratford Patriotic Committee at yestordav's meeting decided to grant a :<um cf 7- in) per week: to Mrs I)ew:>r, mother 01 the late Xorkey Dewar, to supplement the amount be ing received b\ he" from the Government as a pensi: ,'. In connection with the Anzac Day s]>ecial service in Stratford, it was omitted to mention that the credit of arranging and leading the musical portion of the programme was due to Mr C. H. I.:a\!i, n\i, ( , ungrudgingly gave his :-.en i..•- uml spent a good deal of time in arranging the orchestral parts.

Mr W. H. J. Colville, of Te Wera, .is been appointed a ranger for the Stratford Acclimatisation Society. The secretary of the Stratford Laui.s' Patrotic Committee wishes to acknowledge the following donatiofe*: Mrs \. F. Grant. £1 10s; Mrgjjftds, half-dozen cups and saucers Ifp tearooms ; Mr AY. Smith, one sack of coal; Cardiff Dairy Company, £6 Ss 3d; Mrs Crawshaw (sale of cakes) £2. A Mons hero minus an arm. acting as a temporary postman in a Scottish burgh, was asked by a local clergyman if he ever saw the Angel of Mons while there. "No," said the ex-sold-ier. "But what ! did see was a big Jake Johnson wreck our Airmy beef cairt. An' we hid nae denner that da v."

At a meeting of the Belgian Relief Committee last night, it was decided to write to the Headquarters of the Salvation Army, Wellington, and to the Minister of Internal Affairs, asking for information regarding the requirements of the Serbians. It was also decided not" to forward any money in the meantime.

Mr Clement Wragge has advised the police that the second tube of radium that disappeared during Mr Wragge's recent lecture at Ashburton has been returned to him. The radium was posted at Tinwaid, and addressed to the Ashburton Post Office, and it was then forwarded on to Mr Wragge at Kaikoura.

The ordinary meeting of the Women's Car.s:mil feniperance Union will be held to-morrow (ihursday), at 3 p.in., in the Methodist Cliurch, when Miss M. S. Powell, Dominion organiser, will be present. At 4 p.m. all members of both sexes interested are cordially invited to attend, so that arrangements may be made for circulating the petition for six o'clock closing of hotels. In three of the Queenstown hotels the charge for a "whisky and soda" has been raised to ninepence. Whisky and water may still be obtained for sixpence, but those who prefer their liquor ..diluted with soda or, cordials will have to pay an extra threepence. Nearly 50 years ago the price of drinks in Queenstown was reduced from one shilling to sixpence, and the latter charge remained unaltered until a week or two agp. . , • ,' .Last month the New. Zealand Dairy Association, Ltd., disiribpfefl amongst its suppliers the sum of £-17,003 0s 9d. This covered 740,236038' of butter-fat supplied during the month of March. The payment per lb of butter-fat was Is 3d, plus premiums for daily supply and direct delivery. Amount distributed for the corresponding month last year., was £38,415 9s 8d; thus the increase for the month was £8587 lis Id. ' :

An interesting fact in connection with the announcement recently made regarding , Sir AVilliam Robertson's status is that he is the first Catholic who has occupied a similar position as supreme commander of the Kingdom's, military forces for more than 300 years. Lord Howard, of Effingham* afterwards made "Earl of' Nottingham, was Lord High Admiral; of the British fleet when the Spanish armada was defeated by British ships and bad weather. He-was a Catholic, and since, his day no member of the Catholic religion has, it is said, held a position in the naval or military service of Britain analogous to that now held by General Sir William Bobertson. The Timaru Post of a recent date states : For father and son to meet in the final of a match must be rather unique in tennis circles. Timaru friends of Mi- W. J. Hawley and his son, Alan, should, therefore, be rather pleased and interested to learn that they were on opposite sides of the net for the final round of the championship singles of the Invercargill Club. Both had come along comfortably, in the preliminary rounds, and the deciding match took place last Wednesday. Father and son were in good form and played good tennis; Alan won 10-8, 4-6, 6-3. This marks the third year in succession tnat Alan Hawley has won the Invercargill championship singles.