LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 24, 3 May 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

j A Christchureh Press Association 'telegram states that the watcrsiders who are unloading to-day are being paid an increase of threepence per iiour under protest. At Wellington, Justice Hosking dismissed an application for a new trial of the Hoc) action Saunders v. Weston, proprietor of the "Taranaki Herald," in which the jury gave the verdict for defendant.-—P.A. , Weather Forecast,--The indicationo are for variable and strong breezes, but moderate to strong prevailing,, and veering by south to west. Increasing haze and cloudiness. Barometer tailing shortly, for a storm appears to he approaching from the vtest.— Bates, Wellington. A letter received from a Wanganui Soldier, now a prisoner in Turkey, says, that after, discharge from hospital, the prisoners are all taken about '.){)U miles inland from Constantinople, evidently to mountainous country, as he says it was snowing. The prisoners are being well treated, and all are fit and well.—P.A.