LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 38, 19 May 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The resnlts of the clay bird shooting competitions yesterday under the auspices of the Stratford Gun Club appear on page 7 of this issue.

The meeting of the Stratford Acclimatisation Society, called for last night, was postponed till next Thursday evening, on account of no quorum of members being present.

Adjutant Cook desires to acknowledge receipt of cheque for £5 from the Whangamomona Patriotic Committee as a donation to the Serbian Belief Fund.

There will be a very special assortment of good tilings at the Stratford Patriotic Market to-morrow, many extra lines having been promised. The ladies in charge will be Mesdames Uniacke and Stewart.

A large attendance of farmers listened with keen interest on Thursday night to Mr H. G. Serg'd, Agricultural instructor, when he discoursed on the subject of "Pastures." Evidently agricultural education is progressing in this centre, as there was a lively discussion on many points. Mr Sergei intimated too, that under certain conditions , rock phosphate bad, beyond doubt, proved its value <Juring the last season.

The best laugh at the annual meeting of the Marlborough Farmers' Union on Saturday was created by a member who enthusiastically particularised the merits of a gentleman

whom he had nominated for a leading position on the new executive (says the Marlborough Express). "Then, again," he said, 'he has done his duty to hi : - country in bringing up a family. He has a terribly big family coming on to fellow up his good work. Whs\ he ha.s sons and daughters everywhere!"

Speaking in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Mr Ell said he had been told of a ease which occurred at the Royal Oak Hotel. A private invited some friends to dine ivHh him there. An officer (a major") entered the dining-room and was conducted by the waiter to the same table. He objected to sit at the same table as a private and the li'-erree told the private lie must dine elsewhere. —Members: "No, lie told the major to get his dinner somewhere else."—Mr Kll; "Then 1 very highly commend the In b'lkeep'M' for it. It was a common thing in th" old hud for officers and men to lunch together."-- Mv Payne: •'I should think so, the d ; rtr snobs." - The Prime Minister; "Oh, order." For Rronchial Clou pur. taTte ■Woods' Great Peppermint C-»re-

In the House of Representatives, in answer to a question put by Mr Okey (Tarannki), the Minister for defence said it_ was not proposed that all the sick and wounded New Zealanders from the AVest front should be taken to Egypt for hospital treatment. The bulk of the sick and wounded—practically the whole of them—would be sent to England. Some of the men might be taken to Egypt in order that they might be brought back to New Zealand in returning transports. Troops that had remained in Egypt would have their sick and wounded treated in the Egyptian hospitals. For Cough and Colds, never fails Woods' Peppermint Cure