LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 65, 21 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The shortest day of the year. There is no difference in the length of the days of the 21st and 22nd June, but same people favor the latter date.

Weather forecast. -Westerly strong winds to gale with a .southerly tendency. The weather will probably prove squally with heavy showers. Barometer", unsteady, has n rising tendency temporarily.- Bates, Wellington.

The animal meeting of the New Plymouth Howling Club was held last night. The balance-sheet showed total receipts at £261 19s Id, and expenditure £l7-1 ifis 2.1, exclusive of the previous year's overdraft, £27 10s Id, The »ssets are £?7O over liobili-

~j,... Tin' el, ( tion of offic* r„ resulted: President. .Mr A.l. Kraser (re-elected">; nee-presidents, Mossib Morey and A. I\. Smart: secretary and treasurer, Mr living; auditor. Mr Medley; delegates to Centre, Messrs Praser, A. K. Smart, and Firth : committee, Messrs Cock, Hall, Kooke.-. Penu, Morrison, liary : sole seieetor, M> A. K. Smart. Mr Chancy, collector of the committee of the Club's patriotic efforts. »r----i.-.ri H having received £Ol IPs TOd exclusive nf interest amoumiiig Lo I<'" or IV:.

Another lengthy letter from Dr. Baget is held over until our next issue.

A Press Association message from Christchurch states that, the body of an elderly man, named Henry Harris, bottle-dealer, was found in the Avon, near the Hereford Street bridge this morning. The following team will rPpresent the Senior Cadets against S.D.H.S. in a match iu Victoria Bark on Thursday: Lehmaun, Kivell (3). Sharrock (2), Shotter, Nolan, Collins, Crossan, Neal, James, McAloon, McCullough. Victors (2). Emergencies: Chard and Simeons. Play commences at 3.30. The gate proceeds are in aid of the mother of the late Sergeant "Sotby" Dewar.

There i* no guarantee as to the truth of this story, but it is going the rounds that a soldier in a certain hospital has been operated on four times in an endeavor to extract a bullet from his lower ribs. On the last occasion be stated he had a request to make before going under chloroform. Permission having been granted him to make it, he remarked to the surgeon: "Oh it's naetbing much. I jist want to suggest thai if yo« are unsuccessful this time, and think you will have to try again, don't sew me up. Jist put buttons on me." eHarth" (K. Ingram).

The toug'.'.cßi bit „'. reel tape we have come across sv.ently (.ays the Dunedin "Star") is this: A man wrote from a roumte town to the Imperial city of hi-, -onntry, tho subject being some ordinary piece of business. His letter was returned vith an explanation from an official that it had been addressed to the wrong person. He wrote again, and the matter in hand was disposed of with not loss beyond that of time. Shortly afterwards he had personally to travel to the Imperial city, and by chance he visited the great departmental building, and discovered that the room of the official to whom he addressed his letter and the room of the official to whom it should have been addressed were next to each other. Exactly 6ft. apart, on the same corridor! Of course, this could not occur in New Zealand! But it did.

The following new books have been added to the Stratford Public Library —"The Shop Girl" (0, fc. and A. M. Williamson), "Love's Highway" (Justus M. Forman), "Number 70' Berlin" (W. Le Queux), "The Little Lady of the Big House" (Jack Loudon), "Mrs O'h" (Harold Begbie), "The Winds of the World" (Talbot Mundy), "David Blah-e" (E. F. Benson), "Up the road with Sallie". (Frances Sterrett), "The Game of the Tangled Web" (S. Nethersolo), "Poor DealProvidence" (Philip Kent). "A Rich Man's Table" (Ella MacMahon), "The Bright Eyes of Danger" fjohn Fostox), "The New Dawn" (Marriott Watson), "The Passing of Xabla" (Bev Somerville), "The .Marked Woman" 'Marie Leighton), "Because, of Misella" 'A. W. Marchment), "Jitny and the Boy's" (B. Copplestone), ••The Ladv of the Moor" (John Oxenham). "Gold Seekers of '49" (Bdwin Sabin), "Number Seventeen" ('Louis Tracy), "Riches and Honour" (W. H. Adamsi, "The Half of his Kingdom" (Lady Troubridge), "Constance Dunlop" (Arthur Reeve), "Harmony" (•Mildred Garner), and "A Man's Hearth" (E. Ingram).