LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 66, 22 June 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

l On Wednesday, 25th June, Newton King is holding a sale on behalf of Mr C. E. Fowler, Beaconsfield Road.

Weather forecast.—-The indications are for variable and strong breezes. Northerly strong winds to gale at times. Conditions continue threatening. Much rain is to be expected. Barometer unsteady.~*Bates, Wellington.

A Press Association- telegram from Christchurch states that Edward Fowler, aged 49, a motor mechanic employed at the Farmers' Co-op. garage, was found unconscious at the bottom of the pit. He had evidently fallen and struck his head. He died in the hospital to-day. Fowler was well known in the early,, days of cycling in connection with the management of the Pioneer Club. '

Mr Frank Levy, the..popular "advance" for the Allan Dqone Company, which plays the striking melodrama, "Molly Bawn," in, the Town Hall on Friday, June 30 v Jß_in town to-day. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that Allan and bis talented that the Doone of capable exponent of fesfi'chai'acter is not the programme for the evening.

The Stratford Anzac Minstrels will give a benefit performance on Tuesday evening next in .the-. Midhirst Town Hall. The Avliole or the proceeds are to be donated to the Fund for the Relief of Dependents of the British Sailors who lost their lives fighting for the freedom of the seas in the North Sea battle. The Minstrels have been rehearsing assiduously for the past two months, ahd will present an entertainment that is said, to he ; quite capable of taking its place in any of the New Zealand vaudeville houses. The songs are all quite hew, some of them. in fact, will be suiigyJor t,he firs- time in New Zealand, whilst the jokes and by-play of the end men will also open up fresh ground. /