LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 75, 1 July 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. Miss Lovell-Smith, 8.A., of .Christ church, has been appointed • s assist ant mistress of the Secondary Depart meht of the Stratford District Higl School, and will begin work in Strai ford on August 1.

A Press Association telegram from Palmerston North states: An inquest on Goudy and his wife, who were victims of the Taonui crossing fatality, was held this morning before Magistrate Poynton, when a verdict of manslaughter was returned against Ihomas Stanley Madge, driver of the car which collided with the train. Madge was. arrested and charged. He pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial, bail of £2OO being allowed. The Coroner found that neither the driver nor the guard of the’train were in any wav blameable.

The late Rev. A. G. K. L’Estrange, of London, lias bequeathed to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, a manuscript known as “Morrison’s Diary,” relating to the historic voyage of the Bounty. As the document is of considerable sentimental value, however, it has been deemed inadvisable to send it in the present unsettled state of communication between England and Australia and the Agent-General for New South Wales., is accordingly being asked by the Government to hold the document in a safe place until after the termination of the war.

From Zeehan (Tasmania), a stirring Incident of the endurance and sacrifice which the West Coast workers are sometimes called upon to face is icported. William Finn, a pile-logger on the Gordon River, badly' gashed his foot with an axe. His mates were unable to staunch the How of blood, and placed Finn in an open boat and rowed I him 45 miles to get medical aid. The journey was from the Gordon River, |up Macquarie Harbor, to Strahan. i and took 12 hours to accomplish. The men, who were in an open boat, on a j cold, dark night, had a most trying experience, and were exhausted on ' reaching Strahan.