LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 3 July 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A company to be called the /New Zealand Iron Ore Smelting and Manufacturing Company has been registered at New Plymouth, and the provisional directors have decided to meet on Friday next for the purpose of allotting shares. The rainfall at "Riversdale," Inglewood, for the month.of .Tune, supplied by Miss N. Trimble, observer, was as follows:-1st, .06; 7th, .06; 19th, .33; 20th, .72: 21s?, .37; 22nd, 1.32; 23rd, 1.62; 21th, .25, 25th, .85; 28th, .33j 99th, 1.14: 301 h," .67. Total, 8.27 inches. On eighteen days during the month no fall was registered.

The Malwa has arrived at Fiemantle from Loudon. j A dance will bo held in the Midhirst Public Hall in aid of the building fund on Wednesday evening. j I The weekly dance in the Foresters' Hall will. not take place on Wednesday, but will be held Usual next week. A cablegram from Winnipeg, Can-' ada, states that the announcement made recently and adopted of a union between the Methodists a"ijd' : Congregational and Presbyterian i-nurehes will bo non-effective till the end of tlie war.

Rain was registered on 12 days in I Stratford last, month, the maximum fall being on the 23rd, .when J.7o' inches was recorded. Rain fell ion I other days as follows: —(ith .Gin, Bth ! .Din, 19th .36in, 20th .11 in, 21st .31in, 22nd l.Olin, 2ith .45in, 25th l.Olin, 28th .33in, 29th .2oin, 30th 1.39 in,. total 7.07 inches. j

.The following question to the Post-master-General has been given notice of in the House of Representatives by Mr J. M. Young (Waikato), "Whether he is aware that the Post and Telegraph Department, to the ad-' vantage of bookmakers, accepts bet- 1 ting telegrams for transmission within the Dominion ; and whether he will

take steps to exercise, to the utmost all {he powers vested in him to sup- ; press this abuse of the Post and Telegraph service, which mostly takes place immediately prior to and on the days of race meetings?"

An impressive service was held at the Salvation Army Hall last, evening, when "The Floral Cross" was again given by thirteen young women. The platform arrangements were m the hands of Mr E. Witt, who by suitablyarranged evergreens, made a pleasing background for a White Cross placed in the centre of an extended platform. The building was crowded to the doors, and the attention and devout bearing of the congregation throughout* left nothing to be desired. Adjutant Cook read from the 27th Chapter of Matthew dwelling upon the words of the 36th verse:—"And Sitting Doavu They Watched Him There." Earnestly, the speaker remarked upon the, three different classes standing around the* Crops' (1) The totally indifferent; (2) The bitterly 'hostile; and joying, loyal and devoted Desciples,.' Under these headings, a stirring appeal was made to all present to consider which party represented their attitude to the Christ of the Cross. After the hymn, "When I Survey the. Wondrous Cross," and prayer, the meeting closed. A grand programme of tableaux, recitations, and drills, is announced for Thursday next, at 8 p.m;

Parents of high school boys will be pleased to learn that The Egmont has just opened up a small consignment of navy shirts, college shirts, red and black hose and caps. Other items of interest for rainy days, Le Hoy canvas coats, 22s 6d, 355, 37s 6d, oilskins 19s 6d, Swandri coats, guaranteed two years, 39s 6d. x