LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 84, 12 July 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■A Timaru Press. Association telegram states that H. Petersen, a elderly man with a wife and six children, had his right thigh shockingly smash ed this morning. He was attending to a cable when the dredge swung •round, jambing him between the cable and'tho drum. The leg was amputated close to the trunk. The patient is in a very low state. A motor cyclist named T. A. Bailey at Christchurch to-day (states the Press Association) was charged with carrying a pillion rider in addition to a passenger .in a side-car, contrary to the Council’s by-laws. Evidence was given that now the practice is com.ffiended 1 in America and other coustries as giving stability to the cycle, especially in climbing hills. The magistrate said he saw no danger in the practice when tjie side car was attached ancLhe dismissed the charge to ailJh spite of liWvy . showers st evem iog. peppkjormed purpffe ’ pSlv for |lrs|il agUt Mr f esideJM WarlluiT. GhmSw from tM plying of bunnies and flying birds to A musical items; formed the evening s amusement'. Mr H. Wheller, on behalf of friends, in a capital speech, stated the regret all felt at losing Mrs Jago from our midst after many years’ residence. As a slight token of esteem,.( he presented Mrs Jago with sa solid silver tea service, and Miss Jago with a silver brush and mirror. Stings were given .by I’"Mr 1 ’"Mr Hamilton, Mr ,IL Knox, Miss L. Fenwick, Mr Spriggens, apd Miks Knox. Mrs Knowles. a 'very prettv pianoforte sold. fWo all .returhpS' home 'is; the 'Flocks Vero finpl® hour/i-Correk'pondcn!. laim&tii LjiAßYfFuneral. f qv qe»>; gf y rtrfoAf nfuic ’Rif

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and Cadets are JL*' instructed to assemble, at the School Ground, Stratford, on Friday, 14th inst., at 1.30 p.m., to attend the funeral of the late Private Patrick Butler, which will leave the* Rouw ll . Catholic Church for the Kopuatpnm Cemetery at two o’clock.

C. GRAY, Lieutenant Stratford, 12th July, ioiC.