LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, 2 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A branch of tli»' Loyal Temperance League is to he inaugurated in Stratford to-morrow evening. A somewhat startling accident happened at Avondale last week. A young man, who was delivering bread in a cart, wont into a house in \ icboria Konil with bis l.askot, and when ho returned he found that both tlu> vehicle and the'aninia! attached bad disappeared. On investigating be found that the portion of the mad where ho bad left the horse standing had subsided, allowing the astonished animal and its cart to descend comfortably into, the depths. It required if/.., r / : --fo^« 0 r r ' much labour before a rescue could be \ effected. i

To-day, two years ago, Germany declared war on France. Tiic inquest held yesterday was on the child of Mr \Y. G.. BroadleV, not W. J. Bradley, as stated in last night's second edition. Weather Forecast :Very stormy weatliei- may be expected. A storm appears to be approaching from the north. South-easterly heavy gale with heavy rain is to be expected, with livers Hooded. The weather will probably become very void, barometer falling.— Bates, Weil:nylon. Under the auspices of the National Service League, the pupils of the Midhirst School, have held a series of concerts among the scholars themselves, and the proceeds (17s 9d) have, been handed to Adjutant Cook, of the Salvation Army, by Mr J. W. .Mad, headmaster, in aid of Orphanages for Fallen Soldiers' Children. The following team will represent the Stratford Senior Cadets against Inglewood on Victoria Park on Thurs-

day :_Lehmann, Kivell (3), James. Sharrock, McCullough, Vickers (2), Chard, Clemow, Collins, Shotter, Neal and Crosson. Emergencies: Dudding and Simmons. Play commences at -1 p.m.

The rainfall at "ltiversdale," Inglewood, for duly as supplied by Miss N. Trimble, observer, was 9.17 inches. The heaviest fall was on the tenth, when 2.07 inches fell. The details of the fall are as follows:—lst 1.14, 2nd .09, 3rd .01, 4th .11, 6th .14, 7th .01, 9th .20, 10th 2.07, lithe .40, 12th .15, I,lth .01, Lsth .95, 16th .16, 20th .07, 21st .17, 22nd .30, 23rd 1.32; 24th .07, 25th .20, 31st I.6o.—Total 9.47.

At the Soldiers' Day celebrations in Stratford, one of the guessing competitions was to state the number of people present on the Show Ground, the prize being a handsome thousand-uay clock presented by -Air B. J. Peters, the well-known jeweller,'of Broadway. Four competitors tied for the prize in the first place, and an official drawing was decided upon by the Executive! This has now taken place, and Mr A. E. Copping has been notified that the. prize falls to his lot.

The following cribbage players will represent the Stratford Card Club in a cribbage match against Ngaere on Thursday evening, at 7.30 sharp, in Smith's rooms:—Messrs Jones, Kelly, Kivell, Smith, A. F. Wilson, Collins (2), Brown, Grey, Neal, Green, Seabright, R. Jackson, Marshall, Anderson, D. T. Wilson, Collingwood, Moss, Wallace, and Nelson. A team from Cardiff will play the Club on Friday evening, the match commencing at 7.30.

It had been arranged that Messrs J. W. McMillan and V,". P. Kirkwood, on behalf of the Patriotic Committee were to have waited on the suppliers at the Stratford Dairy Company's meeting on Monday, permission having been granted them to appear as»a deputation to lay the matter of the Wounded Soldiers Fund further before those present. It was arranged that they should be notified when to appear, but through an oversight on the part of the Chairman, they were not rung up, and suppliers will understand, therefore, that they are in no sense to blame for failing to wait upon them as intended. They hope, however, to have an opportunity at a later date to meet the suppliers in the interests of this most deserving fund.