LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 12, 12 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I The extraordinary price of £6 Os ml or 1-52(1 per lb, was paid at Waters, | Ritchie and Co.’s hide sale at Dunedin last week for an exceptionally stout hide from a Hereford ox that was bred by Mr Donald Macdonald, of Edendale. In the Supreme Court at Welling;ton to-day, before Mr Justice Chapman, John Edward Ramsay against whom there was a lengthy list, of convictions. was sentenced to two years hard labour and declared an habitual criminal for the second time on a ■ charge of breaking, entering, and theft at Hawera. —Press Association. Weather forecast.—The weather conditions are threatening, and a storm appears to be approaching irom the north. The indications are for variable and strong breezes, but oasterlv winds, moderate to strong prevailing and freshening. The weather appears likely to he cloudy and unsettled with rain following. Barometer failling.—Bates, Wellington. The Conciliation Council at Welbng- ' ton to-dav (states the Press Association) arrived at an agreement on a I points in connection with the coachworkers’ dispute, and the journej{men coaehworke.s’ wages were raised from Is 4id to Is 6d per hour, a d the 48-hour week altered to 4* . !agreement applies to the coachworkers throughout the Dominion. At the Kahouri Bridge Hall on Thursday evening, Mr and Mrs W > • son, of the Skinner Road factory, who are leaving the district to take up their residence in Stratford, were entertained at a farewell social. lie , hall was filled to the doors, and during i the evening songs were rendered A Messrs Sullivan, Reynolds, and Ellis. The music was supplied by i.is i Biaiichi, Mrs Reynolds and Miss Aed- ! sou. On behalf of the residents, Mr j Patterson presented Mr Wilson ■ with a travelling bag and rug, and Mrs Wilson with a set of carvers. - li (Wilson suitably responded.