LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 31, 4 September 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cal.logr.nni from Adelaide states that the cricket association has decided not to piny any matches during ( the coming season. Advice has been received (says the; Christen.,rch Tress) that Tour bales, of bellv wool, scoured at the Belfast Works' for Mr. J. O'Halloran, of Glentui, realised the high price of 2sj 8d per lb on the London market. Special efforts are being made by the Kahungunu tribe from Wairoa, the very cradle of the Maori race, to raise a complete company for the front TheCurrolis and Ormonds ha v. I enlisted, and these will draw in many j others. The Kaliunganu have nevci been beaten in battle, and the leading men hope by the end of the shearing to raise 100 men. • Professor Norwood, hypnotist and entertainer, concluded his present season in Stratford on Saturday evenin" when an overflowing house greeted a fresh programme, and judging by the laughter and applause the public were well satisfied with the "bill-oi-fare." Professor Norwood will appear to-night at Inglewood, and at Toko on Wednesday, the 13th vast.

The customary procedure in auctioning patriotic Hags, as everyone knows, is (savs the Hawke's Bay (Herald), for the nag to be bid for again and again and filially sold at some figure manV times greater than the preliminary bids. The exception (which proves the rule) was met with on "Scotch Day" on a recent occasion when the first bid of £l, shouted out in an unmistakable dialect, was the first and the last. The bidder immediately claimed his flag, and there was no gainsaying him. The auctioneer all hut collapsed.

A copy of the 26th annual report and balance-sheet of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Auckland) has been received. The booklet gives a complete summary of the Institute's work for the year, and general information regarding the work of the pupils. The various reports are very satisfactory, and the teachers are to be congratulated on the results attained at the annual examinations. The Institute is highly worth of support. It is the only one for the blind in the Dominion, and applications for admission from any part of the country are considered on their merits. Much work- is done among the non-resident blind, and the Institute has branch libraries for the loan of books in the chief centres. Stratford's donations for the past year amounted to £l3 Ik. Correspondence and donations should bo addressed to Mr H. Leslie Hunt. Jubilee Institute for the Blind. Paruell. Auckland.

—' * The quarterly meeting of the Stratford Licensing Committee will be held ♦- ~») Friday next, at 1 p.m.