LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 9 October 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cable from Suva reports that the Whangape had left for Auckland. ( A Sydney cablegram states that the weather is fine for the races. This morning-, Mrs J. Arthur Jones, received word that her nephew, Charles Roger, Jones, of the Ambulance Corps, and son of Mr T. A. Jones, of Auckland, had been killed in action in Franco, on September 22. Be left New Zealand with the 7th Reinforcements. Xews has been received that Private "Womba" Reid has been reported died of wounds in France. "Womba'' was one of Stratford's most, promising footballers playing for the Stratford football team alongside his fellow worker the late Sergeant H. "Xorky" Dewar. H J - also represented Taranaki in several of their representative matches and was for sometime in the employ of Mr Bert Harkness. in *his foundry. Fellow footballers extend their sympathy to his relatives. The iWar Pensions Board lias granted a total of 4174 pensions, senting £204,323 per annum, with an average of £lB. _, Soldiers wrve granted £42,057, their wives and widows £22,469, other dependents £25,236, and allowances £11,456. -Press Association. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states: The Corinnn' .returned to Lyttelton early to-day, having searched the coast, near Akaroa, in tlie night for signs of the Poherua, which was supposed to' have 'gone ashore. The captain reported that a fisherman, told him the Poherua got off with the tide at 1 p.m. and resumed her voyage from Dnnedin to Greymouth apparently undamaged.