LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 71, 20 October 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Monday (Labour Day) being a full general holiday, the “Stratford Evening Post” will pot be published.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington to-day states that Francis Fisher, barman at the Empire Hotel, was fined £lO for a breach of the anti-shouting regulations,.

'A (actor car in some mysterious | way started off after the driver had I alighted yesterday in Broadway and 1 caused a horse attached to a heavy load' to rear. Fortunately, the wheel was locked, and. a runaway was averted. ' On Monday (Labour Day) the Stratford Bowling Club hold a progressive pairs match on their green, I play starting at ton a.m., the en- ( trance fee for which is one shilling (per member. The proceeds will be ; devoted to the Wounded Soldiers’ j'Fund. j At the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon before Mr IV. R. Haselden, jS.M., Benjamin Hunter, was charged I for failing to attend drill. This case was adjourned from the last Court ;to obtain information, from Lieuten;ant Gray, and after hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said that if [the defendant regularly attends drill 'and did his duty the case would not be proceeded with. A sudden death is reported from Hokitika by the Press Association. John McMillan, jobbing foreman of the West Coast Times, was found dead at his residence this morning. Apparently he had been dead for hours. When last seen, he was in his usual health. His wife and two children are away on a holiday. Deceased was a well known forward in the Hokitika Football Club in the nineties and was a prominent member of the Killwinning Lodge. He was -16 rears of m-e.