The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 26, 27 December 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Loading and other matter is crowded out of our present issue. A rehearsal of all the principals* chorus singers and dancers, in tiie pantomime "Beauty and the Beast," is called for to-night and Friday in the Town Hall, at 7.45 sharp. The indications are for south-east-, erly strong winds to gale. Expect changeable and showery weather. The barometer has a rising tendency.— Bates, Wellington. I The splendid acceptances received for the Stratford Racing Club's meeting on January 1 is a sufficient guarantee of a successful meeting. Special trains are provided to convey +<he crowds at excursion rates, full particulars of which and also of the train arrangements appear in another column., The Wanganui Garrison and will provide music for the enjoyment of the crowd. The course is a few minutes walk from the town.

In connection with the sacred concert to be given by the Wangamu Garrison Band, it is anticipated that a very large mtmter of horses, vehicles and motors, will require to be accommodated, and ample provision will be made on the Showgrounds. No charge will be made for paddocking for horses, vehicles or motors, or to the grandstands, the entrance charge at the gates, one shilling for adults and .sixpence for children under twelve, covering all costs to the concert. Afternoon tea will bo available on the grounds.

A picture of the landing at Anssac by the well-known artist, Mr Frank Dickson, of the Royal Society of British Artists, is on show in the window of the High Commissioner's Office, 413 Strand. The picture has been presented to the New Zealand Government by -Mrs H. G. Black, tlfe widow of Captain Black, who died in the Gallipoli campaign. The picture is almost brutally realistic in its men dead and dying in tile Foreground, ami the horrid heights overhanging the narrow beach seem more than ever a. lowering precipice impossible of ascent: The picture more insistently brings house to the civilian public the tenilic task our men faced, not merely in .seizing that sheer shore, but hi holding on during those long heartbreaking months of 1915.