LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 27, 28 December 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dance will be held in the MidhirsL Town Hall on New Year's night. Patrons are promised a good floor, firstclass music, excellent supper, and an enjoyable evening.

Weather forecast.—The indications are for moderate to strong winds. There is a prospect of fail' to cloudy weather. Barometer little movement.—Bates, "Wellington.

Lieutenant T. Richardson will take charge of arrangements in connection with, the sending off of the contingent on Tuesday morning as Ser-geant-Major Mahoney leaves for New Plymouth on Monday night with the Cadets rifle-shooting party.

Soldiers in uniform will be admitted free to grounds and lawn at the New Year Meeting of the Stratford Racing Club on Monday and Tuesday next. Returned and Discharged Soldiers will bo granted complimentary tickets upon application to the secretary, Mi 1 A. Coleman.

The Stratford Boy Scouts left yesterday on a trek to Opunake via Eltham, where they were joined by the local boys. They will make a two days' journey of their march, halting somewhere about Awatuna last evening. They are taking tents and pru-. visions along with them in two hand enrts, and the boys made quite an imposing spectacle as they started on from Eltharn, towing their two earth along, and the Union Jack heading the procession. The Rev. Dent was in charge of the boys.

Some excitement, in addition to that engendered by the film "The Circus of Death," was : fc|iuse'd stt>; i<he Dannevirke Town Hall one night last week just as the concluding stages were being reached by the film catching fire. There was a mild commotion and a ' partial stampede, the orchestra playing meanwhile trying to distract attention from the happenings in the operating box. Women fainted and others were knocked down, but the damage and danger, were equally much less than at the time appeared to be the case. About 2000 feet of film were~"burned.

By an Order-iu-Council the importa-j tion into New 'Zealand of the follow-! ing newspapers and periodicals is prohibited :—Atlanta American, Atlanta. Georgian, Boston American, Chicago American, Chicago Examiner, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Herald, Morgan Journal, New York American, New York Deutsches Journal, New York Evening. Journal, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Sunday American, Sunday Georgian, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Hearst's Magazine, Motor Magazine, Motoi Boating Magazine, Ross's Magazine, Bull (illustrated newspaper).

A humourous story of a ruse adopted to detect shammed deafness was told at the London South Western Police Court. Charles Victor Booth, aged 19, of Brixton, was charged with making a false statement to avoid military service. It was said that he had shammed total deafness when submitting himself for examination. He was successful until a coin was dropped behind him. Then in an unguarded moment, he looked round to see what it was. "You are too smart for me," he said as the flaw in his armour became apparent. Xlien lie entered into ordinary conversation. He was remanded for an escort.

There was a mistake in yesterday's issue in reference to the new Altar hangings in Holy Trinity Church. They were given by the members of the Ladies' Sanctuary Guild. Tho Roll of Honour was presented by Mr Da vies.

Special Christmas stories, articles, and verses are contributed by Chas. Nuttall, Dr. Fitchett, Madame Melba, Miss Mary Card, and others, in. this month's issue of "Everylady's Journal."