LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 19 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of members of St. Andrew’s Tennis Club will beheld this evening. Mr. T. E. Wilson, a former resident of the town, is at present on a visit to Stratford. The following amounts are • being paid out to-morrow by dairy factories £1375, Ngaore £1334, Cardiff £1165. At tlie Town Hall this evening aji on the liquor question wnl bo delivered by Mrs. Barton, an exCbuncillor of the City of Glasgow. Mr. F. Martin, of the Valuation Department, is at present in Stratford making arrangements for tiie tcvision of the Borough Council’s valuation roll. It was stated at the meeting of the County Council yesterday that a gentleman who leased a reserve from the Council at £4 10s per annum had sublet The reserve at £9 per aiinum. /'The Taranaki Education Board has decided to include the teaching ,of S’try in the list of subjects at the ideal: schools. Mr. Frank Gorton, of Waitara, has been appointed instructor. The Stratford o,'rchestral Society intend holding a social and dance in the Parish Hall on Thursday next, October 26th. During the evening instrumental and vocal items will be rendered. The function ought to prove a i pleasant and popular one. Our ■ readers ' are .reminded of the lecture to be given in the down Hall this evening by Mrs Barton, cxConncillOr of Glasgow, on the Uqpior question. Mrs. Barton uul a most enthusiastic meeting at New Plymouth last night, when she spoke for an hour and a half on this subject. James Alison Mclntosh appeared at , the Magistrate’s Court this morning, Messrs J. Masters and A. E. Cop- ' ping, J.P.’s, being on the Bench, on a charge of having on June 22nd obtained £1 from Michael O’Neill by means of a false pretence. On the application of Sergeant McNeeley the case was remanded till to-morrow. A first-offending drunkard appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning on charges of drunkenness and assault. He pleaded guilty to ■drunkenness, but said he could remember nothing about the assault. Sergeant McNeeley said accused had boon about the streets yesterday in a drunken condition and had a big crowd of boys round him. Whenever ho came to town he always bought lollies and other tilings for the boys and had even been known to go the length of buying them a football, yesterday he offered sixpence to one boy, and another boy snatched it out of ids hand. This- made him angry, and lie made a rush at the crowd of >oys, hitting one on the nose, causing it to bleed. The sergeant said the man usually behaved himself and had jiven the police no trouble yesterday. I'iic Bench (consisting of Messrs ■>. Masters and A. E. Copping, J.P.’s) inflicted a fine of 10s on the charge of Irunkenncss and dismissed the assault charge.