The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 12, 27 December 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

; Miss Manu iWritt’s name was inad-vertently!-omitted from the: prize-1 st 'of Miss''Orbell’s'School. Miss 'Porritt won Mrs. Ormondes special prize for*'arithmetic', >1 n ■ ; i > .< i ( ■ . . :‘A bdncii of jjisticCs cbnvict-e'd ‘and 1 ordered to come up for sentence when called upon a middle-aged woman who , stole a kit-bag from it. D. Lewer’s premises on Saturday. The arrest was the outcome of a smart piece of ' .yftrlc (hi 'the part of Sergeant’ McNe'eiy and Constable Mackintosh, i Mr. Alfred Yandle, of To AVer a, brother of Mr. James Yandle, of Warwick Hoad, died at Nurse Stronach’s 5 Private Nursing Home' last Friday. Tiie fuhdral took place' on' 'ChWstmaij' 1 Day, nhliiy friends of the deceased being present at the ,grave r side. He j leaves a widow ami several young children. r . . i ;" 1 Wo wish to draw the attention of members of school committees who ' are, entitled to vote, to the fact that all;ballot-papers must be posted to the secretary of the Education Board, New Plymouth, before Tuesday, January 2nd. Wo would advise them to post their papers at once, so that there shall be no chance of missing the poll. The candidates are Messrs. W. 1). Anderson and R. Masters, and the poll closes automatically on Tuesday next. A lire occurred at Opunake about 3 a.m. on Saturday morning as a rei suit of which a building occupied by Mr. J). Duncan and owned by Mr. B. Johnson was totally destroyed. The inmates had a very narrow escape. Mr Duncan was awakened by the smoke and hurriedly aroused his sister, both barely having time to escape in their night attire. The building was insured for £2OO in the Northern Office, whilst Mr. Duncan had his furniture insured for £IOO in the Australian Alliance. The latter, however, is a heavy loser, as ho estimates Id’s loss at £2OO over insurance. The Now Zealand Amateur Athletic Association’s Australasian championship meeting opened at Wellington on Tuesday in fine weather. The going was in fair order, Respite two days’ fairly ■ heavy rain. I'ho attendance was about 5000. The •■Jar item of the day’s sport was Opio’s win in the 100yds championship, the New Zealander having to dive to beat Redmond. The heats in this event wore run against the wind, and the final with it. Kelly, Victoria' annexed the high jump event with sft bin,_ and afterwards cleared sft S;Jiu. Kerr had no difficulty in retaining the mile walk championship. McGrath, Queensland, secured the I bib shot-putting championship. Hill and Pugh were the only starters in the mile run, the former'winning comfortably. Koddell bad nothing to beat in the 120yds. Hales and Opie bad a similarly easy task in the 440 yds flat championship. The re-forming and re-grading operations being carried on by the Eltham County Council were responsible for a somewhat serious accident to the El-tham-Opunake coach on the trip to ihtliam. The road crossing a gully just past the more westerly tolhgate -S being re-gradod, and at the time was very sticky. When the coach reached the bottom of the down grade both the front swingle-bars broke in half. The possibility of the breaking of the two bars was apparently not entertained by the proprietary* and only one spare one was carried'on the i coach, hut a couple of stout bars wore borrowed from a settler and a fresh start was made, after, in the circumstances, a trilling delay. Some distance further on the near shatter cast a shoe. Even this was not sufficient to hold up or seriously delay the coach. One of the passengers was a smith, and when Kaponga was reached this gentleman, in the absence of ; the local knight of the anvil, raided ; bis shop, found a slipper, and fixed it ; on in a twinkling. Thereafter Misfor- i tunc, recognising she bad tackled a 1 tough proposition, betook herself away ' from the coach, which arrived in Eltham well on time. i

There was wet weather in Wanganui for the holidays. Taranaki and Wanganui raet at cricket yesterday. When stumps were drawn Taranaki had made 23 lor six wickets, them lirst innings having closed for Si. Wanganui made 179 in their first innings. In the first round of the men’s doubles at the Wellington tennis championship meeting, Deals Wright and iVL. E. McLoughiin heat H. M. Buttcrwcrth and F. S. Wilding, (3—2, 7—-5, G—l ; Mice and R. Heath heat 11. I). jJdarman and (I. M. Buterwortli, (3—o, (3—2, G—3. An enormous crowd witnessed the fight between Sam Langford and AicVea, at Sydney, yesterday. The latter easily had the best of the lirst ten rounds, scoring apparently as he liked with his left hook to the face. Langford replied with straight lofts to the jaw and right swings on the body. The latter, however, were generally blocked. In the eleventh round, McVea seemed to tire. From then on to the seventeenth round* Langford took the lead, fighting savagely. McVea’s better boxing stood to him, however, and- in the last two rounds he again .brought his heavy left into play. Both were going strongly at the finish, though Langford’s right eye wes completely closed. The verdict, went to McVca, and the decision was unpopular with a large section of;the crowd*.