LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 55, 29 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local howlers are sending five i‘i]i!v,3 to Inglewood to-duy, should the weather be at all favourable. The Inglewood . Jfriepdly,, Societies are holding their annual picnic at \gaire to-day. The weather does not appear to have favoured them. Xormanby was to have played Stratford at cricket yesterday, but the former failed to turn up. There was no notice given, by the way, of intention to default.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Masters and Miss Masters left yesterday for Auckland. The Rev. C. C. Harrison was a passenger by the same train, with the same destination. Intending visitors to the East Mountain House for the current week-end should note that a drag will leave the Crown Stables for the House on Sunday morning. The Stratford Band will render selections in connection with the swimming carnival to-morrow evening. Members of the band will assemble at the usual meeting place at 7 p.m.

A private advice from 'New Plymouth states that last night Miss Resina Buckman received a great reception from a packed audience. The telegram concludes with the statement that “a rare treat” may be looked forward to.

The Rev. J. A. Kempthorno (Fitzrpy) preached a Lenten sermon at Holy Trinity yesterday evening. There was ,a good congregation, and the preacher will hold similar services every Wednesday evening throughout Lent.

An egg circle movement has been definitely started in New Plymouth, with twenty-three financial members, and there are prospects of a big increase in this number at an early date. A committee has been appointed, with Mr. (Jordon as chairman and Mr. G. Pott as secretary.

Mr. Charles W. Morse, of Brookline, M ass., has deposited £2OO in a Boston bank (says a New York correspondent) for the man who proves to him that the earth is round. Mr Morse says the earth is a flat square, and claims that he has scientifically proved that the sun reynlvos round the earth. To the man who will argue that if the earth were square ships sailing around it would drop over the edge, ho says, this is prevented by the great ice barrier surrounding the habitable portion of the earth.