LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie Scliool Committee meets this evening. The monthly meeting of the Stratford County Council takes place tomorrow. An action for £-501 damages for breach of promise of marriage will engage the attention of the Supreme Court at Napier in March. Members of the Stratford Gun Club will on Thursday afternoon fire the second stage of the Ballistite Cup. A sweepstake will also be held. The Stratford Fire Brigade is always more or less in an impecunious condition, and in proof of this is the fact that at the present time the brigade has thirty members but only twenty uniforms. To raise funds for the brigade it is proposed to hold a

garden fete towards the end of February and for the' purpose of making arrangements therefor a meeting of citizens is called for 8 o’clock this evening in the Borough Council Chambers.

“It is because I have property that 1 am poor,” said a witness in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court orp Saturday. This statement was followed by gome interesting comments by Mr Evans, S.M. “I have heard men with thousands of pounds,” he said, “complaining of hard times and poverty and travelling second-class on the railways because there was no third-class. • A thousand pounds was paid in stamp duty on the estate of one man who was always poor.”

Just before going to press, our sporting contributor forwarded the following note regarding the Wellington races :—Lutes information to the effect that Rinaldo gave an excellent trial gallop over a mile and three furlongs makes it practically certain that he will now start in the Cup. 1 also learn that Palisade pulled up very sore in her latest work, and in that case she may not run on the opening day of the meeting.

The following two paragraphs are from the Patea “Press” : A large number of local residents who have been carrying water for household purposes for some days now, are envying their Waverley neighbours who are at present having the water mains laid through their streets.—Rumour has it that one local resident who was opposed to the waterworks' loan and who had previously a good tank supply has been carrying water of late, having had to empty one tank recently owing to*the presence of a dead rat inside.

The value of the New Zealand exports last year was £22,400,832, against £20,078,606 in 19.12, states a P.A. telegram. A corner property, with a SGft frontage to Queen street and oCi't to Vulcan lane, belonging to the Lynch estate, was sold to Mr Arthur Eady, the present occupier, for £21,500, »ay» an Auckland Press Association message. Every day recently a good number of people have been seen wending their way towards certain points, bearing in their hands towels and trunks; and a justifiable presumption is that these people—men, ■women and children- have gone swimming, either,in the baths or the river. It is', further, safe to presume that these people have beefy practising swimming and in the case of some of the lads it can be still further presumed that they have been schooling themselves in wind and speed, and are now in good racing form. To all tnmks-and-towel people it will be good news to hear that the annual meeting t of the Stratford Swimming Club is to he held on Friday night; and no doubt the meeting will arrange races for an early date for those of the lads who have during the currency of the present finespell been schooling themselves in manner aforesaid. A large attendance of active swimmers and supporters of the sport will go a long way towards ensuing a successful and pleasurable season.