LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 71, 14 March 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Rugby Vuiou is to be held in Stratford on March 26th.

Practically the only celebration of St. Patrick’s Day will be the Catholic dance in the Town Hall, for which full arrangements have been made.

The closeness of the Mountain is indicated by the fact that Mr Mudford this morning took a party from

Midhirst to the Stratford House i thirty-five minutes.

A second offending inebriate was fined £l, in default one week’s imprisonment, at the Court this morning. Mr S. 13. Hunter, J.P., was on the bench.

Mr George J. Bradley, secretary of the Fire Brigade Carnival, will be in attendance between 7 and 9 o’clock ibis evening at Mr Grubb’s premises

in Broadway for the purpose of distributing prizes won on Thursday.

New Zealand Free Lance says: There is some talk of the jockeys forming a union to protect themselves against owners and stipendiary stewards. We shall next hear of the punters organising for purposes of self-protection.

The death of Mr Francis Foy’s fine Clydesdale stallion Glencoe Glen Lyon from pneumonia at the owner’s stud farm is reported from New South Wales. The Sydney Daily Telegraph states that the stallion was only brought from Now Zealand a few months ago, and was entered for exhibition at the Sydney Royal Show. 'This sire cost £3OO, and was not insured.

The East Boad Sheep Dog Trial Club’s annual meeting is always a popular event, and this year’s func-

tion, which is to be held at To AVera on March 26th and 27th, gives every promise of being as successful as previous meetings. The day’s outing will be concluded with a social and dauce

iu the To AVera Hall, when the prizes will be presented.

The 12th biennial convention of the Australasian 'United Society of Christion Endeavor has been fixed to be held in Sydney from September '3 to 9of this year. This will take the place of the abandoned World’s Convention. The sth AVorkl’s Convention will ho held in Chicago, in conjunction with the 27th International Convention. The dates are July 7 to 12. 1915.

The water in the Patea River at present is very low, and apparently the same state of affairs exists in all Taranaki rivers. To-day I\Tr W. JNewton, manager of the Stratford Electrical Supply Co.,' received a note from the manager of the Hawera electric works stating that the Diesel engine was a great convenience. Owing to-the seared tv of water in the river it had been found necessary to use the engine fairly often and for about ten days it had been running all day from 8 o’clock in the morning. Mr Newton states that for the past fortnight the local machine has also'been doing the bulk of the work.

The third match of the series played during the past few months between the Stratford Card Chib and the local railway staff resulted in the rubber being won by the Club. The match came off at Elder’s rooms last evening and, as usual, proved to he very enjoyable for all concerned. The total scores were—Stratford 3G, Kailway 28. The following were the individual games, the railway players being mentioned first in each case;— Murray and Butler 3 v. Collins and McCallum 7; Thorne and Jenkinson 3 v. Donald and Green G; Campbell and Broomley 3 v. Jones and Kivoll G: Kerr and Johnson o v.' Handley and W. Donald J ; Noil and Brown 6 v. Grant and Kelly 5; Whittington and Finlay 5 v. Yardley and Gollop 3; Nolan and Anderson 3 v. Nelson and Sheriff o.

The feelings of masculine worshippers at the shrine of Fashion will doubtless receive a severe shock by tho report that the British Medical Association has condemned ankle-cuffed

trousers as insanitary. The ankle- : cuff, or the up-turned style, is marked by the narrow additional garment in i the form of a narrow strip of cloth ; which one sees at the ankle-end of the trousers worn by the average man. Its introduction was due to tho genius of some of the gilded London youth, who heretofore had been forced to merely turn their pants up, and the fashion has since spread over the whole Enlish-spoaking world. It appears that the British Medical Association found that the crevices at the end of ho trouser-ends' harbor dust] and filth, which are carried and spilt, largely in residential areas.