LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 85, 31 March 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At tennis Wilding beat Brookes in the final at Cannes G—t, 6—2, 6—l, states a London cablegram, which adds: Brookes fell in the first set and thereafter lacked accuracy.

Billiardists will be interested in the following cablegram : Inman is playing Stevenson 17,000 up, level, for £2OO aside. Inman has scored 871 and Stevenson '837.

Miss Kitty O'Brien, an Australian ehl is probably the first woman artist to Join the staff of a big daily paper as cartoonist. For some months the young artist's cartoons have appeared in the London Daily Chronicle. Miss O'Brien was born in Sydney, but arrived in London at the age of five, and received her art training at the Slade School and the Lambeth Art School.

A fire in Eden .Terrace, Auckland, early this morning in a block of two storeyed shops gutted,a shop occupied •by Ernest James, second hand-dealer. The occupier was awakened at 2 a.m. by a suffocating sensation and found his bedroom full of smoke. He woke his wife just as the door burst open and flames leapt into the room, having half destroyed the staircase. They -scaped through a front window over !ihe verandah clothed in night attire. -P. A.

Attired in a light fawn overcoat, idintr trousers, and top boots, Miss 'hiee'Waugh vaulted lightly into the .addle of her grey pony at Wirth's Park, Melbourne, on Monday inorn■ng, last week, and disdaining the use :f the bridle, began her long ride to Sydney, which she hoped to accomplish in 1U days. As she cantered out of the ward, a rousing cheer went up ,-rom the crowd of over persons who had assembled to wish tne ypung .orse woman success.

The body found on the foreshore pit the end of Victoria Wharf, X>umdin, has been definitely identified as cha) of William Bills, rabbiter, bevxeen fifty and sixty years of age ,vho left Marenga Station two months • : (go, since which time no knowledge of his movements could be obtained, •''he circumstances are pointed, and yhile not favoring any theory of foul ilay, they do not eliminate the possibility of it. Consequently, at the inquest this morning, the police askd for an adjournment after calling nedical evidence. This showed bruises i.n the head which might be either the limit of falls-or blows; and the conlition of the stomach was consistent vith chronic alcoholism. ' The inquest vas adjourned sine did, concludes the 'Vess Association message.