LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 30, 27 May 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Moller, chairman of the Dunedin Harbor Board has definitely decided to contest the Chalmers seat as an Independent Liberal.—P.A.

A London cablegram gives the scores in the Newman-Gray billiard match as followsNewinan 4667, Gray 1790.

The British Admiralty has completed the defence of Cromarty Firth, taking twelve months over the work. The four batteries contain the largest guns ever erected in British shore defences, states a London cablegram.

The following hockey team will represent Stratford against Kaponga at Kaponga, to-morrow Thompson, Foden, Morgan, Clemow, Symes, Sergeant, B. Curtis, Lawrence, Chadwick, Wheeler and Hcaly. Cars will leave the Post Office at 2.30 sharp,

The following are the handicaps for the local club’s shoot on Thursday for the copper kettle and stand, the conditions being three, shoots, at ranges 300, 500 and 600 yards, the best two to count:—C. Speck, C. Jackson, N. Thorpe scr, A. Sangster, A. Wickham, E. Brocklebank 2, A. Speck 3, H. Gollop 4, W, Brocklebank, J. McMahon, J., Voyle, P. Hobson 5, Ferguson, Ritchie, G. Sangster 6, A. Mackay 9, Mountsey, Silk 10,. Pepperill 18, Garlick 20,