LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 72, 16 July 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

First Edition.

The following appeared in our second edition yesterday:—

A fancy dress football match for to-morrow week is on the tapis to further the candidature of Miss Alice Cramer in the Carnival Queen contest.

Horowhenua is to play a Rantnriv Shield match against Taranaki in Jura uaki on August 6th. The,exact venue ef the m.atch will bo fixed later.

The executive committee of the Carnival Queen contest meet to-night at 7.30 sharp in Mr X. Thomson’s office to make final arrangements and allot the numbers to the candidates.

All {supporters of the sports’ candidate, Miss Minnie Hignett, in the Carnival Queen contest, are requested to meet in Messrs C. and E. Jackson’s office at 8 p.m. on Friday.

\ Dunedin Press Association telegram says:—Out of 450 cases of Hobart apples w'hich were landed to-day, 350 were found to be affected by red mite and scab. The inspector, who ordered them to be fumigated, said oe would not permit- such fruit m future to be landed. As the result, the charges increased Is per case and the prices dropped 2s per case.

The following candidates have, so far, been nominated for the Carnival Queen contest Sports, Hiss Minnie Higuett; Friendly Societies, Miss Aluo Cramer; A. and P. Hiss McCulloch; Strathmore, Miss Meredith; Horticultural, Miss Lilian Hart; I'ire Brigade, Mrs George Smith.

According to the figures published in a recent* Commonwealth Government Gazette, the luncheon to Sir George Reid, the High Commissioner, on October 21, 1913, cost £l2O Is 10d. A luncheon to the State Treasurers, ope to Lord Denman, the departing Governor-General, and refreshments at receptions following the swearingin ceremony, and the opening of 1 ailiamcnt were included in the one amount to £313 11s. The luncheon on May 22, in honor of Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, the new GovernorGeneral, caused an expenditure of 6230 15s. \

Florence Spencer, married, a resident of Epsom and a patient in the hospital, threw herself from the balcony in full view of the other patients. She fell twenty feet to the ground and sustained a fractured skull and other bodily injuries? which resulted m her death in a few minutes. The evidence at the inquest showed that deceased, immediately before the fatality, appeared happy and' showed no signs of mental depression. After conversing, utith. .her- fellow-patients, she said she would go for a short walk. On returning, she had a frightful mac! expression, and walked to the balcony and threw herself over. The Press Association states that the coroner returned a verdict according to the evidence, adding that deceased’s action ivas one committed in a sudden suicidal impulse, no blame heiyg attachable to the hospital authorities.