LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 28, 19 September 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large audience was present at the screening of “The Three Musketeers” hist ni£ht. It is a great play beyond a doubt. Every scene is clear as crystal, the scenery is superb, the acting is grand, especially that of Milady Do Winter and D’Artagnan, and the costumes are magnificent, which adds to the splendour of this picture-play. “The Three Musketeers” will he screened for the last time to-night. The music played by the augmented orchestra was well worth hearing. The following musical numbers were rendered “Merchant of Venice,” “Mari, tana.” selection; “Romance Appassionato,” violin solo TMi* Van Heck); “11 Travtore.” selection, corner solos by Messrs Bernard and Loval. The star picture on Monday’s change is “The Midnight Sun,” a great drama by the Nordisk Company.

The gravity cf the Wellington S.M. Court was broken down on Wednesday by the quaint expressions and mannerisms of a witness who was tendering evidence about a man concerned in a case before the Couit. Broad grins travelled round the Court as the witness, pointing to the pi’i-j soner in the dock, told his little | story. “When 1 mot him, he said, confidingly, “I says to him, ‘You re not looking well, old man, come into the hotel.’ I ordered a drink and ha took the glass in his hand and •* down it went, one gulp! I said to mjself. ‘My word you are not too bad.”’ Here the voluble person in the wit-ness-box paused impressively. “Then,’ he resumed, “I ordered another drink. Ho took the glass in his hand an( l down it went, one gulp!

Then he said to mo, ‘You’ve saved my life!’ ” The recital was not exactly attuned to the solemnity of Court proceedings, Hut, told with simple earnestness and engaging candour, it proved irresistible, and everyone was sorry when the narrator wont away.

Weather Forecast.—Northerly modorate to strong winds freshening for an unfavorable change in the neat her in the beginning of the week. Haro* meter falling soon.—Hates, V. tlbng-

At the monthly meeting of the Domain Board, held yesterday, there were present; Messrs G. N. Curtis (chairman), P. Thomson, R. McK. Morison, and \T. P. Kirkwood. It was decided that notice boards, forbidding cycling on the footpaths King Edward Park, be erected at” each end of the gravelled paths. The secretary was instructed to write to the headmaster of the school asking

for his help in keeping down iyel:ng in the Park, and also to the matter of luncheon paper left by-children m the Park. The matter of -utt'ag and burning fern was left in the hands of the chairman. The offer of Mr Morison to donate fifty trees' to the Board was accepted.