LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 44, 8 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual weekly social in the Fir© Brigade Station will be held this evening.

The Defence Rifle Club parades at the Defence Office this evening for the usual foot drill.

The transmission of mails from the Dominion to Austria, Austrian agencies, Germany, German agencies and colonies, Hungary and Luxembourg) is suspended in the meantime.

There should be a good attendance it the tea meeting and concert to be held in the Regan Street Hall this evening. An excellent programme has been arranged for the concert, and ; tems will be rendered by the Methodist church choir and orchestra.

The Eltham Argus sayslt is .’.uthoritatively stated in Wellington ;hf>t the Government has decided to ,ake over the canteens on the whole >f the troopships, and run them with its own officers. It is understood that the contractors are allowing the goods :o be taken over at invoice prices.

States the Press Association: Joljin Gordon, dairyman, of Taita, Lower Etutt, appeared before Mr D. G. A. Gooper, S.M., at the Lower Hutt Magstrate’s Court yesterday to answer a barge of selling milk below the stanlard required by the Food and Drugs \.ct. The inspector stated that the •nalysis of the milk showed it contained 9.1 per cent, of water artificially ■ dded. A fine of £2O was imposed.

The officers and crew of the schooner Uric, which arrived at New Plymouth tom Columbia Rivet yesterday aftericon, were very astonished to hoar on heir arrival here that a state of var existed in the Pacific (states the Slews). Thf vessel left Westport, Columbia River, on August I,’and they lid not sight another boat till they, ■cached the coast of New Zealand, and he first news that they had received or 67 days was when the officials went >n board the schooner yesterday aftermon.

It was stated at the Wellington Court esterday that Hugo Sewald, who was -barged with in a house n Taranaki street a wireless installation capable of receiving messages md transmitting messages without Irst obtaining the permission of the lovernor-in-Council, was a British subect, having been naturalised in Ausralia. He had obtained the apparaus from a local electrical supply store or experimental purposes. It was ,’ery weak, but an expert witness said it only required more cells to enable nessages to be sent several miles. Counsel for the defence contended bat the persons who sold the apparaus to defendant should be prosecut'd. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £2O.

It is now definitely decided that Mrs Snowden will speak with her hushand (.Mr P. Snowden, M.P., England) a the Town Hall on Wednesday next. ‘Harper’s Weekly,” in referring to ■er, says: “She is the most -eloquent Englishwoman now living. Not since Frances Willard has there been an English-speaking woman with such a rift of oratory, so much magnetism; or such persuasive sweethess of manner and ability to move great bodies of men and women.” The “New York World,” in describing an address iven by her in that city, stated that ‘Mrs Snowden says all this in a rich voice of authority—a finely modulated, Inging voice, which gathers its power apparently from the ,sheer conviction of the sepaker, until it ir, like a big irgan which sweeps the hearer resist'essly along the tide of argument. But he eyes which look at you are the ■yes of youth. And the combination is the Englishwoman’s chief charm.”

Mr Cook has been re-elected leader of the Federal Liberal Party, state* a Melbourne cablegram. Three death sentences were passed in the Delhi conspiracy case, and five others were sentenced to transportation, states a Deihi cablegram. Mr J. Masters, J.P., presided at the Court this morning, when two second-offending inebriates were fined £1 One who had been sentenced to twenty-four hours’ imprisonment a few days ago, but who said he now had work to go to was given a monflg, in which to find the amount of his fine. Mr R. Dingle, of Opunake Road, left an overcoat in his motor car on Tuesday, and during his absence some person made off with it. Mr Dingle makes an offer in an advertisement in this issue to let the person keep the coat if he returns the letters and valuable papers contained in one of the pockets of ftfe coat. The Secretary of the Post Office advises that during the Avar, in addition to the prohibition of business dealings with persons for the benefit of an enemy, it appears to be necessary to warn the public against acting as an intermediary in the correspondence of persons born in either of the enemy countries, whether such persons are naturalised British subjects or not. Anyone found to act iu tlxis manner, says a Press Association telegram from Wellington, will certainly find his complaisance recoiling on himself, for it will lead at least to his correspondence being censored, even if severe consequences do not follow.

Mr Hawkins made to last night s big audience at the Town Hall what seemed to be a “very excellent spprting offer. He quoted certain figures and then offered to retire from the contest if it could be proved by an accredited accountant that the position was other than disclosed by the figures quoted. This offer was; backed by an offer to allow anybody present to examine the notes from which he was speaking; but though the offer was repeated often, and though Mr Hawkins reminded ■ those present that there were many who would like to see a walk-over for his opponent, there was no evidence of anybody taking up 'the challenge. However, there is plenty of time yet.