LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 24 October 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The amount of insurance on Messrs Webster, Dobson and Go's, fittings was misstated yesterday, the actual amount being £l5O.

Ore production at the Mt. Lyell mines is in lull progress (states a Melbourne cablegram), about 27,000 tons being smelted monthly.

Some smoke was still rising this morning from the ruins of the Municipal Buildings. Steps were taken today to stay up the brick wall on the south end, ifc being feared that a high wind would bring it down.

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for: Westerly moderate to strong winds prevailing, .with southerly tendency shortly. Weather cloudy to overcast. Scattered showers. Barometer unsteady.—Bates, Wellington.

At Taumarunui about two o'clock this morning, the local postmaster was awakened by a noise, and he rose and found the front entrance of the post office had been burst open. The robber had meanwhile decamped without doing 'further damage or stealing, anything. The police have the matter in Itand, says the Press Association.

A Melbourne cablegram states that the Commonwealth Minister of External Affairs has received particulars of an affray on the Fly River, Papua, between Sir Rupert Clarke's party and a hostile native tribe, in which two whites were injured by arrows and one of the attackers was killed. It appears that the natives attacked the launch party after trading and treacherously inviting members ashore.

A Greyrnouth P.A. telegram to-day sa y S: —An inquest was opened on the bodies \found on North Beach. The only evidence of identification was that of Edward Green, stevedore, who had no doubt that one of the bodies was that of Fred Johnson, A.B. on the Kairaki. The body was dressed in dungarees, witness stating that Johnson was the only member of the crew who wore dungarees coming in or going oufc of port. The remains were buried in the Grey cemetery to-day.

A Paliiatua Press Association telegram to-day states: A remarkably successful social in aid of the Belgian relief fund,organised by Waterfalls and other baekblocks' settlers, was held in the woolshed at Holmes' Tiraimea station last nigfit, and resulted in a profit of £l5O. People from many miles around attended. The Pahiatua and district ladies, and also the Farmers' Union are organising several functions for the Belgium fund.