LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Mrs Brooking has secured the sole right of catering for the Stratford Show. ')

The New, . South Wales Mines De partment reports an important discovery of silver zinc ore on the Fire-flj field, Hillgrovo. •

A meeting of South Riding ratepayers will be field this evening at Agere to select a candidate to represent them on the Stratford County Council.

An Adelaide cablegram to-day states that three Adult sous of Mr Reimatnv. a settler of Loxton, were caught in a bush fire and burned to death. ' 1 ‘ 1 • '

At Wanganui yesterday Andrew, .Crane Burss, alias Neil McGregor, .was committed for trial on a. charge oi breaking and entering a dwelling house with, intent to commit a crime. .q.

Sydney reports : The heat wave has returned over : the greater part of the Continent, aiid 96 was registered in Sydney—An October record since 1900. Storms and bush fires are considerably damaging crops.

A Press Association telegram from Hamilton states: The Miners’ Union office at Huntly was destroyed by fire eqrly this morning. All the books and papers are supposed to hajVe been burned. Tile origin is a mystery.

A special meeting of members of the Stratford Lawn Tennis Club will be held on Wednesday next, and a meeting of the committee will be held afterwards, when important business is to , : be discussed.

Last night the Borough'Council decided to. replace the books and instruments belonging to Mr T, D. Sullivan, Borough Overseer, which were destroyed in the Municipal Buildings fire. <

The Hon. W. F. Massey has informed the Inglewood Reform League that if he is unable to deliver a political address at Inglewood before the election he will endeavor to get one of bis colleagues to do so.

The Wellington correspondent of the Hawera, Star states that the Manaia branch of the Te Roti-Opunake line, of a length of 5$ miles, is authorised by a Bill introduced in the House early yesterday morning and read a first time.

Th© Legislative Council met at ll a.m. to-day, but as the Iron and Steel Industries Bill had not been circulated, Hon. Bell moved that the Speaker resume the chair at 8 o’clock, when he will move the second reading.—P.A.

The following, from the Answers to Correspondents’ column of the Sydney “Bulletin” is of interest at present: (1) Martial law has not been proclaimed in Australia. (2) No one may he shot here for spying. In fact, the only permissible form of execution is by means of an rope, after a trial before a civil Judge and jury.

At the meeting' of the executive committee of the A. and P. Association last night it was decided that the Show privileges be sold by public auction on November 14th. It was decided that the pig pens be roofed with iron. Mr George Capper, of KaimatjJ, was elected a member of the general committee.

The several attempts in New South Wales to launch the rabbit canning business have failed, and likewise those to reduce the carcase to meat extract. An excellent extract has been produced, however, states the Sydney Gaily Telegraph, but the law does not permit of it being sold as “meat” extract, and, therefore, there is no sale for the product. In South Australia, however, canning seeniis to be well established, as an Adelaide report states that shipments .this month have been at the rate "of JOtons a day.

The hospital ship Rohilla was wreck*? ed in a gale at Whitby and is np (states a Condon cablegram). eral were drowned. Eighty are stin ; aboard. All the nurses were saveaf v'. ', j ■ Weather Forecast.—The indication* are for moderate to strong winds v cm*- . ing by east north. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather with increasing haze and cloudiness loi change. Barometer little movement, but falling shortly.—Bates/ Welling-, ; ton. A reward of £IOO has been offered’ by the Government to any person securing the conviction of the murderer of the Chinaman W r ong Way Chiugv, , who was ifojmd dead in his shop In * Adelaide Wad, Wellington, on September 12th. At the Coroner’s inquest a verdict was returned that the deceased had met his death through having his skull fractured from a blow from some person unknown.