LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 58, 4 November 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reminder is given of the special meeting of the Lawn Tennis Club to he held this evening.

The Fire Brigade’s social and dance for children is to he held in the Foresters’ Hall on Friday evening, and promises to be highly successful. The children will have the floor from 7 p.m. to 9,d() p.m., and the adults thereafter-. The proceeds arc to go towards the Brigade fund for a motor engine.

The Legislative Council met at 10 a.m. to-day and passed thrmgh ail stages the Bills put through t'm House last night. The Press Association states that the Council disagreed with the amendment made by the House in the War Contrihnlio is Bill and rose at 10.10 a.m. until Hie ringing of the hell.

At a meeting of creditors in the estate of Charles Hill, the solicitor who disappeared from Christchurch some weeks ago, tlie accountant’s report disclosed that the hooks were in chaos, and the ledger had nop been balanced for nine years. The; liabilities were estimated at over £19,000, but while the hooks showed assets of £23,000 investigation showed that this was far from being their real value. The meeting adjourned to allow the accountant to finish his investigation.

At the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the charges of theft' preferred against Edward John Jones, secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Union, were dismissed. The prosecution was instituted hy Joseph Ladd, acting secretary, and the .charges related to small sums re»|s ( l s jfro.ni members of the Union and allegedly not accounted for. The ton charges involved, amounts totalling £2 3s. One was heard, and the Magistrate, Mr Cooper, in dismissing it, said the case should never have been brought into the Court. The other charges were then withdrawn.

Archdeacon Neild, organising secretary for the Melanesian Mission, is on a visit to Stratford, and will give a huitern lecture in the Parish Hall this evening, to which all are invited. The great work of this Mission is growing in importance year by year, awd necessarily its expenses grow with the work. In common with other good causes, however, there has been a great falling of funds since the outbreak of the war in Europe, the difference to., the Melanesian Mission income from New Zealand being about £looo already. The Mission is especially a New Zealand work, and New Zealanders should afford generous support. Those who know about the Mission will learn more and those who know nothing about it will be interested if they attend Archdeacon Neild’s lecture to-night. There will be no charge for admission.

A Press Association telegram from Palmerston North to-day states; The weather is dull but fine for the twentyninth annual show of the Manawatu A. and P. Association. Generally speaking, the exhibition is not appreciably affected by the war crisis. Entries are not quite up to last year, but the shortage is spread evenly over the various divisions, consequently it is not noticeable. The quality of the stock is quite up to the previous best. There is a good show of cattle, in which Ayrshires have come to the front, taking second place to Holsteins in the entry list, Jerseys being third. Sheep and horses are both well represented. Nearly 100 draughts arcon show. There is an exceptionally good machinery exhibit, being the best for some years, .Judging is proceeding.

The following nominations have been received for the general election of members of the Whangainomona County Council which takes place on .November ilth:—-Strathmore Ridiftg, Messrs A. Meredith, A. Coyne and T. 11. Mounsey; Pohokura Riding,. Joseph McCluggage; Tahora Riding, Messrs E. B. Roberton and N. R. Gleland; Central Riding, Messrs W. A. McCutchan, W. Bacon and X. Geover. Those nominated are at present members of the Council with the exception of Mr Geever, and the only election necessary will be in respect of the Central Riding, for which he is nominated, the nominations for the other Ridings merely filling the vacancies. For the position of reprasentative of the Council on the Stratford Hospital Board, Mr A. Meredith was

re-elected, bis being the only nomination.

The latest i Torts in uu way of patriotic songs reach us from the publishers, Messrs Whitcombe. and • Tombs. They consist of a short and tuneful song—“ Good-bye Maoriland,” the words and music by Raymond Hope, the well-known composer. It is quite beyond the average of this sort of thing. The second, is the first work to he published by Mr Arthur Lilly, a brother to Mr A. W. Lilly, organist of All Saints’ Church. Dunedin. Mr Lilly was born in Mornington in 18S2. About ten years ago he went to London to study, and returning three years later, he settled in Christchurch. The work which has been accepted for publication is the first of “Six Songs from the Psalms.” It was chosen first because its theme—“ God is calliope and strength”—is part lonia dy applicable for the present troublous times. It is certainly ,'a very worthy effort.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands in South Australia has estimated the forthcoming wheat crop at thr fie ard ' a half to four million bushels.

Weather forecast.—Westerly moderate tc strong winds, with southerly tendency. Weather cloudy to overcast at times. Barometer little movement .—Bates, Wellington.

The Federal {government account against the New South Wales Government over the smallpox outbreak now totals £IO,OOO. Fresh cases of tho disease are still being reported in New South Wales.

A shocking accident is reported by an Australian paper. At a sawmill works at Bendigo, Thomas Rea <3O) fell' ,ojo ,jto a saw bench, and before he coy Id;. be rescued he was practically sawn in two. Death was instantaneous. “Since the beginning of this wav tho meaning of it has in one respect considerably changed, and I hope that our people will see that it is primarily a holy war,” writes Mr Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, in The Times. “It is manifestly a war declared between Christ and the Devil.”

In connection with the New South Wales State wheat-growing • scheme, an area of 50,000 acres has been selected, and it is proposed to have tho crop in for next year. A thousand men are to be employed clearing. The ploughing will be done by traction engines.

The Stratford Defence Corps will meet at the School Gymnasium to-

morrow (Thursday) evening at 7.30 for rehearsal for church parade cn Sunday. Both the infantry and mounted sections are to parade on Sunday next at two o’clock', as notified in another column. ;

This conversation was overheard at a ladies’ club in London last month. Four ladies were lunching together,, two of them being visitors from Scotland. The two Soots wo men exchanged a few sentences in the dialect of their country. When the familiar colloquy finished, one of the English ladies said very gravely, “It’s all right here, of course; but, if I were you, I should not speak German just now in a restaurant.”

As recently as Friday, sßrd ult,, Newcastle (N.S.W.) reported: There has been a fresh outbreak of smallpox in the district during the past week and in that time seven patients, - of whom three are school children, have been taken to the quarantine station at ; Stockton. Three of the patients .were removed from one house at Lambton, making the total of that suburb’s cases, five. The other patients wore attending one of the public schools.

Messrs Bell and Budd, of the UZ. L. and M.A. Co.’s staff, bad a nasty experience on Monday, and were fortunate in not being seriously injured. They were driving to Inglewood in a t\Yp-seater motor car which the firm recently, landed,, and, when, near Waipuku the car ran over the bank into a gully, turning over several •. ernes. Neither of the occupants was ously hurt, but the car was knocked about considerably. , , ~

The British and Belgian Relief Fund now stands at £358 11s 7d. The latest contributions , are as, follow, Misses O’Leary 10s 6d, M.A.W, 10a, T. Lawson ss, Anonymous 2s 6d, Do 2s 6d, Two Little Girls 2s, .Master E.. Burmester Is 6d, proceeds concert Makahu (per Mrs S. Brewer) £6 8a Id, Mrs E. S. Gillespie £2 2s, H. E. : Lawrence and Mrs Prentis £1 Is each, J. M., F.G.C., “German,” J. H. Hobbs, G. and W. Jones £1 each.

The annual meeting of governors of the New Zealand Veterans’ Home was held in Wellington to-day. His Excellency the Governor, who presided, was re-elected president, the Hon. E. Mitchelson, honorary treasurer, and Colonel R. J. Colhus, honorary secretary. The average number of veterans 'ill the Home has been 39 per month. The average of those now in the Home is a little over 78 years. The Boaid expressed great satisfaction with the manner in which the Home is being Conducted by Major R. Carpenter.— P.A.