LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 62, 9 November 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough Council is now well established in its new quarters at the lire brigade station, and the monthlv meeting to be held this evening will lake place in the Council's new home. At the Hastings A. and P.' Show. this year, competition in grass seeds was very the first and second honors in perennial and Italian ryegrass falling to the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hastings. Weather forecast. -The itvl'catfoh* are for westerlyl winds strong to gale at times. Tb© weather will probably prove squally and cluu.goable. Barometer unsteady, with a falling tendency.—Bites, Wellington. At the Napier Court to-day Homy Brock was fined £25 for baying uncustomed goods in his possession. The Press Association states that tbe goods comprised articles received from steamers in the roahtead, am! the police emphasised the difficulty of detecting this sort of smuggling. The following three rinks have been selected to play, for the Stratford Bowling Club against New Plymouth on Thursday :—Bickerton, McDonald, G. Curtis, C. Jackson; Martin, J. Masters, Wright, Cottier; King, Smart, McMillan, Porritt. Rinks will select their own skip.' Players are requested to provide the usual plate. The Wellington criminal sessions opened before Mr Hosking. The Grand Jury, found no bill in the charge against prances Coyne on ?. charge of assault and roobs-y. Clifford Parr ant, charged with indecent assault on a male, was admitted to | probation for tlree year-. Joseph Kean, for being unlawfully on premises at night vuJi intent 'o con.uit a crime, was.senr.oueed to three" year;' imprisonment. —P.'A.