LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 279, 23 November 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In connection with our report of Holy Trinity bazaar on Saturday, the names of Mrs W. H. H. Young, Mrs Crawshaw and Mrs A. Grant were inadvertently omitted.

The A. and P. Association’s office will be open till 9 p.m. to-night and to-morrow night for the purpose of receiving entries. At the office on Saturday Mr Ward had a strenuous time, entries coming in at a great rate.

Despite the threatening weather there was a fair crowd at King Edward Park yesterday afternoon for the concert given by the Municipal Band in aid of tho British and Belgian Relief Fund. The Baud gave a very creditable performance, and the collection taken up netted £4 Bs.

On Thursday last a team of Stratford cricketers played a friendly game with the Inglewood Cricket Club, the latter being victorious by the narrow margin of four runs. Stratford made 11U runs (.Mather 29, Kavanagh 28, Malour 15, Hill 11). Inglewood scored 114. —Clegg 40 (not out), De Launay 35, extras 16. Dunlop four for 23 and Kavanagh four for 41, divided howling honors.

“Are you in favor of the admission of women to Parliament?” was a question put to Mr A. E. Glover, M.P., at one of Ins meetings. “No; ] am not,” declared the member, “I voted in favor of the admission of women to the Upper House, because there they only sit a few hours a day. But in tho House we sit day after day till 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning, and the tirades and abuse are so bad Ibat if is no plans lor any woman.”

The Defence Rifle Club holds the usual weekly parade to-night. A good muster is desirable, as final arrangements are to be made for the forthcoming concert.

Weather forecast. —Easterly moderate to strong winds prevailing. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. The barometer has a rising tendency.—Bates, 'Wellington.

A euchre party and dance will be held in the Midhirst Hall on W ednesday evening next in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund, when a record attendance is anticipated.

Napier reports that steady Tain, which set in about midnight and continued throughout the night, will do a tremendous amount of good, being the best rain since May. The total fall for the past six months was only about inches.

A man charged at Newport, Monmouthshire, with being an unregistered alien enemy, raised tne defence that he was a British subject, born in Heligoland before that island was made over to Germany. The magistrates placed on the military authorities the onus of solving the problem involved. Concluding a long letter to the Auckland Star, a trooper in one of the transports from our shores writes: “The severity of a regimental court-martial will be experienced by seventeen of the New Zealand force, who are charged 'with absenting themselves in port without leave, and failing to board their respective vessels when they left port. Of this number some of the defaulters were arrested at , the others being taken a t . Prior to arrival at , orders were issued that there would be absolutely no leave for officers,

non-commissioned officers or mm*. Phis stricture seemed a little too severe for some men. One daring young fellow stripped, and, sliding down a rope, dropped quietly into the water under cover of evening shadows and swam ashore. He seemed a boat, pulled out to the ship again, and waited for his mates, and upwards of a dozen got ashore. Three more trips were . iriade before the leakage was stopped. Those who got off had a good time, and paid tbe penalty afterwards without a murmur. The predicament of some infantrymen who missed their boat altogether on the following day as more serious, but fortunately they were able to reach their ships later. An inquiry was immediately instituted when the fleet touched port as to the reason the men had been left behind, on the order of General Godley. A charge of desertion was laid against them, and they will appear to answer to the offence before courtmartial. Before the troops left the wharf prior to the route march Ashore a letter was read from the General, in which he warned the men of the seriousness of the desertion offence. He greatly regretted that there had been so many soldiers charged, and reminded the men that they were now part of the British military system, and amenable to its laws.”