LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 298, 15 December 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Melbourne cablegram states that the Wimmera has sailed.

Weather Forecast.—The iulications are for northerly winds moderate to strong and' freshening. A storm appears to be approaching from the north. Expect warm and humid conditions with increasing haze and cloudiness for an unfavorable change in the weather. Barometer falling after about 10 hours.—Bates, Wellington,.

A full dross rehearsal of the performance to be given by the school children in the Town Hall to-morrow night went off splendidly this afternoon, and the affair promises to go off without a hitch, the little performers being perfect in their parts. Seating accommodation will be at a premium, and parents and others would be well advised to be early at the Hall.

Tx-affic on the railway between Pohokura and Wliangamomona lias been temporarily suspended owing ,o the landslip at each end of the Whangainomona tunnel for a distance of abort three or four chains. A coach sexvice, however, has been arranged to serve the district, and the train service between Stratford and Pohokura has not been seriously affected. Men are busily engaged on the work, and it is anticipated the line will be clearld in a day or two.

The chairman of the Boai’d of Control of the New Zealand Sports Protection League (Mr C. P. Skerrett, K.C.), in referring to the part taken by the League in the elections (reports the Press Association) states that in reply to representations that have been made, a very large proportion of the successful candidates are willing to maintain the rights of the people to free enjoyment of all legitimate sports, and to oppose any curtailment of statutory privileges in connection therewith. The majority of meinbers also favor the principle that all recruit ion' grounds not used for private gain should be exempted from local rates;