Second Edition LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 26 February 1918, Page 6

Second Edition LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I A general meeting' 1 of the Stratford Retailers' Association -will fee held in Smith's 'Tea 1 Booms ; this" evening l a't 3 o'clock, •committee' at 7.30. J [embers "of the 'Stratford Retailers'Association will close their shops all. Jay on Thursday 6h the occasion of the School Picnic on the A. and P. grounds. -..!.' Overstaying their leave in London, I two typists were handed on by the Women's .Army Auxiliary Corps authorities, to the civil police for neglect of public duty. They spent two nights in the cells and were each fined £1 Is 'at Aldershot. .'

The Rev. George Peet, a-Wesleyan minister, of Castletown, Isle of Man, has' (a cable published in Australia reports) been sentenced to three months' inip.risonme.nt .with hard ".labour for having denounced many soldiers "as drunken, immoral,,! and pro•fahe scoundrels," He also expressed the hope that God, would continue to sink ships "until He knocked sense I into our sinfiil-hearM'.',>.■- ff ;" : Count von Lucdtner, who is now imprisoned on Eipa Island, in Lyttelton;Harbour, has decided, to write, a book,"giving his experiences since settiDgiprt^ ; on;his;memorable voyage in the Seeadlor. pHie Count, by the way, is'said by those who know; him,. to be of very powerful physique. S,o. strong, are his hands, in fact, that,it is possible for him to bend a copper coin by pressing it.between, his thumb and Two young women had a trying time one afternoon, last week whilst] attempting to- negotiate, the break inj the Teremakau bridge (says the Greyi River '^Argus)'. returning.; from a bathing and alii went well till the cage was reached, ' After -they were comfortably .seated, ] ■ the cage was started on its journey,. I,', but did not proceed -far before it took. the notion into its head to stop, and stop it did;:■'right in thef centre of .the - stream, and, despite^ 4 "th*e strenuous exertions of the oernpants it refused Ito move eitlu-r one wnv or the other.: What to do thev did.not knovi but! between ".intervals' 1 of."singing, 'crying, ] and praying the .young .ladies .man-; aged to put in a couple of hours, in j their! unenviable position. Darkness; was fast- coming on, and the' prob- ! ability.; of having, to spend.the night oyer a raging torrent was anything but cheerful. However, ' after.' feope was almost;;"g9R^:3ir v ,BFoley ■' happened on the scene, and after some trouble in - spaliiig iSie wire rope managed to land the cage and its occuDaiits on shore with nothing "worse than a good iright. .

Eln connection wKh tlie Hobart regatta this year, when, the Jbpoihs ■were/ in :fcM"tißuai A?ay,-putup for irabtlpn,. the secretary of the,Tempe.:?Joce,Allir ance made the ( highest Mfky and bought the lot. He did not /sell beer, neither "did he' make money.; doubt ? he was satisfied with the that it ■ was. a dry. regatta * says a eorrespondent of the Melbourne Argus. This inter diction of the sale of liquor ,■ bn ; the ground -was the jtbe occasion .of • a pleasant jest. A.mysterious advertisement appeared in; the. newspapers inviting . "people to visit tent 30," where is" free." ;Rumor already had it 'that- some of the ; >licem sed victuallers had ja plan for defeats ing their..enemy, and it is; quite safe' to say that 99 out of every 100 -pie who read it assumed it meant that" beer was obtainable. The idea was strengthened by a mysterious distribution of "complimentary" tickets; .Word went round, and the' : day-was not well aired before many thirsty: men sought and found'tent 30. ln- : | " side.'they found, a recruiting officer '■ready to tell them why .they should enlist, and a medfelil .officer; offering free Whether as. a cousequence' of' this 'joke, or by other means, fifteen recruits- were got, on the ground.

Aii interesting development in, which most of the local churches art; represented has lately matured in this city. The organisation known.as the : Ministers' Association ceased to exist some months ago, but when it resolved to disband it set up a com* mittee charged with tho'.task of bringing existence if. possible a council , of the "churciies. Years ago there was ;■■; a body so.named ;in--Vv*ellington, but "it only partially.represented the chur.ches, as it did not include the Anglicans. After prolongedj deliberation a council has been ;formed, in which the ' .Anglican,. Presbyterian} Methodist, Congregational, and Baptist churches and the Salvation:-Army are repre- ? sented by four .delegates each, two of them clerical and* '■■two' laymen. - The ■';-.-:..;constitution of the'new- I :body defines the'object of the council as; "cb-oper- ; ative effort in the promotion of civic national, and international righteousnew, and the furthp.?an'cp of the ideal of church reunion,' 'arid •mutual ehcourazemeni in the . work of th Lord.'' Membership is Opeff'''fo ail , • bodies that confess the historic Chris, 1 tian faith. The council, which was for : mally constituted last Friday evening, elected the Rev. I)i. Gibb as' its - first president, t Mr C. Swiney secretary, and the Hon. J. G. W. Aitken treasurer, and these; with the Rev. A. • M. Johnson.; the; RW. ', J. ft. Glasson, and Major.Colledge (Salvation Army) fcrm the executive. ; - ■■. . ■-' ' ,: ' ; '■,:" '■■■ ■;.' iffn^iiVa^:-.-....'i.,. .-.'-. ■ ..•■■'.'■.■'. ■.-. -.•„' - .'i,'-"- '"■ ■'" ■■:':> A ' •'■■'■■'' -''' '-' " ' -' : - - • .'.-' "