LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 2 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The record price of £27 was obtained at the Wallacetown stock sale last week for a well-grown Shorthorn bullock, sold on account of Mr G. Anderson, of Wright's Bush.

■At the Stratford Magistrate's Court yesterday, a man, charged with assaulting a policeman, and damaging his uniform, wrote attributing the cause of the trouble to "misunderstanding on my part and a few wines." '

At the last meeting of the Invereargill Town Council it was decided to approach the Minister of Defence with a request that when a special troop train comes as far south as Dunedin it should go right through to Ihvercargilt. "~

The Stratford A. and P. Delegation to the Palmerston North Show report a very successful trip. A record entry of pigs is anticipated at the Stratford Show this season. Some fine animals have been entered from the Hawke's Bay district.

■ Members of the Stratford Returned Soldiers' {Association are to parade at the school at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow' for the purpose of attending the Thanksgiving Service at the Town Hall. As this is the first public function at w'hieh the newly-formed Association has been represented a big muster is expected.

The following further donations to the Band Euphonium Fund, are acknowledged :—W. J. Lodpdell £1 Is, J. Stewart £1 Is, T. Smith 10s 6d, J. H. Thompson 10s, A. David £l, Savage, Senr., 10s, P. Price £1 Is. Donations will be thankfully received and acknowledged by Mr H. Burmester, secretary.

A united service of thanksgiving to celebrate the surrender of Turkey will be held in the Town Hall, Stratford, to-morrow afternoon commencing at 3 o'clock. The band will be in attendance and Returned Soldiers, Fire Brigade, Territorials and Cadets will parade. Addresses will be delivered by the Revs. Dawson O. Madill, C. W. Howard, and R. B. Tinsley.

A Wellington Press Association message states: A,t the Wellington Camp, canteens have been' placed under the administration of the Military authorities. All the profits tvill be paid into the canteen funds 'and are returnable to the men through their respective units. The prices ore on a par with, and some cases lower than, pre-war rates. Civilians are strictly debarred from participating in the benefits of the system, which was designed purely for soldiers. Similar arrangements have been in operation in the Featherston Camp for some time.

I As showing tho number of motor | vehicles that passed through Patea I (states the Press) on Monday from ! the Waverley races, a local resident I who took the trouble to count them for some thirty minutes, found the rate to be as follows:—In the first ten minutes 40 passed, in 15 minutes 73 had gone by, in 20 minutes 112, in 22 minutes this number had gone up to 122, whilst in half ah hour the i total had reached no less than 160. These represented only a fraction of j the total number passing through, whose value must have represented an enormous sum of money, The induction to economise benzine and utilise it only for business purposes, had evidently fallen on deaf ears, so far as this portion of the Dominion is concerned. I At the King's Cinema to-night will be screened a double star programme «f rare merit, including "Under False Colours,"' and Charlie Chaplin liaI ia "The Count." There, ought to be a big house.

The Telegraph Department advises that full rate and deferred cable messages for the United Kingdom .vis, Eastern may now be accepted. The Auckland Board of Education have resolved to close the city and suburban schools during the influenza epidemic, and to recommend the city authorities to take the responsibility of closing picture shows to children. The indications are for: Northerly moderate to strong winds, freshening and backing by west to south. E± pect dull weather with much mist and fog in parts. Rain probable. The barometer has a falling tendency, but rising after about 24 hours.—Bates, Wellington.

Fuller particulars of the shooting fatality at Awapuni training camp slioav how a . simple accident resulted in a painful tragedy. The victim—Mr Vance > secretary of the Y.M.CA.) — was lying in his bunk, and Bonner was overhauling an officer's equipment prior to cleaning up his aocountrements and weapons. Amongst the accoutrements was an automatic pistol belonging to an officer . who had returned from service abroad. Bonner held the weapon in his right hand. Mr Vance said: "Let me see it," and Bonner with his left hand' over the muzzle of the pistol was handing it across when an explosion occurred. The bullets pierced the palm of Bonner's hand,- and struck Mr Vance in the right temple. He uttered a few incoherent words, and lay unconscious with a nasty hole in his bead. Bonner's condition was also serious. He had severed an artery, and was in immediate danger of bleeding to death. Another orderly at once seized the injured limb, and exerted his full pressure on the wrist for a few minutes that intervened before a doctor's services were available. Both the injured men were immediately placed in an ambulance and taken to the hospital. Mr Vance lingered on until about 4 o'clock, when he passed away, Bonner's injuries, although painful are not likely to prove fatal. Mr Vance, who is said to have been about 56 years of age, Was a business man in Blenheim, and some months, ago he volunteered for Y.M.CA. work during the war. .It is understood that he has two sons at the war. / . V