LATE NEWS

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 167, 20 August 1914, Page 8

LATE NEWS

WOODVIIiLE, August 20. Woodville has already contributed £4OO to the Patriotic Fund, besides 10 horses and sheep, chaff, and other produce. Yesterday the ladies sent to Mast.erton a large quantity of underclothing, etc., for the troops. Seventy men who have seen service as excontingenters, volunteers, and rifle club men have enrolled, and wish to become a branch of the National Defence Reserve, offering their services to the Minister of Defence in any capacity. HAWEEA, August 20. The Patriotic Fund has reached £IOO2. • GREYMOUTH, August 20. ' .-' ' The first instalment of £2OOO has been sent to the Prime Minister as Greymouth's/ contribution to the War Pund. ~. DROPPED DEAD. D'JNEDIN, August -20. James Nisbsi, an elderly man, carrying on the business of painter in St. Andrew Street, dropped dead, this morning. A Press Association mesaagte jrdm Wellington states that two youths;/ Glen Cole and Ernest Edward Harper, weie remanded to appear at Christchurch charged with the theft of a bicycle./' Constables Roberts and' Williams arrested a man at Sydenham to-d&y charged with the theft of a bottle of wtiisky. Detectives Torrance sand O'Connor arrested a man this morning charged with the theft of motor car tyres from Hawk9's Garage. FOOTBALL. SOUTHLAND 'v. SOUTH CANTERBURY. TIMARU, August 20. The representative football match Southland v. South Canterbury resulted in a win for Southland by 20 points to 5. South Canterbury scored only in the first spell, which ended: Southland 13,' South Canterbury 5. In t-fcs cscend spell the visitors put on 7 more points. knight (with his shoulder out) and Baird (a small bons in his leg broken) were taken to the Timaru Hospital.