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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 90, 14 November 1939, Page 4

At half-past two o'clock this afternoon the alarm of fire was > given in Leeston. The outbreak oc- > curred in a macrocarpa hedge on ! the Chervier Street frontage of i Roman Catholic Presbytery. The • hedge had been cut back, leaving I the dry interior exposed and men ; were burning the clippings on the roadside. A Spark from one of the fires set this ablaze, but the out- ■ break was soon brought under con- ! trol after the arrival of the bri- ; gade under Supt. Ramsay. Apart : from a few feet of the hedge and I the end portion of a dividing hedge being burnt, no damage was , done. 1 "Lark" Led to Dock "Yours is a strange idea of having 1 a lark," remarked Mr James E. 1 Harvey, presiding magistrate at Liverpool, the other day, to two well--5 dressed young men who were arrested when telephoning to women at 1 midnight. The men, Edward Hoyne, ; and John Joseph Connolly, pleaded r guilty to offensive behaviour in Sel- • borne street, Liverpool. Mr D. E. Dalzell, for the police, 'declared that the two men were - found in. a public telephone-box at 3 midnight, ringing up women whom • they did not know. When arrested " they said they were only doing it • for a lark. 3 Hoyne now told the magistrates ' that such an idea would never have entered their heads if they had not t had drink. Connolly stated: "We were just " having a lark. When the women 1 answered we took turns to speak to > them." The men were each fined £2.