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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 84, 8 April 1916, Page 6

Capt. T. M'Cristell, quartermaster at Treiuham Camp, has been appointed to succeed Major. James O'Sullivan as Director of Stores at Buckle-street. Capt. M'Cristell served in the Xirah Valley (North-west India) campaign, organised by Sir Win. Lockhart in 1897, against the Afridis. It was in this campaign that the famous storming of the heights of Darghai took place. In the South African war Capt. M'Cristell served in the Transvaal and Orange .River Colony operations between November, 1900, and May, 1901. He has the Tirah Medal with two clasps, and the Queen's South African medal with two clasps. In New Zealand he was adjutant of the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment, but has become more widely known as the energetic and resourceful quartermaster -at Trentham.

Several cases were dealt with in the Magistrate's Court yesterday after The Post went to press. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided. The City Corporation proceeded against Francis' Philip Kean for unlawfully standing on the platform of a tramcar after he had been requested by the conductor to leave the same. He was also charged with unlawfully impeding an inspector in carrying but his duties. The case was partly heard, and then adjourned until sth May. Informations charging Alfred Brown and William Hawker with illtreating a horse by working it when suffering from a sore on the back were dismissed, the evidence being described by his Worship as "hardly sufficient." Richard Henry Smith, a- soldier, was convicted of using obscene language in a railway carriage, and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

When found in possession of a smoked ham recently George William Dinester was unable to give the constable who apprehended him a reasonable explanation. In fact, lie told so many different stories that the constable took.him into custody. When charged with stealing the ham from a person or persons unknown, at the Magistrate's Court to-day, Dinester strongly maintained that he had made an honest purchase, but in view of the man's previous disrespect for the truth the Magistrate (Mr. D. 0. A. Cooper) could not give credence to the story. Dinester was accordingly fined 20s, the alternative being fixed at seven days' imprisonment.

In the Mayor's room, Petone, on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m., the annual meeting will be held of the Royal N.Z. Society for the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society).