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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 20 August 1917, Page 8

There were some painful features attached to a case heard in the Magistrate's Court' to-day. An ex-soldier named George Griffiths, who had been discharged from camp owing to certain physical defects, appeared before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., to answer a charge of being in the ■ possession of liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. Evidence was called to show that the defendant was simply unable to control his craving for liquor, and was continually intoxicated. Since being prohibited his drinking habits had become worse.-When sober he was a decent, well-behaved young man. The defendant agreed with the Magistrate that a year's confinement at Roto Boa might be of considerable benefit to him, and he was accordingly 'Committed to the institution.

A little London girl, staying at a farm, heard that rain was greatly■ wanted, says Mr. Pett Ridge in Lloyd's. It was mentioned t.hafc prayers with this object would be offered on Sunday at the parish church. She crept up to her room, and, kneeling, made an appeal in her own language. Within an hour, a storm broke out that made the farmyard into a lake, uprooted trees, destroyed roofs. "This," said < the child, gazing on the scene ruefully, '"this is what comes of interfering with matters that on© doesn't properly understand !"

Messrs. Williams and Co., Ltd., will eel! by auction to-morrow, at 2 p.m., in the Arcade, Courtenay-pkico, furniture, piano, and gramophone. On Wednesday 1, 'J.bursday, and Saturday next, at the Town Hall Arcade, Lower Hutt, a consignment of drapery and clothing of an estate in liquidation will be cold.