LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 40, 16 May 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“I could not stand up against a big woman like her,” said a plaintiff before the Justices yesterday. Messrs Strange and Co. have a replace advertisement in this issue, announcing special bargains. Mr E. Stocker, of Conway, advertises that a number of sheep on his property requ ire cla i niants. “I was certainly shaping at going for her,” said a plaintiff in an assault case at the Court yesterday. Mr F. W. Bullen notifies that poison has been laid on “The Lakes” property for the destruction of dogs. A hockey match will be played on the Show Grounds to-morrow afternoon, and all ladies are invited to participate in the game. The box plan for the Orchestral Concert is open at Messrs Robinson ami Perrin’s. There is no additional charge for reserve seats. A public subscription is being taken up in Christchurch for Isabel Burns, 13, whose heroic conduct while in charge of a small rowing boat containing her younger brothers and sister, has brought her prominently before the public eye. It is scmi-officially stated that the Reparation Experts’ plan will probably remain the basis of the French reparations policy, and even if M. Poincare ceases to direct public affairs, his successor is unlikely to abandon altogether the policy of the present French Prime Minister. Woods’ Great Peppermint Care. For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

An advertiser requires 200 rabbits weekly. Tenders are invited’ for the lease of 25 acres at Tulloch Mains. ‘ ‘ She hit me tw r o, and I gave her sixty-two,” was a. remark passed anent a quarrel at the wharf the other day. The Rev. C. McDonald will conduct services at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church on Sunday. committee mi eting of the Kaikoura Football Clu'» will be held it the Drill Hall on Monday night at 7.30.

An ideal business section will be submitted to auction by Messrs Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 24.

“It is a pity these cases were ever brought before the Court,” said Mr J. Boyd, J.P., yesterday, when dealing with a feminine quarrel. “My advice to you is to go away and live peacefully.” The Hapuku ladies arc arranging a ball, to be held at the Hapuku Hall, on May 30, as an opening to the hockey season. A dance will be held in the Suburban Hall to-night,, the proceeds from which arc to be devoted to the hall improvement fund. A meeting of the Kaikoura Ladies’ Hockey Club is convened for Monday night, at the Public Library. A good attendance is requested. A meeting of the committee of the Kaikoura Axemen’s Association will be held at the New Club Hotel to-morrow at 2 p.m. Urgent business is to be transacted, and a full attendance is requested. Mrs J. Washington desires to acknowledge receipt of £1 from Mrs Stephenson Smith, of Blenheim, towards the general improvement fund of “The Garden of Memories. ’ ’ Mr G. W. Forbes, M.P.-for Hurunui, who, with Mrs Forbes, has been spending a holiday in Australia, returned from Sydney by the Marama on TticsThe members of the Kaikoura Bowling Club intend holding weekly social evenings at the Oddfellows’ Hall every .Monday, commencing on Monday next, when card and other games will be indulged in. A hearty invitation is extended to male visitors. At the Public Library to-night a meeting will be held to further consider ♦he Marlborough hydro-electric power scheme. Mr A. J. Murray will be in attendance and report regarding the Blenheim Board’s meeting on Monday night. Passenger ((after an unusually long stoppage at a small station): “I say, guard, why aren’t we going on ’ Anything wrong?” Guard (complacently engaged upon an alfresco lunch): “There’s naething wrong, sir, but I canna’ whustle the noo; ma mouth’s fou’ o’ biscuit.” There was a good attendance at the Suburban Hall on Wednesday night, on the occasion of the dance held in aid of the school shelter for the children attending the Suburban School. A most enjoyable time was spent. The music was supplied by Misses Mackie, Wareham, Palmer, Eaton, Gill, and Graham? Mr S. Sharpe acted as M.C-. In the Supreme Court the three men involved in the ringing-in charge at Otahuhu, chief interest centred in the black-coloured hide ivhich was lying on •the floor of the Christchurch Court. The hide is held by the Crown to be the coat of the unknown horse which was masqueraded as All Smoke, hut which broke a bone in its fetlock and ended its days by being boiled down, The exhibit, the Crown asserts, is dumb yet eloquent, and one of the links in the very conclusive story built up against the prisonBofore Messrs J. Boyd and A. B. Clark, Justices of the Peace, yesterday, judgment was given by default in several civil cases, and defendants ordered to pay costs. M. Smith was granted an application for rehearing before the j Magistrate, in a civil action brought against him at the previous sitting of the Court by F. 11. Flower. H. W. Bodger was ordered to return military equipment to the Defence Department within seven days, or pay the value £l4 10/- by weekly instalments of £l, and costs £5 1/1. Pearl Matilda Hodgman proceeded against Sarah Reardon for assault; and against Lilian Hamilton for obscene language. The latter applied for an order against Pearl Matilda to have her bound over to keep the peace. The three cases were dismissed, each party to pay own costs.