HAVELOCK.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 86, 11 April 1916, Page 6

HAVELOCK.

[FROM OUR COP.REBPONDENT.]

Monday. As the result of a. regrettable disturbance which took place at the Masonic Hotel on Saturday evening, •.several miners r.t Deep Crock will -ippestr at tiic Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to answer a charge of having committed a breach of thp peace. The men, who entered the hotel only a .-few minutes ■ before closing time, wvvv well? behaved until an argument f.iose, which soon developtd ,ii:io' n Iree light. The licensee, who co.'.id in no way be held responsible for the. disturbance, was obliged to call in the akl of the constable bcloi'H ilie '.sxeited men could bo induced to leave tho premises.

Mt Krie }leacicr is at present in Havelock, spen;lin^. :t week's final leave from caanp. He returns on iSa turdav. ,

Mr A. Ei Earrowclough recently received tho pleasing intelligence that I;is (rider-1 son, Harold, had been promoted to iho rank of captain. A liurnbci" of pigs, which ' v/ero being lowe-d by launch from Keuepuiu to llarcio^k on. b*>lmlf of Mr A. Vickers, Avei^; precipitated into the sea hist Thursday -through the iUilnials.assuinbliiig to one side, of the punt) on which they were being carried. About thirty weie drowned, and a. mirnb(?r succeeded in reaching the shore o-i opposite- isides of the Sound, where, they were subsequently ieeovered.