LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3280, 25 February 1926, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

,T r O’Dowd and R. Booth twO prominent Wairarapa representatives footballers, recently went lor a trip to England, and on January Bth they played for the London New Zealand* ers against the United Services, whom they defeated by 15 to nil. R. Booth had the honour of scoring the first try.

“1 6nly took one oyster, sir,” said a poacher of those shellfish at the Police Court at Auckland. “That does not matter,” replied Mr.. J, W, Poynton. who presided on the bench. "Don’t you know that every oyster you kill would hav e laid five million eggs?'* Defendant was fined £5 and coats. -

A fotal motor Occident occurred at Mount Messenger. Taranaki, yesterday morning. Mr. and Mrs. A, W. Ogle left Waitara early for PukekoHO and turning a sharp corner on the the mountain the car ran off the road and fell about 30 feet, Mrs. Ogle was killed' instantaneously, her husband escaping with minor injuries.

The manslaughter cahrgs, arising out of the Opapa Railway disaster, iii September, is proceeding at Napier, the case following Mr. LUsk’s open* ing. There has commenced the hearing of lengthy evidence, as outlined In the Magistrate’s Court proceedings on, November 21.- Nothing fresh has been brought out by cross-examina-tion.

At the Supreme Court at Hamilton yesterday, a young man named Frederick H. Orange alias Jack Wilson, pleaded guilty to unlawfully carnal knowledge of a girl aged 13 years at Ngahipepouri. • The prisoner was sentenced to six months imprison? ment to run concurrent with six months'he is already'serving for arrears of wife maintenance.

At Hamilton, a bankrupt who hitherto ran a motor ’bus service between Hamilton and Te Aroha, stated that the venture would have turned out successful had it not been for the advent of the daylight Himlted. Facilities for connection by train for people living along the Te Aroha line had been afforded by the Railway Department and this he attributed to be responsible for his failure.

Before) partaking of luncheon yesterday a well-known Palmerston North cricketer killed a duck and left it on the lawit, intending to hang It before going l to cricket. Being a little absent-minded, he. forgot and proceeded, down to the Sportsground. Not until dismissed for a “duck” did he suddenly] recall having left the “real mackay” on the, lawn. The incident did not close at that, for on returning home he discovered that stray dogs had disappeared with the tit-bit, thus leaving the poor cricketer with a brace of "ducks.’'

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