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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10751, 26 April 1911, Page 3

A first offender, charged on remand with having been found drunk at Kurow, was this morning convicted and fined os.

Sitting in civil jurisdiction at the Magistrate's Court this morning, Mr 1. Hutchison, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff bv default of defendant in the following 'undefended cases :—W illiam Waddell and Co. v. George Tripp. £1 13s, costs ss; A. J. S. Headland .v. Peter Hume, £lO 17s, costs £1 10s 6d, Samuel M'Donald v. Thomas Watson, £1 Is costs ss; same v. Hugh I'orbes, £1 5s sd, costs 15s; James Hamilton and Co. v. Thomas Watson, 17s del, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. Frederick Grimwood, £3 0s 4d, costs i3s.

In the report of. the annual meeting of householders of the Middle School district it was made to appear that the Rev F. G. Buckingham was one or those who conducted the Scripture classes. Mr Buckingham was inadvertentlv mentioned m place or Mr l. H* Mathiesou, who was associated with Adjutant Dixon in this work. It should be unnecessary to emphasise the good to be derived f rom a course of study in the principles ot first aid to the injured, such as is ""Parted J* the winter lectures held under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association. Yet so meagre was the attendance at the opening lecture of the course last evening that a feeling that ] men and women do not recognise, as they should the importance of being able to properly treat cases of accident or sickness pending the arrival ot the doctors seems justified. The fee involved for the whole course of lectures is a very small one, while the knowledge gained may be worth more than can be estimated by a monetary value Last evening was the date set down for the opening of the women's nursing class, but so meagre was the attendance owing to a number- of intending members being unable to be present that a lecture was not warranted, and a postponement was made until next Tuesday evening. The first-aid class will meet this evening and it is hoped that all who intend going through the course will be present.

"lt is roughly estimated," says the Dominion, "that fully 5000 people have gone from New Zealand to be present at the Coronation festivities m London, and if we place the expenses of this number at an average of £3OO each it means that New Zealand wiU be obliged, to' provide credits for about ±,l,sUU,yuu. This is only a small, item when pared with what Australia, India, boutii > Africa, Canada, the United States, and (Continental Europe will spend.; It 1 would perhaps be no exaggeration to say that credits for fully £100,000,000 will be transferred to London during, the next ten or twelve weeks." - Applications closed yesterday for sec--1 tions in the Drayton and Allanholine settlements in the Paparua and Wai- » mate counties respectively. The Dray- ' ton settlement consists of 961 acres of i first-class land, cut into twenty sections, for which there were thirty-four applicants. The Allanholine settlement comprises 1911 acres of first-class land, cut into eight sections, for which there were fifty-five applicants. The ballot for the Drayton settlement will take place at the'Christchurch Lands Office to-day, and for the Allanholme settlement'at Waimate on Friday. All the issues to he decided by the ratepayers to-day will be declared together from the Wear Street Hall sonio time between 10 and 11 o'clock to-night. Pulling has been steady throughout the

day, though there has been an entire lack of excitement, except in : that anremic form occasioned by th e sight of the rival leaders of the Harbor parties stirring up the dust of Thames .--street, in their respective cars. The population of the Borough of WnHmate as shown by the present census is 1762, being an increase of 125, . on the previous census. . _""■ At a public meeting held at the. State collieries it was resolved: —'jThab this; meeting of citizens of llunanga enter their most emphatic protest against the action of the Government in attempting to enforce upon the people compulsory military training before first ascertaining the opinion of the people on the question.'/ Mr Semple said that as an. organiser of Labor, he intended to speak New Zealand -against the iniquity of the Act. ~,..'. ,-V In a potato-growing district like North Otago it should not be necessary to import potatoes for local consumption, yet-this is what is happening at the present time owing to the wholesale destruction of the crops by the potato moth. So badly are the potatoes ...affected that in many cases the waste necessitated by cutting amounts 50 per cent., and boardinghouse-keepers. would sooner pay a little ex-tra for potatoes from some outside clean district, than take the trouble with the locallygrown. Already one boardinghou.se-. keeper has placed an order for two tons of southern-grown, and outside grown potatoes are being retailed by green- . grocers and vegetable hawkers. . The Waitaki County Council didnot hold their usual monthly meeting today. In consequence tenders for eontracts which previously closed to-dtiy will now be received up to noon on Saturday next. _ . . ' The Operacinescope Picture Company have received direct from Wests G'onipanv a programme of moving pictures which are. described as the best and newest produced. Several productions of exceptional merit arc contained in the list to be screened this evening. These, are: "An American Count/' "Aiild. Robin Gray," "Birds in there Nests" (which should prove exceptionally interesting), "Dolauiitc Alps" and "A Swiss Country Wedding." The titles of some of the other subjects will be found in our advretising columns. These subjects should provide an onteiv taiimieut worthy of the highest patron-

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