PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20380, 11 April 1928, Page 7

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(F&ou Otm Special Cobbespondkkt.)

BOWLING. In the finals for the bowling the results were as follow: — PAIRS. Qualifying Round. Sprosen 12 beat Grenfell 10. Cook 12 beat Stevenson 8. Silver 15 beat D. Smith 7. Halligan 17 beat Johnson 7. O’Hagan 13 beat Aitkenhead 10. Sorley 12 beat Manchester 8. D. H. Thomson 11 beat Menzies 8. Williamson 13 beat Adams 12. OAMARU CHAMPION PAIRS. Sprosen 8 beat Cook 5. Halligan 14 beat Silver —. Sorley 14 beat O’Hagan —. B. Thomson 9 beat Williamson 7. Semi-final. Halligan 12 beat Sprosen 4. Thomson 19 beat Sorley 12. Final. J. Davis and T. W. Halligan (Kaituna) 22 beat R. Donaldson and D. H. Thomson (Southland) 12. PHOENIX PAIRS. Johnson 11 beat D. Smith 10. Manchester 15 beat -Aitkenhead 11. Adams 13 best Menzies 5. ' Stevenson 15 beat Grenfell 12. Semi-final. Johnson 12 beat Stevenson 9. Manchester 13 beat Adams 2. Final. C. J, Holmes and C. E. Manchester (Waimate) 25 beat J. Flint and J. Johnson, (Dunedin) 17. CHAMPION SINGLES. Final. D. H. Thomson (Southland) 21 beat A. Slater (Meadowbank) 13. In the first three heads Thomson gained & lead of four, Slater scoring a single on the fourth, and his opponent four on the next. In the sixth Slater scored three, and at the seventh head the score stood 9—4 in Thomson’s favour. He then added two in the ninth, and Slater scored four in the next. Thomson increased his lead on each head up to the thirteenth, when the score was 18 —9 in Lis favour. The next head went to Slater with a single, and Thomson took one in the succeeding head. Slater took the seventeenth and eighteenth, and Thomson the nineteenth and the twentieth, and the score was 21 —13 in the latter’s favour at the twentieth head.

NORTH OTAGO.

ACTIVITIES OF THE DISTRICT.

SERIOUS CHARGES. Joseph Hussey and George Garden were charged at the Police Court in Oamaru yesterday, before Mr James M’Diarrmd, J.P., and Mr W. Crombie, J.P., with being drunk and, with using obscene language. They were represented by Mr H. S. Grater, and pleaded guilty. Robert Thomas Harvey, mill owner, Enfield, was charged with having been drunk m charge of a motor car in Thames street. Senior Sergeant Shanahan stated that Frederick William Stevenson had laid a complaint that as he was proceeding along lhames highway two men who were standing near a car called out to him to, stop, and used filthy language. The man in the car did not speak. Two constables went with Stevenson and found the car in front of the North Otago Hotel with two men in it Both were drunk. Hussey, who had had a previous conviction, was fined £l, in default 48 hours in gaol, for drunkenness, and £3, in default 14 days, for psing obscene language. Garden was convicted and discharged on the first charge, and was convicted and fined £3, in default 14 days, on the second. Both were given seven days in which to pay. R. T. Harvey was remanded to April 18. MAGISTRATE’S COURT RETURNS. Following are the Oamaru Magistrates Court statistics for the first quarter of 1928: —Sittings presided over by the magistrate 18 (civil 9, criminal 9), by justices 10 (civil I, criminal 9), civil cases heard by the magistrate 5, by justices nil; amount sued for £IBO6 17s sd; applications heard in court or chambers, 37; plaints entered, 114; distress warrants issued, 3; judgment summonses issued, 23; warrants executed, 5; criminal cases, 72 (males 62, females 10). Total fees, £229 _

ex-pupils talked over many school incidents and escapades of bygone days. MANCHESTER UNITY. On Good Friday 100 Oddfellows, many accompanied by their wives, arrived by train and motor to attend the annual district meeting of the Manchester Unity, 1.0.0. F. on the following day. Special train arrangements were made by tne Railways Department to bring them on from Miller’s Fiat to Roxburgh station, where cars were waiting to take them to their lodgings. The accommodation of the visitors was satisfactorily arranged by the local lodge, which had taken the precaution two months ago to secure sufficient, and it reflects credit upon the hotels and boarding houses that this was accomplished without the necessity of shakedowns, and, of course, the usual tourist traffic had to be catered for as well. The meeting was opened on Saturday morning, and was concluded by 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The remainder of the day was devoted to recreation, many members patronising the bowling green, while a number visited the power station. In the evening the local lodge entertained its guests at a banquet, after which a short dance was held and was thoroughly enjoyed. On Sunday morning a churcn parade took place and was largely attended. The delegates returned to their homes yesterday.