SOUTHLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 19

SOUTHLAND.

At InvercargilJ on the 15th Judge Ward* suspended the divcharge in bankruptry of George Ru&selt. horse-dealer, of Gore, for six month'!. His Honor said the debtor started with £500, and had lost £800 in two and a-half years at horse racing and dealing, and f ircumstances did not entitle him to an immediate order of discharge. Notwithetandjng the recommendation passed by creditor*, the dischaige of Malarhi Hanlry, hotelffeeper, of Gorr>, was suspended for 12 months the judge remarking that ho had been trading most recklessly. The firm of Me<»=rs Tothill, Watson, and Co. has undergone a change, and the busine--? is now being carried on by Me »rs <7. I]. Wjtton and Co.

Fi\e resident- of A I ho!, a plarp on the Kingston line, were brfore Mr M'Carlhy, .S.M.. ai- Jjunifcilon on tJie 14th for u-mg iu■•ukini? behaviour with intent, to provoke a breach of ih"^ pp.v o en thr 16th ApnJ. They and others erected a ttdgm^ in front of the louse of a couple who had incurred hootihty in connection with the war. and more especially by rcferonre to a trooper wl'o went from tlif village and wa<s killed in the. Machaiic railway sma<-li The fctajjc bore the c/ligies of a man and woman, and thc«e wore fired amid hooting and grconing. Defendants hoiimed to think they wro ijuite withm their rifjlit-". It appeared tliat the man had also been prevented getting Jus crop thri«iipd. The owner of ;i mill had bern written to by Honieone, and afterward* refused to come. Harris (father of the trooper killed) deposed that tha female complainant knelt on the road and invoked the " curse of God on Jim Harri-: may lie get shot doww." His Worship <-iid no dotibt unkind tilings, had been said by < on.plamanK but life would be unbearable in paces without polite protection if iU if-mianls' conduct. «A.i allowed to pa*- lie iii.ct! each 20s, the fu^t to be tbvjdi>d. The police mau- a raid on the. Commercial Pltib, invorcarfTjll. on the 22nd, and seized about £10 worth of liquor, and intend to prosecute the commitjge for selling liquor without a charter. The committee is advised that the police have no case, and laid in another pupply this morning. The club, which numbers 80 members, has been in existence for over seven years and has not a charter, but has always sold liquor to its members, not for profit, according to the secretary, but simply to keep an ample provision of refreshments foi members. Arrangements have quite recently been made to sell the whole concern to a branch of the New Zealand Commercial Travellers' Association now being formed here, the members of the Commercial Club having undertaken to join the new organisation in a body. On Fiufcr *B old man named, Samuel

Findlay was removed from the bush o& the Bluff Hill, where he had been lyingsince Monday with very little to eat. He is destitute, and was unable to walk, his lLan| being terribly swollen. He stated that ho y had walked from Ohristehureh. The police brought him to the hospital. A small meeting at Invercargili decided lo form a local committee to co-opei.ite with the league formed to promote the constructior of the Gore-Kelso railway.