LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 20 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thee Chamber of Commerce will holdl a meeting on Tuesday next at which, a full attendance of members is requested.

Judgment by default was given at the .Magistrate’s Court this morning in the case J. Masters and Son v. G. W! Lumsden, £5 4s 3d, costs £1 19s i6d.

Tliti new railway bridge over the Patea. River is now being pushed on to copipletion, a steam crane being engaged to-day in placing tlic. bigsteeli -girders in position. Intftlie judgment summons case T. Merco'r v. James Hodge, claim £5 15sj Id, at the . Magistrate’s Court this morning, judgment debtor was ordered to pay the amount forthwith, in default seven days’ imprisonment. E. G. Harvey proceeded against W. Brown at the Magistrate’s Court this ;tmorning for the possession of a tenement, the Court ordering possessoini to be given on or before October! 27th. Owing to alterations to His Majesty’s ;tTheatre, the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond’s lecture on “The Slums of Syritvy” will be given in the Town Hall,.'Stratford, on Thursday, October 26t|i,j at 3 p.m. Mrs. Bernard has kindljv consented to lend her lantern and -provide an operator for ri;e p ,c----turbsi

In response to the request of the Stratford School Committee, the Truant Inspector of the Education Board was in Stratford to-day enquiring into' the irregular attendance at Jthe local school, as fully sot out in the headmaster’s report appearing in iour yesterday’s issue. As a result of itlife Truant Inspector’s enquiries, wo understand a number of careless parents will have to interview the Magistrate at the next sitting of the Courts

This morning there was a decided change for the better in the weather, after over a week’s hard rain, accompanied by wind gales, thunderstorms, hail, snow—in fact, everything that goes to make up a good programme in this direction. The Mountain had more snow on it this morning than at any time during the Whiten. The promise of an early summer had a sudden check, and there is every prospect of potatoes and other grow tii susceptible to frosts having a spt-back before warm weather is roal--V • cached. But take it all together, Stn-atßrd is one of the healthiest places rm Taranaki.

:LA ,vmmg woman was'charged at t]ie i.lagistrate $ Court this mornino - witJi naving ridden a bicycle on the footpath in Broadway on October 9th, was represented by Air. Spence, wlio statedlthat liis client was in the habit tiding on the footpath from the corner of the street in which she lived to ijhpr house. If she did not do so .'.n,o would have to carry her bicycle through the mud on the side of*the rpad in front of her house. The S.M. saul the practice was a common one, but was none the less an offence. Ho injpos&d, a line of os. Two other cyclists caught sinning in a similar way were fined bs, with costs 7s.

A-i dispute regarding the proprietorship df a milk round occupied some timo at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, William Holmes claiming £4 3s t Gel from Thomas James Edwards for milk supplied. Plaintiff gave evidence that up to the end of August last ho had supplied milk co one.McCutclian who owned a round in Stratford. Then McCutclian left oho liusiness and plaintiff understood mat Edwards would ho responsible for payment for the milk. However, whoij plaintiff asked for a cheque on September 20th defendant denied lia-

ijity, so plaintiff stopped ’ supplying milk toidefendant and sent it to the factory.. Edwards gave evidence that lie had 1 been given the option of taking oyer the round but he had not done so„< and it had been taken over >y onf\ 'Yandle on October Ist. The !.?>(. said the case relied on evidence which .could be given by McCutclian, and lies adjourned the case for a week to enable defendant to get an order from MhCntchan for the payment of ■.he money or to subpoena him as a .V it II OSS.

A plea of guilty was entered at the Magistrate's Court. this morning by John George Buchanan to a charge of haring on October 17th, vhile drink, refused to leave the Stratford Hotel w hen requested to do so hy the licensee. A line of 20s was imposed.

T.ie Borough Inspector obtained a conviction at the Magistrate's Court this morning against Elizabeth Till on a charge of having on October 6th allowed a calf and a sheep to wander at large on a Borough road. A fine of 10s, with costs, 7s, was imposed on J. Summers at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, who was charged with having driven two loose horses in Fenton Street on October 9th. The Borough Inspector stated that the horses were being driven at a smart trot, and the SAL. intimated that unless the practice was discontinued he would have to increase the fine.