LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 74, 10 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Jlr Hi no’s election committee are requested to moot at the committee rooms to-morrow evonin" at 7 .'!() o’clock.

I wo first offenders who created a nuisance on the To Wore, railway station on arrival of the train from Stratford on the evening of Saturday, October 2Sth, owing to being in an advanced stage of intoxication wore each lined os at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. The Kit ham baths will ho oflicialK opened on Thursday next, when a good programme of races will ho gone through. A oOyds open handicap and a relay race are provided, in addition to whicii there will he mixed diving and plate-diving competitions, and a tnh race. The meeting should prove a nice outing for Stratford swimmers.

The executive committee of the A and P. Association will moot tins oven

Messrs 11. Masters and E. Jarkson were present at both days of the Hawera show on behalf of the Strnuford

Society, and report having received a large number of entries for the Stratford show.

In the judgment summons case at the Magistrate's Court this morning, J. McAllister v, I). F. ••Vilderinotii, judgment debtor did not appear mu! was ordered to pay £3 11s I’d i*t rthwith, in default fourteen days imprisonment.

Mr E. Jackson’s pony Barney, which was beaten on the fir-o <lay of tlie Hawera show yesterday got first prize in the class for pony in harness. .Regarding Mr Jackson’s Ayrs lire heifer the judge said it was in a class by itself and the class in .vliich 't com peted was of so high an order that ho had given five prizes in it.

John Reuben Hooper proceeded against Joe de Philippe at the Magistrate’s Court this morning for nine shillings as payment for work done in 1909 in iiayrnaking. Defendant denied liability stating that the money, had been paid. After hearing a good deal of evidence plaintiff was non-suit-ed, the S.M. holding that he had not proved his case. In a judgment summons case at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, the S.M. (Mr Kenrick) impressed on the judgment debtor that the onus was on him to prove that ho had not had sufficient means to pay his debts, and said lie should have brought to Court a full statement of the moneys he had recently received. After hearing a part of the debtor’s testimony, tiie case was adjourned for a wed; to enable a statement to be prepared. Judgment by default was given at the Magistrate’s Court this morning in the following cases;—D.O.A. in estate of E. F. Franzen V. Frank Bede, £7 3s scl, costs' £1 6s- 6d; G. C. Carper v. W. Hayward, £2 17s, costs I Os; Newton King V. Joseph llogudski, £l3 2s Id, costs £1 11s 6d; Harkncss and Grimmer v. T. Schofield, £1 8s Id, costs os; B. Burgess y, James Hodge, £8 Os -Id, costs £1 3s Ocl; Harkncss and Grimmer v. 1). F. Wildermoth, £2 Iss 2d, costs 18,s; C. Wing Kee v. J. Topp, £lO 2s 10d, costs £1 10s Gd.

On the evening of October L'otii a picture entertainment was given at Whangamomona, and when the audience came out afterwards they were treated to some choice specimens of obscenity by one John Flynn, employed on tlie tunnel works. There wore large numbers of women and children about, and Flynn was immediately pounced on by Constable Liston. At the Magistrate’s Court this morning Flynn was fined £o, in default one month’s imprisonment. Sergeant McNeeloy had the default fixed, as ho had hoard that Flynn, who did not appear this morning,- had left the district.