LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 79, 24 March 1914, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

An unoccupied house of seven : rooms at Island Bay, owned by Lar- , ;hey Bros., Te Aroha, .was destroyed by fire early this morning. According ' ,to theT Press Association the place ''was insured for £6OO in the Alliance Office. {. . i

;,;<:'' The unidentified body of a man, between the age of 65 and 70 years, was .'".' found submerged in the mud at the Thorndon (Wellington) reclamation

works, into'which he had apparently fallen, last night. The body was very * emaciated, "states the Press Associa-

A Holstein bull that was donated to be raffled for at the recent. Waikato Central Show brought in the sum of £74. The tickets were 5a each. The ~ animal was balloted for on Saturday - evening, and Mr Fraoik Vosper proved '' the';winneK '

Corrected returns in connection.with ' the New'Zealand drink bill show that ,- the cost.of liquor per head in 1913 was

£3 14sV While in 1912 it was £3 14s WiM a decrease of Hid per head instead of an increase of 19s as pre'viously stated.

Mr H. Al Young, S.M., in the course

of replying to a welcome to Balclutha • by v the "legal fraternity of that town ! at the monthly sitting \of the court " bii Wednesday,' said that he had been in courthouses in various parts of the / world-iih Zulularid and Matabelelancl ,and elsewhere—but never be-

fore had be seen such a courthouse. The conditions were extraordinary in a'town Of Balclutha's importance.

. A man, arrested for drunkenness in Newcastle (N.S.W.), on the 14th inst., when searched at the lock-up, had £199 of his own money in his possession. He is a man who carries on business on his own account, and on Saturday he was paid something over £2OO. Men with fairly large sums of money are at times locked up, but .this (states the Telegraph) is about the .record rich man arrested in Newcastle for a number of years.

The personal property of a man,. seized by the police in the vicinity of "ithe Main Trunk line recently, includ-

ed a spieler's outfit and several bot- - ties of whisky. There was a dice-box,

r a, "kip" (which had a slot for concealing a double-header), and other inter- ' estirig stock-in-trade usually carried -• by the "profession." The man was '"', wanted for sly grog-selling, but. had % left the district very suddenly.