Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 89, 6 April 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The scratch firemen who joined the Opawa at Wellington during the strike returned to the Dominion by the Hemnera to-day, states the Press Association.

Concerning the vacancy on the Taranaki Education Board caused by the retirement of Mr W. L. Kennedy, it is understood that Mr Frank Mackay, of Stanley Road, has consented to the request of a hum her of school committees to become a candidate foi election. Mr Mackay is at present chairman of the Ackland Road School Committee; he was for some time a member of the Mangaimi Road Board, while he takes a keen interest in educational matters generally. As a country representative, also, Mr Mackay would be a worthy successor to Mr Kennedy.

At Wellington to-day the Chief Justice gave judgment in the case oi Dell v. Dell, in which the mother of Alice Lee applied for a writ of habeas corpus to obtain custody of the gill aged 17, who, V was alleged, wa> living in immoral relationship with ‘ ' her step-father.. Counsel for the giri contended that as she was over 16 sin could go where she liked and do wha: she liked. His Honor said the Couri would not be doing its duty were it

not to interfere to . save the girl against herself and the most disgrace, iul conduct of her step-father. The order was made, the girl to go into the Salvation Army Home in the meantime.

A Wellington Press Association message to-day reads: The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) delivered judgment to-day in the cases in which the City Council moved that the award of the arbitrators assessing the ground rentals on six Corporation properties on Lambton Quay, Panama Street, and adjoining thoroughfares at from £2 os to £2 10s per foot, he set aside on the ground that they were assessed too low. His Honor found that by Statute there was no appeal against the arbitrators’ decision, and the Court had no jurisdiction to interfere. The motions were,, therefore, refused, £3O cpsts being allowed in all, and costs in all cases*of -printing and fees of court.

The Appeal Court (states a Wellington P.A. message) is hearing the case Rex v. Holland. The prisoner was found guilty of sedition for aspeech delivered- during' the strike, and the .Clilef Justice (Sir Robert Stout) reserved for the Appeal Court two questions—(l)Whetlicr the first indictment disclosed an .offence, and (2) whether the fact that prisoner had been acquitted by the Magistrate on a of inciting to resist the that the evidence in proof of that charge was the uttering of the words in the second indictment prevented his being convicted of sedition. The preliminary question was whether the plea of autrefois acquit could 1m made alter a plea of not guilty on the indictment. The Solicitor-General appears for the Crown, Mr WUford and Mr O’Regan, for the prisoner. Argument is proceeding. .