LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The adjourned annual meeting of the Stratford Hockey Club is to be hole' in Messrs C. and E.'- Jackson's office at 7.30 o'clock this evening.

Mount Egmont was cleared of snowon Wednesday morning, but this morning it has another mantle of snow reaching further down than the last one. A boy aged eleven years was charged at the Juvenile Court this morning with the theft of 5s in money from a country resident's house. In view of the fact that his father had already given him a thrashing, the boy was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.

At the Court this morning Albert J. Hansen was convicted without fine. but ordered to pay 7s costs on a charge w.' failing to attend, drill of D Squadron, ?tid Mounted Rifles, at Whangamomona on February 25th. Sergt.Major Dunham explained that Hansen's record Avas good previous to his having been excused six months to enablo him to go into the back country to do bush-felling.

Defendant in a "no-lights" case at the Court this morning failed to turn up before his case was called, and in bis absence he was mulct in 17s. Just when the case was thus satisfactorily settled, defendant put in an appearance and tho case was reconsidered, and the fine was reduced to ss, without costs. Tho S.M. asked defendant why he had not turned up in time, and defendant caused some amusement by stating that he had come from Tariki by train, adding that ho might have been caught again fori having no lights if he came by giri;. While a young man was taking two bulldogs out for exercise in Upper Willis, street, Wellington, yesterday morning, they broke away, and one attacked a man named Bryant, win; was going to work. Bryant used his boots, lists and lunch-bag freely in bis efforts to drive the dog off, but the

man was forced gradually into the roadway and slipped in front of a tram-car, which fortunately was pulled up just in time. Meantime the dog continued to harass Bryant till another man came along and drove the animal away. After some trouble the doo; was secured. Bryant was not seriously hurt, but was a Rood deal shaken by bis strange encounter.

' The preliminary booking charge for the Harry Lauder season iu Australia is said to be £1 Is, while the general prices of admission are about 12s 6d downwards. These prices are somewhat high for the average loyal Scot ! who has been longing to hear one of ; the greatest of his countrymen.

Judgment by default was given at the Court this morning in the following .cases: Andrew R. 1). Carbery v. John I). Valintine and Matilda C. Valentine, £6 ss, costs £1 6s 6d; Henry A. Wunsch v. R. G. E. Simmons, £lO lis Id, costs £1 10s 6d; same v. J. Casey, £22 lis lid, costs £3 6s. It seems that beauty of figure is the great consideration rather than the beauty that is skin-deep, and we learn from the ladies who have given their views to "Everylady's Journal" that beauty of both body and face will follow perfect health. This therefore, is the object to aim at, and the means suggested are many and various in the April issue of that journal.

It is not often (states the Sydney Daily Telegraph) that a coin which is declared to be counterfeit contains more than the prescribed amount of copper, silver, or gold, as the case may be. This fact has, however, resulted in the rejection of no fewer than 69 half-crowns which were included in the last parcel of British coins withdrawn from circulation in the Commonwealth and returned to England. Five of these coins have been received at the Federal Treasury from the Bank of England, and, beyond the fact that some are above weight and others below weight, there is nothing to show that they are not genuinely-minted half-crowns.

Two applications for exemption from Territorial service were dealt with at the Court this moring. William Wright Tickers (D Squadron, 2nd Mounted Rifles), was granted exemption from service except that he must attend camp and musketry parades. The S.M.'said that if defendant changed his occupation (droving) the exemption order would be subject to revision. George Herbert Corbett (H. Co., Xlfch Regiment), was granted total exemption until such time as the Defence Department might apply for revision.

In summing up the evidence in the County Court, Melbourne, when Eleanor Jane Annie Flanagan, of Northcote, music .teacher and organist, proceeded against David Cunningham Arm strong,builder and contractor, also of Xorthcote, for a breach of promise of marriage, claiming £2OOO damages. Judge Wasley said that the jury must'understand that a man could call on a girl for as many years as he liked, and could kiss and spoon with her so long as sh-> allowed it; and the girl could not come to Court arid say he had so many kisses and so much amusement, and that she wanted payment. But if this were done after a promise of marriage had been given, it was a different matter. After a retirement of half an hour, the jury returned with a verdict for plaintiff, and assessed the damages at £225.

* "I have come to think," said Pastor Rogers, when addressing a meeting at Bathurst (X.S.W.), "that Sunday hot, dinners are an abomination. The poor wives never have a day on which they can rest. Men will exact it, the brutes! • That is the only word I can find for them. In my home I never knew what it was to have a hot dinner on the Lord's Day. The result was that mother could go with father, and take the kiddies to church, and have a rest. In the afternoon, with hot dinners, tho wives have to do washingup, which they so abhor, and I don't wonder that they do not come to church in the evening, they are so worn out. Another thing that should stop is Sunday trading. It is time that professed Christians and churchgoers should take a stand in this direction. It is for you and for me to make a distinctive appeal for tho sanctity of the Lord's Day. I have been told by men that they don't even clean, themselves on Sundays. I believe that this lolling about is the devil's opportunity for any man."

Judgment was given at the Court this morning by Mr W. G. K. Kenrick, S.M., in the case of Stringer v. Martin, a claim for £lO, the value of a cattle dog killed by defendant's motor car. Mr Kenrick said the parties were agreed that the dog was trotting along quietly on the left side of the road and the evidence proved that tho dog was killed by the car. The plaintiff said the dog was killed on the left side of the road, but defendant said the dog jumped in towards the car and was killed. But fondant had failed to take such steps as would make his evidence on the place where the dog was killed of any value.. If he had pulled up he could have ascertained with certainty the position of the dog. The evidence for defendant on the point was very clear and must be accepted. There was some inconsistency in defendant's evidence as to the part of the road on which he was travelling. Defendant should have gone over to the right side of the road. Ho had the whole road to himself and should have crossed over long before he did. Even assuming that the dog and the car were each on their correct side of the road, the motorist had no right to cause an accident, which he could easily avoid. Judgment was entered for plaintiff for £7, with costs £3 0s 4d.

Parishioners of Holy Trinity Church are reminded of the farewell social to the Vicar to be held on Monday evening in the Parish Hall at 8 o'clock. A wonderfully fine sample of celery, grown by Mr A; McLean, is on view at Lamason's auction mart in Broadway. It does great credit to the grower. The seed used was Cooper's, obtained from Mr Lamason, who is local agent. The Borough Inspector had only one case at the Court this morning, Robart James, Tariki, being fined ss, with, out costs, on a charge of driving a gig insufficiently lighted on March Bth. Defendant said he left his home at Tariki with his two lamps alight, but as he passed through Broadway the inspector pulled him up and told ham that one lamp was out. The moon was shining very brightly and it was hard to tell whether or not the lamps were alight.

It was an unusual sight for Stratford The whole "box and dice" of a contractor's plant stood out on the roadway in Juliet Street next to the "Evening Post" for a time this morning. There were teams of horses and drays, and drays behind the drays. The" main feature of a camp, the cookshop—which was a big one-roomed affair—swung lazily behind a dray drawn by a team of five horses, and a yoke of about a dozen, bullocks brought up the rear with more drays. It was what keen businessmen call ' 'a snip" for someone with capital and the use for jb, as the procession was wending its way* to the auctioneer's, to be knocked, down to the highest bidder on the morrow.