Second Edition, LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 43, 12 June 1914, Page 6

Second Edition, LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Press Association telegram from Wanganui says: Alex Herbert Wilkie, Borough Councillor of Ohakune, claimed £250 from Patrick Dunne., late proprietor of the Ohakuue Times, in respect of an alleged libel contained in a letter published in the paper. The Case was heard Judge Edwards alone, and the sum of 40s damages was awarded. A young man named Arnold Ashworth was before the Napier Court to-day charged with assaulting A. W. Brooks with intent to commit a crime. The Press Association states that accused'had selected some jewellery in Brooks' shop, and the latter was wrapping up the articles when accused hit him a violent blow with a stone' knotted in a handkerchief. * Brooks grappled with the man, and called for assistance, and Ashworth was taken into custody. He was remanded for a week. The crowd took charge of a meeting at Devonport Hall, Auckland, last night (states the Press Association) at which Reg AVilliams, an anti-mili-tarist. attempted to deliver a lecture, , which was illustrated by pictures, showing the horrors of war. Ultty cadets carrying rifles marched in <gAd occupied the three front seats. Williams was not given a hearing, lite crowd sang patriotic songs and popular choruses, and the lecturer persisting, was repeatedly "counted out with shouts which shook the building, the cadets keeping time with their rifle butts on the lit or. One of the audience remarked that the lecturer ought to be shot. Williams replied that he "was a rifleman, and he invited any pf his interruptors to adjourn to a neigh--bouring paddock. There was a chorus of shouts of acceptance, but the lecturer contented himself-with another effort. He cut out his speech and continued to show pictures amid a constant din, of singing, whistling, and stamping, and the meeting ended m disorder, the crowd giving cheers for the Union Jack. ,