Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 11 July 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A social, and dance is to be held in the Waingongoro School on Tuesday ♦vening next, the proceeds to be devoted to a piano purchase fund.

After many months of negotiation and correspondence with the Department of Education, Mr J. B. Hine, M.P. has been informed that a sum of monev is now available for the enlargement of the Bird Road School. This will be good news to the settlers, because overcrowding, has for some time past been complained of.

At the Wanganui Magistrate's Court (states the Press Association), "Queensland Harry," otherwise known as Harry Cahill, a member of a buckjumping circus at present in Wanganui, was charged with assaulting B. Crawford, known as Le Mar, the hypnotist, by inflicting severe injuries necessitating hospital treatment. Accused was fined £5, with costs £3 17s.

"One Who was There," writes: Even, so high and so nearly infallible a personage as a Magistrate may occasionally arrive at a wrong conclusion on mere circumstantial evidence. For instance: Yesterday in the Stratford Courthouse one good man who tip-toed with respectful care and silent tread, to the very portal, passed through' the doorway to the accompaniment of a horrid slam. The evidence before the Court was that the passer-out was guilty, and the Bench considered there was no defence! Really though, thwe was: a sudden gust of wind had slone the trick!