LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 16, 5 September 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A contribution of £65 Iras been received by the secretary of the Stratford patriotic fund from residents in the Kohuratahi district.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram to-day states that Samuel Chesuey, aged two and a half, son of John Chesney, was accidentally drowned in tho Waitati River yesterday.

Mr John James Henderson, headmaster of the Arahura school since 1887, died early this morning, reports the Press Association. For several years he was president of the Westland Teachers’ Institute. He leaves a widow and a grown-up family.

At the Wellington Supremo Court to-day (states the Press Association) before His Honor Judge Hosking, William or James Gilliam was convicted of the theft of jewellery valued at ovor £3OO at Wanganui on 6th August. It is stated accused destroyed £IOO worth of jewellery which was not recovered. The Judge remanded him for the night, informing him he 1 bad bettor refresh his memory as to where the missing articles had been placed. Patrick Joseph O’Connor, 18 years of age, who was found guilty of theft from a dwelling in Wellington on 2nd September, was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment, the Judge remarking that he was liable to bo declared an habitual, as there are already three convictions against him. Ernest Jones, who was concerned in tho same offence, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Leslie Walker, for tho theft of money on 2nd September at Wellington, was also ordered to come up for sentence, and William Joseph O’Dwyer, who was found guilty of forgery on 2nd September at Wellington, arid who had been already sentenced to two years for false pretences, received an additional six months’ reformative treatment, to what ho had previously been ordered to undergo, to take effect at the expiry of the two terms.