Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 42, 6 October 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The dead body of a woman named .lice Litoff, aged between 30 and 35, as found in the Auckland harbor this lorning. The Press Association sta--3s it is understood deceased was the Tie of a seafaring man.

John Alexander McKinnon appeared t Court i ll Christchurch. to-day in muection with the recent Customs ases, and was charged with.the theft E .He was remanded for a eek, bail of £7OO being allowed.^!*.A.

At the Christchurch Court to-day, farry Mather was fined £2O and jsts for selling liquor without a jense, The Press , Association ,ates that a policeman in plain othes entered accused’s shop on u inlay, and after admitting he had id a “nightput,” was sold “a nip” ; the price of a shilling.

The record of the number of men aplying each week for work at the nckland office of the Labor Departed gives the following figures, indiiting the position in the city very early: Week ending September, 12: nrired applicants ■ 110, fingle applip lilts 106,• dependents of applicants, .81 work found for -12. Week ending iptember 19: Married 130, single 102, ipendents 382; work found for 16. r eek ending September 26: Married i 9, single 112, dependents, 336; work und for 47. Week ending October 4; arried 102, single .99, dependents !6; work found for 64, •

An impudent swindle by means of rged telegrams has been woj’kqd on veral Oamaru people from Wellingn, whejre there are -nqftHy Qqmarq lys in employments (says.the Mail), te messages sent were .< of. .almost entical wording:—“Wire, £5 to ddrpss) at once; writing explain,” id were signed “Don,” “Joe,” or latever the son’s nqme mjgfit be the family circle. Among parts so communicated with were assrs J. Kelly, J. Hart, J. Rosie, Dwyer, and O’Donnell. Messrs isie apd O’Donnell complied, but iers appear to have been more ,cirmspect, and so escaped. The mesges were sent from several, offices, finding-. JHlbirnie, Te Arp, and Genii, the perpetrator .1 calling again • the money. As the result of iniries made in Oamaru, the Wellingi police arrested on such an errand

mes‘Michael de Coureey, an- old maru -boy, a cabinet-maker, and rried. De Coureey was at school th the song of the victims, and may

irefore be supposed to be well .postregarding their families. He was several years an active member of

i Oamaru Boating Club, .on several ia«ions stroking winning crews at jattas.