LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 13 April 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The casual camp for the 7th and j 11 tli Regiments (Territorials) at Wanganui broke up this morning, and the .northern men returned to their homes' I . I by the midday tram, j Weather Forecast. Northerly winds moderate to strong prevailing , and freshening. Expect dull weather with much mist and fog in parts. Haiti probable. Barometer- falling.— , Bates, Wellington. The Danish Government asked Gerfor the safe conduct of 1000 submarined Norwegian mariners from England. Germany replied that it would only consent on Norway guaranteeing that none re-enter the danger * zone. During the, hearing of the perjury charges at the Supreme Court, , Hamilton, Constable Skinner des'cribed the allegation that he fired the first shot at Rua’s pa and fired the said shot point blank at Rua as , “diabolical conspiracy.”

A visiting bowler to the Manawatu tournament gave a conundrum to a group of spectators ou the Palmerston green. “Why is it,” he asked, '“that so many of the visiting teams ‘are in the semi-finals?” Everybody, gave it up, “Simply because they arc | Sharp, Smart and Wylie,” said the • visitor, whose little pun (states the ' Standard) proved to be somewhat I prophetic, for Smart skipped the championship team and Wylie’s rink j occupied third place. Sharp was |beaten in his match in the semi'finaJ. At the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon judgment by default was given in the following cases : —New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. (Rutherfurd, Macalister and Coleman) v. E. A. Stewart £l3 17s 2d, costs 19s; A. Cook v. J. Asplund, £9 6s, costs 16s; J. Bain v. E. Thompson and Tohe, £-5 12s 6d, costs £1 Is; Farmers’ Co-op. v. James Davidson, £2 9s 6d, costs 11s; Newton King (Malone and King) v. James Patterson, £7 8s 6cl, costs 8s; Rooney and Co. (Malone and King) v. J. Dodunski, 13s, costs os; Samuel Milne Porritt (Spence and Stanford) v. Frank Bound, £2 .IS? 9d, costs os; Newton King. v. W. Baird, £2 0s : 9d