General Items

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 22 August 1923, Page 7

General Items

Some idea of the engineering diffisultics in the; Castlecliff drainage works can be gathered from u statement made to a “Heral'd” reporter by a member of the telegraph maintenance service. The latter said thstoon one occasion when putting a line up in that locality the gang struck a spot where the sand kept shifting. It took a whole day to got one pole into position, and at one stage the hole was big enough to bury a fair-sized cottage.

Tho Melbourne bill-posters have declared war. They hope to persuade the public, by means of posters, to patronise only those picture theatres and show houses employing financial members of the Bill-post-ers’ Union. A double-flag design, headed under '“Which Flag?” will be posted conspicuously, and a “white list”, naming the show houses who are “doing the right thing,” will be issued every fortnight and distributed from house to house.

As a result of the Campaspe River overflowing near Rochester (Vic- j toria), many of the streets became almost Venetian in appearance, for boats became the only means of transport. Five railway carriages were sent from Bendigo to Charlton to house those families which had been forced to ik.ave their homes. ’ Charlton had suffered severely. Many houses in town have been flooded, in addition to business places. A large area of the town is impassable t and a canoe has been navigating between the bridge and the Bank of, Victoria corner. To make matters worse the electric light had failed. > j

On a bed of straw in a stable loft off a lane at Surrey Hills, Sydney, a baby was born the other night. The father was out of work, and the mother had been earning what she could, and she was at work the day j before. Late in the night the husband went to St. Margaret’s Hospital and brought nurses to the stable, but thfe’- baby was born before they arrived. The nurses found the mother in the loft of the stable on a tag of straw with scant clothing. /There was no clothing for the baby. 'The mother and child were removed to hospital. Members of the City Tattersall’s Club next day contributed to the relief of the woman and her baby, f £lO being ■ sent to the 1 mother at the hospital. Other con-1 tributions will be handed over later, i “After spending £25,000, my husband has disappeared, leaving me with nine children. I have not seen him since ” Pauline Bradlev, who

was married to John,. Bradley 31 years ago, told Mr Justice Mann in the Medbontne - Divoret' Co'ttTt'Tthat her husband desertel ’ her, leaving her with nine children. She was petitioning for divorce on the grounds of desertion “I was hi com-j fortaMe cibcurastances when we marri-d, and he went throueh about j £25b00 of my money,” she said. Mrs Bradley owned Ballanald s S f at ! on at j the time of her marriage Her husband left her in 1915. and she never saw ! him »again. After his disanpearance 1 she had inquiries made, but without result. Mr Justice Mann reserved judgment.

Arthur Reginald Borland, who was arrested on a warrant at Wanganui on charges of forgery, uttering, false pretences and theft, appeared before Mr ,A. M. Mowlem, S.M., jn the Magistrate’s Court at New Ply- I mouth yesterday, and was remanded until Friday. Bail was not applied | for. The charges against Borland! are; (1) That at Stratford on August 8 he did obtain from W. P. Kirkwood the sum of £5, by means of a false cheque on the Bank of Australasia, Otaki, purporting to be drawn by Jack Orbell; (2) that at Inglewood on August 11, he made a false cheque for £4 In the Bank of New Souh Wales, Inglewood, in favour of Walter Orbell, and purporting to signed by J. W. Winfield, and did cattse Kathleen Rogers to act uponj it though it was genuine; (3) i that cm August 11 he did steal at Inglewood from the dwelling of J. l K. Popple a cheque book, valued at 10/8; and (4) that on August 11 at Inglewood he made a false cheque for £7 on the Bank of New Soutth Wales, in favor of H. Orbell, pur-! porting to be signed by J. W. Win-i field, and did issue the same to Carl; Pine, as if it was a genuine docu-j ment I