LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14791, 24 April 1914, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Several notifications re hotel licen- « kqs appear m our advertising columns. ! O'Sihea-Plarnell divorce' soandal to i be revived. 1 by Mv& "P'ameir publish- i ang book. ; Hluerta, has thrown down gauntlet and deoiargd war on America by giv~ dug U.S.A Ambassador his passports ■ i from Mexico. (At the Magistrate's Court, this.morn- ! in.gl a. man named George Johnson was chajfiged with drunkenness ana inde- \ (sent- conduct. He was defended; by : Mr Clendon, who said the man had ■ erred as -the result of taK'ng ■ too ; nmch liquor. Jphnson was convicted . and fined' 20® and costs. ],-. The Labour Department, with a [ view- t o relieving the unemployment '■ difiioujlty in Auckland, Wellington, j ? and Christchureh, hays been, instruct.. Ed to place 80 men on various public [ '' wotrks nea,r the centals mentioned. " '. Twenty will b© sent from Auckland ' ",| to the railway .works in. the North.' distlriot, 20 from Welling- j ton to tha road construction works ! ' at Stratford, and 40 from Christchurch Ashley Gorge. i. iA't the Auckland _ Pblice Court t-. » Lad named Jos^plh Thomia'S Dk-kson , > was charged with .viagirancy. It wtas 1 sltiated Diekson had run awiay from j * has horn© at Thames, , because hi» » feAher ill-treated him. When __ arrest- i ' ed the lad" said he had stolen a silver ; P watch, from a man in'Ponsomby. The ■1 magistrate granted a week's remjand r in order to have police inquiries y made aibout the lad's moreanentsi and r I antecedents. ......