LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5968, 10 August 1912, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Sundstrums next professional visit ia on Thursday, when he may be consulted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There were six patients—four inula *nd two female—in the Tuapeka Hospital last evening. One uiiUcut wiis admitted during the week unil one discharged. A football match between teams representing the Lawrence and Balclutha High Schools will b; played at Bulclutha this afternoon :' Lawrence team—Nichols, Ferguson, Lawrence, 1 TucKey, tWnnetts, Macdonald, Gain,' McNab (2). Foster, Sandy*, Winmill, Cuttle, fiobertson ; emergencies' Hartstongc,, Potts, Murray, Jones, Mason. In a case under the Gamin? Act at Wanganui the S.M. dismissed an information against a local confectioner who offered a prize of one guinea to the customer who guessed the number of lollies in a glass glob* ewhilrited in a window. The police alleged* it was a game of chance. The defendant claimed that it was a game, of skill. An appeal is probable. Sealed tenders will be received at the chief post Offices throughout the colony for the conveyance of mails for a period of three years from Ist January, 1913, to 3lst December, 1915. Lists of the services for which tenders gre invited may foe seen at any . post office.

Master John Verdon Carmody, of Waitahuna, one of the pupils of our District High School who passed the Civil Service Junior examination in December last> has been offered an appointment as oadet in the Regist-far-Gwwraftoffiee,Wellington.

IA Wellington jury failed to -> -:-oo in the case of Erasst Alfred Le> Cren, inspector under the Labour Department, charged with 'committing a u indecent, act. IA. new trial was ordered fo4 the 16fch irßt.

At Christehurch on Wednesday Geo. Weßton wm sentenced to six voars' imprisonment for performiing- an illegal operation.

Some of Otago's representative footballers are reported to have misbehaved ItUiemselves at Invercargill on Wednesday night and their conduct will, it is understood, be inc|uked into by the Rugby Union at its next meeting.

Poarco (sculling champion ot Australia), haß already been promised £2IM) a s backing towards his imee.tinsr with Harry for the sculling championship of the world and it is expected that suflicient will be forthcoming by the end of the week to forward a challenge.