LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13270, 28 August 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The future and the present are in the hands of God. We acknowledge receipt ol a parcel i of clothing from an anonymous donor ; in!- the distressed family. ; Several dog owners, tor tailing to register their canine pets, were fined pis and costs at the Hamilton Court to-day. At the Soldiers' Club this evening. ; ijj ••;:)! iew>!:" wi'l be tendered .Messrs !.. MeKonzie aml It. Darby, .who have re-en!!-1 d. ami leave lor camp toii <»••;*.• . i!e> :i jieti men are requested ; c ;jt it mi in inumbers. A;: elderly man named I' rederick i■ a .a;.:t iiid at uie Hamilton Court to;ia v, v. as iine , and costs, or 2-1 hours, i! riMll'.en !:e-s iil C i ill nig Wood street, on Saturday. He was also convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when ( died upon lor committing a I grossly indecent act in the same thoroughfare. A man named Milton Orbell t; oui'le in Te A folia on Thursday ow ing i,i his pro-German sympathies. It appears that he uas employed on a iarin Mangaiti. lust was dismissed oil account ol lt:s disloyal utterances. Coming to town, lie repeated these remarks. His hearers happened to be militant Britishers, and limy promptly proceeded to teach him the lesson he needed. Later he was arrested by the police. He was brought before Justices, ami remanded to appear betore 1 lie S.M. at Paerua. •At 11 u- Hamilton Court to-day a yolilii I a':.("! W*. l.'oltby W.'.s convicted and ordered lo come up tor sentence u ii. n < ailed upon ior tailing to attend senior cadet parades. Hot by informed the Court that lie was tiiat day leaving I tor W'aimai, and His Woi'ship told him, therefore, that the onus was cast , on him ot notifying his change ot al- - dress. Caiitain liogers, O.i . ol 11 t oin- | pnny. prosecuted. Hobby was ordered ' ;(, ;.v tiie idsts oi [lie prosecution, and '• was censured by urn Bench i\.r !i:s - | c;.—.ion of drill. A letter received from Colonel Hardie - I Veil by his eonsin, a resuleist ot Pali m >: ston Xortii, contains the following j iereiice to the work of the ambulance 'm France :—"Our ambulance is going " ssroiig. We were first up to the irout 1 ! line, and treated the first New Zealand - i wounded in frame. We are now batm on, I r»/\nrl iifl liur tl)i» lV^t

camp. We had plenty of shelling at the town we were in, ami the enemy smashed up our liispitai. Major A.. .Martin s operating theatre was lorn to shreds and splinters. Major Martin is a tower of strength to us,»aiul is very busy."

Unpleasant interviews with the police are in store for men who neglect to accept the advice given in regard to enrolment or reporting a change of address under the -Military Service Act. For their own protection, -Reservists should apply promptly to the Government Statistician tor certificates ol enrolment, for which forms are obtainable at any post-office. 'lhese certificates will only be issued on application. Employers will have an interest in such certificates, because the employment of non-enrolled men or deserters is prohibited. The production of a certificate is a guarantee to an employer that the Reservist has a right to work.

The allegations made some time ago by Rev. A. Cow, in .Si. Andrew's Church, Hamilton, regarding the morality of Now Zealand troops in Egypt have been keenly discussed in the trenches ot France, according to a letter just received from an Auckland sapper. The writer says: "As I have said in previous letters, temptations in Cairo are many. I was four months near there, and on several occasions came in contact with them, as have all of us, more or less, and now that we are in France we hear of this senseless talk in Hamilton. We look round and find that very, very few of us were left behind. We're all here, fit and well, and so it was with the Main Body. They left Egypt for Gallipoli, strong in health and with cleaner minds. True, there are some that fell—can one wonder at that? Rather it is better to thank God that the vast majority of Australasians came through untainted. You can tell the anxious mothers that their boys are made of good stuff, and those who come back will prove their worth as. better men."

For a. dainty blouse or, frock there is scarcely anything to equal a pretty crepe-de-chene, and the range of colours that Messrs Hooker and Kingston have opened in them are both smart and charming—saxe, sky, shell pink, vieux rose, ivory cream, champagne and black. Price 5s lid, 6s lid and 7s 6d vard. A lovely range of crepe-de-chene blouses in almost any shade, are showing—l6b 6d, 19e 6d to 328 6d. Shop inhere your money goes farthest. Off their majmfacturer-to-yon prices Messrs Hooker and Kingston give you a special war discount of 3d back in every 5b spent for cash. : • ■" '

Twaaty-eight men volunteered in Auckland on Saturday. Twelve were accepted, one being from No. 4 group. A man named John Sanderson has been arrested for stealing retorted gold. Miss Kaa Ngapo, who was severely burned at Te Araroa on Wednesday, succumbed to her injuries. A New York cable message announces the death of Dr. Lancaster Spalding, Roman Catholic Archbishop.

The death of Father Shaw, who re'ccntly completed the sale of his wireless plant to the Common wealth Government, is announced iipm Melbourne. The jury failed to agree in the action for damages for alleged libel brought by a (.J rev month draper against another in the same town. The new regulations under the War Regulations Act prohibits shouting 011 premises occupied by the holder of a New Zealand wine license.

The Federal Equity Court granted the Sydney Sun, Times and Renter perpetual injunctions against the Ba.thurst- Times, prohibiting it publishing cablegrams sent by these agencies. A man with a record named Alfred Dory Ogier, who some months ago was sentenced at Hamilton for being illegally on premises at Frankton, was charged lie fore Mr E. Rawson, S.M., at Hamilton, to-day, with the theft of £8 Is 2d, the property of Louis B. Harris, at Huntly, on August 16, and with stealing a coat valued at £3, the projMTty of Tumate Mahuta, at Huntly, on the 19th inst. According to the police statement Ogier entered the Huntly Hotel where he ordered some liquor and presented a cheque for 8s lOd. The barman, misreading the amount as £8 IDs, gave accused £8 Is 2d change, which Ogier accepted, and then quickly disappeared. Accused was remanded to appear at Huntly tomorrow.

Another bach of offenders against the by-laws, by cycling without lights between sunset and sunrise, or on footpaths within the borough, filed into the Hamilton Court to-day, which led Mr E. Rawson, S.M., to remark that if he made the fine fJ-3 and costs he thought cyclists would still continue to break tlie by-laws. Sydney Ogilvie, William Irvine and Rupert Stevenson were each fined Ids and costs 7s for riding without lights, while L<o Main, Fred. Booth, and Leonard Cate, three youths, were ordered to pay Ids without costs for a similar offence. For footpath sprinting Thomas McCarthy, Waller Taylor, Irene Dewhurst, and Frederick Carr were each fined ~>a and costs, while it cost Percy Knowle 17s in all for driving a vehicle along the Frankton Road after sunset without the necessary two lights attached.