LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13489, 21 May 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Public instruction should be the first object of Government.—Napoleon.

Further contributions to the V.M.C.A. Trench Comforts' Fund, taking the total to £'2,401 15s lOd, are acknowledged on page one. This in- . ludes a first payment of £I,OOO from lie Commercial Travellers' Surprise Packet Fund.

Messrs Sharp and Sons, the wellknown Cambridge nurserymen, intimate by advertisement in this issre that they havo a particularly fine stock of fruit, ornamental and she'ter trees for this season. They guarantee every plant sent out as true to name. Catalogues will b? forwarded on application. Charles Barry, of Cambridge, was convicted and discharged to-day for driving a motor car in Victoria street, Hamilton, without causing a registered mark to I e fixed thereon in accordance with the Motor Regulation Act, 1908. A. Tibhy was fined 5s and 7s costs for driving a motor car across the Hamilton Traffic Bridge at a greater speed than six miles.

Mr C. C. Buckland, Monavale, lias just received the go'd medal he won with his heifer, "Monavale Nobehjj Nee nan," in 1916, p e ented by the Npw Z aland Fricsian Association for ilie hi/hest record in the senior two-year-old class, under Government semiofficial t st. Her performance was 14,5421! . ik, which produced 525.841b of butte -fat. ,

The Frankton Municipal Band (Bandmaster Donov in) gave another of their most enjoyable recitals at the hospital yesterday. Despite the inclement weather there was a large attendance. The playing was well up to the high standard reached by this band, the rendition of classic gems being a particulate fine one. Many favourable comments were passed on the intonation and the attack of the band in this fine number.

TheWhangape sheep dog trials will be held on Friday next, 25th May, on Mp A. S. Baker's property, Naike. There are three drsses, viz., (1) short head, |.,Uij i.rive and yard, SCO yards; .2) lie..:!, p .11 .aid held in ring (600 yav's); and (3) huntaway through two sets of flags. In addition to three prizes in each class a silver cup will be presented by Mr J. McKay for the local farmer's dog gaining the most number of points at the trial, and the club will give a gold medal to the competitor whose dog secures the -most points throughout the trial. Numerous other specials will aiso be awarded by the committee. ■plendi 1 entries have been received, and a splendid day's enjoyment is assured.

At the Hamilton Police Court to-day, Leo. Probyn, the Wcreroa L..y, en remand, was charged with the theft of a cheque value:! at £8 8s 2d, an overcoat, and » purse containing silver, the pr > peity of Wil'iam Russell, of Waitetuna. Senior-Sergeant Cassells :p----penred for the police, and said he >yas prepared, in conjunction with Mrs Cfcsses, to take the boy and teach him a trade if the Industrial School authorities would permit it. Accused was convicted, and ordered to come up ier sentence v . Tiie MagiS lute said that he hoped the hoy would take advantage of this offer which was a most magn'uimous one, and that the school authorities would ag;ee to this course. He would watch the experiment with interest. For committing a nuisance on a train on the 10th March last 4 Purvis Grahim was convicted and ordered to pay £5 10s 6d costs.

On Thursday afternoon, about 5.30, a man named Patrick Nolan, a single man, 36 years of age, employed as an engine driver in Messrs Keating and Pekins' mill near Mercer, was found lying alongside the engine in an linen n;scio us state. He was brought to the Waikato Hospital the same night, and died on Saturday without regaining consciousness. An inquest was opened at the hospital yesterday by .Mr E. Rawson, Coroner, and adjourned until to-morrow. The medical evidence was to the effect that death was caused by a fracture of the skull. Mr Pekin, one of file employer:, ve ev - deuce, but as no om» saw how be met

v-it'i Irs injuries, it is surmised that lie was nn t!u> ton of tlie engine oiling it when lie slipped mid fe'l. striking bis head on a beam alongside. Lionel Dorreen was (harmed r.t Hamilton to- lay that the 28th April last lie did cruelly overdrive a horse on the To Kowhai Road. The o\ i 'eme showed that accused hired a horse and vehicle from Dalgleish and Macdonai ,'s stables, on the afternoon of .Ap.'il 2 s . that ' ■ drove it to Te {Cowh:u and hack to A\ hat awhata. About a dozen witnesses were oa'le 1, some who swore that accused was drunk, aed l the horse with a whip, overdriving it all the way to Te Kowhai, and on the road hack it dropped dead near Whatawhata. The Sergeant described the case as a shocking one, without a releeming feature. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £'2, with ousts £7. Ac-used was also charged with being drenk i> charge of a horse, and for ; was

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