HUTT AND PETONE JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 559, 14 July 1909, Page 10

HUTT AND PETONE JOTTINGS.

Endeavours are being made to arrange a match between the Auckland and Wellington players of the Northern Union game of football at' the northern city in about a month's time. Mr. D. G. Fraser, of Petone, hopes to get a good team awsy.' ' In the civil list of tho Hutt Police Court returns-for the (ju>jrter ended June 30 the Stipendiary Magistrate dealt with 105 cases, and the local justices exorcised judgment_ in 12 cases, the amount sued for aggregating £986 Bs. Id., while the sum recovered totalled £537 18s. lid. The number of persons taken into custody or apprehended on criminal charges was 53, all being males with one solitary exception. Of these 5 cases were dismissed for want of prosecution on evidence, one was dismissed on its merits, and 47 were summarily convicted (36 being fined). The amount of fees paid was as follows:— Civil £35, criminal £37 2s. ' The, Rev. J. J. North opened a mission in tha Petone Baptist Church on Monday night, when his address on "Sin" was closely followed by a large congregation. Meetings are being held 'each evening, and on 'Friday night a meeting for men only will be held, when discussion and questions will follow the .address. During the lunch hour visits are 'being paid to the various industrial places. Yesterday a visit was paid to the Wellington ' Woollen Company's works. Today the Railway Workshops will be visited, on Thursday the Gear Company's works, and on' Friday the Woollen Works. - * , At the Petone Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs. W. Inglis and R. W.- Short, J.P.'s, <a charge of using obscene language in Victoria Street, was preferred 'against Thos. Coles,' who was represented by Mr. W. J. Craijroft-Wilson. Accused pleaded guilty and was fined 205., with 155.. costs, in 'default' seven days"imprisonment.

'A sitting of the Lower Hutt Police Court was held yesterday before Mossrs. J. Cudby and J. ,Wilkins, J.P.'s. A Dano named Peter Neilsen;was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment on a charge of theft of an overcoat,;tho property Of a Hutt saddler.