HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 9

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Special Correspondent.) - —— <> Little interest was taken in tho by- ! election for Petono Council, tho poll figures being loss than half the numi ber recorded at the regular election. ' Tho successful candidate worked strenuously for the seat. Tho result of tho ptilling wa3: —W. E. Forsyth: St. Augustine's linll, 365; Friendly Societies' Hall, 74; Koro-Koro School, '<14; total, 483. W. B. Nicholson: St. Augustine's Hall, 112; Friendly Societies' Hall, 90; Ivcro-Koro School, 1; total, 203. Majority for Mr. Forsyth. 230. A lect/iro by Mr. J. T. Nott, M.A., was delivered in tho-Wesley ' Young (Men's Hall last evening. . Tho Rev. J. ' J. Lewis was in tho chair. Tho subject was: "Problems of Life," and at' tho conclusion tho speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thauks from an interested audience . Whilst engaged in taking a power-fully-built man into custody along Jackson Street last evening, Constable Carmody and another constablo wero suddenly surprised 10 discover that tho man oould not only "talk fight," but could act it. When overpowered by the combined efforts of tho police, ho resorted to very vigorous diction and preEintiy attracted a crowd. Eventually he was carried bodily *o the station, but Jiot before the help of two civilians had been obtained. j