LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19789, 13 February 1928, Page 14

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wellington Town Hiill was crowded yesterday afternoon a Press Association telegram) lor a memorial service to .Field-Marshal Earl Haig. The Rev. J. R. Blanchard delivered an inspiring address, the ‘Dead March ' was played, and tho hymns 1 Onward. Christian Soldiers,’ and ‘ Abide With Mo ’ were sung. In tho Supremo Court, Auckland, Roe Griffiths, lor attempted theft from the person at Devonport, was admitted to two years’ probation. The probationer's report was not favorable, but Mr Justice Reed said lie wauled to give tho prisoner a chance because he thought that Griffiths had more than his share of had luck. William Henry Grant, for assaulting a warder and escaping from fho Mount Eden Gaol, was 'ordered to come up for sentence at any time within live years, “It I have any more trouble with you you will bo Hogged,” added ills Honor Arthur Roparta Colson Wynyard, lor indecent assault on a male, was sentenced to two years’ hard labor. Stanley Uren Thomas, for tho theft ol money in connection with the sale of shares, was ordered two years’ reformative detention. Harry Collins, Patrick Kelly, and William Martin, the two first-named for theft from a warehouse and Marlin for receiving, were all ordered eighteen mouths’ reformative detention. Collins received an additional twelve months on a charge of receiving, the sentence to be concurrent. Edward James Enseder, for receiving stolen property, was ordered twelve months’ reformative detention.

Reserved judgment was given by the Chief Justice (Sir Charles Skerrett) in the Supremo Court in Wellington on Saturday (says a Press Association telegram) in a ease in which an interpretation was sought ol the will ol Mary Ann Buckley, who had bequeathed £SOQ to the Society lor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ot New Zealand. His Honor says lie thinks that the testator had in mind such a New Zealand _ society. None of the individual societies could take the legacy, and shares must be distributed under a scheme cypres (i.c., interpreting the will as near to the testator’s wish as the law allows').