LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 June 1916, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

At the Levin S.M. yesterday, Mx <J. W. Poynton, S.M., gave a verdict .ir plaintiff by default in the following civil case: A. L. Cole v. Tihi Oteraugi 17s, costs 19s. In the case ot J. H Andrews v. Peter Black, a claim lor £6 17s, Biaek paid the sum of'£l Joa

6d into Court and a verdict was given for plaintiff for this amount. In regard to the balance judgment was given for defendant with costs £1 ss. Mr C. Blenkhorn appeared for plaintiff and Mr Fletcher, of Palmeraion North for defendant.

-Ur It. St.a :se>l, of w eraroa, has received the sad news tnat ms brother. Major L. B. Stansell. died in France last Sunday (4th June) from wounds received in action. ALajor Stansell left New Zealand with tne Rifle Brigade (4th Contingent). He was a married man, his widow oeing the daughter of Mr Tucker, ol Falmerston North.

A riot on a small scale took place at tlic I'Va thi'i'stou Camp on Tuesday night (says an exchange). it appears that some ten or twelve soldier entered. the canteen and proceeded to vent their disapproval of the prices eftargcd in no uncertain manner. The can. toon, however, was quickly surrounded a-id the disturbers of the peace taken in cliarge. Speaking 011 the MiPitary Service Bill the lion. J. Allen said there could be no doubt about it that there were thinking men (there was one in ther House, the member for Lyttelton) who beliovod in tlia policy of taking married men before the unmarried men. i'hey argued that it was a sound policy to take the married men because it was our duty to look after the future 01 the race and the population of the country. He did not agree with that argument. To his mind the populating 01 th'e" country would be better left to the married men who remained behind. ' ■ A parrot that is well Known all over Australia and New Zealand is dead'. The bird, which it is fc known authentically lived for 120 years, was the property of Mrs xJennot-t. who kept the hotel at Tom Ug/v'.s I'oint, near fciydney, and was quite a "show" ror visitors. There was hardly a feaHier left on the jmrrot, and lie was an extremely wrinkled and ugly old bird with an enormous beaK mat had to be cut on several occasions, so long did it grow.