LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1919, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A mob of cattle grazing in a paddock at Parawai broke on to the railway line on Thursday night ahead of a train coming in to Thames from Auckland. About 150 stampeded on the railway bridge over the Kauatranga river. The train was held up for about an hour removing the cattle. Some 20 beasts, ranging in value up to £l6, were bogged and drowned in the deep mud in the water riverbed. Salvage operations are still in progress.

In a licensing case heard in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington on Thurs day, Acting Sub-Inspector Emerson referred to the vexed question of boarders’ privileges. This elicited the remark from Mr M. Myers, who appeared for one of the defendants, that a man could be a bona fide lodger and entitled to all the privileges of a lodger, even if he did not usually reside on the premises. If a licensee permitted drunkenness and the person was a lodger, the licensee could not be convicted of an offence for the hotel was the man’s home and he was legally entitled to be there. A drunken man could, under certain circumstances, be actually taken in, and no offence would be disclosed, if to have refused him shelter would have been an inhuman act.

In the course of an eloquent speech in _Jt>otli English and Maori, in which be bade Admiral Jellieoe and the officers and men of the New Zealand welcome at Wellington on Thursday, the Hon. Dr Pomare stated, “I, too, have British blood in me. Sometimes some friends of mine say that I got it in a very peculiar way; that it. was because ail ancestor of mine absorbed a Presbyterian missionary. (Laughter.) But, at any rate, it is good blood.” (Applause.) Both pnkeha and Maori, lie said, had good cause to be proud of the blood that was in them. They had fought each other; now they had fought the enemy side hv side; and they would henceforth be one united race. (Applause).