LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 137, 26 January 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The Postal Department advise that cablegrams to Italy addressed to a code word address are now permitted if the code was regis jtered before ht Julj, IUI4

The well known picture actress "Kathiyn Williams," who played in "The Adventures of Katblyn," is playing a leading part in "The Spoilers." Kathlyn's popularity in Pukekohe should prove an added raw to-night and Friday.

Holiday excursion tu kets, avail able to return up to and including February 17th, and special tram arrangements for Saturday next (Anniversary Day) are announced in an advt in this issue

At their usual monthly stock sale in their Pukepkohe yards next Monday, Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons will submit to auction the privileges ot the publican's booth, luncheon and light refreshment booth, and fruit and soft drinks' booth, for the Franklin A and I' Society's forthcoming annual show

Mr E C Cutten, S. M., has just carried out a holiday motoring trip in the Waikato, m which, however, 1)3 has combined duty with pleasure. During his outing ho presided at the Pukekohe and Waiuku Courts last week, and being in Pukekchi again yesterday he dealt with a military representative win was under arrest, whilst to day he was on the Bench nt Papakura Top Dresser tor Hire, !i>r broad casting lime. slag, bonedust and grass seed, 5 - per day from FRANK PERKINS & Co., Pukekohe.—Advt.

The Pukekohe Bowling Club liavo arranged a full-rink one day tournament for Saturday next (Anniversary Day\ starting at I) 30 a.m.

'lhe financial stability and orderly bebaviour of the residents of tbe Pukekohe district are testified to by the small amount of both civil and police business that just now requires attention at tbe Pukekobe Court, Despite the holiday vacation, in which arrears of woik might naturally have been expected to mount up, less than a couple of hours sufficed for the Magistrate last weak to dispense justice, whilst the Court fixed for tomorrow has been cancelled by reason of a blank cause list

An error crept into the referenco in our list issue to the matter of tbe applications for land agency licenses made at la3t week's sitting of the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court. Icstead of the whola batcl put back until next Court day, licenses were duly issued to Messrs J T Stembridge and Co, H Dell and Son, W Koalston and C B Herrold, but three other applications had to be postponed owing to legal requirements in the mode of filing not bting strictly complied with

Poting as one of tbe wounded who had returned trom Gallipoli and narrating hair-breadth escapes from death that existed purely m imagination, a s.-Jdier in uniform last week "made good" in Pukekohe. He acted th 3 part to the very letter carrying his shattered (?) left arm in a sling, and even playing billiards in the local saloons with a cushion as a substitute tor a "rest," for whicn owing to his supposed injuries he was unable to utilise his left hand. The Pukekohe Hotel he made bis headquarters, and he was everywhere welcomed as a hero. The fairy tales that he related even led him to play upon tbe feelings of the relatives of a Pukekohe officer that had been killed on the battlefield at Anzac, and calling on them h 3 told in graphic style how ha had stood beside the officer when the latter was struck down, and how in bis last moments tha officer had charged him to deliver to the bereaved ones a death-bed message. The "tall" stories ot his d lings and observations on thi battlefield, however, led to bis undoing. Constable Watson, with cimmendable astutenes«, began to summarise and examine dates as noisily blazined abroad by "the hero," and finding inaccuracy demonstrated up to the h'lt the Constable interviewed his bird. Then tin game was up. ihe gallant (?) upholder of New Zeahnd's honour had never been to the front, and having recently enlisted had simply been in tbe training camp at Kaogiotu as a member of tbe 3rd BaU. New Zealand Kitle Brigade. He bad secjred his final leave over Chriat ma 3, but had overstayed his furlough, which had expired on January 3rd., and had come from Auckland to Pukekohe. Wearing his uniform be was charged, under the came of Harry Sparrow, alias Sparks, at a special sitting of the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr E C Cutten, S.M., with being a rogue and a vagabund, and, further, with fraudulently representing himself as a returned wounded soldier with the object of gaining benefits thereby. Constable Watson detailed the circumstancts as already set forth, and the accused, pleading guilty, asked tfce Magistrate to allow him to return to camp, pleading that the reason he bad imposed on the credulous was that he had been "on the drink." He added that he had no recollection ot having interviewed the relatives of any deceased officer, as it appeared he had done. In answer to the Magistrate, Constable Watson intimated that he had communicated with the Defence Department, who were willing to take the accused back. The Magistrate thereupon orderel the accused to be banded over to the military authorities, remarking: "I cannot understand you fellows acting in the way you do."