LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 298, 3 August 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr John Beatty, on behp'* of Messrs W. and R. Fletcher, Ltd., will be bujing pigs at F.unciman next Tuesday and at Westfiehl on Wednerday. In a replace advertisement in this issue the Waikato Co-operative DahyCo., Ltd., announce that a substantial bonus is to be paid to their suppliers in duo course equivalent to 4 per lb ou the year's supply. The Northern Steamship Co., Ltd, announce in our advertising columns that ow'ng ta the shoiiage of oil the saibngs of the oU vessel Waiuku to and from Waiuku wi" be restricted to two hips per week, viz , from Onehunga Tuosdays and Fridays and from Waiuku Wednesdays and Saturdays.

A reminder is givon of the lecture on the Biitish Navy to be delivered in the Prem-or Hall, Pukekuhe, this Friday) evening by Mr C. M. Caiter, lecturer to the Navy League. At the conclusion of the lecture a Frant'-n branch of the League will be formally established.

A smoking concert in honour of Mr C. K. Lawrie will be held in the Premier Haii, Pukekohe, on Monday, August 6th, at 8 p.m, organised by members of the A. and P. Society and of various local sporting organisations. Admission 2s 6d. J. M. Baxter and J. Coady, Hon. Sees.—(Advt). At the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday James Henry Mitchell, a resident of Pukekohe, was fined 20s and costs 7s for having procured intoxicating liquor during the cuirency of his Prohibition Order. The police evidence was to the effect that a little convivial party, in which defendant was taking part, was rudely disturbed by the appearance of Constable Thornoll, who found Mitchell under the iniluence of liquor. Mr F. V. Fra zer, S.M, gave judgment on Wednesday at the ~nd Magistrate's Court in thj case heard at the Pukekohe Court in which D. Gilbert, painter and decorator, of Pukekohe, claimed £ 17 Is Gd from Hodgson and Son, contractors, of Auckland, in respect to paper-hanging and painting work he carried out as a sub contractor for Hodgson and Son iu connection with the erection of a house at Pukekohe for Mr J. K. Ledger. The defence, it w" be remembered, was that Mr F. W. Mount joy, the architect of the house, had refused to "pass" the work as the wallpaper and paint Uad developed dampues.-. The Magistrate held t'lat the damp ness was not Gilb'-rt's faith but li id been caused by Hodgson and Co. bavin.? used unseasoned timber in hl.liuilig lilo liUUcu. UnOcli, in < insidered, hn f1 '' 'ne ' :<J work proi erly. He iii r !-r< g.w judgment i' r G'lboil for tlu* h 1 1 a;n )Unt r! rimed wi c>sts, rlie latter to be Lxed by 'he Cleik of th>) Auvl 'and Court.

An echo of a sens-ation? 1 shuot'ng ncident that took pi ice 'a«t year on ; ' no of the Man: i 8c tleiuuuts on tho V.'aikato Kivr r ne>u Tuakau, when !m elderly Maori woman wounded h r brot ei !n !: by ' r him . in revenge for iiis aflVctiouo being b s' 'vvd o" Jit -ist r and nt up>n J her, via* lui-iiiiviiul iu llio I'ukei • .c j Magistrat< 'b f "vt ynst ■ r <l > y. The woman, it will be r<«in'«"i bored, was I c mmitted to ili-» M-n d A.<\luni , and yrs!crdi\ two of her sm->, named Thumbs 11 «m 1 Sampson l.iwh .i, wcij eii'd to .i;i| r 'o i-liow e.iu.io why tlmy sih->ui 1 imt coutiibn'o to i '-r maiiitinuiico in ilie Asylum The case, was, howov-r, | i;(ijoU'U( (1, S( Co vin informing . the Mugi.trato (Mr l'aw.-oii} 'hut • tho defendants wero unable t> appear in Court as offingt / nu outbreak of typhoid fever among the M.ioiis in tho L'u tlviin district tho Il 'ahh .Department had restricted the inoveni' ii's of natives to thoir in inedi-to localities. ! i l-'or lnlluenza take Woods tire.it Pcpp.M inn' i 'nrc. N'cvci laiK Iji. - 0 j'

" My mother was superstitious about mo " exclaimed a girl witness in the Pukekohe Court yesterday. " I think you mean suspicious " was the Magistrate's kindly correction for " suspicious " was the word that the witness was distorting.

Mr W. H. King has removed his boot store in Pukekohe to McClintock's Buildings—two doors below his old premises and to advertise his removal ho ia.offeriHg special discounts off all sales of footwear. Particulars will be found in an advt. in this issue.

Mr C. M, Carter, who is to lecture to-night in Pukekohe on behalf of the Navy League, is visiting Pukekohe after a lapse of 32 years. Prior to the period mentioned he was for a couple of years headmaster of the Pukekohe School and he is now headmaster of the Napier street School, Auckland.

The necessity of members of the 2nd Division of the Reserves as well as of Ist Divisionists notifying to the Government Statistician their ch&nge of adilress was impressed on J. H. A. Skip; r at the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court yesterday when he was tiued 20s and costs 7s, the defendant having recently taken up his abode in Pukekohe after having live<l at Wellington.

Anniversary services in connection with the Sunday Schools of the Pukekohe Presbyterian Charge will be held in St. Tames' Church on Sunday next. The Rev J. Pattison, the popular preacher of Sommerville Memorial Church, Auckland, will conduct all the services. In order to allow children from the out districts to be present, no services will be held in Pukekohe East or Bombay.

Rifleman S. J. Long, who is reported " missing," is a son of Mr W. Long, of Prospect Terrace, Pukekohe. He served as an apprentice at Messrs Cooper and Curd's coachbuilding establishment at Pukekohe but when he enlisted he was on duty at the Awanui wireless station. He was boin in Auckland but was educated at the Fakekohe Public School. At the meeting of the Pukekohe Borough Council on Wednesday it was resolved that a letter should be sent to Mr W. Long and his fair : ly sympathising with them in the unfortunate news.

Railway time-table alterations to come into force as from Sunday next provide for the train now leaving Auckland for the Waikato at 3 30 p.m. to depart at 3.45 p.m. and to be duo at Pukekohe at 5.50 p.m. Tho train now leaving Pukekohe for Auckland at G.G pm. is altered to 0.10 p.m. being duo in Auckland at 8.10 p m , whilst tho presont 7.17 a.m. train from Auckland for Frankton will loavo at 7.15 am. On the suburban line the only alteration is that the existing 4.20 p.m. train Auctland for Papatoetoe will depart at 1.17 p.m.

In connection with the re-arrange-ment of the magisterial circuit, whereby c msequent on the illness of Mr C. 0. Kettle, S M., the Pukekohe Court is temporary presided Dver by Mr £. Rawson, S.M. (Hamilton) instead of by Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., announcement was yesterday made by MrE. Rawson that his engagements would only peimit him to hold courts at Pukekohe every month instead of fortnightly as customary. His "Worship fixed da f es as follows for the nixt sittings of courts, viz : Mercer, Tuesday, August 21 et; Pukekohe, Thursday, September 6 th; Wainku, Friday, September 7th AJ. P's. t'ourt will, in addition, be lielk at Pukekohe on Thurdav, the 16 th in.-t

The large amount of £39 arrears due to the E luxation Department in respect of the maintenance of two of his soils in an industrial school wis the subject of a prosecution for default of payment against James Horry Mitchell at the Pukekohe Magis'rate's Cou't yesterday. Sergt Cowan informed the Magistrate tint no payment 11 on account" had been n ale by tlie defendant since May 2nd last whereas during the interval defendant had up to date received £37 7s in from th« Pi'V'kohe Borough Council, b\ whom he was employed. The defendant pleaded that with the increased cost of living he had al! lie could do to keep his wife and four of his younger children. As earlier in the Court proceedings the defendant had been convicted for a breach of Irs Piohibition O:dor the Magis trato Mr E. Itaw-on) sai l he had no svuipathy with defendant as it was evident he spnnt part of himoney ..ii drink. He would sentence hhu to three months' imprisonment with liord 1 .hour, the wan ant, however, to be suspended so long as he paid "is a week oil the ill r- nrs. Judgment was delivered by his Honor Mr Justice Hosking at the Supreme Court on Woiinesday in the case in which Mrs Julia Eva Tonge, of I'ukeoware (Mr 11. H. Ostler), made a claim aga'nst John Faulkner Davie-, farmer, of Pum ,Dr. 11. D Bamfor l) for the sppcitic performuir ■ of I) contrac. for ihe sale by ihe pi :i..:ill' Lo the defendant of a farm in ;ho Pukekohe district, 'he purchase piiYv of m Inch was paitiy to Ku s'ltislieil by a transfer bv tha [ilaintilf to the defendant of two sectiuna of land at Takapuna. The defence alleg< d that thero had boen u ,: srcpresentation by '.he plaintiff, in that -lie uutr.ily represented to the | lofoiidint that the tections menhad been valued for tie Bank »f Australasia. His Honor stated that the onus of establishing m s-| epresentat ion was on defendant, in I in his opinion defendant had iischarged that onus. After tra- | /ersing the evidence at considerable ; ength his Honor gave judgment for i ho defendant with costs as on a scale as if 'JoOO were claimed. :