DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 81, 12 April 1913, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, April 10. The Government has purchased five thousand acres at Ohauiti, near Tauranga, from Messrs Kevell and Rowe, for closer settlement purposes. A MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Hastings, April 11

A motor car dr'ven by M ss Russell, daughter of dir Wnb.-n Kn--clI -ollided, near Stoi.yoroE., with a sp-mo cart driven by John Hasett. Both were thrown out, a> d M a fLange coi'widence each sustained a broken arm. Hasett also rad a severe cut on tlie head.

PRECOCIOUS FIRE-RAISERS. In vercargill, April 11. Two boys, aged nine and eleven, appeared at the Juvenile Court this morning, charged that on March 21st they set fire to some paper likely to fire the Middle School. Sergeant Simpson stated that the fire originated in a cupboard in the infant room. Defendants were seen, and admitted having entered tho school at 10 o’cloc-k that morning. They roamed over the building, squirting paint through tubes over the desks and floors. They also destroyed a number of schoolbooks, and bent forward the hands of the clock. After lighting a fire in one of the corners the younger lad opened a cupboard in which were kept books and children’s sowing materials, and lit a match. The contents caught fire, and the delinquents being unable to extinguish the flames closed the doors. One of the boys then rang the fi rebel I, and the brigade arrived before much damage was done. His Worship said that the Act now allowed him to make parents pay for any damage done by their children. He would enter a conviction and order tho boys’ fathers to pay £3 10s each.