LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 81, 5 December 1913, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

- I*** In the divorce at Wellington to-day, a decree riiar was the case, Alfred' Daniel Jenriings y.; Ellen Lucy Jennings {misconduct); decree absolute was iriiade in Hie case of Samuel Champion v. Mary;-.June Champion. ,1 .

A Press Association wire from Auckland to-day says: Recently it was discovered that several oil launches at Oriehuhgh had been ransacked. Oik launch removed frofh its moorings wan found piled’ up on a sandbank. The police yesterday visited 'KaikowaifSKaek oh the foreswore, and uheatthed a ‘cb'i plete plant 1 , the opiiiion held being that the men responsible were preparing to make a trip to Australia. The plant’ included : a compass, charts, binocle, six tins’ of benzine, large quantities of provision's, two or three trunks of clothing cut in file 1, latest style, and a quantity of jewellery, which it is believed were stolen.

Denis Needham was fined 20s with costs 7s at- the Court to-day for driving a* gig after dark, without lights in the Borough. The Magistrate inquired of the Borough Inspector if defendant had made any excuse for being without lights. Mr Barlow stated that on the appearances there was no excuse and ‘defendant made no verbal explanation. Mr Kenrick said that where tbe defendant could produce any reasonable excuse for no lights the fine would he ten shillings, hut where a - defendant was pVovod to have had‘no lights and could produce no reasonable excuse the tine would be twenty shillings.

The gate takings for the two days of the show amounted to £194 17s 6d. An official estimate of the number present is: From eight to ten thousand—more like ten thousand. Ihe official approached stated that it was impossible to give an exact statement regarding the number present. All members of the Association received three complimentary tickets, and it was safe ,to presume that the member and his wife would come in on two tickets, and the children (number unlimited) would come in on the third. The Association had a thousand members, and the tickets issued "to them could be. relied on to giro entrance to four thousand people : the gate money accounted for another four thousand; and the freo tickets issued to exhibitors and others would account for another thousand or more. These rough calculations (unfortunately the. most accurate possible) show that the atteudance^was' ; well up to nine thousand, and the possibilities are that that number was much exceeded.