LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3, 24 April 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr George Young has been returned unopposed as Mayor of Inglewood for the second term, states a Press Association wire this afternoon. The result of the polling in Dune.din for the secretaryship of the Seamen's Union was that Mr W. Belcher scored 103 votes and Mr D. Maxwell 33. John .Crisp, solicitor, of Palmerston Xorth, appeared.before the Court at Duuedin this morning on several charge of forgery and embezzlement (states the Press Association). He was committed for triaL on a charge of forging tlio name and signatures of James Park to certain conveyances of lands in Hawke's Bay. At the Auckland Police Court to-day Thomas Blake, dairy-fanner, was lined C2O and £3 17s costs for selling milk containing water, one sample showing 24 and another 33 per cent of water. -The Press Association states that the Magistrate ordered that the conviction, name and occupation of defendant, his place of business, and the nature of the offence and penalty, be published by the Health Officer in both the Auckland newspapers. A Pahiatua Press Association etelegram states that a public meeting addressed by Me I). llu titer, organiser o£ the Social Democrats, passed a resolution expressing sympathy with Mrs Holland and family upon the imprisonment of Henry Holland, and calling upon the Gqvernment to immediately release the prisoner in the interests of free speech, justice, and liberty which are dear to all. British people. About 60 were present, but several refrained from voting.

One of Bristol's trade representatives in Sydney, Mr H. L. Riseley, is deeply impressed with the beauty of Australian womanhood. At the conference of New South Wales. Chambers of Commerce recently .he declared that though on his last visit to the country, five years ago, he had been much struck with the beauty of the Australian girls, now, on his return, he found that they were lovelier than ever! They were the perfection of the British race,, he declared, and their charms were only exceeded by the charms ~ of their mothers. (Applause.) He had done something towards immigration, and when people in England came to him and said. "What shall we do with our boys?" he always replied, "Let them marry Australian girls. Lot them go out and marry the daughters of the Empire, and make the.country one of the most beautiful and admirable m the whole world."