Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 55, 26 June 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Walter Blazer was lined £SO or two months' imprisonment for delivering an indecent document to a telegraph messenger, states a Wellington Press Association telegram. ■ / A Press Association message says: Henry John Cameron, a youth t was to-day sentenced to two years' reformatory treatment at Invereargill on fom charges of forgery and uttering. Jeannie Lynn, for theft, was sentenced tt twelve months' hard labor. H.M.S.. 1 Philomel returned to Auckland to r day in company with H.MS. Psyche, H.M.S. Pyramus, am? 'G.S. Tutauekai, after having made a systematic search in northern waters for the fishing boat Andrew, whicl disappeared off Waihi, but without success.—P. A. In "the action in Sydney in which Arthur Shirley, an actor, sued George Willoughby for £IOOO damages, plaintiff alleged that the defendant had induced J. C. Williamson, Ltd., to break a contract, with plaintiff, where, by he was prevented from obtaining employment and was injured iiV hitprofession: The jury awarded plain tiff £BOO damages. A stay of proceedings was granted. A London cablegram states that 'the Gothland, formerly the Shaw Savill and Albion Co.'s ran on the' rocks during a fog. The passengers and' the crew are being transhipped 'to the steamer Lyonnes While one of the Gothland's boat* was being lowered, it. fell and wassmashed. Forty were thrown intc the sea, but all were" rescued by a lifeboat.

At the Alliance Congress to-day at Wellington, states a P.A. message, there was a discussion with reference to the unsatisfactory conditions in the King Country, and it was decided that conferences he held with the Maoris and also the residents in that area. These will be held for the purpose of collecting information. It was also resolved t.o appoint an organiser as early as possible. . At Huntly, Mr Rawson, S.M., gave his decision in the case, W. R. Wayland v. ,S. Dixon, president ol the .Tauperi Coal Miners' Industrial > . Union, and the members of the committee. The S.M. found in favor " of the! plaintiff an all counts, and awarded £6O damages and costs. Yerdic£'W the plaintiff was also given in the case, Molesworth v. Dixon, ,with damages £6O and costs. The claims arose out of the alleged illegal dismissal of plaintiff from employment" by the Taupiri Coal Company. It. is understood (states the Press Association) defendants will " appeal againstr the decision.