Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 14 July 1914, Page 6

Second Edition. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Court this morning a seoondoffending inebriate was fined 10s. Mr J. Black was on the bench. As a sequel to the raid in Haining Street, Wellington, two Chinese were fined £2O and £lO resepctively (states the Press Association) for being concerned in the management of a common gaming house. The annual conference of delegates of New Zealand Trotting Club’s opened in Wellington to-day, Mr J. Rowe (Auckland) presiding. The president’s address was ordered to be printed and circulated. The Press Association adds: It was decided that the appointment of stipendiary stewards be not gone on with at present. Eight civil cases (one defended) are set down for hearing at Friday’s sitting of the Court. The Territorial cases comprise three charges of failing to attend camp and one of failing to attend drill and one application for exemption. Only one information for breach of by-laws is to be dealt with —driving a dray without lights. Two applications for' prohibition orders are to be made. A deputation from the Labour Conference waited on the Minister tor Justice in Wellington to-day and urged the release of the strike prisoners. It was explained (states ,the Press Association) that the deputation had not come to crawl or cringe, for the sim-ple-reason tliat the members knew the Minister despised the crawler and the cringer, but they considered the time had arrived when the strike prisoners should be released.. The deputation did not represent an organisation which was in existence at the time of the strike; it.was a new organisation altogether. The Minister said, in reply, that he could not hold out any hope at present 4or the remission of the sentence. An Invercargill private cable from London records the death of Mr Godfrey McCulloch, aged 42, only son of the late Henry McCulloch, who was the magistrate there for 28 years. Deceased was a native of Invercargill, and left for South Africa in 1894. He was appointed magistrate at Fort Victoria, and went through the Matabele War. He did much travelling, and while elephantliunting contracted sleeping sickness. He sailed nine months ago for Lon- ' don to undergo treatment.—P.A.