LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 15, 4 September 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The interprovincial football ifixturG, Wellington-Taranaki will be played at Stratford on Thursday next.

At Victoria Park yesterday, the Stratford D.H.S team defeated the Senior Cadet team by 10 points to 8. Mr Campbell Jackson acted as referee.

For August the jute tonnage for Australasia was about one-third of normal, but the demand was' correspondingly less. It is impossible to say what tonnage will be available for September and October.

At the quarterly meeting of the Stratford Licensing Committee, held at noon to-day, transfers were granted of the licenses of the Empire Hotel, Stratford, from R. H. Campbell to C. H. Arden, and of the Tariki Hotel from W. R. Bonner to James Steele.

The death occurred at Wellington early this morning of Mr W. E. Gasquoine, who retired from the position of General Manager of the State Coal Mines Department at the end of July. Heart trouble was the cause of death. He was 54 years of age. His eldest son is a lieutenant' with the Expeditionary Force at Samoa.

Judgment by default was given in the following cases at the Court this morning:—H. A. Wunsch v. J. Carter £2 5s 6d, costs 15s; Central Co-operative Store Co. v. Athol Meredith 8s (costs only); T). Stewen v. J. Carter, £6 4s, costs £1 8s 6d; N.Z. L. and M.A. Co. v. Wm. Thos. Holt, £ll 15s 9d, costs £1 14s 6d. In the judgment summons case, Dinah Marks v. Thos. Donovan, judgment debtor did not appear, and ho was ordered to pay £5 8s 8d forthwith, in, default seven days' imprisonment.

Reserved decision was delivered at the Court this afternoon in the case Herbert P. H. Graves v. Joseph Speight, a claim for commission on the sale by exchange of defendant's farm at Kakaramea. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £75, with costs £8 16s. In giving judgment Mr Kenrick S.M. said, that in land sales the agreement to sell was of more importance than the conveyance. The conveyance could be altered, but the agreemnt could not. The agreements should be drawn, up with the help ;of a solicitor, and if ijhis were donej iho. Court would be saved considerable ti'dublo in straightening t out' ; land deals. Land agents, should stick to their owri ! business and let l 'solicitors draiv'Vfp' the. terms of,the:'agreements toJsell. J ;^i ".„'.,. ['.«•:sr 1