LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A London cablegram gives the cricket : - averages' as ■ follows : Hatting: Hoarno, 00.15; Hobbs, 58.68;' G. P. Mead, 51.38; J. Gunn 56.82: ijarra.lt, 15.82.' Howling.: Blythe, 170 wickets on an average of 15.19; Drake,' 158 on an average of 15.86.

The Press Association at Gisborne. in a telegram to-day, states:—Chas. i" iiy alias Murray, who -was <. n.victed of burglary at Grieves? jewellery establishment, was sentenced to two years' -imprisonment was declared an habitual criminal. The value of the goods stolen was betwoeui £I6OO and £l7oo,and since the was sentenced yesterday the whole swag lias; been-recovered i'roinyarious'plants in the town.

The Court, on the inquiry at? Auckland, into the wreck or the jbarquo Joseph Craig, found that the rwreck was caused,by the br.eakiug of the tow lino. owing to the barque being jstruck by a severe squall, and by an error ot judgment on the part of the Writer in attempting to wear his vessel instead of 'dropping.anchor Immediately the lute parted. : In ordering that costs be paid" by the master of; the -barque, the Court expressed the opinion that the master of the tug .should iiot bof called upon to pay, as ho returned amltrisked his vessel after the line paited.-UF.A,

A Wellington Press Associatwui today states :* Kobext Henry ' (Jibson, styling himself "Professor,'? (ttbs'on, was' committed; for. .trial <on a charge, of fottuno-tciling. The evidencershow-•od-that die went ton house, taid ttn the course-of other-statements to the. women folk undertook" to ■shew them how to avoid having'-.children.- Evjdonce on.'those dines- uas not allowed tto he developed,/tho Magistrate riding it as h-relev-aiit on tho i'ortune4e]|ing: charges, 'but which could form tbe bitsis of other charges. Gibson's request to lie dealt, \vitji swn,ui,arijy ,ij£S ; refused and ho was committed for trial.