GENERAL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 45, 24 February 1915, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS.

By placing his head on the railway line just before an engine reached him, a man was decapitated early the other morning near the signal cabin at the junction of the South and Port Adelaide lines. He was noticed to wait for- the engines, and when they had almost reached him he knelt down and placed his head across the line right under the front wheel of the leading engine. The body has not been identified .

The Secretary of the Taranaki Agricultural Society has made very complete arrangements for the convenience of the public on the Show Ground at New Plymouth for to-day and Thursday. Members who have not yet obtained their member’s pass tickets can obtain them from the staff at the various gates. A ladies’ cloak room will be open on Thursday under the Grandstand, and also a tent on the ground for the convenience of ladies. School Committees have permission from the Education Department to close their schools on People’s Day, so that teachers and school children may attend.

Recently a firm of Melbourne land agents in the city issued printed imitations of the Commonwealth £5 notes to advertise a sale of land in which the chief point was that purchasers would be required to pay a deposit of £5 on each block. This constituted a breach of the Commonwealth Notes Act. The Commonwealth Treasury authorities instituted a prosecution in the District Court, and the firm was fined £2, with costs £3 15s. The firm responsible for .printing the advertisement was also fined £l, with £2 2s costs.—A picture show proprietor who sought to increase the number of his patrons by sending imitations of urgent telegrams to householders was at the same court held to lie guilty of issuing a form in imitation of the one issued by the Postmaster-General, and he was fined £ls and £3 7s costs. It was stated by the prosecuting counsel that the picture show proprietor had been warned that ho was breaking the law, but he disregarded the warning. In this case, too, the person who printed the pseudo-urgent telegrams was fined £1 and £2 2s costs. Counsel stated that the proceedings were instituted in order to secure a wider knowledge of provisions of the Act relating to Government documents.