JOTTINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 62, 16 March 1915, Page 8

JOTTINGS.

I The Government has accepted the offer of'Mr C. H. Izard to place at the disposal of the Defence authorities his furnished house and grounds at Upper Butt as a convalescent home for sick and wounded troopers coming from the front.

I As to the means available for sending money to members of the expeditionary force now in Egypt, the money should be paid into the public account at the Bank of New Zealand and the receipt forwarded to the local Defence Office, together with the sum of £1 and the full address of the member of the expeditionary force to whom it is desired the. sum be sent. The fee of £1 is to cover the cost of cabling to Egypt.

Mr Hewitt, S.M., at, Greymouth. yesterday refused to deal with the information against a Territorial, named Gibbons, charged with assaulting and causing bodily harm to Neil Pearce while in the training camp at Totara, Flat. He held that, whilst he had jurisdiction, the case was one of purely military offence, which should not be referred to the civil court Counsel for defendant submitted that the military authorities having handed the defendant over to the civil power, could not now deal with him. As regards the alleged bodily harm, counsel stated that the jaw had not been broken as at first alleged, but Pearce had since been operated on for abscess on the teeth. The accused was subsequently arrested on the warrant of Colonel Richardson, and will be handed backto the military authorities.