LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 91, 20 April 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Te Kuiti (states the Press Association to-day) James Kyle was fined £SO for keepiug liquor for sale, and J. Taylor, for supplying liquor to a native, was fined £2O.

The Press Association at Christchiirch states: In the betting cases J. Shanaghan was lined £&) and costs, Walter Glooseman, for betting in a hotel, was fined £SO and costs. Win, Boon, for betting at Riccarton, was also fined £-')0 and costs. The Frill Court gave judgment tin's morning on tin? final question in the election cases. It held that an electoral roll is not conclusive where the question of statics is concerned, hut is conclusive where the irregularity is one of procedure merely.—l\A. A target which marks itself was tested recently at the Williamstown (Victoria) Hide Range under the eyes of Mr Jensen, Assistant Minister for Defence, and others. The target is the invention of Mr M'Culloch. who is an old rifle shot, and has For many .years been interested in problems of the range. It is an electrical device which does away with the necessity of employing a marker, letting riflemen know as soon as his shot has been fired whereabouts it has struck the target. Its const ruck ion is particularly' ingenious and simple. The visitors passed favourable judgment upon the efficacy of the target.

A number of ex-members of flu l Wangaiiui County Council were sued in the Magistrate's Court to-day lor a refund of' I'D os, being the amount disputed by the Audit Department as excess of unauthorised expenditure. The Press Association states that the items were the chairman's travelling expenses to the counties' conference, ft Tic] expenses of a delegate to a conference re unlive rates. Counsel for defendants contended that the items were legitimate expenditure, but counsel for the department contended that no count _v money could be spent for promoting legislation. The Magistrate Mr Kpvi\ reserved his judgment.