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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 6, 7 May 1915, Page 6

At Wanganui (states the Press Association) L, Wooijyett pleaded guilty! to a charge of forgery and attempt-1 ing to utter a cheque for £2O, and was I coipiiiitted to Wellington for sentence. The steamer Invertay, forty-seven days out from New York, anchored in Auckland harbor early this morning, having run short of coal when one and a-half days' steaming from the New Zealand coast. They burned a quantity of lumber, which was being carried on the deck, mixed with coal, until off Cape "Colville.; when the coal gave out entirely, and the lumber would not burn alone. The captain wired for coal,'which was sent, enabling the Invertay to complete her voyage. The shortage was caused by a heavy tropical storm in the Low, Archipelago. ! At the Magistrate's Court at Eltham on Wednesday A. J. Gla'saon, j Inspector of Noxious Weeds at Huwera, proceded against Newton King for failing to clear noxious weeds from a property at Awatuna. It appeared that the defendant was a mortgagee of the property and in that capacity received the rents for grazing of cattle on the property, the owner having given up possession. llr It. Spence, of Stratford, who appeared for the defendant, contended that a mortgagee in these circumstances-could not bo considered the occupant of the property. His Worship (Mr Kenriek), without giving any decision, intimated that it would appear that Counsel's contention must prevail. The informant, thereupon, applied for leave to withdrew the case, and it was accordingly withdrawn.