LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 45, 23 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A social and dance will be hold in the Pembroke Hoad School on Friday evening. To-day, being the Prince of Wales birthday, the Magistrate’s Court office is closed.

The Xgaire factory closed down for the season on Sunday. Cardiff closed last week. Lowgarth is still running, but will close down shortly.

The committee meeting called for this evening in connection with the Catholic" social for sick and wounded soldiers has been postponed on account of the wet weather.

Despite the boisterous weather, the sum of £ls Is 3d was realised at Madam Bernard’s Benefit Picture Show last evening. The whole of this

sum will be paid l)y the management to the Wounded Troopers’ Fund.

The council of the New Zealand Goll Association has decided that owing to the war the New Zealand Golf championship, which was set down to ho played at Napier on September 6th to 11th, will he abandoned.

It was announced yesterday (states the Press Association) that the .Prime Minister, had ordered a census to he taken of the stocks of wheat, flour, and oats in the Dominion on the last day of the present month, so as to show whether the present high prices are justified.

The Belgian Flag purchased hy Mr C. Bayly in Stratford last Saturday, has hoen presented hy Mr Bayly to the Toko Patriotic Concert Committee. and Mr G. E. Bocock informs ns it will be sold by auction at the imiction, which takes place in the Toko Hall to-morrow night.

An amusing instance of the folly of' litigation over small sums was heard in the Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin (states Otago Daily Times). A claim was made for 4s Id. and the

intricate machinery of the law was set in motion to enforce it. r I he defendant journeyed from Milton (66 miles distant) to attend the court, and both he and the plaintiff were represented by counsel. The witness in support of the claim did not appear, and after the formal hearing of evidence judgment was given for the defendant. The fact that the claim was for loss than £2, however, legally prevented the defendant from being allowed his solicitor’s fee, though ho was allowed his own expenses. The result was that, over Is Id, the defendant would, presumably, have to pay his counsel a guinea ; the plaintiff would have to do the same for his lawyer, and also pay the defendant’s expenses, and the time of the court was occupied for about half an hour.