LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 13 August 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Loudon cablegram states that butter market Is quiet, Australian and' New Zealand not offering. Cheese is slow, some New Zealand fetching .-Is to 7os, and a few Australian 70s.

lu Dunedin, flour lias been reduced 10s per ton, and is now quoted at £ls 10s; bran is reduced 20s, now being £7 ; and pollard is down 10s, now being £8 10s.—Press Association.

The proposed conference between the Stratford Borough Council and the directors of the Llectric Light Company will take place on Tuesday evening. 17th inst. The Council meet at seven o’clock and the conference opens at 7.30.'

Weather Forecast.—The indications are for northerly winds moderate to strong prevailing and freshening. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather with increasing haze and cloudiness. The barometer is unsteady and lias a falling tendency.— Bates, Wellington.

Regular patrons to the Picture Theatre, ami also enthusiasts of Mountain House, which Mr H. Mil-, liams lias brought up to its present high standard, should make a point to patronise the Theatre to-night on the occasion of the benefit performance tendered to Mr Williams by Mr holey. A first-class programme will be given, and the public of Stratford should show, in a practical form, their appreciation of Mr Williams’ management of the Mountain House.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram to-day states that the jury returned a verdict of guilty against John Robert Henderson, of Milton, charged with stealing £2O, paid to hiiu on behalf of the 14th Otago Regiment, and with making a false entry with intent to defraud. The verdict was supplemented with the following rider; “The jury recommend the prisoner to the. mercy of the Court, and deprecate the lax manner in which the books and moneys of the Regiment have been managed.” Hie next charge was one of stealing £2 Bs, portion of a sum paid him for payment as camp pay, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty.

Mr J. iB. Hine, M.P.. referred; at the ; Rgmont Club farewell function last night to thetprobabilities of compulsory enlistment being shortly enforced’ in i'jiew Zealand. 5 He'-Saicfe tp|q ; people of' New Zealand, had nobly responded by:, enlisting in large numbers, and theJei were more names of .men on the register than were needed to go at present. But he would Hi.df.gfcj sci far as to say that compulsion would not be necessary... National Registration was pn the :i card§, anti, legislation would, most likely, be brought down in this direction in about three weeks time. He. would like to see National Registration. It this did happen, every consideration would he given to the country’s inidustries, and thpj men who were sejepfced wpuitf have itpjgovftether they wanted, to, or not;

His Worship, Mr .SAJ.; presided at this morning’s sitting of the Stratford Magistrate’s Court.* A first offender for drunkenness was lined 10s and costs, the Magistrate remarking that he made a rule'‘to fine first offenders 10s during these times of stress.—John, Serandowski, a German Pole, pleaded guilty to a charge of entering licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition order, and procuring liquor during the currency of the order. The first charge was withdrawn. Sergeant Dale said the accused had kept the order very badly, and had been fined for a similar offence in January last. Defendant said that he went into town on tha day in question, and as it was cold' and raining he partook of a whisky. The Magistrate said he must have the orders of the Court observed, and defendant was fined £3 and costs 7s.— Frank Fulcher was charged with (on August 4) assaulting George Russell and causing actual bodily harm. Sergeant Dale asked for an adjournment

for a week, as Russell was still in hospital, and would not he out of hospital before then. The Magistrate granted the. adjournment till next Friday.—Michael Joseph O’Keeffe, charged with the disobedience of a maintenance order, was convicted and committed to three months’ imprisonment in New Plymouth gaol, the warrant to he suspended so long as defendant pays oft' the arrears.