LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A pleasant afternoon, wasuspent, hy tlie pupils of the local District High School on Thursday, when thirty-five girls from "the New Plymouth .High School journeyed to Stratford and tried conclusions at hookey with the school’s teams. The girls arrived-by the 3 o’clock train, and were entertained at afternoon tea at the school before proceeding to Victoria Park where the matches 'were played. The •senior game, was contested on the hockey ground, and the junior on the, football ground. The local teams won both games by narrow margins. Two teams of hoys went o New Plynu'mth, 'and played the High School senior and junior teams at football. The senior team wou^their game and ■ tlio juniors lost. There is every prospect , of matches being played between 1 the. Hawera Technical .School hnd ; tho Stratford High School on Thursday. fn' admitting two men nanfed Cash man. and , Dempster to probation for ,two years for stealing goods from ! the Wellington wharf., the Chief Justice. (Sir Robert Stout.) said working I men ought to be saving every penny* j instead of which fthey were drinking . ami smoking, going to pictures, and ' son on. “I don’t know what’s- com--1 ing to this country.” he added. “I 'see young mob loafing about the I streets, thinking of nothing hut their own pleasures, and going into hotels lin the. middle of a great war—the .greatest way'the world has ever seen —but the time, will come when we Will ’ have ‘ to. undergo very -great .pri? ration, and you are- making- no, pr<ft vision for 1 '.'them. ' Even- 1 bees, u : pud wasps 1 make provision for ytheir, spring, Md,'you make no provision at all! Still'/ you working; men are, no Worse' tliail bthet- pebple.”-^-J ? .A,

■r.. -A : ' Press/ r A,ssoc'iiifcid*i f sta^?:' ;, letftiaV'i)ahe' ' Ho'od (faipeitOTftfffV Sjentenee.;' i ! th^,G ' S»P renie ,tp-^^-before'tiie hayjng ,jmblis^e<l-a deiamatory libel on a mm in the Conive'ht, knowing.; it to be j false! His Honor said.'hi'sl'duty was to see that the law was vindicated. The prisoner had tried to foment bad feeling among people,: who,b<M)eved; with her 'and peoples wbq.did hot believe u'ith litfß j Prisoner had writt'endies, and be could.; not sentence her to less Wmfr; ths,'- ~ imprisonment. >"■:'" He'would 'get the gaol. surgeon to wa.tch 'oversoner'and see what' was thfe'calVse! off the-outburst that dirid -given, her so) hiuch'Hrouble: The following raffiqngf other sentences We passed; i J,,TvJl'f by, : theft' J from' "person, nine ■ • nronfcbs}; Geoi'ge Penman, indecent assault, oji little gii'l, t\vo years. Thomas, .Ajf' f red -Rafter, indecent exposure,, tvyelve months; Victor Fraser, assault and robbery, three years. Matthew Bell v carnal knowledge on girl under/ sixteen years, at Westport, four/years. Temuera Tokoitua, for marrying a European at Otaki. thereby commit-' 'ting a breach of the Marriage 'Act, was admonished and, discharged. For Children's ; Hacking i Cough /at ;-- ; . mghfc,... ~,; ,• >•: Wcods' Great Peppermint Cure,.ln U 3, 2 B 6d. ' ; " •"'•!'