LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 77, 4 July 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, Weather f c-rep#st.—The indications are for south-easterly moderate. to strong prevailing. Weather probably cool and changeable. The night ■wiH ? probably -be™v ery" Cold''^vrffcii^fro"stfs inland. The barometer has a rising tendency.—Bastes, Wellington. A Press Association message from Dunedih states: The Cutter Enief•|e"ach,^d. : ftheV Aucjpsnd'. *■■'• whereine went ih quesfc of 'the General Grant's sold. Th§' search was unsuccessful. Tse gold fas pravfTd f»>J»av;&;|ro|e.'', 1|; ►islbefiiftVed' torhaw b'eeif recbverMi by' the Daphine in 1869. .. When the dancers arrived at the Xlthgow (N.S.W.) town hall one evening recently to participate in a ball promoted by 4 number of bachelors they found the interior of the hall with recruiting posters. During the evening the music in- , : sfeed You" and i'"Boys qf: the Darda-; [: neMea," i-playgdi -t&i d§ncey limea ■,:■ >.u ';';. Something of a sensation was made in if Pargavi|le •jveftenlte ,'lsyb.own, James: GharlesbWig: * gws, t a ri, builchng, iconifji^Qr,: larn i^atoi.-,and,;charged twosjuss ,&e&sof./;the peace, witSb; ha.viflgir.WiH set his fire,.: Deteo-tive-jsergeant:. Hollist conducted, the , case s for the* the accused pjeacled guilty <- {n a statement (made to the police the accused ad r Emitted that, on the night, of June 17, after his brother-in-law had left the house, he hrew soim} clothing behind the .door and set it on fire with "a candle. Wiggins admitted that 'pi had,set the house on fire with the object of securing the insurance* on! house and furniturej amounting to i £650. The brother-in-law stated that, ton,' ihis return to, the .housej. he found it, full pf .smojse ans; a fire blazing .in phe of the rooms. -He had; suppressed the fire with .'the assistance of a neighbour. . Wiggins was .convicted jund remanded, to the Supremo.'Court [•at:. Auckland for sentence. • Aq unusual case was brought under .fchelnoticeof the Hon. W. D. Sv MacDonald at Gisborne. at a, conference , ; aJ ,;-^^p^(ap^iiting;^e^ Mr 5 . -G. ■;7gt^iie.s. that his;'firm,was acting on behalf'of a local Native, who, wiHi

An unusual case was brought under the. 1 notice of the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald at Gisborue. at ,;-tß^' ; £K«!oriviicing ■<„ * Mt*. •:.0. .Std^jk ; that;;..his/, firjn, was S'-tihg on behalf 'of a. who,: with liis son, accompanied the Maori, coiir tingent to GaUipoli.' The son was killed inaction by his father,'s side on August 24 last, and the father wns, wounded. On returning home the Maori claimed £69 arrears of pay, and further contended that 'tis sot's allotments to his relatives on the East "Coast had never been paid.' The department's reply was that no such casualty occurred} and that the identification number was that of another Maori hailing from . Mahia. Against this, however, the Native was able to 'produce the transport receipt for his son's kit, a telegram from the Minister of Defence announcing the boy's death, and, further, the actual identification disc removed by the father from his son's body on the battle-j field. The Minister took possession of the. papers in the case, and stated that he would personally investigate the matter.