LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 30 August 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

i Erihnds of Captain J. B. Hine are asked to make special note of the valedictory meeting at the Municipal Council Chambers to-morrow, Wednesday, at 7.15 p.m. sharp, when it is Intended to make him a presentation. Three men implicated in the recent extensive thefts from the warehouse of Sharland and Welling-, ton, were sentenced Mr Justice Chapman This intoning (states the Press Association). Ja/mew Henry Bray, storeman, who pleaded guilty to theft was sentenced to 18 months’ reformative treatment; Edward Hellawell, grocer, was found guilty of receiving, and was sentenced to 2i years’ imprisonment; and James Connor ion a similar charge to two years’ imprisonment, ul |“The l police should never arrest any many'on any charge whatever, if they Jifjve reason to believe that he will appear on summons. If the police are satisfied that they can ensure tho attendance of a person at Court by issuing a summons it is their duty to do so, and not to arrest that person,” said his Honor Mr Justice .Eduards at the Supreme Court at Wellington. When word was received in Kaponga on Sunday night that Mr S. Turner was bushed on Mount Egmont, a search party of ten members left town about 10 o’clock in Mr P. W. Allen’s Studebaker motor car which was driven by Mr C. Cooper. Mr Cooper recognised the urgency of tho case and claims to have reached Dawson Falls House in half an hour, a record for the journey. The track was in fair order and despite tho heavy load, the low gear was only used on one very muddy stretch.

A correspondent writes: Through the invitation of Mrs Flynn, a pleasant party gathered at her house in Te Wera on Saturday night to bid farewell to her son Edward, who was on his final leave, going with the next Reinforcements. This is the fourth son of Mrs Flynn who lias gone to fight for King and Country, a fact which she has great reason to be Iproud of. After the usual patriotic toasts were proposed and honored, it was resolved by the gathering that, with the assistance of admirers a suitable memento bo presented to Mrs Flynn on the occasion of her fourth son leaving for the Front. After a liberal contribution by those present, Mr M. O’Neill (Te Wera) and Mr J. Ross (Kiore) were appointed to select the memento.

The secretary of the Auckland Hieing Club has received the 101 l ovine; letter from the Duke of Portland: — “The skin of Carbine is at present in the hands of taxidermists in London, undergoing a process necessary for its preservation. As Carbine was born in Now Zealand it ha s occurred to me that it would be lilting that his skin should be deposited in the land of his birth, and I think that perhaps the best course 1 could take would be to ask you to receive it and present it to tli(> Auckland Museum, it is quite probable that the skin will not be sent while the war continues, but I write so that everything may be in order when the time conies for its transmission.” The Duke of Portland P” r ' chased Carbine from the trustee;; of the estate of the late Mr I). S. A al-i lace- for 13,000gns.