LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 18 September 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Playing at New Plymouth on Saturday, the hookey team representing the girls of the Stratford H'gh | School defeated the, New Plymouth Technical School by eight points to nil. I At ' Gborgrt Ini or,V was sentenced to three months’ jimprisonment at the Police Court ! for .falsely representing himself as a Syrian doctor who could cure rheumatism. Accused obtained five guineas from a woman whose logs ho scarred with burning wood, and put a pellet of beeswax in, covering up .the wound with leaves.- —Press Association. A Press Association telegram from Wanganui states: 'the linding of the nautical enquiry into the wreck of the Stornihird was that it was due to misadventure, the cause being attributed to the sea striking the how just as the vessel felt the effect of the set and towards the end of the north mole when the ship was in light trim, and the how being thrown towards the south mole, ,tho vessel was driven broad on, to the'.mole; also, the vessel had insufficient sea room t< recover herself before striking, tjiere being no contributing act or default ’|on the part of the pilot or;-captain. , At the Supremo Court, Grey mouth, a claim for €looo'for alleged libel in the case Noel Peat v. the Greymouth Evening Star, has commenced before Mr Justice Sim and a common jury. The subject of the claim was a paragraph appearing in the local columns of the paper stating: “A country shopman with pro-Gorman, or at j least down-hearted British, tenden- ! cies, has been engaged for some time I exploiting the residents in this district.” The paragraph also stated that ladies who waited on the shopman for patriotic purposes not only were refused assistance, hut wore subjected to a tirade of abuse such as only emanate from a creature of Hunnisli proclivities.