Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 154, 16 November 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

T ~i'<j)ii Our Kix'aent ".U'purl»p. STRAY PARAGRAPHS A petition was circulated in Broadway to-day in favor of the daylight saving , scheme, asking shopkeepers Wup ; :■ iheir premises at 7 a.m. anil close at 5 p.m. I jit obtained L'i signatories, and seven shopkeepers declined r.o sign. Subsequently a counter-petition was circulated, making the hours from 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., and this was signed by a number who had signed the previous petition. Both petitions will be to the Minister for Labor, and should any alteration come into effect it will take place from December 1. . There is seldom a court sitting without its "incident." Judgment summonses, when defended, are generally productive of evidence calling for comment. There was. one such case yesterday. An Eltham laborer was proceeded against a judgment summons by the D.O.A. in a bankrupt estate. He told the usual story of the unfortunate lot of the day laborer in a moist climate, with a big family, aiid good wages when he could work. But even, at 'los a day he reckoned Jiis average wages were only £1 18s a week, for his work was in the. river, impossible on wet days and often in tine weather also if the river ran high. His wife had been ill for five weeks lately, a (laughter for seven weeks, , "and," he added apologetically, "I have } recently increased my family by one." < The Magistrate remarked: "But you i must stop increasing your family *by j, one if you can't pay your debts." "Xow, we are frequently told that every baby born is worth quite a fabulous sum to the State. Is it not better that the. trustful trader should have his attention drawn to the riskiness of the credit system than that the State should be robbed of this wealth, as suggested by the court dignitary? In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. W. G. Kenrick, S.M., judgment by default was entered in debt cases as follows:—McMillan and Fredric (Mr. Fookes) v. D. K. Uooeh, claim £lO 7s 9d, and costs £1 10s Ud; E. G. Foster v. H. Buss, claim £1 5s and costs us; Wilson, Drake <fc Co. (Mr. Duff) v. Walter Brown, claim £2 0s 3d, and 10s costs; D.O.A. (Mr. Stanford) v. Alfred Shaw, claim £2 and costs 10s; Wilson, Drake > Co. (.Mv. Duff) v. J. Walker, claim 13s j 2d and os costs; Wilson, Drake & Co. J v. A. Taylor, claim £5 S-: !)d. and costs j £1 7s (id; E. L. McQuav (Mr. Duff) v. j M. T. North, claim £l3 12s Od and costs 1 £2 Os Od. I

Several applications having been made for the erection of workers' homes in Stratford under the WorKers' Dwellings Act, the Government is considering the acquisition of the neees-r-ry land to put the scheme into operation. Yesterday Mr. Lomas (superintendent of the Department), Mr. W. Temple (architect), and G. H. Bullard (•",iiiimissioi:er of Crown Lands in Turan >ki) in,-;>..cud a block of land near {he Swansea road bridge. The St. Andrew's Temiic CI Lib had a successful opening on Thursdny. The tennis and the tea provided 'o3' the ladies were alike enjoyable. There is still a possibility of reviving the Stratford Cricket Club.

Where and when ;i ninn had bought his tobacco, and his liability to pay for it, had to be sorted up from a tangled debt case in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. Wilson, Drake & Co. .(Mr. Duff) sued Reuben Ilassall for a guinea for tobacco sold and delivered, but the defendant disputed the claim, producing his rough diary to prove that he was working out of town when one lot was purchased, and calling a tobacconist to prove (out of his memory) that at the time the defendant was buying three sticks of mbacco a week from him. Plaintiff and an assistant, swore to having served the defendant personally over the counter, )>it liassail said that those lots of tobsieco had been, paid for by his mother. The plaintiffs could not produce Lin ir day book in support of the claim, and the memorandum furnished to the defendant at his ■own request by the suliei'ov in the case did not quite agree with the invoice duplicates of invoices produced. This the S.M. held to be necessary, and nonsuited the plaintiffs, remarking ; hat it was bad policy to leave a closed account of this kind uncollected for over a year, as in this case. He also said that for any assistant in a busy grocery -.tore to assert that he could actually r< member these transactions, with day and date, for over a year, was stretching things a bit too far.

Mr. E, Jackson and Mr. E. Mason had good wins in horseflesh at the' Wanganui Show. Mr. Campbell Jackson has, I am told, bought the pony that boat ''Ted's" pony at Palmerston North, and the pair will be shown again in competition at the Stratford Show. Messrs. T. Kirkwood, C. E. Seabright and A. A. Cuthbertson secured prizes in the dog classes, whilst in the cattle section Messrs. R. Harkness, W. V. Harkness and E. J. Linn proved that Stratford's Jerseys were the best shown. ''l'll make orders against debtors who have what they call 'a few drinks,' every one of them. —Warning by Magistrate Kenrick. ''The six months from May to August." —An erroneous m:..'.'ssion evi Lmtly existing in the mind of a well-known Stratford lawyer. The remark was his own in yesterday's court proceedings. Yesterday morning I saw a young fellow pierced by a projecting hatpin. Its owner was annoyed, not at the pin, but it the man for during to run against lie point of it, for the impact pulled her hair and disarranged lik - headgear! Mr. Parry. Superintendent of Electric Lines, and in charge of ihe Government's Lake Coleridge power scheme, was in Stratford this wesk.

"I keep ;t day book, I:-.- I'm not such a fool as to give mucii cvouit. About £3 is all I have on re b<- iks."—Thus .a Stratford business m/n in court yesterday. A lawyer had bad hick in court yesterday. A summons bad been issued by him, and now he found defendant was dead. "I can't get- default in this case," he said, and looked qui' id about it. Another legal lummar . v ivptcd £1 19s paid in court, lnster : of £1 19s 6d —a rather unusual thing ' a solicitor presumably, for there v. , quite a lot of comment about it.

"Two drinks a day; 'hat's six shillings a week. Do you know tie uvo shillings a week would have en.' yen. to have settled this account?" iu....d counsel of a debtor in court yesterday. But the man said he did not always have two drinks a day, and even if he did it did not follow that he weird have to pay for every one of them, liddes, his "boss" was prepared to "shout" Idm a l>eer every night if he wanted it. An Elthan debtor, giv: .g < . idenee in the S.M. Court yesterday, : ..enHoned that a solicitor in his own town very often, lent him sun 11 sums of money when he was short. "Do you tl ! nk you could borrow £4 las ;M from 1 . w -nil square this account?" queried a insistent solicitor. The Magistrate thought that this swould be rather a dangerous precedent. BERNARD'S PIL'TUPES Tt is not in the grouped «enes that "The Sunset Gun" * • irresistibly grips

the minds of the people, but in the very fine acting of the old gentleman who.. hearing the bugle calls 'at tli-:' .yreat memorial cercmoniiil. lives his luilus over again, and pas.-;.':, ;<wny into ilie great beyond "like a warrior Inking ins irst." His whole.presentation of (ii< did s'i!<,; ■;■ is wonderfully good, and this film L-, bound to gat the fin me hearty applause 'to-night as greeted it last night and the night before. Drama in lighter vein, introducing the popular cowboy, is presented in "The Schoolmarm of Stone Gulch." Screaming comedies are "The Runaways" and "The New Woman and the Lions." "On, the Shores of the Bosphorus," "I lis Lesson" and "Love Finds a Way Out," are all capital films, and so is the current Pa the Gazette.