WAITARA NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 165, 29 November 1912, Page 7

WAITARA NEWS.

S.M. COURT. C'. Dunbar sued A. G. Crawford for £■'! '2s !)d. A cheque for the amount had been sent to the Court, but this not baing legal tender judgment was given for the amount, with 19s costs.

A Maori named Knpe was convicted and discharged for stealing a purse and 10s lid from the house of W. J. B. Paton at Sentry Hill. Constable Lapouplc said the woman had been hawking ferns and took the money from an open window. The woman's husband was ill and very ''hard up'; in fact, food even was a scarce commodity. His Worship thought that under the circumstances a conviction would suffice.

For allowing animals to wander on the roads at Tarata T. Waite was fined 5s and costs 10s 10d. and 11, Waite 10,s and costs 21s 10d,

For failing to attend drills ft. N. Smith Was lined 10s and costs 7s. At the animal meeting of the Clifton County Council on Wednesday, Mr. Kensington was appointed chairman. The tremendous fall of rain O'n Tuesday was responsible for what might easily have been the loss of a life. The contractors for the bridge have the use of the Harbor Board dredge in connection with the work, and one of the employees slept on it. About 0 o'clock on the night one of the guys gave, way owing to the great volume of water and timber racing down. The man naturally anticipated trouble, and with no lf'pe of doing any good, jumped into kept alongside and intended / ~ the shore. In the hurr- ' f °,! and the bqat wag s-- ?, , an 0a lvuiditv W -ept away with great di-f>perato ll ' l i tUe one aJter a the p*- ' clfort, lie managed to make r j," ' IS A hank some distance down the • CX, iind reached safety. Had the boat been swept more into the centre of the stream there was a big chance of his < being carried out to sea, but fortunately this did not happen.