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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 167, 15 July 1907, Page 4

"She livos just anywhere," said SubInspector Gordon to Mr. C. C. Kettle, S33L, at the Police Court this morning, in reply to a question as to the residence of a street.waif. "Oh, don*t say that," protested tae "lydy"; 'Tve been in gaol nearly all the last two years, one twelve months, and two three ' monthses.' I never get a chance," she pleaded, "and I've never done nothing worse than robbery. Give mc a chance, your Worship." His Worship decided to limit the chance to the indeterminate sentence provided by the Habitual Offenders' Act, after receiving a report from the police on her career. A meeting of the Hobson Bay Vriinage Board was convened for 10 o'clock this morning, at the City Council Chambers. The Mayor of Auckland' (Mr. A. M. Myers), the Mayor of Paraell (Mr. G. W. Basley), and the chairman of the ternuera Road Boaid (Mr. J. S. Dickson) were the only members present, consequently the meeting was adjourned.

The Rev. J. T. Baglin, of Footscray (Victoria), had a remarkable escape from death. While running to catch a train at the Royal Park, his bag struck his leg, and he slipped as the train was moving off. He fell headlong between two carriages, but by a great effort managed to grasp the coupling chains and hold on head downwards by his feet and hands. In this positon he was carried on to South Kensington station. During the perilous journey bis overcoat was torn to 6hreds, where it had got under the wheels. When the train stopped at South Kensington Mr. Baglin was utterly exhausted. He escaped with a bltiod wound over one eye, and was badly bruised about the body.

An aged woman, who was walking along Manukau-road, Newmarket, on Saturday afternoon, fell at the door of the Carlton Club Hotel, evidently in a fit of faintness. She sustained a very bad bruise on the forehead, the force of the fall being such as to draw blood. For some time she was quite unable to rise, and had eventually to be assisted to her hnioe by some passers-by. The following nominations have been received for the 4teehunga Cycling Touring Club's three-mile race, to be held on-Mr. C. Baker's training tetck on Saturday next for trophies donated by Messrs. S. H. Brooking, Worrall and. Martinson and the club: — J. Fletcher, F. Roget/E. V. Sutherland, C. Piper, O. Melvern, W. H. Ecrwards, J. Foubister; N. Wadman, C. Denzie, Chas. Rnshbrook, L. Webb, T. H. Pardington, H. Flewellyn, H. C. Thomson, H.. Christini, R. J. Sutherland, W. Hill, J. McCullagh, A. B. P. Perrin, and D. Howard.

The Otago hockey representatives were entertained to dinner at the Strand Cafe on Saturday evening by the local Hockey Association. There was a large attendance, and the function passed off very successfully. A thoroughly enjoyable evening was spent with song and story. During the evening the following toasts were honoured:—"The King," "Otago Team," "The Ladies," ''Auckland Hockey Association, coupled with the names of Messrs Tatley, Hill, and Shiruts," "The Keferees' Association, coupled with the name of Mr Madden," and "The Press." The visitors leave for New Plymouth this afternoon.

Edwin Morris has been committed for trial at Lithgow (N.S. Wales), on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of James Lindsay Pride, •who died in the. Lithgow Hospital as a result of a broken leg, obtained when wrestling with Morris. A witness of the occurrence stater that Pride and Morris "had some angry words, and they were wrestling for about thirty seconds. Then Pride fell, and sang out, "I have broken my leg." Pride's head received a great blow in the fall, but he was not stunned. Morris seemed to wish to avoid the quarrel.

The Devanport Borough Council wHI meet to-morrow evening. Cr. Gribbln will move: "That the Mayor and councillors be constituted a committee to consider the work and capabilities of the Council's staff, and the general administration of the borough affairs." Cr. McCailum will move: '"That the gas lamp originally proposed to be erected in North Head-road be now fixed at the corner of Owens-road and Victoria-road."

The "Melbourne Age" says:—"An interesting stage has been reached in the arrivals of the wheat of this year's harvest. The estimated yield this season was 22,600,000 bushels, while last year it was 23,400,000 bushels, a diminution of 800, 000 bushels. The total deliveries to the same date for the two seasons were 18,640,000 bushels last year and 15,050,000 bushels this year, sothat up to the present this season's deliveries are within 590,000 bushels of the quantity that had come forward by this time last year. The Director of Agriculture points out that it will he interesting to see whether the abnormal price will bring out a considerable amount of wheat that ■was being held back. So far the deliveries are only 4,500,000 bushels short of the estimate of the harvest, and it is generally reckoned that 6,000.000 bushels are required for home consumption and seed."

The nomination, of officers for the Thames Miners' Union closed on Saturday evening, the following being th« names received:—President. Messrs. A. W. Sawyer and T. Burrett; vice-presi-dent, Messrs. W. McQuinn and F. Trebilcock; secretary, Mr W. H. Lucas; treasurer. Mr R. W. Wilson; executive council, Messrs. G. W. Peploe, Thos. Graha.ro, J. McClelland and P. darken; committee, Messrs. S. Stewart, W. McGinn, T. Graham. G. Bond, T. Burrett, Jas. Onion, "W. Reitman, J. O'Shea, J. Wade, P. Clarken, R. Graham. The election -will be held on Saturday, August 3rd.

A church parade of the Thames Cadets and Hauraki Rifle Volunteers was held on Sunday morning. The companies assembled at the corner of Pollen and. Richmond streets, and, headed by. the Hauraki Band, under Bandmaster Williams, marched to the Presbyterian Church, where the Rev. Macaulay Caldwell, of Auckland, delivered a most impressive sermon. The following were the companies on parade:—Hauraki Rifles, under Captain Clark; Parawai Cadete, under Captain Trimmer; Kauaeranga Cadets, under Captada Hammond; and two companies of the Waiokaraka Cadets, under Captains Ferguson and Newfon.

The trail of the recent storm has left a mark here and there about the Maungakaramea district (says the

"North Auckland Times"). Mr. A. Gillingham had a new building partly roofed with iron, previous to the gale, but at the cessation few sheets remained in position. Any day, standing timber was a source of danger. A son of Mr. T. O'Carroll, jun., proposed" to make a second trip to the firewood heap, bu* on his return the little fellow found a. fairsized pine tree had fallen there during his absence of only a few minutes. Mr. G. A. Wright, jun., while travelling through standing bush, had a lucky escape from a falling rata limb, which fell about a yard behind him; in fact, so close, that the small twigs scattered over his head. So far no loss of stock is reported, but it has been noticed by those taking the trouble to observe, that animals, by a very natural instinct attained in bush country, keep a careful watch during a gale, and at any unusual sound will move instantly.

The Rev. Joseph Parker, who has been contributing an interesting series ot articles to the "New Zealand Graphic" on a recent visit he made to Japan and the Coast, pays a high compliment to the periodical in which, his contributions have been appearing. "I have just received two copies of the 'Graphic,'" he writes, "and I would like at once to offer you my most hearty congratulations on the production of such a paper. I have not seen anything in Australia or abroad comparable witih it; the artistic work in it is worthy of being classed with some of the best .English «and American journals; I showed one copy of the 'Graphic' to an old and experienced printer, and he confessed that he had not seen finer work done." In view of the present strained relations between Japan and the United States, the following extract from the same letter is interesting: "I am convinced about one thing, and that is that it is only a matter of time until there is serious conflict between the Japanese and the Americans; I saw several acts of friction caused by the American authorities which the Japanese concerned are quiet about; but they never forget."

Mr G. A. Coles, president of the Auckland Boot Manufacturers' Association writes:—"The New Zealand Boot Manufacturers Federation wish it to be known that they have not in any way approached the Government for an increased tariff on boots and shoes, and do not wish for same." Definitions are awkward things, and sometimes appear more complete than taey really are. A police witness in the eoal-luinpers , case at the Central Court was cross-examined at great length by a humorous advocate, and showxi a good deal cf shrewdness in his replies. He admitted that he knew very little about ships, and nautical phrases were beyond hiru. Questioned as to where "aft" was on a ship, he said he believed it was the nart that went last.

Forgeries" and facsimiles'beset the bojjjnni'r's path in every line of collecting; and very old birds "indeed are sometimes caught: with such chaff. Forgeries havi even been bought by tbe South ELerKiugton. Museum, and kept there for a time undetected (writes Mr J. H. Yoxall, M.P., in 'tviidcn OpinJcr"). I was a meinoer cf the e.ek>ct committee of the House o f Commons which sat on the management of the South Kensington Museum. As to the counterfeits, we found, for ax-ampl-5, that over £200 had been paid for a false piece of "Pallissy" ware.

There is, says the "Otago Daily Times," too much reason to believe that perjury is shockingly prevalent in the courts of the colony. Ore legal practitioner, who has had a considerable amonnt of experience in the sifting of witnesses' • statements, has formed the estimate that onethird of the evidence which is offered in the courts in Dunedin—the civil courts incHxled—is perjured.

An indication of the big rise in land values in and around Wanganui is to be found in the fact that a farm not far from Aramoho which, about three years ago, after changing bands two or three times, has again found new owners, this time at £40 an acre. The purchasers in the last insTance are a Wellington syndicate which has also bought other land near the town with the intention of cutting it up into suburban areas. The near prospect of having electric trams running there, with the forwa.'d i>>cve which the town it expected to make ii vhe next few years, has doubtless led outside people to feel that a good field for investment o.i;ts in Wanganui.

It is estimated that the Lusitania will require to burn something like 1200 or 1300 tons of coal a day on hex trip to New York in order to do twenty-five knots (says the "Daily Telegraph," London). But the run from Vancouver to Sydney at the same speed would take eleven or twelve days, and at the same rate of coal consumption the vessel would want close on 16,000 tons. That, of course, would be impossible, unless she was very much bigger than the new Cunarders, arid the bigger the ship the greater the cost of driving her, even supposing you could ever catch up to your coal requirements. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, wiser than some of his colleagues at the Colonial Conference, talked about an eigh-teen-knot service on the Pacific, but Australia and New Zealand were indisposed to look at that. Some day we may reach a stage when the coal problem will be got out of the way. At present it seems to offer an insuperable difficulty to very high speeds in the Pacific, and, indeed, almost everywhere else than on the comparatively short Atlantic voyage.

In connection with, the wages dispute case in course of settlement at the Magistrate's Court, during the hearing of which on Monday an irregularity transpired in the stamping of a cheque butt, the. defendant, in giving his evidence, explained to the magistrate why the' stamp was not initialled by the plaintiff. He stated that plaintiff, not having a stamp at the time of receiving "the cheque, he (defendant) ordered it to be stamped in his office, and subsequently dated the stamp. His Worship accepted this explanation, stating that there was clearly no intention to evade the Stamp Act.