A LATE DISCOVERY.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9594, 8 December 1896, Page 5

A LATE DISCOVERY.

At Nfipior yesterday William Douglas, %heep farmer, was fined £5 and costs for running sheep from a run declared to be infested by liver fluke, lie stated that he had known tluke to exist in the colony for forty years, and in that particular district for thirty-three years, and it had only just been discovered by the Stock Department. EX-DETECTIVE KIRBY. At Wellington yesterday, in Chambers, before the Chief Justice, Mr Jellicoe moved - to remove a caveat lodged by John Herman against ex-Detective Kirby's property at Napior, under a deed executed in July of last year. Hie Honour made an order that, unless Hcvinau began an action in the Supreme Court to establish his claim before the Ist of February, the caveat is to be removed with costs. NEEDLESS ALARM. While the s.s. Invercargill was on her way to Preservation Inlet on Thursday smoke was observed close to the beach near Price's Point. Aβ that part of the country is uninhabited, Captain Sundstrom steamed close in to the shore and sent up some signal rockets to attract attention in case come assistance might be required. There was no response to the signals, aud as a large whaleboat was seen hauled up on the beach, . Captain Sundstrom concluded some prosKic' -s had landed and had gone inland, living the bush on fire on the beach, and he therefore proceeded on his voyage. A LICENSING DIFFICULTY. Trouble is brewing for Clutha over the licensing poll. The question (saya the North Otago Times) will probably be raised whether it does not start as a new district, or whether the addition to the electorate does not count as an increase of population. Again, the Act provides that a Licensing Committee, on a reduction vote being carried, can reduce from 5 to 20 per cent. . There is one licensed house in Clutha, -which has carried reduction, and it will be interesting to know how 20 per cent, of one house is to be taken away. The removal of a chimney and a lean-to might constitute a twentieth part of a house, but a 20 per cent, redaction of one house is not to be surmounted in this easy fashion. ;<"• \i acclimatisation. r The,Dtmedin \Siar of Saturday announces with regret the death of Mr George Paul Clifford,' one of the founders of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, and the first man to import trout to New Zealand, he having brought from Tasmania a shipment of ova that served to originally stock several of our streams. It was at Mr Clifford's inetigatiou, also, that the Society introduced lobsters to the colony. Hβ made ejeperinitota at his home in London which demon- ' atrated the possibility of keeping lobsters in captivity, and notwithstanding,,the advice of experte, who said that lobsters would noc . etandthe voyage, the Society trusted Mr Clifford'eexperience, and brought thelobstersout. The deceased geptloman was aleo a member of the Sooiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to.Animals, and in various ways he fulfilled the duties of citizenship in such a manner as to win respect. ' NOT SPELtTtHE SAME. At the Napier Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr John Adeane, Secretary of Mr R. D. McLean's Election Committee, was charged with having signed his name to a form for enrolment purporting to be signed by Eustaoe Fannin, an absentee. Defendant pleaded " Not Guilty." The evidence showed that Fannin, who was a resident of Gtoborne at the time, sent a form written in pencil to hie wife to be forwarded to the Registrar. Adeane said he witnessed the aignaturo of a man who gave the name • Kustaoe Fanning. The main point rested on the difference in the spelling of the two Barnes. The Bench dismissed the case.