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Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1897, Page 5

The fortnightly meeting of the Ho«pital Trustees was 'held this morning. Present — Messrs. F H. Fraser (Chairman), G. Allen, L. L. Harris, B. C. Kirk, C. E. Willeston, J. Danks, and the Eev. H. Van Staveren. Leave of absence for six months was granted to Mr. J. Collins. Accounts amounting to £470 4s 6d were passed for payment. An offer to remove a small hill on the Hospital property «a« accepted, provided that the work was dcae under supervision arranged for vby the Hospital Trustees. A further letter was received from Barber & Co. as to the meat supply for the Hospital, in connection with which the firm complained that the lowest tender had not been accepted. The letter was received and ordered to lie on the table. It was decided that £300 would be the maximum amount to be spent upon the cottage to be erected on the right-hand side outside the Hospital gates. On the motion of Mr. Harris, Mr. Penty was appointed the architect for the building. The recommendation of the Doctor that Nurse France should be promoted to fill the vacancy left by Sister Alice (Miss Richardson) was approved. The Hon. Mr. Cadman is to be asked to use his best endeavours to obtain a portion of the vote for the development of the scenic beauties of the colony, so that a road may be constructed to th<t top of the Bangitoto Island, in Auckland Harbour. In reply to a question about the Mulvaney incident at his Mitchelltown meeting last evening Mr. A. E. Atkinson said that since the publication of the Hislop-Seddon correspondence the man who came blackest out of the whole business was the Premier himself. Mr. Wilford, it was true, had been guilty of a corrupt practice, but it was open to the extenuation that it was to some extent thoughtlessly committed. The Premier, on I the other hand, had first of all made an absolutely false charge against Mr Hfslop of having paid money to secure the letter, had refused to withdraw the words or prove them when challenged, and finally resorted to the pitiful evasion that this scandalous charge had been made in jest. Such a deliberate perversion of truth, aggravated by quibbling evasion, was, to his mind, the blackest part of the whole business. Unfortunately it was not I an unusual performance on the part of Mr. Seddon. The Hospital is full just now, 172 patients being under treatment there. Of these 100 are males and 73- females, while 25 are children. The enquiry held yesterday afternoon into the cause of the death of William Sharpe, the jockey, whose body was found in a shed at the rear of the Bruuswiok Bestaurant, Willis-street, on Saturday night, resulted in the jury returning a verdict " that death was caused by alcoholism, and a clot of blood on the heart." The post-mortem examination, which was made by Dr. Faulke, showed that though most of the organs were in a healthy condition, in the left ventricle of the heart there was a clot of blood, whicbhad been forming for some hours, extending into the large blood-vessel of the heart. This condition had resulted from an enfeebled condition of the heart's action, caused bj' past alcoholic indulgence. The stomach, though it contained no food, was distended, apparently with beer. The "Wellington Operative Bootmakers' Union has sent £20 to the South Australian Bootmakers' Union, the members of which are at present on strike. Mr. A. Nicoll, for a considerable time past choirmaster at the Primitive Methodist Church, Sydney-street, is leaving Wellington. His removal is keenly felt by the members of -the choir and congregation, who have presented him with a handsome silver combination pen and pencil enclosed in a suitable case. Last January a young fellow named Edwards was accidentally killed whilst bush-felling in the Upper Waitotara district. Shortly after his mates went away from their bush camp to another contract, leaving behind them their hut and a number of cooking utensils and tools. About two months later a Bussian Finu named Bobert Carlson found the neglected outfit, and took possession of it. Then, of course, the former owners turned up again, and finding their property gone communicated with the police, as a result of which Carlson was charged with theft. The case was heard at Waverley last we&k before a benck of Justices, who acquitted the accused under the peculiar circumstances. Mr. C. Svendsen, of Lyttelton, late mate of the barquentine Jasper, has passed his examination for a Certificate of Competency as master of a foreign-going ship in the Mercantile Marine. Mr. F. J. Foote, who* served his articles in Mr. Devine's office, has been admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Samples of the flax dressed by the process discovered by Mr. A. Bergin hay« been shown by him to a number of experts in "Wellington, who are so well satisfied with his method for the preparation of the fibre, and its comparative inexpensiveness, that the formation of a syndicate to undertake the dressing of flax by means of it is on the tapis. A Chinaman is the successful tenderer for supplying the Hospital with vegetables for the next 12 months. The Hospital Trustees, in considering the matter this morning, «xpressed regret that they could not accept one of the European tenders, but, as one admittedly obtained his vegetables from the Cninese and the tender of the other was over three times as high as that of the Chinaman, there appeared to them no alternative. Mr Harris warned his brother Trustees -that they would have to " face the music " if they accepted the tender of the Chinaman, but the other members maintained that the circumstances exonerated them from any blame. Sitting in his civil jurisdiction to-day, Mr H. Eyre Kenny entered up judgment for the following plaintiffs by default — Turnbull & Laing v. G. Woodina?, £1 19s lOd; Cook & Gray v. W. G. Silverlock, £16 18s ; Commercial Agency v. Houldsworth Brother?, £35 10s; C. W. Tanner v. James and Mary M'lntosb, £4 only against Mrr. M'lntosh's separate estate, both defendants ordered to give up possession; "W. and G. Turnbull t. J. Uonuelly, £14 7s 2d ; Mary Quinn v. S. Makupuku, £6 19s 3d ; J. J. Devine v. '„ 6s 8d; W. H. Green v. W. Burt, £4 Is Bd'; T. W Hall v. F. H. Guildford, defendant to give possession before the 24th instant. Judgment summonses — Mary Downham v. G. Johnston, defendant ordered to pay £2 6s 8d at once, in default to undergo three days' imprisonment ; J. W. Hoare & Co. v. J. Benjamin, defendant ordered to pay £5 Is 6d within a mouth, in default six days' imprisonment ; D. M. Brooks v. F. Harding, defendant ordered to pay £2 14s in monthly instalments of 6s ; Commercial Agency v. W. H. M'Kinnon, defendant ordered to pay £10 18s 8d at once, or go to gaol for eleven days. Defended sases— J. Carroll v. Captain M'lntyre, claim £9 wages, judgment for defendant with £1 6s costs ; J. J. Devine v. M. Quin, claim £7 19s Gd work done, judgment for plaintiff for amount claimed with 10s costs. The time-table for excursions to be run to Day's Bay by the steamers Duco and Mana is advertised in another column.' Provision has been made whereby excursionists will be enabled to travel to or from tbe Bay every day from Thursday to Tuesday next. Special attention is directed to the fact that from this date forward tbe steamers will leave the new Ferry Wharf at Waterloo-quay for tho Bay in place of tht Queen's "Wharf,