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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 31 July 1899, Page 4

A peculiar licensing case was heard re cently by Mr. Stanford, SM., at Inglewood, Titranaki. James Dubinett, of the Hotel, was charged that on 2t^ June last he permitted the din in groom of his licensed premises to bo used for a progressive euchre party, to which person? were admitted on payment of 2s 6d, he not having permission to hire the said diningroom. The defendant pleaded Not Guilty In tho evidence it transpired that the part) was organised to raise money for the Sports Committee of the Caledonian So ciety. The Magistrate decided that thr ca^e had not been sustained, and He dismissed the information. Incendiarism, th« Feilding Star says, is suspected us the cause of the fire which destroyed the Feilding Sash and Door Factory last Saturday morning. The building was a double-storied one, and the fire originated in tho upper story. A strong wind was blowing at the time of the outbreak, and the water supply being inelliciont tho building was speedily consumed. The building and plant woro insured for £350 in tho Imperial office, and the stock for £125 in the Manchester office The close season for imported game will begin to-morrow. The V'ctoria College Debating Society held a meeting at the Girls' High School on Saturday night, and despite the weather a good .number wero present. Mr. S. W. Fitzherbert acted as chairman. Mr. Thompson moved — "That the habit of read ing novels and biographical works is pernicious." The debate being impromptu, it was agreed that members should speak either for or against the motion according to tho rotation .in which their names were drawn by the chairman, although it was not. necessary that tbty should vu:e as they spoke. Missep Hitchcock, Fordham, Burns, and Messrs. Logan, Edwards, and Fitzherbert supported the motion, and Misses M. Fordham, Edwards, Tusker, Walker and Fifcher and Mr. Blair opposed it. On the motion being put, however, it was negatived. Mr. John Coom, M.1.C.E., who succeeds Mr. J. H. Lowe as Chief Engineer of Working Railways, has been in the public service sinco 1876. In that year he joined the Public Works Department and remained in it until 1881. During a portion of that time he was engaged in railway exploration between Christchurcb and the West Coast, and later on he was Engineer-in-chargo of the Railway Works between Wellington and Johnsonville, the sect'on of the Manawatu railway construct ed by the Government. In 1881 he was transferred to the Railway Department, and between then and 1897, when he was promoted to bo Inspecting Engineer of Working Railways, which position he has vacated in order to succeed Mr. Lowe, he •was Resident Engineer for Railways at Auckland, and afterwards at Dunedin. Mr. Coom is very popular in the service, and his promotion to the office of Chief Engineer of Working Railways has given general satisfaction amongst railway men. A fow weeks ago the Now Zealand Cyclists' Touring Club obtained from Wanganui about a ton of marram grass roots, which it planted on a portion of the sandy slope above the Queen's Drive in Lyell Bay. The roots are thriving, and there is every prospect that they will bind Iho sand sufficiently to prevent it encrocahing on tho road, which is largely used . by cyclists m the summer months. The cost of tho work was borne by tho club, assisted by some firms in the city. An appeal to cyclists who do not belong to the club to subscribe to the fund elicited very few responses. As the experiment ia likely to be successful, the club will probably plant an additional sandy patch in Lyell Bay next year. In reference to the death of Mrs. Logan, mother of Lady Stout, tho Dunedin Star of Thursday says :— Mrs. Logan, widow of Mr. John Logan, died this morning at the old ferri-treo cottage •in Royal-terrace, after a week's illness, the immediato cause of death being congestion of tho lungs. The deceased lady came out with her husband <vnd their eldest daughter (now dead) in tho ship Constantino, Captain Burrows, which sailed from London in August of 1853, bound for Nelson. The ship then sailed to Wellington, and Mr. and Mrs. Logan took passago to Port Chalmers in the barque Eliza, which came to anchor on the 16th of March. They lived first in a house tth&b used to stand on the section now occupied by the Government Insurance Department, in Princes-street, and then moved to a fern-tree cottage about where Braithwaite's shop has been built. Mr. Logan bought that house from tho Rev. Dr. Burns, and oponed there the first bookseller's shop in Dunedin. This place ho held until receiving the appointment of olerk to the Superintendent of the Province. Mrs. Logan was well known, and very highly respected, having been connected with the origination of several useful philanthropic agencies. She leaves three of a family— Lady Stout, Mr. A. H. Logan, and Mrs. .Owen J. Hodge. The Superintendent of the Home for tho Aged Needy acknowledge receipt of clothing from " A Friend," and periodicals from Mrs. Lowe, Hanson-street, . for the use of the inmates of the Home. Last Friday evening tho Tsrinity Church Christian Endeavour Society gave an entertainment at tho Home. In the unavoidable absence of the Rev. Mr. Lawry, Mr. Hall had charge of a well-selected programme of songs and readings. Mr. Arthur Chamberlain, the Chairman of Kynocb.9 (Limited), Birmingham, who cure makers of Dum-Dum bullets, has been interviewed with reference to tho resolution of the Peace Conference in favour of prohibiting the Dum-Dum bullet. He said that as our troops had to deal with the savage hill tribes of India, men of marvellous strength and undaunted courage, and without nerves, they found that unless a bullet which hit them killed them on the spot it did not stop them, and the result was that our soldiers were killed by men, who, as Mr. Chamberlain characteristically puts it, ought to have considered themselves dead. It was, therefore, necessary to provide a bullet which had "stopping" power. He hod been told an' incident illustrating this by a friend, an officer who had been in the frontier fighting. The officer told the story of the death of a colleague at the hands of a Pa than, who made an unexpected rush at a small party. He fired his revolver, and stmck the man five times, but the Pathan never stopped his rush, reached the oflicer, killed him, and then instantly fell dead himself. The Dum-Dum bullet was invented by Indian officers to meet the necessity for a man-stopping bullet. It was used in the Tndlan service only, not having been served out to the British army elsewhere. The idea of the Peace Conference in proposing to prohibit the bullet seemed to him very absurd, unless thoy also passed a resolution that in futuro battles against us hits should count and soldiors should drop out of action whan wounded. If it were an explosive bullet it would be a different matter, but it was not. It was nothing more than an attempt to obtain a bullet of the stopping power of the old Martini-Hcmy. Ho thought the authorities at Woolwich and Dum-Dum would agree upon on identical form, because it was not good business to keep two stocks ; but whatever form was agreed to, it would certainly have to be a man-stopping form, otherwise they might as well fire peas at the enemy. "Is Smoking Injurious?" was the discussion at St. Peter's Club last weok. Thore is no discussion necessary about Black Swan Butter, it is unanimously decided by all who try it to be the beet in the market.— -Advt.