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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 112, 12 May 1900, Page 4

The Government is considering how the difficulty arising out of the scareifeyof railway trucks may best be overcome. All the railway woikshops in the colony are hard at work on the construction of carriages and goods vans, but they cannot compete with the demand, and the question which the authorities have tC' decide is whether orders shall be sent abroad or- tenders invited in the colony ifor trucks. The deficiency in this class of rolling stock is, the Minister ol Railways states, between 1500 and 200 C trucks, and the traffic is increasing sc rapidly that it is hopeless to expect tht woikshops under present conditions to meet its requirements. Other arrange ments are therefore urgently necessary. In Chambers yesterday morning the Chief Justice decided to hear argument in the following oases in Banco next week:— Pollock v. Paterson and Co., 15th; Watt v. Commissioner of Stamps, and HLI v. Robjohns, 16th; Payne v. Kirkwood, 18th. At an enquiry held by the Palmerston Coroner into the circumstances of the destruction of the Commercial Hotel, the jury returned a verdict that the fire was of accidental origin, and added a rider that ...ass M'Laehlan and Mr. Roper were to be commended for their efforts in rescuing the inmates. "If I escape from this Board and from the Arbitration Court," said Mr. G. F. Smith (Acting-.Secretary of the Harbour Board), speaking of the lot of the wharf labourer at the Conciliation Board yesterday afternoon, "I intend to devote the rest of my life to manual labour." To which observation the Union representative (Mr. T. W. Young) added, "That is, if our demands are granted, Mr. Smith !" The Chairman raised a jocular protest by exclaiming, "Gentlemen, this is not fair — you might influence the Board by these remarks !" (Laughter.) Mr. Haselden, S.M., yesterday finfid James Butler 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment for wilful damage to an electric light globe belonging to A. Ferguson, and ordered defendant to pay Is 3d the amount of damage, or undergo another 24- hours' imprisonment, cumulative. Butler had previously been fined 5s or 24 hours' hard labour for drunkenness. The informant in the case James Doyle v. William George Baker — a charge of failing to ksep a drain in good order — applied to the Court to have the action re-heard, defendant having been in the first instance wrongfully lined £3 and costs. The Corporation Inspector explained how a mistake had arisen with regard to the names, when George Baker (who had since also been fined) should have been proceeded against, and not, W. G. Baker. The outcome of the present application was that the re-hear-ing of the action against W. G. Baker was granted and at the request of Mr. Doyle, the charge was then dismissed. The Chairman o; the Conciliation Board intimated this morning thab in all probability tho Cor.chbuilders' dispute "would have to bo adjourned on Monday till the following Thursday. Ifc was not at all likely to go on on Monday. At the inques'u held by the Coroner Yesterday on the body of Wil'.iam Page, 'whose foody was found in the harbour on Thursday afternoon, nothing was elicited 'to show how deceased oame to be in the "water. He was lasb seen alive on the evening of Ist May, when he was perfectly sober, and then declared his intention of going home. As the son-in-law 'thought that deceased's neck was broken, land suggested - if oul pky,-j the Coroner, with the assent of the jury, ordered a surgical examination, which was made by Dr. Tripe, who reported that the neck was not broken, and there were nc feigns of any violence whatever. An open verdict of Found Drowned was re •turned. Mr. A. Stott was foreman of the jury. Mr. T. Pringle, of Lambton-quay, is leaving Wellington next week on a trip to Japan, where he will spend a few months chiefly with the object of recuperating his health. He will probably be away from Wellington for four or five months. The Wellington Opera House Company is no longer to enjoy a monopoly of the theatrical business in Wellington. The Theatre Royal is now advertised to let, and we understand that the Wellington Public Hall Company is about to renovate the theatre and bring it up to modern requirements. A request by Alfred Toy for the variation of an order made against him to pay £1 a week towards the support of his wife was refused. One first offender was punished for drunkenness at the same sitting of the Court, while James Mallen was fined 10s or 48 hours for a like offence. Mr. G. F. Smith, speaking at the Conciliation Board yesterday, said he did not think much of the New Zealand railways. He did not think the Railway Department was as enterprising as the Wellington Harbour Board, for only 14 miles of lines were laid last year, whilst the Government had a surplus of £600,000 A notification "with respect to the ambulance lectures to be given by Drs. Chappie and Scott in connection with the St. John Ambulance Association appears elsewhere. A limit to the number of students attending classes has been fixed by the authorities in England, and no tickets will be sold at the door. The following sales of freehold properties negotiated during the week are reported by Messrs.' Jolly, Wintle, and Co. :— Majoribanks-street, land 29ft by irregular depth together with the siiroomed villa (No. 11) ; M'Farlane-street, land 33ft x 66ft, with four-roomed cottage (No. 13) ; Riddiford-street, land 40ft lin x 100 ft deep; also 40ft to Howardstreet, with six-roomed villa ; also the goodwill and furniture of a boardinghouse in Will : s-street. Prices are withheld by request. A. Commission from the Supreme Court of Victoria has been issued to Messrs. H. Eyre Kenny and J. W. Treadwell tc take evidence in a pending divorce suit between Edith Wilkie and Adam Wilkie, now a resident of Wanganui, but formerly of Coolgardie. The Commissioners will sit at Wanganui next week to hear the evidence of some forty witnesses. Mr. Jellicoe will appear for Mrs. Wilkie, and Mr. S. Fitzherberb for Mr. Adam Wlikie. The Missions to Seamen ambulance lecture given by Mr. Moore last evening was "Tips by the Way." The evening was 'brightened by a programme presented by Mr. Cooper, who was aitty assisted by the Misses Gore, Hislop, Monigomerie, and Messrs. Jackson and Hutchison. Mr. Harold R. Cooper, who is connected with the firm of Messrs. Skerrett and Wylie, was yesterday admitted a3 a barrister of the Supreme Court. The presentation of the prizes wop Usii season by the members of the Star Boating Club will take place on the 22ad inst. Study your health by using pure fruit jams. Crease's Al and Golden Bee Jams are absolutely pure, from pure fruit, And best crystallised sugar.— Advt.