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Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GIijNER&L. 6 ' The Governor has informed the Premier that he has received the following cablegram from the Secretary of State ior the Colonies : ' A pompom has been awarded to New Zealand as a memento of the capture of guns on 3rd February, 1902 ; fifteen guns and 2500 rifles and carbines aio also available for distribution among the colonies sending contingents, but no decision is possible as to the allotment of these pending the receipt of a despatch from the South African High Commissioner. The Agent-General should be instructed as to how the pompom, and, ultimately, other t^hios, should be consigner! when they arrive from South Africa. The cost of consignment to New Zealand will be borne u y Imperial funds." The question of sending a team of New Zealand tennis players across to Australia to compete at the New South Wales tournament, which is to be held in September, was briefly touched on at hist night's meeting of the Wellington Provincial I«awn Tennis Association, and the association's delegate to the N.Z. L.T.A. wns instructed to recommend to the governing body that it should enquire as to the advisableness of sending a team. A suit to recover the amount of a cheque — alleged to have been tendered by defendant to plaintiff in payment for furniture, and to have been refused payment at the bank— was before the Stipendiary Magistrate yesterday afternoon. Nellie Beal was plaintiff, George Hill -was defendant, and the amount was £20. The action was part heard, and was adjourned till next sitting. "If you think I am going to believo any man who conies to the Court with a ! new story and says ho told lies to tho ! police you are much mistaken. I will pay. no attention to what you say." — The ' Chief Justice this morning to a" prisoner \ who had so acted. The path of tho stowaway who is cauifht travelling from Now Zealand to Australia is not strewn with rose leaves, as is tho case at somo other ports. A young man who stowed awuy on tho Manuka on her run from Wellington to Sydney was brought before the Court nt •Sydney and fined £b, with the option, of two months' hard labour. During tho recp»t hot weather, until a few_ days ago, the stench i . and about tit© Karori Tunnel was almost overpowering, and the locality underwent a cleansing process not a day too soon. At the Borough Council meeting last night Councillor Williams strongly urged twit better provision be made to keep tho tunnel -Jean. It was decided on the motion of Councillor Cook, after 'discussion, that an asphalt water-tablo be put down on tho eastern sido of the tunnel. Owners of houses within tho city will do well to notn that they are bound by bylaw under a penalty of £5 to provide their tenants with proper refuse receptacle*. The City Inspector had a large batch of cases of this kind before the. Court to-day, but as this was the first txnett of prosecutions under tho bylaw, tho Inspector asked leave to withdraw the informations in those cases where tho law had since- be<'n complied with. In other cases nominal penalties were asked for. Fines of la, with costs 7s, were imposed on Mercia Elliott and Edward W. Votherick. "A wooden refuse boy is an abomination,"- remarked tho Inspector in tho courob of tho proceedings. A case between a pawnbroker and his client occupied Dx\ M'Arlhur, S.M., for some little time yesterday afternoon. John Coster, carpenter, represented by Mr. Jellicoo, sued M. Ziman, pawnbroker, represented by Mr. Johnston, for £7. Plaintiff's case was that on 2nd January, 1903, he pledged a kit of tools for 10S) paid 6s interest on 26th June, 1903, and in December, 1903, tendered the amount of loan with interest in order to redeem his tools. Defendant told him the tools had been sold in error at the November sale, and eventually offered 10s in settlement. Plaintiff now claimed £7 as the value of j the tools. I[o admitted having offered to accept £3 in settlement. Mr. Johnston vailed evidence (hat £7 was an overvalue. Ilia SVorship was of opinion tho sjlc was. a mistake, and gavo judgment for plaintiff for £3. with costs £1 12s. Defendant, when in the box, admitted receiving 50 per cent, interest six months after the loan, und His Worship pointed out that this was at tin; rate of 100 per rent, per annum. - Questioned as to why he did not enter the interest payment in his book, defendant said that when plaintiff paid he did not forward tho number of his ticket, hence the non-entry. Mr. 11. F. Wyalt, touring envoy of tho Navy League, will deliver a lecture under tho auspices of tho Chamber of Commerce on Iniday evening. A motion, " That a branch of tho Navy League be formed in Wellington," will' be proposed by the Mayor, and tho Premier will t>pquk to the motion. Tho winner of the "guessing competition 1 ' l-ecently advertised by Kirkcaldio and Stains (Ltd.) is C. F. Hill, of 43, Broadway-terrace, with 29 words. — Advt.