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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1904, Page 5

At the Magistrate's Court at Caitcrtoii 10-day a young man was fined £5 and costs on a charge of obtaining liquor for a prohibited person. Some confusion appears to exist as to tho position filled by Dr. Pollen, Port Health Officer. Dr. Pollen is appointed by the Government for poit business only, md has no further connection with the Public Health Department, and is not debarred from private practice. Some time was spent by the Hospital Trustees this morning considering arrangements in connection with the opening of the Nuraes' Home. It was decided that the opening ceremony, which is to be performed by Lord Plunket, afhould take place it & o'clock on the is6th inst. Invitations for the ceremony are to be issued to the medical men of the city, members of city and suburban local bodies, the Ministry, and all legislators and hospital contributors. A conversazions is to be held in the evening, for admission to which a charge of 2s 6d per ticket is to be made. With tho exception of a number of canvases by Sydney artists, which are due to arrive by to-morrow's steamer, most of the pictures which go to form Ihe New Zealand Academy's forthcoming Exhibition are already on the walls oi the Art Gallery. The collection of oils »nd water-colours is an extremely good one, most of the colony's leading workers with tho brush being satisfactorily represented. The exhibition opens on Saturday afternoon next. Too much care cannot be exercised by owners of horses who have their stables in close proximity to the electric tram ivays track. Yesterday evening a hors* strayed out of its stables off Adelaideroad, trotted down a right-of-way, and faD into an electric car. The motorman had no opportunity to pull up before the collision came, and the result was that tne horse had two .of its legs broken. The animal, which was valued at £50, had to 'be destroyed. Councillor Barber will move at Thursday's meeting of the City Council that the City Solicitor be 'instructed to report how far the negotiations for acquiring the property known as Wilton's Bush have udvanced, and what prospect there is «f the City obtaining this beauty spot, for the purchase of which the Government ias voted the sum of £500. The Hospital Trustees met in the Corporation s Buildings this morning. Present : Messrs. C. M. Luke (Chairman), H. Cook, J. Smith, w. C. Kirk, G. London, R. Lee, and R. B. Williams. It was decided that tne House Committee j consider the question of devoting legacies to a special object, instead of putSing the money into the 'general funds. The Chairman observed that very few legacies had been received, and that it .had been proposed that the Roskruge legacy should be devoted to endowing a bed. The tender of Te Aro House to equip the Nurses' Home with blinds tvas accepted. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. were appointed as auctioneers for the Bale of the leases of tho land fronting Revans-street. The sections are to be Seaaed for 21 years, with right of renewal, on a revaluation of "ground rent, for another fourteen years. The following recommendations of the House Committee adopted : — That a letter of thanks be sont to the Wellington Working Men's Club for a donation of £10. That the Medical Superintendent and Matron be asked to furnish particulars of the staff required- for the Nurses' Home. That the tender of Messrs. Daeis and Browman for extra work at the .Nurses' Home be accepted. That the tender of Messrs. Scoullar and Co. for supplying pedestal cupDoards be accept<ed. That the salary of the Secretary (Mr. Davies) be increased to £156 per ftnnum. Last Friday the Chairman of the Wellington District Hospital Board, accompanied by several of "the members of the Board, journeyed to Otaki to formally open the new wings of the Otaki Hospital. The Chairman (Mr. J. P. Luke), in j?is speech, said the first steps in connection with the Otaki Hospital Were taken in 1896, and a &ita selected in February, 1898. A building costing £1500 was erected, and now they had just completed .additions, including a septic, tank, costing another £1500. The new wings are a. great improvement on the old ones, and the hospital can accommodate twenty patients should occasion demand, as against eight formerly. Great interest was taken by the visitors in the shelter iot consumptive patients, of which there , are now five in the hospital grounds (reports the Otaki Mail). The patients themselves are greatly pleased with their progress- since Doing brought to Otaki, and the system appears to be working most satisfactorily The Hospital Board Intends shortly to erect a permanent building, in conjunction with a colony of shelters, at some little distance from the hospital. The Board recently waited on Sip Joseph Ward, , asking for monetary assistance to carry out their intentions in this respect, but as ye.t have not reiceived any definite assurance of help. The Board are not in a position to spend the money from their own funds, and rely on Government subsidies to enable them to carry out their proposals, therefore it may be some considerable time before the scheme is carried out. Very severe comments were made in Auckland the other day by Mr. Kettle, 8.M., in connection with an alteratidn made in a deed of assignment. His Worship told one of the parties in the case under notice that an attempt had been made to fabricate evidence to deceive the Court. "Day after day," continued his Worship, "witnesses go into the box, and, atterly regardless of the tt-uth, they swear almost anything in order to gain their cases, and it is the same in the lower Court. It is high time the Court had power to deal summarily with' cases of this kind. lam doubtful if I have powsr, but if vl felt satisfied I should have inflicted a heavy fine upon you for your tonduct. It is a most disgraceful thing for a man to 'come into the box and deliberately lie to deceive me." Mr. Kettle added that the witness was absolutely unreliable, and his conduct in regard to tha deed of assignment was most discreditable. It was hard enough io decide matters when witnesses w<sre honest, but it tvas doubly difficult to do justice in a sase such as the one before mm. He intended to retain the document to see what lould be done. A solicitor present explained to hia Worship that the alteration had been mad© with the consent of all the parties. Lodge Brooklyn meets in the English Church Schoolroom, Brooklyn, to-mor-row evening for the_ installation of officers. Brethren of visiting lodges will be teceived at 7.30. * Munt, Cottrell, and Co., general carriers, Customs and forwarding agents. Storage a speciality. Furniture packed and removed. Office .- Queenjs Chambers. Telephone No. 23.— Advt. Furniture carefully packed, stored, and removed by experienced men; special low rates. New Zealand Express Company, No. 20, Customhouse-quay. Telephone 92. -Advt. Children's muslin and pique pelisses, coats, and tunics, beautifully trimmed with embroidery and insertion, from 5s 6d to 255. C. Smith holds the most charming stock of these goods, and value 3 arc tho best. N.B. — A special line of silk (rocks, silk coats, and pelisses (travellers' numplos) at less than half ordinary prices. C. Smith, the popular cash draper, Cubaotreet.— Advt. All intending buyera for cheap cycles lire invited to inspect Oates, Lowry and Oo.'s stock of second-hand cycles, comprising all makes. These machines have seen overhauled and guaranteed in good eepair.— Advt.