SLY GROG-SELLING.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1904, Page 6

SLY GROG-SELLING.

[BT TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This Day. 4 Emily I&inbuckle was sentenced to a mouth's imprisonment to-day for sly grogselling in Auckland. On a recent Sunday Jihe sold a keg of beer to a party of young men, who dvank it in a stable.

Jupp's Brass Band is to give a performance at the Petone Showgrounds next Sunday afternoon, weather permitting.

The five Artillerymen who were injured at Fort Balance through the blowing out of a breech-block are all out of hospital, but still under medical treatment. So far, they are progressing favourably, and there is said to be no reason to anticipate any permanent disablement. Their hearing, which was much interfered with, has, with one or two exceptions, greatly improved. The men will shortly all go on sick leave, and they will be again examined at expiry thereof. Coming to individual injuries, Bombardier Potersen still suffers with his eye and ear, and is now being treated by a specialist. Gunner O'Neill, who has lost two fingers, and who still suffers a little with his hearing, is otherwise all right. Gunner Sline's abdominal injuries are undergoing, comparatively, a slower recovery. Gunner Fordyce's leg is progressing well, and Gunner* Sweeney has made a quicker recovery than any. The men are not yet altogether free of effects of shock. The desiga submitted by Mr. R. S. Roimthwaite, of Wellington, for a new hospital building at Waipiro Bay has proved highly satisfactory to the Waiapu County Council, which has decided to call for tenders for the erection of the building. An. advertisement elsewhere gives particulars. Plans and specifications have been prepared by Messrs. Farr and Bennie for a large private hotel which Mr. E. C. Peers has decided to erect upon the section at the corner of Lambton-quay and Stoutstreet, which has been in the occupation of Mr. R. Duignan for some years. The building will contain about 80 rooms, and will have a roof garden 70ft above- the street level. One reason for the altered Russian esti- ' mate of their enemy in the Far East is in the number of packets received at St. Petersburg containing the personal effects of the Russian dead. They contain objects of value of all kinds, such as jewels, cigar cases, purses, watches, gold crosses, and sums of money, sometimes even single rouble pieces, found by the Japanese on the bodies of Russian officers and soldiers buried by them after battle. The receipt of the packets constitutes an irrefutable proof of the falseness of the statements which have found credence at St. Petersburg, to the effect that the Japanese despoil the dead and wounded on the battlefield. "Claret and lemonade" is the latest production of Mr. J. Poswillo's aerated water factory, Petone, and in another column the proprietor asks patrons to forward their holiday orders early. Mr. T. G. Palgravo, M.R.C..V.5., who graduated in Scotland with high honours as a veterinary surgeon seven years ago, and who sinco then has had a wide experience in the treatment of the various diseases of all kinds of animals, has commenced practice in Wellington as a veterinary surgeon.