FOUND DROWNED.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1905, Page 5

FOUND DROWNED.

Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning, J Constable Sweeney, whilnt on duty in Jcr- j vo;K-f(u«y, mvr th« body of ft man iloating in the harbour about 12ft out from tho .'Star Boating Club's shod. Ho took ihe body to the Morgut, and found on tho dothing a letter Addressed', "I). Thompwn, Webb-street," and readdrevßed " Hop-[«r-!itreot." Dunrnr tie course of tho day enquiries were mado by the polico at these place*,' but. no information could be ob tuned to lead to tho identification of the body, Deceased whs apparently a man forty-five, yenrs of <ige, 6ft Bin or sft 9in in height, well built, fair hair and sandy beard. The body was clothed in ft brown me suit, white shirt, a handkerchief round the neck, a ileovcloss macintosh, and elastic-side boots.

Mr. 0. H. Izard is en rly in tho field as a candidate for v city tetil, nnd a meeting of his Mipportcis biifl been called lor to-morrow evening .it Wesley SchoolI'oom, Moleworth-sl reet. 'the Garrison Band will play at tho llaijn Reserve next Sunday, nnd will take up a collection in aid of the Conlumptwes' Hospital. Two young men who assisted the p«iico in arresting two persons who were misconducting themselves in AdelaideMNid ln»t night, wero this morning pnbicly thanked by Dr. A. M'Artinir, i.M. His Worship observed thttt "too iften the young men of this city, nnd .ither cities an well, stand and look on vhen the police arc in trouble. They ire either quiescent or go a step fuitiu'r »nd hoot. The Court therefore thanks ,rou for what you did." The screw frigate Utlutort, in which the Duke of Edinburgh pnid a visit to Wellington in 1868, ha.s been sold by tho Admiralty, nnd will b« broken up l»y her new owners. Amongst the Lower Hutt contributions for the CoimimptivoH' Hoipilnl Vere the following: —Mrs. Wntson collected £126.Donors of moneys collected by the ladies ■vi're. — Messrs. Fester and V. de J. Clere, £2 j Anonymons, Dr. Hector, Messrs. Leighton, Broderick, Jolilfe, ftoy, Hodgins, Welch, Mow bray,. P , I'iyde and Son, Hundry Bros, Judd, rt»rltrnp, H. 0. Wilson, Stont, Cuscy, ij.illcnder, R. J. Thomson, Stevens and Carter, T. Durt, T. A. I'ettikin, J. Crawford, Rev, J. Jom-s, C.ipt.iin riiompson, J.M.M.. Rev. Father I^ane, I !ach £1 Is; Employees II (J. Gibbons md Co., £18» 6<!; K)nplovr«s K. Pfist nnd Co., £1 2s 6d; MeWs. E. Feist, icnr., Twomev, Price, Mnnqatoro friends, Waugh, jHlviide, senr., tt. King, 13outeH, M'Ornth, O. M. Mason, Kee and Co., B Clnrk, Prinple, O. Hanson, T. Allen, HoW. J. Cudby, W. H. ftussell, A. W. Newton, 10s 6d "each ; tnd Mesdamcs Carlnon, Pole, Gordon, Ooull, Balls, TI. Row, J. Rose, TreriIhick, M'Taf((?art. Yerox, M'Donald, Schwartz, BarmudA Garlick, Kohn, Croft, and M"iss Doiielly, each 10s 6d. "I irish to point out moat strongly (•he trouble caused by men in business not keeping correct books," said Dr. A. .Vf'Arthur, S.M., when delivering judgment in a civil action this morning. "Tho Court has had soveral ciibes before it of .ate. Such laxity in not fair to alleged ieblpra, cause* great trouble to the :reditors' own solicitors, who cannot tell vherc they ate, and preventn tin- Coiut rom getting nt a corn-ct estimate of iffair.l. Thoso who by their neglect bring <»bont such nn unsatisftictory dUto 'tt affairs deserve to suffer." Tho guftVivr n tho Cftse was Iwtonard J. Holroyd, *vho sued James Arthur Hill for £18 10k 6d for goodH supplied in 1902. His vVorship found that plaintiff could only iay that ho had not been pnid for these ,temn to tho best of his belief. He did ■lot discover that anything whs duo until iV ma pointed out by an accountant A-ho made up his books, which .sewned .o have been kept in a most haphazard nanncr. Mr. Young, for tlw defence, ii«kod for a nonsuit, and his Worship ie It that under tho circumstances he Tuist grant it. The twentieth annual report of tho Wellington Acclimatisation .Society shows t.hat during the past your the revenue of the sooiety has been well sustained, fho totnl receipts (including a credit bulfince of £163 11s 7d carried forward from prevlouD year) have, been £2025 2s id. and the expenditure £1721 Is, leaving a credit balance of £30 Is sd. Aa iiirainat thi», therri i« an oulntanding liability of £200 — in connection with tho new hatchery now being complotod at fho society's pondi nt Masterton. This ivns n work that could not be further postponed. Again the most notable hioreiUQ in rerontie occurs in the (lining licences, tho total amount rcceivr-d under this heading being £940 17s lid, which 'onstituten ft record for this district, of trout, fry, etc., amounted to j £427 3k 3d, on increase of £21 3s orei 1 j last year. The approximate number of license* issued during the year wero an follow« : — Dsor shooting, 102; imported game, 230; fishing — men's 981, boys' $26, women's 33. Deer shooting licenses ihoir nn Increase of eight, imported gnme license* a decrease of ten fishing Hcoiwa in increase of 117. Tlf large inrrrase ts attributed to the avitem of colonial, local, and hftlf-ponson lipon^ei, which has proved mu^h more MrMwrory ftnd more , easily Avorked than tlu« monthly and werk'ly .system. Apropos of flshmar, tho report remarks that th*> (»trtp«s obtnin- i od during the pa«f season vuripd very i much in different pnrtß of the distripf. In some plnrrs Iho floods dunnt? the oarly part of the sensfin, nnd the drought I iind consequent Weed diirlntf the- «ummpr, , militnted a^inst good spent. Tn other parts more succp^si wn'. nbt-nined, and judjfinji by the number of licenses taken otil\ the pentle nrt hao provided plrnsure and healthy exercise for very many. Two of the yarhts which arp pompeting In the rnco ncroxt, the Atlantic for the Kaiser's Cup have been in New Zealand wntcrs. The Wbito Heathpr pnid \ visit to Auckland ft tew years hro, and nbout the oatne tims thn Sunbeam, owned and snUed by Lord Bnwsey, then Goternor of ViPtorii, mndp a stay of some, days in Wpllineton The Inrgeer yacht in the race, Lord Crawford's Valhillft, made an extensive cruise in the South Pacific about two years ago, and was in Sydney a, few days,