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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 14, 17 July 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. • The championship of the Wellington Golf Club has been Won by A. Duncan. The winner of the last monthly Club competition of the Club was A. J. Abbott. Arrangements have been, made with Dr. J. H. Kemp to deliver a series of weeklylectures on "Home Nursing" at the Newtown Public Library, to women only, under the auspices of the St. John Am. bulance Association. Tickets for the lectures are obtainable fron? Mr. J. M'Lean, 94, Daniel-street, who will furnish further particulars. The Chief Justice will pass sentence on Wednesday at 10 a.m. on two prisoners who have admitted their guilt without going to trial— viz., Charles Alfred Howard, indecent assault, and William Clifford, alias Walter Goodwin, three charges of breaking and entering and theft. A dispute has been filed with the Wellington Clerk of Awards under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act (Mr. W. A. Hawkins) between the Wellington branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners' Industrial Union of Workers and the Wellington Builders and Contractors' Industrial Union of Employers, and other 'parties. There are 144 employers joined to the plaint. An impudent theft was committed on Saturday evening from, the shop of H. D. Edwards and Son, bootmakers, Courtenay-place. A young fellow walked in and asked to be shown some boots. Three pairs were inspected by him and placed on the counter. He then asked to be shown another pair, and while the assistant went to get them the intending purchaser and the boots left on tho counter both disappeared. On a charge of having converted to his own use- £2 belonging to his employer, Benjamin Burr., milkman, of Karori, a youth named Joseph Daly, defended by Mr. Wilford, was convicted and ordered to pay £2, in default fourteen days' imprisonmanit. Chief Detective M'Grath explained .that accused had bfcen an inmate of an industrial ochoo 1 !, and at Christchurch had served a sentence of twelve months' imprisonment foi honsebreaking. charges of ttreft last week preferred against him were withdrawn, owing to insufficiency of evidence. Peter Paul Hare, charged with wife desertion at Melbourne, was further remanded until tho 24th inst. Splendid weather prevailed on Saturday afternoon, when the Wellington Harriers held their ran from Te Aro Baths. The hares (Meston and Mills) started off at seven minutes past 3, and laid an eight-mile trail over Mount Victoria, arriving home, via Evans Bay, at 4.10 p.m. The pack started in pursuit at 3.12 o'clock, and finished at half-past 4, not having sighted the hares. Tho hilly country proved to be dry and firm although heavy rain had fallen in the morning. No run in was held, the pack finishing in a body. Hie Hawke's Bay Poultry Show proved another triumph for Mr. J. Ourrie's Minorcas, which carried off three- first prizes, three second prizes, and two "specials." The Brooklyn breeder also won the silver cup for Minorcas for the third successive year. The cup is now the property of Mr. Currie. A recent arrival by the Karamea named Harold Gowman pleaded guilty before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., this morning on a charge of theft of a watch and chain valued at £4, belonging to Chas. Carter, a steward on the Manaroa. Chief Detective M'Grath explained that accused, when arrested, said he was hard up, and that he had pawned the articles for 9s. Nothing was known about tho defendant, and his Worship remanded him until Friday ill order to allow enquiries to be made. Wm. Edward Townsend was fined 20s, in default seven days, for a second offence of diunkenness, and 40s with 6s costs, in default 14 days' imprisonment, for having assaulted Herbert James Wyatt on Saturday night. It appeared that accused went into a confectioner's shop and gave trouble, and that the offence was committed when Wyatfc was cndeavoimng to get him out. A prohibited person named Michael John Mulholland was fined 40s, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for having been found on licensed premises. Mr. J. J. Meiklo addressed the public at Mercer-street on Saturday night, and at the Queen's Statue yesterday afternoon, in connection with, his crusade for justice. The annual meeting of the Hutfc Bowling and Tennis Club will bo held tonight. The end of the present season approaches, nud the Housewife's heart is glad, for tho bargain days aro here — all remnants at Veitch aud Allan's are marked lwlf-price.— Advt..