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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1906, Page 4

The Chief Justice will open the criminal sessions at Napier to-morrow. The list of cases is as folowe -. — Cornelius Boyle, manslaughter, Hastings; Tai Piinoa, carnally knowing, Wairoa ; Neils Neilson and Frederick Workman, housebreaking and theft, Wairoa; William Joseph Castles, assault causing actual bodily harm, Ormondville ; Terence Patrick O'Brien, burglary, Wairoa; Samuel Swayne, attempting to discharge a loaded revolver, Napier; George Moore, assault, Napier; David Davis Trow, carnally knowing, Napier; John M'Cusker, sen., and Thorn? s Al'Cnsker, conspiring to defeat tho ends of justice; Donald Mathescn, theft, Napier; James M'Kay, housebreaking, theft, forgery, uttering, etc., at Napier and elsewhere; Robert Morgan, bieaking antt entering, Pukehou; James Madden, assault causing actual bodily harm, Dannevirke; William John Goldsmith, carnally knowing, Napier; J. W. Inslay, theft from a dwelling, Dannevirke ; Timothy Cosgrove, carnally knowing, Waipawa. The private prosecution against A. A. George for alleged criminal libel on Inspector Macdonell is also on the calendar, to be dealt with in connection with an application for change of venue heard at last session. It was recently announced that Father Thomas Sherman, a well-known Catholic priest, had arranged to ride over the route taken by the Northern army commanded bjr his fatflier, the late General Sherman, during tho Civil War. It was further stated that he would be accompanied by a military escort of two officers and eight cavalrymen of the United States Army. The publication of tEe facts excited a storm of indignation- throughout the South, where General Sherman's devastating march through Georgia is still bitterly remembered. Confederate veterans were especially infuriated, and many threatened to take summary measures to stop the expedition. Protests poured into Washington from all quarters, and as a result Mr. Roosevelt ordered the escort to be withdrawn immediately. The general feeling throughout^ the South was that there ivas no objection to Father Sherman making the trip in his private capacity, but the military escorti was Tegarded as a gross discourtesy to the South, and likely to revive old animosities. How many persons (asks a London paper) would not hail with delight the discovery of a &afe, pleasant!, and easily procurable remedy for -indigestion ? Such a remedy is recommended in the correspondence columns of the Lancet by no less an authority than Dr. Francis T. Bond. "The indigestion must be a very hopeless one," says Dr. Bond, "which will not yield to a, diet of a small cup of warm milk to which a teaspoonful of rum has been added, followed by a plain biscuit) or two and some very mikr cheese, paradoxical as this combination may seem." The marriage of rum and milk, according to the_ doctor, like all well assorted unions, brings out the good qualities of both parties to the alliance, and, taken, wisely and noil too- well, he is of opinion that they form a happy combination of stimulant and nutriment much superior to many widely-advertised pick-me-ups. / Four inebriates appeared before Dr. M' Arthur, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court this morning. Three were dealt with as first offenders, and Mary Wakeham was fined 40s, with the alternative of fourteen days in gaol. George M'Kay pleaded guilty to having obtained money and goods by means of fake pretences at 'Hastings and Palmerston North, and asked to be dealt with summarily. He was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. Wong Wah pleaded not guilty to a charge of having used obscene language at Masons-steps on Saturday evening. The information waj dismissed. Thomas M'lntyre- pleaded guilty to a charge of having used threatening language to James Fairway in Cuba-street. •Mr. Herdman appeared for the informant, and stated that defendant and others ivent into Mr. Fairway's restaurant and made a disturbance, causing a large crowd to collect. Defendant said he could not remember anything that happened. ' " You fellows want to be brought up with a round turn," said his Worship, and he fined him 20s, with £1 is costs. As the young fellow was out of work, he. gave him fourteen 'days in which to find the money. William Hayden pleaded not guilty to a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Frank Harrison. The complainant failed, to appear, and the police thereupon withdrew the informa? lion. Mr. Izard appeared for defendant. Mr. R. H. W. Bligh, lecturer of the Australasian Whife Cross League, delivered his first lecturo to men in the Victoria Hall last night. Mr. H. N. Holmes, of the V.M.C.A., presided, and when introducing the lecturer spoke in glowing tertns of tho grand result of Mr. Bligh's work in the South Island. He referred to the fact that medical men, clergy, and schoolmasteis had.alike spoken and written strong letters of approval concerning the work being done. His Excellency the Governor is one of the patrons of the league. Mt. Bligh held his audience from his opening remarks to the close of his address, and then many lingered to "talk with him. The address opened with clear simple teaching on the law of reproduction of life, followed by an appeal for chivalry. There was a defiiiite warning as to ihe dangers of impurity and the objectionable methods of quack doctors. Running through the whole address was the gospel of hope, and in this spirit Mr. Bligh closed his earnest advice to young men. He will bo at Brooklyn to-morrow night. It has long been the desire of those who work with torpedo boats to discharge a "live" torpedo, instead of the dummies thai are employed in practice" (remarks the Sydney Daily Telegraph). It was, however, decided at the close of the Easter training camp of the Victorian naval forces to fire what is known as a "mark 3" weapon, which has long since been obsolete, and would bo quite useless for active service. It was imperative in tho interests of safety that some object should be aimod at which would limit the run of the torpedo, and a rock near Point Frank was chosen for. the purpose. On the command to "fire" being given the lever was pulled and the torpedo plunged from the side of the j Lonsdale. Usually after the splash tho I course of the projectile can be traced until the energy is expended, but in this instance tho keenest of watchers failed to mark its reappearance. A few seconds elapsed, then a dull boom was heard, and the water all round the boat became like a boiling cauldron. Hardly had tho onlookers recovered from their surprise when the torpedo came to the surface in a vertical position, not horizontally, as they should float after discharge in practice. An investigatidn showed that it had "dived" almost straight down. Fortunately it had struck a sandy bottom under about 16ft of water, and only the primintr charge exploded. If it had happened to strike a hard rocky bottom and so pause the torpedo itself to explode, the Lonsdale might have gone on an aerial cruise. The special price advantages on ribbons, laces, silks, etc., continues throughout this week ; 5-inch all-silk ribbons at 74d, 9d, •lQid, Is per yard; fancy flannelette blouses, Is lid each ; veilinga\ 6£d, 74d, 9d, 10id, Is per yard ; silks in black and colours at Is, Is 6d, Is Bd, la 9d^ls lid, 2s 3d, to 7s lid yard. Paris net laces, exquisite designs,* in various widths, 3£d, 6i<], 9id, 10id, Is, to 9s per yard ; odd shades in velvet*, 1« per yard.— Kirkcaldie and Steins, Lt4,-Advt._