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Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1907, Page 6

LOOAL AND GENERAL. ■a. • On Saturday, at 10 a.m.. several prisoners remanded to the Supreme Court to be sentenced for admitted crimes will be set forward before Mr. Justice Cooper. The list is as follows : — Henry Stratton Izard (Masterton), fraudulent conversion of trust funds; Alexander Wait Purvis (Wellington), theft and false pretences; Thomas Francis Shnnahan (Napier), forging and uttering; John Emmerson (Wellington), theft; George Groves, alias Williams {Masterton), forgery, uttering, and obtaining money by false pretences. To-morrow morning, at 10.30 o'clock, a fitting in Chambers will be held by "Mr. Justice Cooper. There is a. lengthy list of cases set down, the accumulation of the long vacation. Captain M'Gee, Lieutenant Merton, and Mr. J. J. Dougall will act as judges of accoutrements, appearance, and instruments in connection with the quick-step at the Christchurch band conte3t. j-^o following paragraph from the Lyfctelton Times seems to indicate that there aro cynics even in the police force. "Is there anything known against this man !" asked Mr. V. G. Day, S.M., during the hearing of a charge of theft, at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday. " Only that he is a married man," replied the station sergeant. Rifle shooting will be resumed on the Trentham rango next Saturday, when tho Highland Rifles will supply the superintending officers. On the 9th inst. the City Rifles will officiate, and on the 16th inst. tho Civil Service Rifles. The range will be closed on Saturday, 23rd February, to permit of final preparations for the colonial championship meeting, which opens on the Thursday following (28th February). The Congregational Union >of New Zealand will commence its annual conference at Dunedin on ?th February. The subjects to be dealt with will include the question of issuing a denominational newspaper and a proposal by the Pastors' Provident Fund Board to lower the contributions of ministers to the fund when the congregations contribute a certain annual sum. _ The annual tournament of the^ Wellington Lawn Tennis Association is to be held on the Day's Bay courts at Easter. The programme of events is to include boys' and girls' championship matches. An effort is being made to arrange an interprovincial match betw.ecn Canterbury and Wellington. Court Sir William Jervois, A.0.F., held its fortnightly meeting in St. Thomas's Schoolroom on Tuesday night, Bro. H. Toomer, C.R., presiding. Ihe secretary stated that he had sent a challenge to the Newtown Lodge of Oddfellows to a card tournament on the 12th of February, and an acceptance had been received. Mr. Ernest D. Stocks, the well-known Australian artist, returned to Wellington yesterday from a visit to Auckland, where he states he obtained some capital sketches. Mr. Slocks has arranged to get his art union off in Wellington some time during February. The reserved judgment of Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., was given this morning in 'the case in which the Phoenix Aerated Water Company sued Charles E. Gibbons, Marton, cordial manufacturer, for the recovery of £24 15s- the value of certain cigarettes supplied. For the defendant it was contended that Gibbons received the cigarettes as an agent for plaintiff. Tho company denied his appointment as agent. His Worship held that defendant had no business to enter, as he alleged, into on agency 'with a commercial traveller. If he was not satisfied with the goods he should have returned them at once. Judgment was for plaintiff for the amount claimed, with £4 5s costs. Mr. Young- appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Fell for the aefen.lajn.fcA prohibited person named Fredk. Arnold was this morning convicted by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., of drunkenness and a breach of a prohibition order. A fine of 40s, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, was ' imposed on ths first charge, and 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment, on tho second, terms to be cumulative. Stella Taylor, alias Portland, was remanded to appear at Marton on 4th February on a charge of having, on 24th January, at Marton, obtained a gold ring valued at £4 10s from Isabella Little, by means of false pretences. For insobriety, Edward Donovan was remanded until to-morrow morning, in order to give him an opportunity of leaving town. One first offender wae fined 10s, invdefault forty-eight hours' imprisonment, and two others were each convicted and discharged A Wanganui pomologist has informed the local Herald that in tho orchards of the district the apple crop is a failure. Very little marketable fruit is left on the trees, for in the first place the wind and rain was responsible for a light setting of fruit, and that which survived these ordeals is badly riddled with codlin moth. Owing to the comparative immunity from the moth last season many people thought that he had taken his departure, and so failed to go to the trouble of spraying, hence the pest has had free range for breeding purposes, and has- evidently taken full advantage of the opportunity. That many growers of potatoes have reason to repent their neglect in regard lo spraying is made evident by the plots destroyed during the muggy weather which ensued upon the heavy rains- a week or two since, and had it not been for the sunny and windy weather whuh followed, the situation would doubtless have been much worse. Sitting in his civil jurisdiction at tho Magistrate's CouTt to-day, Dr. A. M'Mrthur, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiffs in the following cases : — Leon Cohen v. James Garner, £4 11s Id, costs 10s ; Peter M'ATdle v. J. Hamilton and Son, £4, costs 17s; Patrick Maokin v. John Thomas, £3 15s, costs 10s j Wellington Traders Agency v. Hamilton A. Wilson, £12 7s 9d, costs £1 10s 6d; Commercial Agency and Gordon Channon and Co., £18 18s lOd, costs £1 10s 6d ; Forde and Co. v. Albert Beck, return of chattel or £1 16s ; same v. Wm. N. Wederall, return of chattel or £8 19s, co6t6 £1 15s 6d ; Drapery and General Importing Co., Ltd., v. Robt. Hampton, 16s 4d, costs £1 7s ; Smith and Smith, Ltd., v. Thos. Sargeson, £52 2s j 9d, costs £4 ss ; E. W. Mills and Co. v. | Edward J. Barnes, £12 10s, caste £1 10s 6d ; same v. John Allen, £48 8s sd, , costs £3 12s; Dresden Piano Co. v. Mario S. Black, fill ss, costs £1 10s 6d ; Wellington Traders Agency v. Sarah E. Sniith, £17 lRs 3d, costs £1 10s 6d ; The j Diamond Confectionery Co. v. Wm. Anderson, £2 18s Gd, costs £1 ; John Horlio v. H. Shields, £1 12s, costs ss; ! Clifton H. Dickorson v. James M'Naught, i £106 .3s sd, costs £5 16 ; Commercial Agency v. Fredk. Kilkelly, 6s costs only ; Commercial Agency v. Gus Barlow, £1 , 2s, costs 19s ; snmo v. Gordon Channon and Co., £60 7s lid, costs £4; Qeo. Green v. G>2o. Hadfield, £3, costs 8s; Levin and Co. v. Tobias Miller, £9 5s lid coats £1 13s 6tl ; Frank N. Tanner v. Chas. J. MoTeton, £4 12s, costs 10s j Wollerman and Co. v. Fred. Board, £41 14s 2d, costs £2 14s; Krrkcaldie and Stains v. J. Wm. Horton, £16 7s 7d, costs £1 10s 6d. Ever on the alert for genuine bargains in high-grade goods, ladies should certainly inspect the special offering oi shirt blouses at 3s 3d, 3s lid, also moirette underskirts, at 10s 6d to 193 6d, announced in tho advertisement of Kirkcaldie and Stains* Ltd.— Advt.