GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

[mess association T ■ DUNEDIN, This Day. Frr the month ending yesterday, the number of births registered iv Dunedin district was 157 us. against 133 in May, 1906, while marriages uoro 30, as against 31, and deaths 97 as againO. 60. The registrar states that Iho death record for the month is tho largest 111 any one month silica the office was hrst opened, lie states that there ban been no exceptional infant mortality, but a number of aged people have died this month, sixteen porsons of over sixty-five years being included in tho list. As to marriages they continue to show a satisfactory increase, while births needed but four mora to break the record in any one month. The annual meeting of the Otago. Acclimatisation Society was hsld yesterday. Mr. R. Chisholm, vice-president, in moving tho adoption of the report, suggested that in order to prevent the deterioration of the society's deer herds sonio of the malformed heads should be shot off. Deer stalkers, ha said, shot only tho best heads, and it was only to be expected that the residue would fall short of the standard. Speaking of fish culture, he remarked that the ova crllectccl, the fry hatched, and fish reared constituted a record in tho history of thp society. The treasurer stated that the income was the largest on record as far as he could find. It amounted to £1604. The total fish distributed numbeioa 1,570,250. * ASHBURTON, This Day. Mr. E. T. Norris, Wanganui, has been appointed assistant master of the Ashburton High School. AUCKLAND, This Day. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday resolved to communic?to with other chambers in tho colony in regard to ths proposed visit to Australia in 1909 of 100 members of British chambers and 100 members of Canadian and South African chambers in ordor that they might bo fittingly received shculd they c»me to Now Zealand. Tho output of bullion from tho mines on tho llauraki Peninsula for tho month of May is ti record oin, totalling £188,509 7s compared' with £110,244 13s ■ Id for April. The inciensc is partly duo to the fact, however, that during the last thirty days two returns have come to hand from the Waihi Junction and Komata Rcets mines. Tho Harbour Board has allocated the A.M.P. Society debentures to tho value of £100,000, at 4£ per cent, interest payable in Sydney. The directors I of tho society also purchased £50,000 j worth of these debentures last year, and I advanced the City Council £50.000 for j their waterworks loan, showing the . board's faith in tho present and future of our city as a desirable field for invost. I ment. Payments on the 31st inst. by the New Zealand Dairy Association for milk supplied to thoir creameries during April total £10,393 7s 9d, as compared with £6088 7s 4d fey tha same mouth last year. Mr. J. Coultar, a miner employed in thi Drurv Coil Company's mino at Drury, was killed to-day by a fall of shalo in the mine. MASTERTON, This Day. At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, H. P. Johnson, store-man at tho railway elation, wan clnrgod with iho thoft of two boxes of tobacco vr.l-icd pt £10 10;, til? proporty of 15>- Nw Zealand Govnv.ment, and O. R. Patersen, dealer, vtps c!i?rced with receiving tobacco from Jobrton, knowing samo to bs stolen. Tho cvidencj went to shov that the- tobacco, which was concignod by a merchant firm to F.kctnhuna, was kont in tho railway ■ cods shod nearly a fortnight. Johnson th?n gave it to Peterson, who sold it to c local tnb-rronict for £7 17s 6d, both n-cr.-a-d c'ivk'.iujv (ho proceeds. Two days later Petcrssn bought the toTjacco back, and returned it to tho railway st.?Uo:j. Tho polioo in tin meantime reeoived esrlai") information which led (ham to niiention Pcloi-son, and he made a Elatcwnt conf".-cing his guilt. Peterson pleaded guilty and was committed to tho Sunramc Court for sentence. Johnson pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial. At tho annual mealing of tho Chamber of Commerce, Air. M. Casslberg was elected president. TIMARU, This Day. A four-in-hand drag, with sixteen people going to a country concert, was rmiishsd up befoie getting out of the town* Tho reins aye supposed to U»vc bocomo forled, and tho driver if«* ron troi.. Tho toam turned round and bolted down Iho Bcverloy Hill, and turning a sharp corner to town capsized the vgliiclo. Miss Foloy, of Dunedin, sustained a fracture of tho ekul], the driver, Johnson, was very much bruised, also Miss O'Connor. % The latter's brother had 3J,in of hat pin extracted. Th 3 v.'holo party wan much shaken. Tho Harbour Board yesterday struck a r»te over tho rating district of 3-16ths of * penny— a rod vet ion of l-6th on last voar'c rate. Tho chairman asked th'o boaid to consider at ths next meeting tha raising of the lipight. of the outer mole, as tho recent heavy sea oveirau it. INVERCARGILL, This Day. Mrs. M'Auliffo has lodgect an affidavit of appaal against tho decision of ths magistrato in tho sly grog caso. The hearing of tho two other charges against tho samo dofendant — one of soil111,5 Hquor and the othor of keeping liquor for sale — wero adjourned after hearing the evidence for tho prosecution, and this was becauco the evidences was not sufficient, apart from that on which (he previous conviction was obtained. Tho cases again&t Jereminh Hartnett and William Meiklc for assisting in the unlawful salo of liquor wero similarly dealt with. John Thompson, Michael Smnll, Joseph Cumniings, and Georgo Ellis wero charged with being on M'Auliffo's promise:; at tho timo tho sonrch wairant was oxecutad. Cummings was convictod and fined 40a, costs 7s.